In this episode of the Crazy Wisdom podcast, Stewart Alsop speaks with Diego Fernandez, co-creator of QuarkID and the Secretary of Innovation for Buenos Aires. They discuss the future of innovation in Buenos Aires, focusing on how technology can simplify citizen interactions with the government and empower individuals through control over their identity with Web3. The conversation explores the potential of decentralized technologies like blockchain to transform government services and create new opportunities for innovation, especially in Argentina's unique economic landscape.

In the episode Stewart forgot the name of something about the innovation of digitizing real world assets in Argentina, see this tweet about the deregulation of warrants so that they can be handled online.

And for more on QuarkID, visit www.quarkid.org.

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Timestamps

00:00 Introduction to the Crazy Wisdom Podcast

00:13 Innovation in Buenos Aires: A Vision for the Future

01:34 The Role of Technology in Government

02:37 Web3 Technologies: Closing the Gap

05:29 Argentina's Unique Economic Resilience

08:53 Crypto Adoption in Argentina

11:25 The Impact of Inflation and Crypto Solutions

17:41 Argentina's Potential in the Web3 Era

27:40 Crypto Scene in San Francisco

28:20 Buenos Aires: A Hub for Crypto Innovation

29:04 Aleph's Pop-Up City and Economic Vision

31:04 Regulatory Changes and Crypto Opportunities

32:09 Decentralization and the Future of Money

32:47 The Role of Governments in the Digital Age

34:50 The Evolution of Money and Technology

38:02 Real-World Crypto Applications: Morphy Token

41:09 Decentralized Platforms and Censorship

41:57 QuarkID: Revolutionizing Digital Identity

45:21 The Future of Digital Identity and Privacy

51:22 Conclusion and How to Learn More About QuarkID

Key Insights

1. Innovation in Buenos Aires: Diego Fernandez emphasizes that the future of innovation in Buenos Aires is centered around making government services seamless and empowering citizens. He envisions a "WiFi-like" government where the state's presence is only noticed when something goes wrong, with a primary focus on streamlining interactions between citizens and government through technology.
2. The Role of Web3 in Identity: Web3 technologies, particularly decentralized identifiers (DIDs) and verifiable credentials, are set to revolutionize how individuals manage their identities. With QuarkID, citizens will have control over their digital identities, securely storing documents and credentials on their own devices. This shifts control from centralized entities like governments or tech giants to individuals.
3. Argentina’s Economic Resilience: Fernandez expresses optimism about Argentina’s future, calling its citizens "economic Navy Seals" due to their experience in dealing with decades of economic instability. He believes that Argentina's hardships have made its population more entrepreneurial, adaptable, and uniquely positioned to embrace blockchain and Web3 technologies to overcome economic challenges.
4. Web3’s Impact on Global Financial Systems: The episode highlights how Web3 technologies are poised to disrupt traditional financial systems by enabling peer-to-peer transactions of value and identity. In Argentina, where economic crises have pushed citizens to adopt cryptocurrencies, the use of decentralized financial tools is not only growing but also fostering innovation in industries like tokenization of real-world assets.
5. The Leapfrogging Potential of Argentina: Fernandez believes that Argentina has the potential to "leapfrog" other nations in developing new financial systems and infrastructure based on decentralized technologies. The country’s lack of entrenched financial systems, combined with its thriving blockchain ecosystem, provides an opportunity to build future-proof solutions that could serve as a model for other emerging economies.
6. Blockchain Startups Flourishing in Argentina: Argentina has become a hotspot for blockchain innovation, with notable startups like Decentraland, Ripio, and numerous others being created within the country. Fernandez is bullish on the growth of both centralized and decentralized financial products, as well as advancements in deep tech, especially in cryptography and zero-knowledge proofs.
7. Decentralization and Government’s Role: Fernandez draws a parallel between the separation of church and state and the future separation of money from the state. He argues that just as governments no longer control religion, they will eventually lose their control over money as decentralized platforms take hold. This change, driven by technological advancements, could fundamentally reshape governance and public services.

In this episode of Crazy Wisdom, Stewart Alsop chats with Ian Mason, who works on architecture and delivery of AI and ML solutions, including LLMs and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG). They explore topics like the evolution of knowledge graphs, how AI models like BERT and newer foundational models function, and the challenges of integrating deterministic systems with language models. Ian explains his process of creating solutions for clients, particularly using RAG and LLMs to support automated tasks, and discusses the future potential of AI, contrasting the hype with practical use cases. You can find more about Ian on his LinkedIn profile.

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Timestamps

00:00 Introduction and Guest Welcome

00:32 Understanding Knowledge Graphs

02:03 Hybrid Systems and AI Models

03:39 Philosophical Insights on AI

05:01 RAG and Knowledge Graph Integration

07:11 Challenges in AI and Knowledge Graphs

11:40 Multimodal AI and Future Prospects

13:44 Artificial Intelligence vs. Artificial Linear Algebra

17:50 Silicon Valley and AI Hype

30:44 Defining AGI and Embodied Intelligence

32:29 Potential Risks and Mistakes of AI Agents

35:04 The Role of Human Oversight in AI

38:00 Understanding Vector Databases

43:28 Building Solutions with Modern Tools

46:52 The Future of Solution Development

47:43 Personal Journey into Coding

57:25 The Importance of Practical Learning

59:44 Conclusion and Contact Information

Key Insights

1. The evolution of AI models: Ian Mason discusses how foundational models like BERT have been overtaken by newer, more capable language models, which can perform tasks that once required multiple models. He highlights that while earlier models like BERT still have their uses, foundational models have simplified and expanded AI’s capabilities.
2. The role of knowledge graphs: Knowledge graphs provide structured, deterministic ways of handling data, which can complement language models. Ian explains that while LLMs are great for articulating responses based on large datasets, they lack the ability to handle logical and architectural connections between pieces of information, which knowledge graphs can provide.
3. RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) systems: Ian delves into how RAG systems help refine AI output by feeding language models relevant data from a pre-searched database, reducing hallucinations. By narrowing down the possible answers and focusing the LLM on high-quality data, RAG ensures more accurate and contextually appropriate responses.
4. Limitations of language models: While LLMs can generate plausible-sounding responses, they lack deep architectural understanding and can easily hallucinate or provide inaccurate results without carefully curated input. Ian points out the importance of combining LLMs with structured data systems like knowledge graphs or vector databases to ground the output.
5. Vector databases and embeddings: Ian explains how vector databases, which use embeddings and cosine similarity, are crucial for narrowing down the most relevant data in a RAG system. This modern approach outperforms traditional keyword searches by considering semantic meaning rather than just text similarity.
6. AI’s impact on business solutions: The conversation highlights how AI, particularly through tools like RAG and LLMs, can streamline business processes. For instance, Ian uses AI to automate customer service email drafting, breaking down complex customer queries and retrieving the most relevant answers, significantly improving operational efficiency.
7. The future of AI in business: Ian believes AI’s real-world impact will come from its integration into larger systems rather than revolutionary standalone changes. While there is significant hype around AGI and other speculative technologies, the focus for the near future should be on practical applications like automating business workflows, where AI can create measurable value without over-promising its capabilities.

In this episode of Crazy Wisdom, host Stewart Alsop is joined by Zach Rynes, known online as "Chainlink God," a community liaison for Chainlink. The conversation explores the critical role of Chainlink as a decentralized oracle network that connects blockchain-based smart contracts to real-world data, enhancing their functionality and enabling applications in DeFi, cross-chain interoperability, and beyond. The episode also touches on the broader implications of smart contracts for the legal system and the potential for blockchain technology to revolutionize financial markets globally, with a focus on developing countries and regions like Hong Kong. You can connect with Zach on Twitter at ChainLinkGod.

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Timestamps

00:00 Introduction to the Crazy Wisdom Podcast

00:25 Understanding Chainlink's Role in Blockchain

02:40 Interoperability and Its Impact on Cryptocurrency

05:10 Tokenization and Its Benefits

07:19 Chainlink's Global Influence and Future Prospects

09:51 Chainlink's Value Proposition and Investment Case

13:16 Exploring Oracle Networks and Computation Layers

23:07 Government Adoption and Future of Web3

26:20 China's Stance on Crypto

27:14 Crypto as an Alternative Financial System

28:41 Blockchain's Role in Developing Nations

29:51 Argentina and the AI Revolution

30:26 Understanding Chainlink

31:32 Challenges in Explaining Blockchain to Governments

32:13 Chainlink's Connectivity and Interoperability

33:27 Argentina's Economic Challenges

36:09 Personal Journey into Crypto

40:12 Smart Contracts and the Legal System

46:32 Future of Crypto Regulations

49:12 Conclusion and Final Thoughts

Key Insights

1. Chainlink as a Connectivity Solution: Chainlink plays a pivotal role in the blockchain ecosystem by serving as a decentralized oracle network, enabling smart contracts to access real-world data that blockchains inherently lack. This connectivity is crucial for the functionality of decentralized finance (DeFi) applications, particularly for providing reliable price data, cross-chain interoperability, and other external inputs that smart contracts need to execute properly.
2. The Evolution of Blockchain Use Cases: While Chainlink initially focused on DeFi and price data, the platform has expanded its use cases significantly. Chainlink now facilitates cross-chain asset transfers, connects institutional systems to blockchain networks, and supports various forms of tokenization, including assets like debt and equities. This evolution highlights the broad applicability of blockchain technology beyond its original financial use cases.
3. Smart Contracts and Legal Systems: Smart contracts have the potential to transform the legal system by automating agreements that can be objectively verified through data. While not a replacement for traditional legal frameworks, smart contracts can reduce the need for court arbitration by ensuring that certain contractual conditions are met programmatically, thereby lowering transaction costs and increasing trust in digital agreements.
4. Challenges of Blockchain Adoption in Developing Countries: Developing nations, often constrained by fragmented financial systems and lack of infrastructure, stand to benefit significantly from blockchain technology. Chainlink and similar platforms offer these countries a way to leapfrog traditional financial systems by creating more liquid and accessible capital markets, facilitating international trade, and providing a more transparent and trustless system for transactions.
5. Regulatory Barriers and Institutional Involvement: The adoption of blockchain technology by institutions is currently hampered by regulatory uncertainty. Despite the clear economic benefits, such as increased liquidity and reduced operating costs, institutions are often restricted by laws that have not yet adapted to the realities of digital assets and smart contracts. The hope is that as the financial benefits become undeniable, regulations will evolve to support broader blockchain adoption.
6. The Role of Chainlink in Computation: Beyond data, Chainlink is also positioning itself as a computational resource for blockchain networks. Through its Functions service, Chainlink allows developers to run decentralized computations off-chain, which can then be integrated into smart contracts. This approach complements on-chain processing by offering privacy and efficiency benefits, making it an essential part of the blockchain infrastructure.
7. The Global Race for Blockchain Leadership: Countries like Hong Kong and Singapore are emerging as leaders in the global blockchain race, driven by more favorable regulatory environments. These regions are capitalizing on the hesitation of Western nations like the U.S., which have been slower to embrace blockchain due to regulatory challenges. As these Asian markets grow, they could set a precedent for other nations to follow, making blockchain a central pillar of the global financial system.

In this podcast episode, the host, Stewart, is talking with Zach and Matthew, co-founders of Clay, a relationship management platform.

The conversation covers various topics including:

1. The Journey to Clay: Zach and Matthew discuss their journey of conceptualizing and developing Clay. They reveal the thought process that went into creating a product that could help manage relationships without reducing them to transactional entities.

2. Exploration of Clay: They delve into the workings of Clay, its AI assistant, and how it helps users manage their relationships. Clay has the capability to remind users of their connections, keep them updated with their social interactions, and help maintain the quality of their relationships.

3. Concept of Attention Economy: They talk about the notion of the attention economy and how it can be detrimental to our relationships. They also discuss how Clay can help users regain control over their attention.

4. Relationship with Nature: Stewart discusses his personal experience with his move from San Francisco to the country, and the challenges and learning experiences that came with it. He prompts the others to share their thoughts on the relationship with nature, and how it influences our relationship with ourselves. Matthew relates this to the idea of self-discovery and the inherent need for human connection with nature.

5. Adapting to Challenges: They discuss the challenges and "curveballs" of life, especially in the startup world, and how they adapt to them. Matthew highlights the importance of having a supportive co-founder and a solid team to weather the inevitable storms.

6. Future Plans for Clay: Zach and Matthew hint at upcoming features in Clay, including AI advancements. They invite listeners to check out the beta preview of these features on their website.

At the end of the conversation, Matthew emphasizes the importance of investing time in our relationships, not only in a professional context but also personally. He suggests that this investment offers a high return and could significantly improve one's quality of life.

Bart is the founding Guru at GuruScan | International Knowledge Management speaker | Makes Knowledge driven business decisions and helps enable the customers to do

https://www.linkedin.com/in/bart-guruscan/

Guruscan website

https://guruscan.nl/

• What is knowledge management?
  • Knowledge is a lot more than information
  • Information is content
  • Knowledge is explicit and implicit knowledge
  • Knowledge Management strategy
    • Shell
    • Connecting people to people,
    • Connecting people to content
    • Community of practice
    • Lessons learned, what did we do and how well did we do it?
    • Forward-looking thing: how can we integrate learning and development? Learn about where we want to go
  • This makes me excited to be a part of KM
  • Skills that are really hard to make explicit
  • Fingerspettein
  • Riding a bike, talk to someone about riding a bike
  • Keep on pedaling, look forward, and find your balance, these are all processes that can't be taught
  • You can’t read how to ride a bike
  • What percentage of knowledge for business is like riding a bike?
  • Specific use cases; a lot of research
    • 20% is explicit and 80% is actually stuff people are doing
    • Then not ending up in the final
    • 95% implicit in the particular case of tacit knowledge
  • Is the role
  • Thousands of people; how do you communicate with them
  • Complex environment and things are changing in
  • Solving complex problems is when you want to get people together
  • Prehistoric groups
    • There was cross-group and collaboration
    • Strangers interacting
    • 1-2 years now for
    • 10-15 years of experience as specialist
    • After a while, its interesting to hear how people have feelings about whether things are wrong
    • Intuition says something is wrong, and then finds the thing that is wrong
    • No textbook is going to tell you what is wrong
  • Concept is called Dunbar number, robert dunbar, British anthropologist
    • 150 people; the people with you can have a meaningful relationship
    • High school friends are replaced with work friends
    • Changes over time but the limit
    • Social grooming, what their parents are doing, what are they doing
    • If you want to expand you are not going to be
    • FDR had 44,000 people in
  • The level of leadership changes, and remote work
  • As a CEO of a 20K person company
  • Methods for
    • Organizational network analysis
    • Knowledge Map of the organization
    • Connect people with very similar of knowledge.
    • Find people to really like to exchange with
    • An idea is network
  • Bart is in Amsterdam
  • Not totally remote
  • Gitlab as an example
  • Remote work as asynchronous
  • Being able to work asynchronously in productive
    • Large organizations
      • Monday morning you have the standup
    • Large organizations in tons of synchronous meetings
    • Lockdowns the whole workspace
    • Feeling productive vs not feeling productive
    • Status report
    • Alignment and updating people
    • That's the big challenge
  • The furthest in Async first
  • Async needs to be changed
  • If you can’t have that meeting, what would you do?
  • Internal organization
    • A lot of people who make money running the organization
    • IIf you are up to 60 or 70 people because there is no overhead
    • If you need to arrange something you need to
    • Staff departments at 150
    • Institutional
  • Staff departments
  • Especially, growing the company as an incentive
  • How do you work smarter, not harder?
  • Our department
  • In organizations, the hard thing is to make sure that you don’t reduce complexity,
    • If you reduce the complexity
    • Requisite variety, adapt to all the changes that are coming from the outside of the world
    • Balance exploration and exploitation
    • If you don’t exploit then you don’t the money
    • Exploration is the future of the company
    • How much money, time, effort and people?
    • How much money should we invest in R&D?
    • Insane amounts of money
    • Every company should do in more exploration
    • Changing processes is usually not considered R&D
    • Changing your organization to better fit future
  • Political aspect
  • Produce 50 or 60% of all the semiconductors
  • Flat screens
  • LED lights have semiconductors
  • European Union has different regulations
    • Huge fabrication tension of where
  • ASML
    • TSMC
    • The flow of money spent on the
    • Governed by Moore laws
    • The number of transistors on a square meter would double every year
    • Fit the developments into the computer chips
    • Pentium processors went faster than Moore’s laws
    • How many people work in semiconductors?
    • Ultraviolet lights
    • Collaborations
  • Semiconductor stuff, how to do the knowledge management?
    • Work together with SAIS, German lens company
    • SAIS maybe made an investment in that
    • Seimer integrating with the equiptment
    • Global recruiment that they do
    • Optical engineering
    • Thats the most important thing
    • With customers and suppliers
    • Crash in 2009 and 2020
    • Apple, Intel, and Samsung
    • Flagship model
    • The chain is so fragile

Matt Bunday works in crypto. He loves to rock climb, martial arts, and think about underground psychedelic therapy

 

1. What is the biggest problem you’ve faced with knowledge management at your companies?

   1. Slack 

   2. Dropped balls in communication

   3. LLMs might be the response

2. Why do you think slack spread so fast even though its not the best product?

   1. It was a step up from email

   2. IRC was a component

   3. More friendly for non-engineering

3. What do you think about the complexity of slack?

   1. Twist is an alternative

4. Why is information architecture such a challenge?

5. How do LLMs fit into this?

6. What would happen if slack created a LLM or plugged one in?

   1. Slack workspace plug in

7. What is a retrieval plug in?

   1. Universal adapter for any type of data

8. Who are the incumbents in the slack knowledge management space?

   1. Guru startup

9. What is the difference between information management and knowledge management?

   1. Knowledge management is a higher level synthesis

   2. Information management is siloing related types of information

      1. Data types 

      2. Group related to information around people

10. What are your thoughts on the membrane?

    1. Siloes

    2. Privacy is where LLMs can be very innovative

    3. If we were to share a LLM

    4. We can both specify a privacy policy to the LLM and it will follow it

    5. LLMs can intuit the privacy public distinction

11. Are you using LLMs to code for you?

    1. Copilot

       1. Issues with difficulty to prompt it correctly

       2. You had to write comments to prompt it

       3. Inline suggestions were not good

       4. Is it better now?

          1. Haven’t noticed a dramatic improvement

       5. Hard to prompt it to code in certain styles now

    2. GPT 4 is way better for a starting off point for projects

       1. Helpful for conversion processes

12. What are the things that GPT4 has not been helpful for you?

    1. You have to chunk it

13. What about building systems with GPT4?

14. Code completion cool called tap9

    1. Train the model against your local code

15. What are some other things about KM that we can use tools for?

    1. Shared LLM for the family

    2. Surface serendipity between users

    3. If facebook were to do this

       1. One person says they are selling a couch

       2. One person is buying one

       3. LLM connects them

16. At what point do we merge with the machines?

    1. Sufficiently high bandwidth

    2. Translation

17. Are we already cyborgs?

    1. It began with wearing shoes

    2. Horselike

18. Where do you fit in the excitement vs fear when it comes to AI?

19. What parts of knowledge work will get automated?

20. What are we losing?

21. What is your take on bodywork?

    1. 10% investment

    2. Martial arts practices, he gets beat up 

    3. Ninjiutsu

       1. Special forces for ninjas

    4. Healing and striking points on the body are the same

    5. Balance between healing/killing, if you know how to heal

    6. Unbroken transmission since 1400

    7. What is the importance 

 

Zohar Atkins

He is a rabbi, philosopher, blogger and podcaster. His podcast is called Meditations With Zohar

Show Notes

1. Who is your favorite philosopher?

2. What is non-aggressive socratic questioning?

3. Why do you like Heidegger?

   1. How was he Nazi-ism

4. How do you relate to the history of philosophy?

5. How do you walk the line between tradition and being a revolutionary?

6. What was your first experience learning for yourself instead of learning top-down?

7. What does it feel like to have a hunger for learning?

8. What happens when we decide we are going to learn everything and then run into the block of only having so much time?

9. How do you relate to patience when confronting the weird language of philosophy?

10. How do you define good communication?

11. What is the value of incomprehensibility?

12. How important is banging your head on the wall?

13. Who is a philosopher that you think is a fraud?

14. Was Jesus a philosopher?

15. Do philosophers build truth structures?

16. What is hagiography?

17. What is your philosophy of technology?

18. How is Socrates exceptional?

19. Where do philosophy and religion meet?

20. What happened to the public intellectual?

21. Was Wittgenstein religious? 

22. How was Wittgenstein obsessed with language?

23. What is your take on rationalism?

    1. What about scientism?

24. What is the job of philosophy?

25. Why are most people not interested in philosophy?

26. Who is Leo Strauss?

    1. Philosophy is opposition to the state

    2. What happens when the state get too powerful and the philosophy gets crowded out?

27. What is the dominant philosophy of the US in the 20th century?

    1. Pragmatism

28. What was the difference between philosophy and science for ancient philosophers?

29. How is philosophy a technology?

30. How is UX a strain of phenomenology?

31. What is the feedback cycle between technology and philosophy?

32. What is the problem of induction?

    1. Aristotlean is ok with doing case studies

    2. Deductionism leads to cancelling all the case studies

33. What defines the modern essence of technology?

34. What happens when humans commoditize themselves?

35. Without technology why can’t most understand leisure?

36. How does Science doesn’t think?

37. How did the original science people become more humble about the origins of science?

38. How does achievement distract from the question of meaning?

39. Why don’t you think Scientism is a big deal?

40. How is Scientism is bad for religion?

41. What is your take on new age occult stuff?

42. Irrationalism sees with a squint to what rationalism is blind

43. How can we become open to the strangeness of the universe?

44. How can we be epistemologically humble?

 

AJ is a software engineer interested in Urbit and data composability. 

Twitter: https://twitter.com/ajlamarc

https://www.ajlamarc.com/

Keep an eye out on Holium, and making it easier to code in Javascript for Urbit

Notes

1. What is data composability?

   1. Multiple applications sharing data and make the interfaces work together

   2. OpenAIs that both Twitter and Facebook had and then were shut down

   3. Data is the main product that these applications have

   4. You can separate the data and the code

   5. Personal AI

2. How did we get to such a fragmented application landscape?

3. Legacy internet vs New Internet?

4. What is AJ working on?

   1. TomeDB

   2. Javascript package

   3. Associated gall agent

   4. NoSQL database

   5. The front end side is the interesting part

5. What are gall agents?

   1. Standardized backend of Urbit

   2. Rules for moving data between different servers and accounts

6. What are you looking for in a backend?

7. Why are you reinventing the wheel when building a new urbit backend?

8. What is the promise of urbit?

9. What is the main draw of urbit?

10. What does it mean to be permissionless?

11. Urbit brings the best out of the past

12. How much data is stored when you host your urbit on the cloud vs your own database?

13. What are the technical limitations that an Uribit can store?

    1. 4-8 GBs can be stored and its stored in RAM

14. How long until we have video streaming on Urbit?

15. What is your take on where AI and Urbit mingle?

16. How do you have an AI work for you rather than a big corporation?

17. Urbit is creating a virtual world where you get only what you want and little of what you want

18. The success of Urbit is the apple OS with the next generation of software

19. How do you get the cost down?

    1. How do you run an urbit inside an urbit?

20. What is the main difficulty of scale for computing on the cloud?

21. If a million people join urbit tomorrow would it break?

22. What is the biggest scale that Urbit has seen?

    1. 1-2K people

23. What is the new narrative of Urbit?

24. How do you use urbit as a really simple use case that urbit can solve to start getting urbit adoption?

    1. How do you store data and transfer it between two people in a secure way?

25. Urbit as an infrastructure that can help build infrastructure

    1. There has to be the normal infrastructure that we are used to in terms of databases and networking 

    2. Urbit is mostly a backend technology

    3. Urbit could eventually have HOON native AI

26. Did you use crypto to pay for anything in El Salvador?

27. What did you learn at the Volcano Summit in El Savlador?

28. Logan’s talk on Zorp using Knock

 

Dave Snowden is the Chief Scientific Officer of Cynefin. Head of Knowledge Management for 30 years.

Author of Cynefin - Weaving Sense-Making into the Fabric of Our World (https://tinyurl.com/4958x362)

 

1. When did knowledge management start in the 90s?

   1. The ultimate disciplinary field

2. What is intellectual capital?

   1. Intellectual property

3. What is the anarcha book?

4. Knowledge management is information management

5. What is relevant knowledge?

6. What is messy coherence?

7. What is exaptive innovation?

8. How do you add value to organizations?

   1. Focus

9. What is the difference between teleological idealism and realism?

10. What is the KM process?

    1. Find out what is keeping middle management awake at night

    2. Do not want to be a CEO pet project

11. How do you map what a company already knows?

12. How do you map current knowledge from the things that keep people awake at night?

13. Where are we on the cycle now?

    1. At the early stage of the hype cycle

14. What is complexity theory?

15. How do you map the unknown unknowns of a company?

16. How do you create resiliency within an organization?

17. How do you build informal networks across the organizations?

18. European field guide on complexity management

19. Does getting involved with tactics take away from strategy?

20. Trying to make the cost of virtue greater than the cost of sin?

21. How has knowledge management changed with Covid and remote work?

22. How do you replicate pheromones in a remote environment?

23. What are hexis?

24. How does knowledge transfer work?

25. How do you make decisions that keep options open?

26. How do you create processes that stop ambiguity?

27. Why are stories of linear processes greatly exaggerated?

28. How do you deal with too much information?

    1. Focus on connecting people and storing information

29. Entangled trios with task from different groups

    1. Run that every three months

30. Secret is not to take an information centric approached

31. Knowledge is only ever volunteered, not conscripted

32. We always know more than we can say and we can always say more than we can write down

33. What is necessary ambiguity?

34. What is the role of narrative when it connects tacit to explicit information?

35. Narrative asks you questions that make you think differently

36. Lessons learning rather than lessons learned

37. 90% of knowledge is walking out the door

38. The danger of machine learning is dumbing down how we know things

39. THE RIGHT SOURCE DATA IS THE KEY

40. Machine learning is inductive 

41. Feed ML better training data

42. How did you get the role at IBM at knowledge management?

43. Institute for knowledge management at IBM

44. IBM center for complexity studies 

45. How do you measure knowledge management?

    1. outcome/ouput measures

       1. Fine with predictable systems

    2. Outcomes produce a perverse incentive

    3. Vector measure for intensity of effort

    4. How do you structure KPIs?

46. What are the power dynamics of exchange?

47. Fear of abuse is the main reason people seek knowledge in organizations

48. Art comes before words before human language

49. Semiotics is symbols and signs

    1. UK is the most mapped country in the world

50. We need renaissance instead of an enlightenment

51. What is catholic with a small c?

Adam is the 

• VP of engineering at Invisible Technologies and active angel investment
• If you have specific questions, send them on to Adam@invisible.co

 

• How do you organize information and data in order to spend most of your time on high-level work?
• How do you manage people who report to you to also do the same?
• What does knowledge management mean to you?
• What are the applications that will leverage LLMs?
  • What is an intranet?
  • Transition from card catalog to Google
• How do you take structured things and make them unstructured?
• Can LLMs do unstructured data?
• What is tabular data?
• Who is going to shine when it comes to leverage LLMs?
• How do LLMs hallucinate?
• How can we prevent LLMs from hallucinating?
• What would happen to a law firm that has an LLM that hallucinates a contract?
• What happens when NYC opened up all its APIs?
• What is data availability?
• Will LLMs have big moats? (13 minutes in might be when we get too close to OpenAI)
• What will happen with LLama from Meta?
• What has been overhyped in terms of LLMs?
• Have you started to use Copilot in your own programming?
  • Reference tool rather than programming aid
  • LLM code has a higher security risk
• What is your take on AI ethics?
  • How do you deal with collective commons type of stuff?
  • How does bias training come into play?
  • How do we think about the implicit biases that the models have been trained on?
• How does technology help us to understand ourselves?
• How is technology an amplification of human ability?
• What is the frustration of knowledge management for you?
  • Bot at Facebook that goes through and warns people when something needs to be updated
  • Finding something and its wrong
  • How do we make sure that information stays updated and relevant
• What is the curse of knowledge?
  • Onboarding is testing the system
• How should we think about knowledge leakage?
• Does Notion have an API?
• Keep metrics on how much people are writing
• What were some ways that Facebook excelled at knowledge management?
  • Investment in search tools
  • Code documentation
  • Chat bot messages
    • scale of 1-10 how do you feel
    •  
• What are the barriers that we have at invisible to implementing great search?
• What is the issue with implicit knowledge at Invisible?
• What is status hero?
• 8 or 9 engineering teams at invisible
• When there is high trust all processes work and when there is low trust no processes work
• What is the biggest problem going to be for me as knowledge management guy?
• How can we bring spaced repetition software into Invisible?

 

Kirill Zubovsky

Prompt Engineer and CEO of @ SmartyNames.com 

1. What is Smartynames.com?

2. Does Godaddy front-run domain names by buying them as soon as you search for them?

   1. They are 12 billion $ company

3. What have you learned about Machine Learning from doing this?

4. Did you have to learn a lot to develop on openai’s algorithm?

5. How do you add uncertainty to your AI prompts?

6. Why do people like to hack individual AI systems instead of hacking the big ones?

7. What are the companies that will start to build in-house models?

8. What is the difference between consumer and enterprise AI?

9. What is the AI that has been used for airplane design for over 20 years now?

10. Are we headed for utopia and dystopia?

11. What is your take on Silicon Valley Bank?

12. What is moral hazard and how does it play with what is going on SVB?

13. What did Hayek say about all this?

14. What will AI do to the decentralization of capitalism?

 

Pablo Peniche does front-end engineering, marketing, and design. Wears many hats at Viennahypertext

• Twitter: https://twitter.com/PabloPeniche
• https://vienna.earth/

• What do Mexicans think about Central Americans?
• What is the relationship between urbit and vienna hypertext?
• What is vienna hypertext?
  • An information network
  • Create different canvases with blocks
• Why is vienna hypertext hard to build on urbit?
• Does engineering advance science or does science advance engineering?
• What is the relationship between science and engineering?
• What is the difference between hard sciences and soft sciences?
• How do you build a tool for the humanities? What effect will that have on engineering and science?
• What is the anti-anti-anti-anti liberalism speech from Peter Theil?
  • https://youtu.be/fQ4rc7npiXQ
• What are the false idols of Scientism?
• What is the relationship between millenarianism and scientism cults?
• Why do human beings fall under homo religious rather than homo sapiens the thinking primate?
• Lets do space travel! Why is Elon Musk right and why is he wrong?
• Why should the pope declare a space crusade?
• What is the kardashev scale?
  • type 1 is all the resources of one planet
  • type 2 is another the sun
  • type 3 is multiple stars
• Why do atheists believe that collecting books is the way to western enlightenment?
• How did Charlemagne invent the book with his codexes?
• How are all historians revisionists?
• If the news fake, imagine history?
• Lets talk about climate change
  • What do the models measure?
    • Physics of fluids
    • Movements in the atmosphere and the oceans
    • Can’t get quality of soil or animals dying or matter outside of that
    • Topsoil captures carbon
  • Can you be pro-environment and pro-immigration at the same time in terms of top-soil?
• Can you look at the global scale and actually change anything meaningful?
• How do you deal with unknown unknowns?
• Can computers ever discover what we don't know we don't know?
• How is the stock market an example of the way things are getting done?
• All models are incorrect but some are useful sometimes
• Are humans due for another ice age?
• Who is Freeman Dyson?
  • What is a dyson sphere?
  • What is the relationship between Feynmen and Freeman?
• Why do you specifically have the ability to question heretical answers?
• How is the internet the most powerful tool that humans have ever created?
• How is contrarianism the secular antidote to the problem knowledge?
• How did René Gerard decide that Christianity is the way to solve the problem of unknown unknowns and mimetic rivalry?
• What did Gerard say about scapegoating?
• How did Gerard meme himself into being Christian?
• Why you shouldn’t fight on the minutiae of mimetic rivalry?
• How do you measure carbon in the topsoil?
• How can we build personal biological computers?
• Who is John von Neumann?
  • How did he build a machine for war?
• How did Liberia end up in such a different place from the US even though they have almost the same constitution?

Ivan Vendrov is AI researcher, ML engineer interested in speculation of future systems

• Twitter: https://twitter.com/IvanVendrov
• Website: https://www.vendrov.ai/

Questions discussed or for further discussions

• What do you think is the great X-risks humans face today?
• What are some weaknesses in terms of technology in general?
• How do you steer technology to make sure it's not developing in ways that are harmful?
• What is your take on spirituality?
• What is the intersection between the Russian Orthodox religion and meditation?
• What do Russian orthodox people do for lent?
  • Go vegan for the entire month
  • emphasis on spirituality
• What happened to the soviet union and orthodox Christianity?
• What is the word “mir”?
• What is the difference between a time of troubles and a dark age?
• Were the dark ages really dark?
• What is the relationship between centralization and golden ages?
• Who are the cypher phunks?
• What are heterogenous networks?
• What is cyborgism?
• What is your take on rationalism?
  • superintelligence
  • At its best, its a community that has the best truth orientation
  • Where do rationalism and dogma meet?
• What is post-rationalism?
• Can you be dogmatic and rationalist at the same time?
• Who were the original rationalists?
• What is bayesian reasoning?
  • How can you establish all the events that could happen?
  • Naive bayesian reasoning
• What does rationalism say about trusting others?
• What are the other sources of truth for rationalists?
• How do you convert or create knowledge?
  • The book “The social history of truth”
  • Truth or knowledge depends on a bedrock of trust and punishes liars
  • In 18th century only gentlemen could speak truth because they had “F-U” money
• Why does knowledge follow a cyclical pattern of openness and dogma and how do they interact?
• Can a bureaucracy last longer than 300 years old?
• Can knowledge paradigms last long?
• Will technology allow us to establish non-bureaucratic systems that can stay flexible?
• Is cultural knowledge dying?
• How do you preserve cultural knowledge?
• How do you preserve knowledge that is implicit and hard to make explicit?

In this episode of the Crazy Wisdom podcast, Stewart Alsop chats with Taren Pang, a full-stack developer with a rich background in architecture, Web3, and AI. The discussion covers the evolving role of algorithms in shaping our online experiences, the importance of transparent AI and blockchain technologies, and how tools like Urbit and Bitcoin could reshape business in a decentralized world. Taren also shares insights on programming with AI and his journey of transitioning from architecture to the tech industry. For more on Taren's thoughts and work, stay tuned for future updates as he refines his focus.

Check out this GPT we trained on the conversation!

Timestamps

00:00 Introduction and Guest Welcome
00:18 The Role of Twitter as a Journal
01:50 Navigating Twitter's Algorithm
06:00 The Impact of AI and Deepfakes
11:05 Transition to Web Development
17:12 Exploring AI in Programming
21:47 The Future of AI and Job Market
28:09 Web3 and Blockchain Insights
49:53 Concluding Thoughts and Future Plans

Key Insights

1. The Shift in Online Trust: The discussion highlighted how algorithms have become more trusted than traditional sources of knowledge, such as books. This shift reflects the increasing influence of digital platforms on our perception of truth and the ways we consume information.
2. The Role of AI in Work and Life: AI's growing role in automating tasks was a major theme, with Taren expressing optimism about AI's potential to take over mundane tasks, allowing humans to focus on more meaningful work. Despite fears of job displacement, Taren believes AI will be more of an enabler than a replacement.
3. The Importance of Transparent Algorithms: Both Stewart and Taren emphasized the need for transparency in the algorithms that shape our online experiences. Open-source algorithms, especially on platforms like Twitter, could allow users to understand how their data is being used and manipulated, fostering greater trust.
4. Web3 and Decentralization: The episode explored the promise of Web3 technologies, such as Ethereum and Erbit, which aim to decentralize the internet by giving users more control over their data and digital identities. This shift could potentially democratize online spaces and reduce the power of large corporations.
5. The Evolution of Programming with AI: Taren shared his experiences with AI tools like ChatGPT and Copilot, illustrating how these technologies are transforming programming by making tasks like code conversion more efficient. The rise of no-code and low-code platforms is also making AI more accessible to non-programmers.
6. The Future of Digital Economies: Blockchain's potential to create new forms of digital economies was discussed, particularly through programmable platforms like Ethereum. These technologies could enable new business models that are more transparent and equitable, allowing creators to own and monetize their work in novel ways.
7. Adapting to Technological Change: The conversation concluded with a broader reflection on how humanity has always adapted to technological advancements. Taren argued that, like past innovations, AI and blockchain will present new opportunities and challenges, but ultimately, they will enhance human life rather than diminish it.

Woody Wiegmann

https://twitter.com/WoodyWiegmann

What will AI do the ability of people who have limited intelligence and agency?

1. What will AI do to humans who tend to create rituals for guidance on what to do?

   1. Back in the 400BC, humans were ritually inclined, to put off their questions to ritual

2. Are there going to be business moats around AI?

3. How do humans seem to get things wrong and that ends up being their superpower?

4. The tribe is now occulted behind crazy complexity, what does that mean?

5. What is the importance of status games in human relationships?

6. What is Keynesian beauty/stock dynamics?

7. Is there a ground truth?

8. What is the relationship between gossip and myths for what both for tribes and meta-tribes?

9. What is trend on vices that represent escapism?

   1. In what ways is Twitter escapism?

10. What happens when a bureaucracy tries to intervene?

11. What happens when bureaucracies clash with the uncertainty of the implications of AI?

12. What is humanity going through in terms of its faith in the expert class?

13. Where does credit go when you have low-interest rates and the government pumps trillions of monopoly money into the system?

14. What are the negative externalities of corporations consolidating?

15. What is the relationship between monopoly money injected into the economy and finding consensus among humans?

16. What happens when AGI becomes the deity?

    1. What happens when the market becomes God?

17. What is the importance of optics? Can you be authentic when concerned with optics?

18. How does anti-trust law get it wrong?

19. Can we have decentralized anti-trust law?

20. How is the brain built off redundant systems?

21. What is your take on transhumanism?

 

Books mentioned:

Seveneves: https://www.amazon.com/Seveneves-Novel-Neal-Stephenson-ebook/dp/B00LZWV8JO/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

Rare Earth: https://www.amazon.com/Rare-Earth-Complex-Uncommon-Universe-ebook/dp/B00L60PP0I/ref=sr_1_1_sspa?crid=V3UGRDR27PTV&keywords=rare+earth&qid=1676913897&s=digital-text&sprefix=rare+earth%2Cdigital-text%2C185&sr=1-1-spons&psc=1&spLa=ZW5jcnlwdGVkUXVhbGlmaWVyPUEySUg5NjgyRlBBQ0hJJmVuY3J5cHRlZElkPUEwNjIyOTI0MkE1QlExN0xCM1NRRyZlbmNyeXB0ZWRBZElkPUEwMDMxNjY0MTczTkU0VDdSQkpPMSZ3aWRnZXROYW1lPXNwX2F0ZiZhY3Rpb249Y2xpY2tSZWRpcmVjdCZkb05vdExvZ0NsaWNrPXRydWU=

 

 

Eric Helal Founder of Quartus a Dev shop for Urbit Apps

Rabsef-bicrym on Urbit 

https://twitter.com/SafePen

~dalten/new-aera

https://twitter.com/_dalten

 

1. Are we in Utopia or dystopia or neither?

2. What are the other options besides social dystopia?

   1. Resource constraint

   2. Wind from a dying star novel

   3. Technology stultification

      1. How does Urbit help to solve this?

3. What does it mean to lose understanding of first principles as an individual and a society?

4. How does technology influence us to dissociate from the first principles that the technology was built with?

5. Will the only people who populate the network states be the autists?

6. How will communities be restored after covid?

7. What are the religious implications of Urbit?

8. What are the expressions of development in Urbit vs other computer programming languages?

9. What does the user experience in Urbit look like in 5 years?

10. What needs to be done to make urbit something shareable with my sister?

11. What are the use cases for distributed networked computing instead of centralized systems?

12. Does Urbit need to be palatable to normies?

13. What is the address space model?

14. What is data composability?

    1. How does it relate to urbit and urbit adoption

15. What is remote scry?

16. What are the constraints from social conditions versus technology constraints?

17. How does the leadership of Urbit and/or Tlon and/or Quartus ensure that it eats the legacy internet?

18. How does content recommendation fit in of Urbit?

19. Where is the line between limbic engagement and limbic manipulation?

20. What is the relationship between content recommendation and reputation engines?

21. How do permissions works on Urbit?

22. What is sybil protection?

23. How does urbit trivialize software writing for networking versus the legacy internet?

24. What is canonical truth?

25. What is decoherence between various people and truth claims?

26. What is reputational flow?

27. How do you build a wikipedia that is not dominated by political whims?

 

Adam Chavez is a Founder of Freeplay, & Mokriya. 

 

We make sense of where we’re headed as a society in a post-trust, post-2020 world.

 

What’s up with Steve Jobs’ apparent belief in magic? Why does that matter? 

 

We also talk AI, holographic theory, the impact of ancient Abraham on America, & the Minecraft Generation.

 

https://alkebulan.substack.com/

 

adam@adamchavez.net

 

https://twitter.com/anksolado

 

1. What is the relation between the occult and steve jobs?
2. What is a story of 0 to 1 in occult language?
3. What is the difference between the performative sense and the inner self?
4. What is freeplay, the company?
5. What is the relationship between adrenaline junkies and spiritual emergencies?
6. What is the difference between transactional and transformational relationships?
7. Do you think that AI is going to increase atomization?
8. How does the freedom that minecraft represent when it comes to kids ability to create think today?
9. What will AI do to the bureaucratic incentives of government?
10. What is the relationship between decentralization and AI?
11. What is the relationship between desire for freedom and being a good employee?
12. Why do ideologies make some people feel like they are real and others feel like are empty and meaningless?
13. Are the problems of meaning an issue with abrahamic cultures?
14. Why do scientists shy away from discussing the implications of quantum mechanics?
15. What is the holographic theory?

Trent Gillham

Founder of Holium

~lomder-librun on Urbit

https://twitter.com/AidenSolaran

1. What does it mean to reject and transcend triviality?
2. What do you know about machine learning given your experience in 2018?
3. What was it like to work at a big company like GE? What have you learned about starting a startup?
4. What is it like to develop on urbit?
5. How does non-attachment help us to build products but also distract us from with the masses?
6. What is Holium?
   1. Community operating system
7. How is the current system of the infrastructure of the internet keeping the internet a single-player game?
8. What is the library of babel?
   1. https://libraryofbabel.info/
9. Where did the names of tlon and uqbar come from?
10. Who makes sense of disparate information?
11. What did your crisis of 2018 teach you?
12. Does IBM have a chance when it comes to AI?
13. How good was AI at making decisions via algorithm in 2018? What about now?
14. How do you make moral or ethical decisions when technology rapidly advances?
15. How do you build something that gives human communities collective power that technology is taking over?
16. Do AI’s have moats?
17. What did COVID teach you about how technology can actually help communities rather than hurt them or dominate them?
18. What is special about peer to peer database networks?
19. What is different about the crypto age, if anything, in comparison to the VC model of yesteryear?
20. What is Holium’s ballet?
21. What was it like for you to build hoon?
22. What is realm?
    1. First commit of realm was April 15th
23. How did software systems end up being bloated by contractual economics?
24. What is unique to urbit?
25. What is a kubernetes clusters?
26. What do you think of the leviathan that is the federal government?
27. What is the relationship between resiliency of legacy systems and then the pace of technological change?
28. How do we create resilient but also adaptable systems that can handle accelerationism?
29. How did the internet destroy cultural convergence? How far did that make it into other countries outside of urban areas?
    1. Monoculturing is almost the same thing as monocropping
30. The Meme flood and algorithmic pharoahs
31. What is the spirit of technique?
    1. Technological society book
32. When does technology become technique and then become luciferian?
33. How can you dominate technology rather than the reverse?
34. What was the foundation of the amish? When did that happen?
35. What is the antifragile/resilient version of utilization of technology?
    1. Technology is the means rather than the goal
36. What happens when the legacy internet becomes an infinite generation of content?
37. Where do magic and technology intersect?

A full-stack web developer, speaker and adviser to a small number of blockchain startups 

Owenbarnes.com

On urbit: ~locruc-fonmec

1. What are the foundations of privacy?
2. What is the next big thing?
3. Was Facebook built in PHP?
4. Where do you see Urbit converging with cryptocurrency values?
5. What is composability?
6. What happened with Tornado Cash?
7. What is a personal AI?
8. What is the transformer paradigm?
9. What is the apocalyptic paradigm when it comes to AI?
10. Why is there so much fear regarding AI?
11. Will AI ever be able to decide what is beautiful or not?
12. What is the root of fear?
13. What is decentralized computing?
14. In what ways is Ethereum complimentary to Urbit?
    1. What about competition Uqbar?
15. Why would you need the huge security guarantees that ETH represents?
16. What do you think of the Bitcoin Maxis evaluation of ETH as censorable?
17. What is the problem with kelvin versioning?
18. What is the history of computing?
    1. “Mother of all demos”
       1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJDv-zdhzMY&ab_channel=Marcel
    2. Brett Victor
19. What is the future of computing?
20. What is the value of data?
21. What is the future of regulation when it comes to what we are discussing?
22. The AI that you are talking about, what is the difference between Chat GPT and that AI?
23. Why did languages teach us so much about the transformer paradigm for AI?
24. What will be it once we can generate apps on the fly with AI?
25. What is the difference between content and context?
26. How is a human similar to a shattered giant ice cube?
27. What are the implications of the partnership between Microsoft and OpenAI?
28. Why does the training of the algorithm cost so much power rather than just the keeping up?
29. What happens with the live training model of AI?

Sam Frank, Writer, Investor, and Board member of the Urbit Foundation

Substack: https://samfrank.substack.com/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/anecdoted

Urbit ID: ~todset-partug

1. How did you first get involved with Urbit?
2. What is it like to be a writer in the descent of that profession brought on by the internet?
3. What are the politics like in the new york writer's groups?
4. What does it mean to be a rationalist?
   1. Did you see the Peter Theil takedown of the rationalist community?
5. What was Vitalik like before he became nerd famous?
6. What was the original DAO version versus where it is now?
7. What does it mean to be an alien in a human body?
8. Where do Moldbug and Nick Land converge and diverge?
9. How does being a writer help you understand technology in ways programmers can’t?
10. How does talking off the record play into being a writer/journalist?
11. What is the relationship between being conservative in technology versus being conservative in other centers of contemporary power?
12. What is the relationship between ethereum and urbit?
13. What is urbit going to be?
14. What was it like to get on Urbit in 2018?
15. How does localism play into urbit?
16. What will Urbit do to information?
17. What will the Google be of Urbit?
18. How will the network map be different for Urbit than it is for contemporary social media?
19. What are the metaphysic strings that thread the current urbit network?
20. What do you think search will be like on Urbit?
21. How do you categorize knowledge?
    1. What about information?
22. What is the relationship between entropy and knowledge?
    1. How does the breakdown of knowledge work differently pre-internet and post-internet?
23. How is the speed of development different in Urbit versus the legacy internet?
24. Are the development costs lower in Urbit vs the legacy computing world?
25. What is the relationship between knowledge and context of knowledge?
26. What is the difference between something that works and something that works well?
27. Talk about how Stewart started researching random esoteric spirituality  stuff on Google and got himself into a deep hole
28. Is postmodernism an entropy of modernism?
29. But maybe its both, parts of the world will decline under entropy and a new species gets created that enters the new age? (25 minutes in)
30. You seem like someone who is part of both the new age esotericism and part of technology, what is that like?
31. Why did society edit Nikola Tesla?
32. What is the relationship between urbit and AI?
33. Who is Rudolph Steiner?
34. What were the influences that led to unbalanced specialization?
35. The tradition itself is no longer valid for the increased complexity that comes from the age of acceleration
36. Who is Norman Kahn? Book “In search of the Millenium”
37. What is the root of the “ascension to 5D theory”?
38. How is the brain a filtration system?
39. How does the specialization matrix/left brain make people more fragile to the obvious acceleration we are going through?
40. What did Charles Eisenstein say about COVID?
41. What is it like to go to UFO convention?
42. What is it like to be authentically weird rather than cool weird?
43. How does rationalism end up repressing the irrational?

Stephen is working on AI dev on Near protocol and developing on Ethereum

1. What is the NEAR blockchain?
2. What is sharding?
   1. Increasing throughput of the transactions
   2. Breaking up the blockchain into shards so that you can get more parallelism
   3. When does ETH sharding begin?
   4. ETH sharding is based on blobs
3. Why are you attracted to Rust?
4. Can you use Rust on Ethereum?
5. What is a virtual machine?
   1. Something that is interpreting bite code instead of binary
6. Why would a blockchain need a virtual machine?
7. Why are virtual machines more secure?
8. What is web assembly?
9. How do interfaces work for smart contracts?
10. What is a blockchain?
11. Why would someone want to have a blockchain for gaming?
12. Why does a blockchain economize resources better than something like AWS or cloud computing?
13. What are zero knowledge proofs?
14. What is the relationship between zero knowledge proofs and KYC networks?
15. What is determinism?
16. What are your thoughts on AI right now as an AI developer?
17. How far are we from AGI?
18. How much has psychology or biology informed the development of AI?
19. Has anyone formed a plan to actually get to AGI?
20. Would gaming be a good way to create an AGI through this bootstrapping thing you mention 25 minutes in?
21. Why is gaming AI dumbed down?
22. Is it dumbed down because of resource efficiency?
    1. No its because you want that determism and the expected range of behaviors
    2. QA doesn’t want to deal with unexpected issues which cause bugs you can’t fix or expect
23. How is deep learning affecting gaming developments?
    1. How is gaming affecting deep learning?
24. Are you using copilot for developing?
25. What is reinforcement learning?
    1. Find out how much you value decisions that lead to certain rewards
26. What does it mean to “discount something”?
27. Whether OPENAI is open source?
28. What did NFT protocol did you create?
29. What is a Markoff chain?
30. What is a lottery smart contract?
    1. You purchase tickets with your crypto wallet
    2. The more tickets you purchase, the better chances you have for a payout
31. How does peer reviewing work for writing solidity?
32. What are the implications of developing on a blockchain versus a normal database?
33. What is state when it comes to programming?
34. How do you visualize the state of the EVM?

Deborah Simpier Co-founder & CEO  of Althea Network and Gravity Bridge

1. What does Althea network do?
2. What is interoperability?
3. What is the payment experience like right now?
4. Why do telcos get monopolized?
5. When did we start referring to people as users?
6. Why do 29% of New York City not have access to the internet?
7. How do you create frictionless payments?
8. What is the relationship between stable coins and frictionless payments?
9. What do you mean by machine to machine?
10. Have people tried to game the system you are building?
11. What is proof of sale?
12. How many people are on your network?
13. What is the radial layer?
14. What is liquid infrastructure?
15. What is the connectivity layer?
16. What is ownership?
    1. Leverage
    2. Choice
17. What is the product’s future in developing countries?
18. What are the challenges between doing this in developed countries and developing countries?
19. Why would someone need interoperability?
20. What is the role of BTC is now?
21. What are the struggles of proof of stake right now?
22. What does it mean to run the validator on your machine?
23. What is X86?
24. What is PLTE?
25. What is the intersection between ALTHEA and Urbit?
26. When does the althea blockchain launch?

Dr. Jonathan Paprocki

Jonathan is a specialist in topological quantum compiling, a Tlon engineer, you can find him on Urbit @  ~Datnut-Pollen Blog can be found at Discordia (http://datnut-pollen.discordja.net/discordja)

1. What is a Kundalini awakening?
2. What do old dusty books say about Kundalini?
3. What is the relationship between Kundalini and topological quantum computers?
4. Can everything be explained by science?
5. How do you deal with the skepticism that other people give you that you used to give them?
6. How much does the flow state come to you when working with quantum computers? Is it very frustrating?
7. What did you learn about Atman after you randomly spoke Atman?
8. Do you think in images?
9. What do you think is the base layer reality now?
10. When did you start studying quantum physics?
11. Who is John Wheeler? What is the participatory universe?
    1. He talks about Quantum Bayesianism
    2. The idea is that the Universe consists of participants/observers and observations, rules on consistencies of what these interactions guarantee the relationship.
12. What is the study of condensed matter?
13. What is quantum field theory?
14. What is quantum topology?
15. A topologist can't tell the difference between a coffee mug and a donut.
16. Who is Edward Witten, the physicist who received the Field Medal?
17. What are your favorite cognitive hazards?
18. How often do new age thinkers get quantum mechanics right when tying it to spirituality?
19. How important is math to understanding quantum theory?
20. What is quantum theory?
21. Who are the new age mystics who do get quantum theory right?
22. What percentage of quantum theory has to do with the Heisenberg principle?
23. What is the difference between the laws of qualia and the laws of physics?
24. How did you end up at Tlon?
25. What are the differences between Holochain and Urbit?
26. What is a distributed hash table?
27. What is a hash chain?
28. What is naturally inspired computation?
29. What are the aspects of natural physics that are dependent on quantum mechanics?
30. Who is Sam Frank from Urbit?
31. What is the thing that convinces you to pursue incomprehensible projects to the point of comprehensibility?
32. Is doing documentation a good way to learn programming?
33. What is the blog that Jon is writing?
34. What are some differences between writing software for external applications/legacy internet within Urbit versus say writing software in an imperative programming language and navigating Facebook's API?
35. Why did IP addresses not become permanent ways to signify where the message receiver/sender is stable?
36. What does Urbit replace about the current IP address system?
37. What are the differences and similarities between Urbit and Holochain?
38. What is Holochain Scepter?
39. What is Deep Key when it comes to Holochain?
40. How does Urbit enforce global state?
41. What is the data availability problem of the blockchain?
42. Why doesn't adding more blocks make the data processing faster?
43. What is a blockchain?
44. A way to give a clock to distributed system.
45. What is the problem of time in distributed systems?
46. Holochain is a way to run apps on BitTorrent basically (analogy).
47. What percentage of email is spam?
48. What is enforced scarcity?
49. What is the membrane from Holochain?
50. What are all the types of attacks in distributed systems?

Today we have Casey Rodarmor, a bitcoin developer who is working on building non-fungible tokens (NFTs) directly on the Bitcoin blockchain. NFTs are digital assets that are unique and cannot be exchanged for other assets. They have become popular on Ethereum, but have not yet been implemented on the Bitcoin blockchain. Casey is working on a protocol that will allow NFTs to be natively held in a Bitcoin wallet and transferred using Bitcoin transactions. He believes that NFTs have the potential to be a powerful tool for artists and creators to sell and authenticate their work.

Here are some other questions we cover:

1. Where does the name Rodarmor come from?
2. What does it mean to build NFT on the BTC blockchain?
3. Where was the first NFT built on?
   1. NameCoin
   2. Built for domain names
4. What was the first popular NFT built on?
   1. Counterparty
   2. ETH was where they took off
5. Why doesn’t Bitcoin have its own NFT yet?
6. Why aren’t satoshis currently transferable individually?
7. Why did you give a satoshi a unique identifier?
8. Do you need a separate bitcoin public key to use these NFTs?
   1. Not the case that most BTC  wallets have a single public key
9. Why do bitcoin maxis have such strong membranes for keeping stuff they don’t like out of bitcoin?
10. So it matters that people have to adopt the protocol you are using?
11. Do they still point to IPFS?
12. What does it take to change the bitcoin protocol?
    1. These are very controversial
13. Why doesn’t Bitcoin have a formal process for accepting changes?
14. Why are democracies so easy to game?
    1. What is a system that isn’t easy to game?
15. What is competitive governance?
16. Why is Singapore a good example of competitive governance?
17. Why is it so relevant to have the federal government take income taxes rather than state governments?
18. What do you think of competitive governance within Western Hemisphere?
19. Who is Patri Freidman?
20. What is the history of the Friedman family (of the Milton clan)?
21. Would a nuclear-powered thorium reactor help the seasteading movement?
22. What is the limiting feature of seasteading?
23. What are bitcoin transactions?
24. What are unspent transaction outputs?
25. Why is bitcoin not a triple-entry bookkeeping system?
26. What is the difference between ledgers and bitcoin?
27. What is the difference between a global and local accounting systems?
28. Will individuals use BTC as money?
29. Where does USDC issue stable coin?

In this episode of the Crazy Wisdom Podcast, host Stewart Alsop welcomes back Erik Newton for a profound conversation on consciousness, personal growth, and the nature of reality. Together, they explore the challenges of expanding awareness, balancing intention with surrender, and the philosophical implications of emerging technologies like Neuralink. Erik shares his deep reflections on fatherhood, the complexities of human suffering, and the pursuit of peace in a chaotic world. For more insights from Erik, you can connect with him on Twitter at @NewtonLaw.

Check out this GPT we trained on the conversation!

Timestamps

00:00 Introduction and Welcome

00:57 Diving into Consciousness

03:38 Exploring Human and Animal Consciousness

05:59 The Complexity of Suffering

09:20 Neuralink and the Future of Consciousness

14:55 The Nature of Reality and Simulations

26:45 The 1960s Consciousness Revolution

28:10 Exploring Consciousness and AI

29:13 The Golden Era of Innovation

30:30 The Inevitable Advancement of AI

31:06 Balancing Responsibility and Progress

32:47 Reflections on the 1960s

33:43 The Complexity of History and Innovation

36:59 The Concept of Solar Punk

44:55 The Philosophy of Surfing

47:38 The Struggle and Joy of Surfing

52:13 Concluding Thoughts and Future Plans

Key Insights

1-Consciousness as the Ultimate Focus: Erik Newton emphasizes that expanding consciousness is the most meaningful pursuit in life. He believes that whether it's our own consciousness, others', or even non-human consciousness, the act of expanding awareness is central to our experience and growth.

2-Balancing Intention with Surrender: A recurring theme in the conversation is the delicate balance between intention and surrender. Erik discusses how in activities like surfing, and in life more broadly, it's essential to have enough intention to take action but also enough surrender to accept reality as it is. This balance is key to navigating challenges without falling into the trap of frustration or suffering.

3-The Illusion of Control and Fear: Both Erik and Stewart explore the idea that much of human suffering stems from the illusion of control and the fear that arises when we attempt to predict and control the future. Recognizing this illusion can help reduce suffering and cultivate a more present and peaceful state of being.

4-The Role of Pain in Awareness: Erik highlights the distinction between pain and suffering, suggesting that while pain is an inevitable part of life and a necessary signal for awareness, suffering is often a result of our mental constructs and attachment to outcomes. Learning to transcend suffering while acknowledging pain is a significant step in personal growth.

5-Human Identity and Ego: The discussion touches on the role of ego in shaping our identities and how much of our suffering is tied to the ego's attempts to avoid fear. Erik suggests that while it’s impossible to completely shed the ego, we can learn not to be overly attached to it, thereby reducing its control over our lives.

6-The Complexity of Reality and Simulation: The conversation delves into the nature of reality, with Erik expressing that our perception of reality is a simulation created by our consciousness. He argues that this reality is "differently real" rather than more or less real compared to artificial simulations, highlighting the complex nature of our subjective experiences.

7-Optimism and Caution in Technological Advancement: Erik and Stewart discuss the importance of approaching technological developments like Neuralink with both optimism and caution. While they recognize the potential for profound advancements in consciousness and human experience, they also emphasize the need for a balanced, intentional, and thoughtful approach to avoid the pitfalls of naivety and unintended consequences.

Kenny Rowe is the founder of the Dalten Collective (~sicdev-pilnup), in a previous life he was on the founding team of MakerDAO

1. What is the dalten collective?
   1. Collectively own an urbit start together
2. What is a node?
3. What is peer discovery?
4. What is governance when it comes to Urbit?
5. What can you do with a star on Urbit?
6. What is the relationship between Urbit and DAOs?
7. How do groups do sense-making? What is better for sense-making: an individual or the collective?
8. What are the three values for the dalten collective?
9. How many people are in the dalten collective?
10. What is Qurtus when it comes to the dalten collective?
11. What are the differences between software development in Urbit vs the rest of the ecosystem?
    1. Dev ops is easier
    2. There is a learning curve
    3. Runes and ASQII characters are important
12. What is the importance of communication for project management?
13. When do we get to the magical point of really easy software development?
14. What does it mean to be a functional programming language?
15. What is the highest scale has Urbit got to?
    1. Ubit network explorer
    2. Low 10,0000s
16. What is the thing about exponentials?
17. Does anyone at the FED have any idea of what MakerDAO is?
18. What is the relationship between finance and actualization?
19. Is MakerDAO a eurodollar system?
20. Is Urbit out of the womb yet?
21. What was your first memory of discovering the internet?
22. What is the difference between a functional and performative server?
23. What was the history of computing in the 40s?
24. What is computation?
25. How do you bootstrap a personal server?
    1. What do you learn by building a personal server that gives you an idea of what you can do?
26. Are we already in the feudal system when it comes to Facebook owning all our individual data?
27. How do identity politics make the world really clear?
28. What are the tools you need for sense-making?
29. Why do bitcoin maxis immediately think that Urbit is a blockchain when you try to bring it up?
30. How do smart contracts fit into urbit? What is the synthesis between smart contracts and urbit?
31. Where does sense-making within small groups fit into the patchwork age (PaulPublisher on Twitter)?
32. Where do loners fit into sense-making?
33. What is the relationship between the internet archives and urbit?
34. How does urbit prevent shadow updates from centralized media?
35. Will urbit absorb the legacy internet?
36. What does it mean to have a digital CPU?
37. What do you think happens to Amazon cloud in the urbit land?
38. Cable television is a good idea of decentralization
39. How does Moore’s law extrapolate into other areas outside of transistors?
40. What is a functional definition of computation?
41. Why did computers take over the world in 1940s?
42. What is the relationship between computers and war?
43. What is a babbage machine?
44. Why is 0 and 1 is the easiest way to do computation?

Aaron Lowry (https://twitter.com/Aaron_Lowry)

1. Why are you interested in Cardano?
2. Why didn’t you switch to ETH and stay with Classic?
3. What are the main challenges to build decentralized systems?
   1. With functional governance?
4. How does verifiability contribute to more challenging programming issues?
5. What was the Ethereum schism between classic and ETH?
   1. With the unilateral move to create a new ETH chain we see the first centralization
6. Cardano is centralized in explicit ways through the initial token sale, the corporate structure, and the nodes
   1. It starts out centralized but they have a roadmap to get to centralization
7. What are the differences between a proof of work Bitcoin and a proof of stake system? What does a smart contract system need that bitcoin doesn’t?
8. What happened when ETH moved to proof of stake?
9. Why is energy so fundamental to utility?
10. What is the market cap of Cardano?
11. What are the compromises of ETH?
12. What is slashing?
13. How fast is Cardano?
14. What are stake pools?
15. What is trust minimization? Why is it so integral to a blockchain?
16. Does Cardano validate things locally?
17. Will AI make it easier to host hardware servers?
18. What limits peer-to-peer networks?
19. The market seems to always go towards convenience, which compromises so many things. What are those compromises?
20. Can you argue with physics?
21. How long does delusion traditionally outlast sanity?
22. How do you build something that lasts when structurally the incentive is to build something that doesn’t?
23. What is the difference between accountability and scapegoating?
24. How can you reality-check with others while there are contradictions embedded within communication?

Noah Kumin

Editor In Chief of the Mars Review of Books, publish at machinewar.substack.com

~librex-dozryc on Urbit

1. What is the mars review of books?
2. What is the relationship between collapse and urbit?
3. How did you get involved with Urbit?
4. What are the downsides of having everything become easily accessible?
5. Do you think that Urbit will take all the good parts of the old web but keep the beauty of decentralization?
6. What are the data storage aspects of urbit?
7. Why is it confusing when people say Urbit is like your own computer?
8. Why were computers originally people instead of machines?
9. Will Mars Review of Books get into hosting planets or is it already do it?
10. What is the relationship between Tirrell and Mars Reviews of Books?
11. What is eternal September?
    1. The only people who were getting 
12. What would a university look like for Urbit?
13. Why is it that when people learn norms, things become boring for divergent people?
14. How did Scientism creep into the Silicon Valley industry, and how did that affect the current online networks?
15. In what ways is the development of Urbit centralized like Ethereum development is?
16. Urbit’s value is that there is no spam whatsoever
17. What is the future of print in the age of post-internetism?
    1. Print allows for blockchain like verifiiability 
    2. A bit of something like a vinyl trend for print books
18. What is the future of serious literature in the age of internet?
19. What is the diversion value of VR-porn? How about Nuclear Fusion?
20. Can man live on VR-porn alone?
21. If you don’t give a young kid a smartphone are you weakening their virtual immune system?
22. What does it mean to outsource your intelligence to the crowd?
23. Why is that becoming an insider in a fragile society requires so much BS?

This episode was meant to fulfill a personal curiosity of mine about CNC routers for wood working and how they are changing a very old skill. I wanted to see how it fit into my thesis of decentralized manufacturing and how it relates to additive manufacturing. It gets a little technical so you will like this episode if you already have some knowledge about building physical things. Here are some questions we cover:

1. What is CNC?
2. What is a CNC router?
3. WHat is the difference between making and designing things for CNC routers?
4. What is a tool pathing?
5. What are the applications for CNC routing?
6. What is high density urethane?
7. How did you get into CNC routing?
8. What are your favorite materials?
9. What is slat wall?

Steve Heckathorn

Owner operator of NC3 Fab (https://www.facebook.com/NC3Fabrications)

Nicholas Faulkner

chemistry and physics teacher, former nuclear engineer, author of the upcoming book “Angelic Physics”

1. How do you ascend to the next level of consciousness?
2. What does it feel like to have an out of body experience?
3. What are your thoughts on the future of nuclear power?
4. What are the physics of nuclear power?
5. How long will it take to feel the benefits of nuclear power if we start building massively?
6. What is the waste of solar versus the waste of nuclear?
7. What is the deal with getting uranium from seawater?
8. Why does uranium float in seawater?
9. How is uranium traditionally harvested?
   1. Two isotopes (235 and 238) of uranium
10. What does it feel like to have a different path?
11. What is autism from an energetic framework?
12. What is the relationship between being autistic and recognizing vibes?
13. What is it like to live in an angel producing simulation?
14. What is the relationship between quantum mechanics and nuclear physics?
15. How many people are hypnotized?
16. What is the relationship between certainty and the simulation?
17. What is a miracle?
18. What percentage of people who are being trained to be angels?
    1. 1.7%
19. What is the nature of the leap that the planet is in right now?
20. What is the relationship between quantum mechanics and karme?
21. What is the angelic roller coaster?
22. What does it mean to have your soul evolve?
23. What is the relationship between THC and conspiracy theory?
24. Do you think we are headed for a bifurcation of humanity into two species?
25. What is the definition of an angel?
26. Is a starseed actually angels?
27. What does it feel like to be touched by an angel?
28. What are the two teams of the simulation?
29. What is a good way to describe the demonic?
30. What does it feel like to have inability to tell truth from falsehood?
31. What is the timeline for the next couple years for nuclear power?
32. Is nuclear power the way to colonize mars?

1. What type of additive manufacturing machines does the company you work for have?
2. What is the role of proprietary legal stuff when it comes to additive manufacturing?
3. What is an EOS machine?
4. Has Germany always been an additive manufacturer superpower?
   1. Is China taking over from them?
5. What is a service bureau?
   1. Contract manufacturing
6. How many interactions with a client on a particular part do you usually do?
   1. 2-3 generally between when the customer needs to test it
   2. 10 builds total over 1-2 years
7. What is the key thing for helping a customer understand the difference between designing for 3D printing versus traditional manufacturing?
8. What is 3D printing opening up in terms of novel designs that additive manufacturing opens up?
9. What is the famous engine fuel nozzle that 3D printing opened up?
10. What is the difference between consumer 3D printing and custom/industrial 3D printing?
11. How much does a 3D printing machine for industrial purposes cost?
12. What does it mean to qualify a part?
13. What are the machines that have more stability across different service bureaus?
14. What is a concept laser? Bellow?
    1. These are companies that produce machines
15. How many people work at your company?
16. How many competitors do you have?
    1. 2-3 similar service bureaus
    2. What are all the niches for these competitors?
       1. Automotive
       2. Energy
       3. Aerospace
       4. Medical
17. What type of employees are you using?
18. What does a lab tech do?
19. How big are your machines?
20. Who specializes in larger parts that are produced by 3D printing?
21. What are the types of geometries that are novel to 3D printing?
22. How did you get into this?
23. What is connector manufacturing?
24. Do you enjoy this field?
25. How do you work with a customer who has propriety clauses?
26. What companies are doing the rapid prototyping for consumers?
    1. Exometry
    2. Goprodo
    3. Prodolabs
27. How did the supply chain crisis from COVID change your business?
28. What are your thoughts on bringing manufacturing back to the United States?
29. The materials that you use, how much of it comes from other places in the world?
30. What types of powders?
    1. 16 different metals
    2. Where is it manufactured?
       1. Finland
31. What is the relationship between software and hardware when it comes to 3D printing?
32. What is the support removal?
33. What is AS9100?

What is it like to compete against square? What is it like to charge people to come on a podcast to interview them? Is podcasting like a press organization? When did they invent paper? What is the fundamental process behind decentralization? Is it good nor bad? Is bitcoin a money revolution or a technological innovation? What is the thesis, synthesis and anti synthesis cycle? Is the BTC volatility based on price discovery?  What was the significance of the luna and celsius collapse? In 2021, everything in crypto was leveraged against itself. What is the significance of this? Is Tether actually a truly audited stablecoin? The non-transparency behind Tether actually saved it What is the difference between a financial attack and a technology attack in crypto? What is the relationship between being a savvy technologist and an economic technologist? Where does regulation come into this? Can we actually have a decentralized stablecoin? What is the importance of the fourth turning book? What is a saeculum? What is the relationship between chaos now and potential in the future? What about employment in crypto? What is the remote work part of the question? How is Twitter like a feudal lord for the internet? What is the role of the autist in this great splintering that we are going through? What layer is Stewart in? An information gold digger What is the multilayered problem that global mental health represents? Is Buddhism the first therapy? Why is the western world so inspired by materiality? Where does 3D printing fit into decentralization? What is the relationship between global narratives and being prepared for uncertainty? Is it the main driver behind the seeking of global narratives?

Michael Tauberg

Hardware and software engineer with over 10 years of experience in firmware, systems validation and test automation

1. What happened in China with sanctions on microchips, particularly on Oct 7th 2022?
2. What is the goal of the US government with these moves?
3. What hasn’t been allowed for awhile? What is new restrictions?
4. What is a microchip?
   1. What is ASML?
      1. A dutch company that makes the equipment that makes chips
      2. Extreme ultraviolet is a new technology
5. What has been done on the AI front in terms of sanctions?
6. Why are graphic cards better for AI?
7. Where does economic growth come from?
8. What is the difference in automation in physical space versus virtual space?
9. What is the move for capital expenditure from the government?
10. Will the US be able to bring back the chip industry to the US?
11. What is the difference between design, production, and manufacturing?
12. Are kids starting to cheat using GPT3 at school?
13. Who should I interview about robotics in manufacturing?
    1. Former tesla employees
14. How did Airbnb, Uber etc come from innovations databases technology?
15. Why can’t you have walmart without databases?
16. What is potential of AI? What is easy to predict? What is not?
    1. Finding and exploiting patterns
17. How will AI change material science?
18. What about drones?
19. How are drones changing warfare?
20. Why are the iranians the ones producing these new cheap drones?
21. Will the drone wars move over into civilian casualties?
22. What is drone defense and how will it change?
23.  How will aircraft carrier economic change wth the drone equation? The missile equation?
24. What does it mean to win a war in 2022?
25. What are the two things that China has not caught up with the west?
    1. Advanced semiconductors and aerospace

Justin is the Principal Materials and Manufacturing Engineer at Ursa Major Technologies and used to run materials at SpaceX

Questions we cover on the show:

1. Is it possible to 3D print engines or motors using additive manufacturing with metal? 
2. Do those engines/motors have different design constraints?
3. What time frame would it be until a consumer/tinkerer could get their hands on something affordable that could help them build motors/engines at their house?
4. What is the impact of AI on the design process for additive manufacturing?
5. Who are some other people I should interview in the space to get an idea of where this is headed?
6. Ursa major exists because of 3D printing
   1. Shortens the window
7. Will this change the automotive industry?
8. Will 3D printing ever challenge traditional manufacturing?
9. Powdered fusion
10. How many other companies have been created 
11. What is a thrust chamber?
12. What are the key components to a rocket?
13. What are the downsides to making 3D parts?
14. Are those downsides changing with material sciences?
15. What is the future of space mining and are we going to get there?
16. How much is a metal 3D printer?
17. How is all of this going to change China’s future? Is china keeping up with the US in terms of 3d printing?
18. What is going to happen with Germany?
19. What about asteroid mining? Does Ursa Major
20. What does it mean to have a high capacity, low launch cost?
    1. Falcon engine is heavy
    2. Dragon capsule is the only returnable part of the engine
21. What is your optimism or pessimism for humans conquering the solar system?
22. What are the industries that are outside of satellites?
23. How do you find the problems that AI is good at solving?
24. Why did you get into this?
25. What do the manufacturing 
26. What is the percentage of parts of a rocket that are off the shelf?
27. What are the major innovations in materials development?
    1. New alloys
    2. Tailoring alloys to specific needs
28. What is the future of manufacturing?
29. How has AI changed tailoring alloys?
30. What are the jobs of the engineer that will be AI’ed out?
31. What is the role of craftmanship as AI changes things?
32. How is titanium helping medical additive manufacturing?
33. What is directed energy deposition (DED)?
    1. Wire fed DED
    2. CNC plasma 
    3. Powered bed binder jet
       1. Ceramic
       2. sand
34. How far away are we from a star trek future where we can print anything?

What is a Maker Space?

What is a Skill Share?

Are cars more plastic than metal?

How can you create more intimate realtionships with everything in your life?

What is Upcycling?

What is Cooperative Community Development?

Is local always better?

Is efficiency the bottom line?

What is a Fila-bot?

 

 

 

In this episode of the Crazy Wisdom Podcast, Stewart Alsop hosts Sam Marelich, founder of Next Ventures, a company specializing in recruiting for venture-backed startups. The conversation touches on the intricacies of recruiting, particularly the differences between internal and external recruiting, the impact of AI on the recruitment process, and the challenges of scaling sales teams in startup environments. Sam also shares his thoughts on the importance of founder-driven sales, the role of SDRs in building a sales organization, and the nuances of working in tech hubs like San Francisco and New York. Check out Sam's new course to help you land a job selling great products for great companies

Check out this GPT we trained on the conversation!

Timestamps

00:00 Introduction to the Crazy Wisdom Podcast

00:18 The Essence of Recruiting

01:35 Internal vs. External Recruiting

05:11 The Role of AI in Recruiting

08:49 The Future of Recruiting and AI

36:09 The Importance of Founder-Driven Sales

38:04 The Value of Salespeople and AI Limitations

39:18 Navigating Sales Challenges and Being Pushy

43:30 Navigating Business Relationships

44:06 The Win-Win Strategy in Client Relationships

45:07 Recruitment Trends and Market Dynamics

45:34 The Impact of High Velocity Money

46:26 Challenges in B2B Sales

49:06 The Venture Capital Conundrum

57:12 Hiring Strategies for Startups

01:02:02 The Role of SDRs and BDRs

01:09:05 The Future of Sales and Technology

01:18:05 Concluding Thoughts and Contact Information

Key Insights

1. The Importance of Founder-Driven Sales: Sam Marelich emphasizes that in early-stage startups, founders should be the ones driving initial sales efforts. This direct involvement not only helps them understand customer needs but also builds credibility, as potential customers are more likely to engage with a founder than with a sales representative. Founders need to reach a significant revenue milestone before considering the handoff to a dedicated sales team.
2. The Strategic Role of External Recruiters: External recruiters play a critical role in augmenting a startup's internal capabilities, especially when hiring for niche roles or scaling rapidly. Sam explains that external recruiters can bring specialized knowledge, reduce the time burden on founders, and help avoid biases that may exist in internal hiring processes.
3. The AI Advantage (and Limitations) in Recruiting: While AI tools can be useful in automating certain aspects of the recruiting process, such as lead generation or sorting through large candidate pools, they cannot replace the nuanced human elements of persuasion and judgment. Sam argues that AI’s value lies in enhancing efficiency, but the core of successful recruiting still depends on human interaction.
4. The Misconception of Hiring SDRs Too Early: Sam advises against hiring Sales Development Representatives (SDRs) as the first sales hires in a startup. Instead, founders should initially bring on a couple of Account Executives to test and refine the sales process. SDRs are better suited for organizations that are ready to scale, where they can support the efforts of an established sales team.
5. Navigating the Venture Capital Landscape: The conversation touches on the pressures that come with raising large rounds of venture capital, particularly for first-time founders. Sam highlights that significant funding increases expectations exponentially, often leading to unrealistic growth targets and the rapid scaling of sales teams without the necessary groundwork.
6. The Evolving Role of Salespeople in a Digital World: As technology advances and the "buy button" becomes more powerful, the role of salespeople is evolving. Sam notes that while automation is increasing, there remains a critical need for human interaction in sales, especially in complex B2B transactions where trust, negotiation, and relationship-building are key.
7. The Geographic Shift in Tech Hubs: The episode explores the ongoing debate between New York and San Francisco as leading tech hubs. Sam, who has lived in both cities, shares that while San Francisco remains the epicenter for tech, New York is emerging as a strong competitor, particularly for industries like finance and media. The diversity of industries in New York offers a refreshing contrast to the tech-centric culture of San Francisco.

My pseudoanonymous guest here today is ~Pilwyc-Fastec, you can find him on Urbit by that name spelled out

Urbit is the right OS to build the future of the smart home.

What is a smart home?

What does it mean to shift around time?

How did the mainframe build the modern smart home infrastructure?

How can we share time on devices with others in a home in an intelligent way?

What was the grant process like for Urbit?

What is identity?

Peer to peer versus server to client

What does it mean to codify reputation?

What is the difference between reputation and identity?

What is the human way of doing reputation?

What is the antifragile nature of reputation?

What is preferential attachment?

What is an engagement loop?

What is calm technology?

Are client-server relationships more promotive of engagement loops?

What is a group recommender system?

What is the relationship between AI and Urbit? How will Urbit integrate with artificiall intelligence?

What does it mean to reduce error for AI? Is that all it is?

What is the relationship with business decisions and the effectiveness of artificial intelligence?

What is a pace layer?

Why does technology over-complicate things and then decomplicate them?

What is an edge device?

Follow @losMapMaker on Twitter

He is a Metaphysical spice¹ trader. Cyclical time cartographer. Exotic information imports

1. What happened between Socrates and now?
2. What is cyclical time versus linear time?
3. What have you learned from the fourth turning?
4. Why is it that somethings outside the realm of science that are also predictive?
   1. Why does science think that it is predictive when it isnt always (rona)?
5. Does the 4th turning have any connection with vedic astrology?
6. Who are some famous mathemeticians and physicists that also use astrology?
7. What is the relationship between science/tech and aquarius energy?
8. What are some charectirisitcs of pisces thought?
9. What is aquarius?
10. How does nature distribute information efficiently?
11. How is efficiency fractal?
12. Is it a dark age or golden age right now?
    1. It depends on the context
    2. For some people it will be a dark age, parrticularly people who cling to the pisces energy
13. What was plato’s biggest contribution to the way that we see the world?
    1. A perfect god, makes it necessary to be an omnibeing, an object that can exhibit no change
14. Is aquarius energy nonlinear compared to the pisces energy?
15. What is the god of the aquarius age?
    1. A decentralized god
16. What is the difference between a theory of a centralized god versus one of a decentrazlied god?
17. What is the result of the eastern and western philosophies clash that is happening because of the internet and postmodernity?
18. Why did the hebrews/jesus, ultimately get shoehorned into greek/roman philosophy?
19. What is telos?
20. What is platonic perfection?
21. Where did the concept of lived experience come from?
22. Why is the ontological interpretation often wrong?
    1. What is narrative reincarnation?
23. Who is ernest becker?

 

https://www.youtube.com/TheConchRepublic1513AD

Wade Townsend

 

When did you get into playing poker?

What is negotiation when it comes to draft for baseball?

What is Tommy John surgery? What pitcher surgeries are common?

What is your degree in?

What countries did you play poker tournaments in?

What is the bureaucracy involved with baseball?

Was it the coaches or the employees in professional baseball?

What is the difference between traveling for fun vs. traveling for a goal?

Why is the difference between being sincere and being serious?

Why is 90% of humanity deceptive?

How do you assume responsibility for existence?

Why does the Catholic Church make Latin America resistant to mind-viruses?

What is the concept of self-evidence?

How do you define God?

What is the meaning of words?

What about neutering dogs?

Who is Bob Barker in relationship to dogs?

Why did you live in Cabo San Lucas?

What did Ithe United States make illegal in 2011?

When did you get abducted in Colombia?

Why is it important to let go of fake friends?

Coming to our senses book.

How do mammals signal differently than other animals?

How do you find the Goldilocks when seeking information about problems that you have?

Why is there so much bullshitting in academia?

What is a good Gnostic Bible?

Gospel of Thomas

Did you get attached to cosmic consciousness?

How is it better?

What got you into Wittgenstein? How?

Aaron Lowry

How to build?

1. What does software do for helping us to customize our physical creations?
2. Where is our awareness focused? Why does it focus there? How does it focus there?
3. How does 3D engineering work?
4. How do you find the most important constraints that are the obstacles in your way?
5. How do you focus?
6. What are the properties of thermal expansion?
7. What should I understand about physics as a novice builder?
8. What are geotelematics? (10 minutes in)
9. What would be the best way to track all of the items at my airbnb?
10. What is threat detection and how did you learn about it?
11. Will hardware manufacturing come down in price soon?
12. What is network infrastructure?
13. What are the most important things to knoow about self-reliance and self-sufficiency?
14. What is different about the western US and how did it contribute to the development of blockchain and bitcoin?
    1. What is ‘code is law’?
15. Why is it important to trust 3rd parties less in our current age?
    1. Trust is the lubricant that creates positive human interaction
    2. Maybe impossible to overstate the value of trust
16. The invisible infrastructure of trust 
17. What is the reserve banking system?
18. Where do we find ourselves today?
    1. cultural, political and economic institutions
    2. Trust is explicit for all these vast numbers of people
    3. People are habituated to the convenience of high trust but we now might be in a low trust meta environment
19. How do you play the long game when everyone else is playing the short game or the evil game?
20. How do you establish institutions so that long games can be freely played?
21. How did so many unelected people get so much power in the United States?
22. What is the ideal way of promoting and giving community resources to the community?
23. How do bureaucracies destroy transparency and accountability in the United States?
24. Were politicians ever not actors?
25. What are the subtle effects of living in urban, suburban, and rural environments?
26. Why do I hate hyperspecialization so much?
27. What have you been 3D printing?
28. How do we ground our roles in reality rather than complete performance?
29. What is the best way to operate and why is it always in “the truth”?
30. Why do so many people refuse to find feedback mechanisms (40 minutes)?
31. What separates people who want to build worlds and consume worlds?
32. How can you deliver feedback to someone who both wants it and does not want it at the same time?
33. What do you know about entropy and what is its connection to purpose?
34. What is the difference between maintenance and building?
35. Why are some people compelled to progress?
36. How do you master tools and materials in order to build in-flow?
37. Why are mountain and rural people so practical? How does that influence their philosophy?
38. What is trim carpentry?
39. What is the difference between carpentry and house building?
    1. What are the constraints for building houses?
    2. What are all the differences between all the woods?
    3. What is the environment you are building the house in?
    4. What are the constraints of the materials
40. What is my soil composition?
41. How do you anchor things into the ground?
42. What is pressure treated lumbar?
43. What is a skid lower?
44. What is rammed earth?
45. What is the easiest place to build something in the United States in regards to permitting?
46. What is the water situation in Wyoming?
47. Water is the new gold and artificial constraints will make it insane
48. What is the value of energy?
49. How do we determine a viable versus a negative artificial constraint?
50. What is NFT marketplace on Cardano called?

@Aaron_Lowry on Twitter

 

What is dialogue?

What is monologue?

How do you have dialgoue with your colleagues? And then engagement?

How many corporate retreats have you done?

What is a corporate retreat?

How do you find perfect deals?

What is a perfect deal?

How do you deal with the stress from early deals?

How do you deal with principal agent dilemma of investors?

How do you deal with potential for embarassments?

Is honor culture neccesary? Why does it show up in human relationships?

What is the difference between true inquiry and reputational status building activity?

How do you deal with the necessity of being an asshole?

Man is a political animal, there is no apolitical.

Who is someone you know that you know that you still find mysterious?

Why do people have conversations?

What do you do about the possibility of surprise?

Conversation as a dance; what is the music that you are dancing to?

What is the logos?

What is the relationship between logos and revelation?What is Poesis?

Can a muse be anything?

What is a poetic disclosure?

What is Plato’s phaedrus?

Arate (skill or excellence) and aristeia (best game ever while he had the flu).

What is the difference between Daemon and Spirit?

What are your thoughts on the thing you just said and how AI will interact with it?

Contemporary thought versus super power daemons.

How do you make yourself ready to have God move through you?

How do you work with ethical tightropes when ethics themselves are not respected by most people?

How do you cultivate flow?What do you think about secularism?

Animals don’t have type 2 thinking.

 What is an Emu’s algorithims?Why do I feel nervous about being a Stewart algorithm?

How do substances help us unravel and put back together our unconscious?

What is your thoughts on city versus country?

Is Western civilization less paradoxical than the east?

What is hippie buddhism?

How many hours a day are you reading? Do you put in your calendar?

How do you wear a mask without idenifitying the character that the mask portrays?

What is the science that has been rejected?

https://nintil.com/discoveries-ignored

What is science again?

What happens when scientists experiment on themselves?

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/when-scientists-experiment-on-themselves-h-pylori-and-ulcers/

What is glory?

How do you talk about science when you are not a scientist but have studied?

What is the difference between scientism and science?

What are your invalidated hypothesis that you have discovered in the past year?

What do you think of dark ages?

Who is Francis Bacon?

Who are the scientists that have been ignored in their life but then turned out to be revolutionaries?

What is an age of concealment?

What is the cult of progress?

Who did Jesus rail against?In what ways was Jesus a contrarian?

What is the difference between change and progress?

What is chronological snobbery?

Can you see all of your own blind spots?

What are the virtues of medeival thought?

What is the different way of funding science?

How is science funded?

Corporate R&D, venture capital, and government-academic complex for grants.

What are teh different ways that corruption shows up?

Incredible incrementalism.

If the grant complex is so wonderful, then why dont we 10X funding?

What is Francis’ approach to funding science?

Crowdfunding, find the experiment to validate 

Philanthropy based prizes

What is the spirit of science?

How do narcissists use simple statements to manipulate thoughts?

Should scietnists be passing laws?

What can we call people who believe in Scientism?

Paradox has no thearitcal solution.

How can you develop paradoxical thinking?

What do you believe is true that is absolutely true?

There is no way of doing nothing.

 

Director of developer experience at the Urbit Foundation

~lagrev-nocfep on Urbit

@sigilante on twitter

 

1. What is a sigil?
2. What is the most important thing you’ve learned about teaching?
   1. Driven by authoritarian high modernism
   2. Top down imposition
   3. Structural way of understanding context
   4. Industrial revolution
   5. Ten years ago there was online education
   6. MIT open course where
   7. Open up the content to everyone and it will create revolution
   1. Introducing a model that the person gets illuminated from
   2. Humans are good at metaphors
   3. Give them a framework and people will figure it out
   1. These things are measurable
   1. Open problem in computer science
   2. Two classes of complexity
   3. Polynomial time
   4. Vastly exponentially complicated than things that can be solved in a certain time
   5. NP on the hard problems
   1. Has to do with the structure of our attention
   1. 9 years experience
   2. Philosophy of pedagogy
   3. Why doesn’t it make it easy to open up knowledge?
   4. How do you make something relevant?
   5. Strongly in favor of hyper individualist approach to teaching
   6. Interdisciplinary
   7. Try everything, some things stick
   8. Analogical reasoning
   9. How do you improvise for metaphors?
   10. Why is it so disincentivized to do improv?
   11. Input output model doesn’t quite work because the context is so vast
   12. The model of the areas of learning is helpful but not 100% accurate
   13. Tutorial method does not scale but its the most effective
   14. Really hard problem
   15. P=NP what is it?
   16. When I’m working on a particular mode, gumption traps, energy sinks, takes a lot of agency to activate yourself out of the state
   17. Rumsfeld called the unknown unknowns
   18. What questions do you have? Is a better question than What are your questions?
   19. What do you do when you need to solve a problem?
   20. Someone tried to build a solution for what Neal is talking about at 10 minutes in
   21. Go to the fringes to get the edge cases
   22. What is the advantage of a low status source?
3. How do you make your questions and answers legible?
4. Subtopics and how to use them?
5. What is the demand for previous for previous programmers learning Urbit?
6. What is the percentage of programmers who are learning Urbit?
7. What was the first iteration of home school?
   1. Dozen people finished
   2. Now they have 60 people finishing
8. Why does Urbit have a weird perception from people?
   1. Once you hear about it you go into the rabbit hole and it never stops
   2. Its a web within a web
   3. Its like a secret door in a house didn’t you know about it
9. Pitch the idea of the treasure hunt powered by Urbit
10. Why did stars survive in demand?
    1. How much did they survive?
    2. How much does it cost to buy a star now versus the 2022 downturn in crypto
11. How do you get the right answer as opposed to the fast answer?
12. Only developers who are autodidactic like and stay with Urbit
13. Who is Richard Stallman?
    1. LISP
    2. He built community around GANU, Linux?
    3. Invented the free software 
14. What is functional programming?
15. What is the relationship between mental divergence and programming?
16. What is the third type of developers in relation to something like Urbit?
    1. The arguers
17. What is the fourth type of developers in relation to something like Urbit?
    1. Rebellious and devious enough 
18. What is the relationship between Bitcoin and Urbit?
19. What are the main challenges you see in terms of my crazy idea for the treasure hunt?
20. What are the options to build this quickly?
    1. This is the main problem
    1. Is it a web page driven experience?
    2. Build an urbit app and get them to install it
    3. You would have to figure out how to do the call outs to the phone device
    4. Hot or cold game
    5. Only track wether they found it or not
21. How can we effectively expose underlying things to the urbit server?
22. 24 minutes in
23. Should we think about Urbit as a operating system?
24. Who is experimenting with Urbit moons as internet of things?

Bill Lawrence from ReStore

 

What did Zaire used to be called?

What is River Blindness?

What is less effective than DDT?

Why would you dissect a fly?

How do you dissect a fly?

Why will we mine our own garbage?

What items require special recycling?

What is a “transfer station”?

What is “planned obsolescence”?

Who is leading the way with a “cradle-to-grave” philosophy?

Dashiell Bark Huss

CEO, Wish Tender

1. What is Wish Tender?
   1. Gifts from fans
   2. Gift registries
   3. It's a privacy company
2. How do adult film stars know how to create boundaries?
3. Is it hard for adult film stars to create boundaries?
4. What is financial domination?
   1. A sub who likes to be submissive when it comes to money
5. 90-Day Fiancee
6. If someone comes to you and offers you gifts, what do you do?
7. Why are you nervous about outsourcing?
8. What is it like to do business with your life partner?
9. Is Wish Tender a “no-code business”?
10. Why is New Mexico a great place to do vanlife?
11. Meow Wolf is Pee Wee’s Playhouse on acid
12. What do you know about Urbit so far?
13. What is the deal with Linkedin’s search?
14. What do we know about lucid dreaming
    1. What do we not know about lucid dreaming?
    2. We don’t know any biomarkers during lucid dreaming
    3. Why don’t we know what is physically happening in lucid dreaming?
15. What do the electrodes measure?
    1. EMG muscle tone
    2. EOG electric ocular graphing 
    3. EEG electroenchephalograph
       1. Alpha
       2. Beta
       3. Gamma
       4. Theta
16. Lucid Dreaming lab at NorthWestern
    1. Send them an eye signal through the dream
17. REM you can detect
18. What about your 100 days of discomfort like?
    1. Vanlife (37 minutes in)
19. Why does Stewart have a fear of wearing silly stuff?
20. What was it like asking people to play Rock Paper Scissors?
21. What is the feeling like of having someone confront strangers?
22. What types of attention are fun to get?
23. What is the difference between political swag and political garb?
24. What happens when you wear both a Trump shirt and a Bernie shirt?
25. What happens when you wear a Trump shirt at a college campus? (40 minutes in)
26. What are some other things that will get you stereotyped that aren’t political?
27. Why do both Dashielle and Stewart have so many idiosyncrasies when other people?
28. What is relationship between stoicism and sex and/or sex word?
29. Can you be both a sex worker and a stoic at the same time?
30. What is it like to be a contrarian?
31. What is the relationship between crying and stoicism?
32. What are crocodile tears?
33. How do you fire people?
34. What are the differences between sympathy and empathy?
35. What is metacognition?
    1. What does it improve in relation to lucid dreaming?
    2. What is the inner monologue’s connection to lucid dreaming?
36. What does it take to be a good lucid dreamer?
37. Why do people disagree about what just happened?
38. What is a reality check?
    1. Awake
39. What do you think of the deep sleep state?
40. What are the stages related to deep sleep?
    1. Step 1
    2. Step 2
    3. Step 3
41. What is the difference between REM and deep sleep?
42. What is the relationship between cannabis and lucid dreaming?
43. Should I do an OnlyFans account?
44. How do you get a lot of attention for a good cause?
45. How can I get arrested for something silly?
46. How do you find an old law to test?
47. How do I create a mugshot for myself?
48. What is the difference between satirical news and fake news?
49. How can I get more magical realism in my life?
50. Read the book from Gabriel Garcia Marquez?

@dashbarkhuss on twitter

An experiment I'm running to live tweet my interviews in the forms of questions: The first try is with ~timluc-miptev on Urbit He is constructing and coordinating a DAO that will be a Layer 1 that will start as a ZK roll-up in the Urbit ecosystem.     What is a program running on the Urbit operating system? What does it mean to write to the ETH blockchain? What are the main constructs in building what you are building? What will it take to build a full layer 1 on Urbit? What is the deal with hype-farming? What do you need for a full layer 1?  How do you get people on board? How do you make sure its secure? How many years does it take to build trust in an layer 1? What use cases can be solved by a layer 1? Why is Urbit the best environment for staying productive and happy as a programmer? How do you balance the money-making hype-farming with staying grounded? How do you not pump and dump? What are the hype-farming paths? What is your marketing strategy? Does Urbit have the most high end mind share like Quora did but no longer has? How can this be nurtured? What is starkware? How do you get developer mind-share in an age when the best is already post-economic? Is raising money for crypto companies better to do in a venture style as opposed to crowdfunding? How do you become an accredited investor? Who do you show the money to? What is the impact of devs being post-economic and post location? How do you do due diligence when people like being anon? Whtat is the value prop of Urbit? What is the future of gaming on Urbit? What is the difference between production programming and fun/tinkering programming? Urbit is the unifying software behind the fun factor for programmers? What is a networking operating system? What will Urbit look like in a thousand years? Behind the scenes network operating system that no one notices. Will your thing eventually work on hardware? What is it like to live in a world of bits? What is your long-term physical location ideal? Nomad? What is the main challenge of building a ZK roll-up? How does it work in ETH? How can we think about in terms of state when it comes to ETH? How do you build a small ETH program as a ZK roll up? What are the main use cases that are being created right now with ZK roll-ups? Make transactions cheaper ZK roll ups seem like strange distributed bots straight out of a Gibson Cyberpunk Novel. What is the metaverse? What will happen to real estate when crypto is fully embodied in our physical life? What does it mean to be Will-maximalist? What are the upsides to living a fully remote work life? How do you balance the upsides and downsides? What is the difference between being grounded and dependent on a physical location? What were doing in Ukraine? Why are you a Russophile? What was it like to be ungrounded quickly by war in Ukraine? How is news different when you are actually in the physical location where the news is taking place? What are input/output matches? Track what the inputs were and what they said. Test whether it turned out to be true. Say to yourself what you think is going on and test it.

What is the current state of psychedelics?

Is it legal to use psilocybin in a controlled treatment framework in Oregon?

What state will be next?

What does it mean to be a Schedule One Drug?

What will the FDA do next year in terms of psychedelics?

Why is Ibogaine illegal?

What is Habitat for Humanity?

What percentage of the population has P.T.S.D.?

Who is on the cutting edge of research in this area?

In this episode of the Crazy Wisdom Podcast, host Stewart Alsop welcomes Farhaj Mayan, who discusses his work with Forma in developing Solana economic zones. The conversation, held in Buenos Aires, delves into the concept of Solana-based economic zones similar to special jurisdictions like Dubai and Shenzhen. Farhaj explains the potential for these zones to attract talent and capital by offering new legal, regulatory, and economic frameworks. The discussion covers his experiences with the BuildSpace initiative and various global perspectives, including insights on Dubai's rapid development and Argentina's high crypto adoption rates. The podcast also highlights the upcoming month-long Solana economic zone event in Buenos Aires, aiming to connect international projects with local talent and investors. Check out and apply for what Forma is doing with Solana Economic Zones here

Timestamps

00:19 Understanding Solana Economic Zones

02:02 Buenos Aires: The First Solana Economic Zone

02:20 The Unique Expat Scene in Buenos Aires

03:06 Comparing Global Cities: Buenos Aires, Rio, and Dubai

03:50 Dubai's Rapid Development and Economic Strategy

05:00 The Diverse Social Structure of Dubai

07:00 Government Initiatives and Talent Retention in Dubai

08:57 The Role of Free Zones in Economic Development

12:51 Singapore vs. Dubai: Competing Global Hubs

14:32 The Future of Remote Work and Global Talent

15:20 The Inspiration Behind Forma and Solana Economic Zones

23:55 Argentina's Potential for Economic Development

25:58 Argentina's Economic and Cultural Landscape

27:46 Crypto Adoption in Argentina

28:22 Financial Systems and Entrepreneurial Spirit

29:41 Historical Context and Immigration

32:33 The Future of Argentina and Global Comparisons

34:57 Opportunities and Challenges in Immigration

37:01 Digital Nomad Programs and Global Mobility

44:18 Building Communities and Economic Zones

47:36 Event Details and Final Thoughts

Key Insights

1. Solana Economic Zones: The concept of creating internet-native economic zones that manifest physically in different countries, aiming to drive local economic development by connecting global crypto projects with local talent.
2. Argentina's Unique Position:
   • High crypto adoption due to economic instability and inflation
   • Strong education system and tech ecosystem
   • Cultural similarities to Western countries
   • Favorable time zone for both US and European markets
   • Easy immigration policies (potential for citizenship in 2 years)
3. Argentina's Historical Context:
   • Once one of the world's most promising economies in the early 1900s
   • Current economic challenges but retaining strong cultural and educational foundations
4. Crypto Adoption in Argentina:
   • Approximately 30-60% of people actively use crypto
   • High volume of stablecoin transactions
   • Informal peer-to-peer banking system (Cuevas) for OTC trades
5. The SEZ Argentina Event:
   • Month-long unconference format
   • Bringing together founders, local community leaders, policymakers, and investors
   • Focus on "real world Solana" projects with practical applications
   • Combining educational content with cultural experiences
6. Global Talent Movement:
   • Discussion on how countries like Dubai and Singapore are attracting global talent
   • Potential for Argentina to leverage its immigration policies for talent attraction
7. Bottom-up Community Movements:
   • Importance of grassroots efforts in driving economic change
   • Role of community-led initiatives in attracting international interest and investment
8. Bridging Online and Offline Communities:
   • The value of bringing internet-native communities together in physical spaces
   • Potential for creating "pop-up cities" or temporary hubs for digital nomads and crypto enthusiasts
9. Regulatory Considerations:
   • Discussions on creating favorable regulatory frameworks for crypto businesses
   • Balancing international relations (e.g., US alignment) with economic opportunities
10. Cultural Integration:
    • Argentina's welcoming nature and potential for integrating newcomers
    • The importance of shared experiences in building strong communities

Jacob Rudolph

Executive Director of Pride Network

What does it mean to develop leadership?

What does it mean to have a third-party mediator?

What are the main challenges when it comes to communication?

What does it mean to serve?

Do you still feel like you have to learn lessons about humility?

What does it mean to open your heart?

What is the relationship between the nervous system and emotional growth?

God is real, now what?

I’m not alone, and the connection between being divergent and finding others who are like us.

What turn-keys have you found recently?

How do you find equations that unlock everything?

How many books has David Hawkins written?

How do you find holy company?

How do you not identify with trauma in groups?

How do you find healing alone?

Trauma bonding in groups.

What have you learned of forgiveness?

How did the U.S. Federal Government stop Native Americans from practicing their religion?

How many people are in chronic pain?

Can you forgive people while alone?

What is the relationship between the God-realm and forgiveness (look at you, Jesus and crew)?

Is pain socially mediated?

What is the relationship between collective and individual pain?

What can we learn about safe spaces?

How do you lead groups without getting enwrapped by the dark triad?

What is the value or utility of suffering?

How do you get to the unmitigated experience of their own pain?

What do you think of my idea of MDMA therapy?

How can you tell the difference between CPSTD and someone on the dark triad?

How do you help people become their own self healers?

What is a basic education on trauma?

The holistic psychologist on Instagram, Dr. Nicole Pera.

What is the window of tolerance?

How can we feel into our bodies and notice the symptoms of anxiety?

Let's talk about drugs. 

(27 minutes)

What is the fawn response?

How do you recontextualize things?

What do you know about MDMA therapy and the FDA?

What are your thoughts on pharmacology?

Stepping stones for healing, not the end point

How do you stop becoming a people pleaser?

What is the relationship between involvement and alignment?

How do you stop fixing, contro,l and caregiving when it’s not beneficial?

The difference between love.

What are the limitations of my own power?

What is the Pride Network?

What have you learned about running a Pride Network?

How many people are at the Pride Network?

Are you the one raising money?

What have you learned about humility from raising money?

Who do you mostly raise money for?

How do you use social media to raise money?

1% of GDP goes to philanthropy.

(45 minutes)

What have you learned about being comfortable asking for money?

Nonprofits doing money laundering.

What is pathos (the emotional self)?

What percentage of the non-profit funding comes from the middle class? Upper class?

How do you find the people to get money for?

Find the people who already do it and ask them.

What are the legal requirements for the board structure? 501(3) status

Can I serve as a channel?

What percentages of fundraising streams in a non-profit organization?

What are the causes that you care about?

Pride Network, offering assistance to 18-29 LGBQT youth.

Heart-centered leadership development.

How can people volunteer?

Corporate connections

What do you look for in a board member?

Pridenetwork.org

Stuart Christoph

Director of the Urbit Foundation Grant Program

What is the grant program for Urbit?

Is that for technical people?

2 years from now we will be able to build businesses.

What small businesses have you started?

What are the security problems?How does Urbit scale?

How much is a Star?

How can I set up a Star?

How do you enable more people to run their small businesses?

What is a system admin? 

Can we get the instructions of how to set up a star for my show notes? 

https://operators.urbit.org/

To run a star, you don’t need to know any Hoon?

To do a youtube video while doing a star..

On the deeper technical side, Urbit is not really great at serving large files

Discoverability on Urbit for the Youtube videos.

What are they tracking with the spaghetti URL’s?

UTM parameters

What do they absorb it in?

How badly did GDPR impact small businesses?

What is ownership?

How did value generation change for labor to compute?

What year did labor change to compute?

Late 90’s to early 2000’s

How does the equity ownership framework play into that?

What type of things should someone be aware of when it comes to exchange of equity and relationships?

What are psychopaths doing in terms of Gamestop and Crypto? What is happening behind the scenes?

How do we align will and intent?

How do you know the right person to go to for the reality check?

What is the difference between manipulation and positive influence?

Once you define a computer system it can be gamed.

What are the first principles of building healthy working relationships? How is that different from love relationships?

Are you using smart contracts to hire anonymous employees?

What is the Sword of Damocles?

What is the Hack-A-Thon that you are creating? Unconference in Miami 22nd-25th

This is where they show off stuff

1 a week for new Urbit applications

Books Bounty, Dalton Collective

Hack-A-Thon that culminates at Assembly

Hoon school live has 61 new Hoon developers

How do I find one of the new Hoon developers?

Teams of 2-3 people that cover an array of skill sets for the hackathon

Competent Hoon dev, front end (javascript), and vision/user experience/ideation

How can you build trust and relationships between the users on the Urbit network?

What is TC/IP?

What is an apprenticeship for Urbit development?

How do I find the devs for the Assembly?

Mars Invisible College

Who to follow if you liked this episode:

@urbitfoundation on Twitter

urbit.org/grants

DM ~sarlev-sarsen

Join the Urbit Foundation’s group: ~wolref-podlex/foundation

Theodore Blackman

Urbit Core Dev & Manage projects at Tlon Arvo Kernel

Find him on ~rovnys-ricfer on Urbit

What are metapolitics?

What is content distribution for Urbit?

What is the networking protocol for Urbit?

How is Urbiit different from other networking protocols?

What is Subscription Reform?

What is a Pub-Sub system?

What is the Scriname Space?Are there already scalable networking systems?

What is the limit on users right now on Urbit?

How do analytics work on Urbit?

How long have you been programming in Hoon and Knock?

What is an overlay OS?

If I’m programming something for a Rasberry Pi, does it make it harder or easier? 

Why would somebody want a peer-to-peer operating system?

What does it mean to have a personal server? Why is it important?

What is a root node and a routing node?

What is the key to a distributed system? What are the pillars of it?What is transactional networking or persistent networking?

Is Port my own server? How does that work?

How easy is it to interface with APIs and connect Urbit apps to web apps?

What is your favorite Urbit app? Have you used Urtweet?

Do you have access to Dallee?

Dalton Collective Octupus @_dalton 

What is Urbit trying to do?

Urbit destroys the need for a server admin (24 minutes)

Are there any hardware wallets that can keep my Urbit planets?

Ledger

What is the PKI (Urbit ID system)? Azimuth

What is the world going to look like in ten years when/if Urbit is much larger?

What are autonomous digital communities?

Bridge.urbit.org (33 minutes)

What is the intersection between Crypto and Urbit?

What is the software supply chain (47 minutes)?

What are your thoughts on Holochain?

~Datnutpollen

What is a categorization theorist?