Theft of Fire with Devon Eriksen (WiM510)

The "What is Money?" Show

Robert Breedlove

Bitcoin, Breedlove, What Is Money, Investing, Rabbit Hole, Cryptocurrency, Money, Finance, Education, Robert Breedlove, History

4.8 • 710 Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2024

⏱️ 152 minutes

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Summary

Devon Eriksen joins me to discuss the linguistic qualities of money, the consequences of distorting money, the importance of storytelling, the ethical implications of AI and humanoid robots, the line between artificial and natural, and how we can win the culture war and create a better vision for the future. Devon Eriksen is a former software engineer and current sci-fi author of the “Orbital Space Trilogy.”

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0:00.0	Pro civilization forces have an inherent advantage because we can actually write good stories.
0:08.0	And our futures are exciting.
0:11.0	Money is a measure of fucks given.
0:15.0	Measure of fucks given.
0:17.0	What is the purpose of my existence?
0:19.0	What do I give a fuck about?
0:21.2	What gives meaning to my life?
0:24.8	You hear these absurd phrases like humans are a cancer on the planet.
0:29.7	They're not talking about themselves.
0:31.6	Exactly.
0:32.3	They're saying all you other people are a cancer on the planet.
0:36.8	We need to cut the population of you guys.
0:41.3	Tax the rich.
0:42.6	We need to steal more from the rich, as if that's an ethical claim.
0:47.3	If we institutionalize dealing, we can't have nice things.
0:51.4	No one can have nice things because no one will make nice things.
0:55.2	Right.
0:55.9	They're using the ethics to destroy the ethics.
0:58.7	Yes, it's an inversion.
1:00.1	How do we have a society with two different types of rational animals?
1:06.1	Especially what one of them is immortal.
1:09.3	Wow.
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