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Life, Energy, and Entropy | The Jason Lowery Series | Episode 4 (WiM140)

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Feb 19, 2022

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Life's Counter-Entropic Nature

Life's essential function is countervailing entropy, creating order within disorder.
This applies not just to organisms but also cities, businesses, and nation-states as open systems.

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Defense and Surplus

Accumulating economic surplus, or energy, invites attacks from outsiders.
A strong defense, like a cell membrane, becomes crucial to protect this accumulated value.

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Evolution as Power Projection

Major evolutionary leaps are driven by increasingly clever power projection strategies.
Cooperation, death, and limited lifespans enhance power projection by enabling faster adaptation.

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The Problem With Trust at Scale

05:09 • 5min

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Defining Life as That Which Imports Energy and Exports Entropy

10:15 • 2min

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The Definition of Life in the Cells of Organisms

12:40 • 5min

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Is There Antagonism Between Enclaves and Entropy?

17:36 • 3min

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Co Operation as a Predatory Tactic

20:17 • 6min

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The Intensity of Exchange

25:53 • 3min

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The Evolution of Animals and the Evolution of Plants

28:43 • 2min

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Nidig - The Most Important Bit Coin Company in the 20th Century

30:48 • 3min

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We've Subdued a Lot of Plants and Animals, Right?

34:03 • 1min

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How to Countervail the Control Authority

35:22 • 2min

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The Night Game - The Slave With a Sword

37:32 • 3min

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Trust Doesn't Scale in Society

40:41 • 5min

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The Evolution of the Competition of the Antlers

The Problem of Scaling Human Energy Back in Light

51:36 • 3min

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The Future of Proof of Work Fighting

The Intranet - The Basics

01:00:44 • 5min

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- Is It a Recurrent Pattern?

01:05:35 • 2min

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The Interplay Between Centralization and Decentralization

01:07:10 • 2min

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Jason Lowery from the US Space Force joins me for a multi-episode series exploring the first principles of physics, the ubiquity of organic power projection, and how Bitcoin changes the game.

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Transcript:

OUTLINE
00:00:00 “What is Money?” Intro
00:00:08 The Scummy Membranes at the Dawn of Life
00:05:10 The Problem with Trust at Scale
00:10:15 Life as Any Open System that Imports Energy and Exports Entropy
00:14:12 Bubbles of Order within the Maelstrom of Nature
00:18:40 The Defensibility of Property and the Sophistication of Civilization
00:21:49 The Species-Level Evolutionary Advantage of Aging
00:25:52 Sexual Reproduction, Death, and the Intensity of Exchange
00:28:59 Self-Awareness Across Time as the Ultimate Survival Strategy
00:30:46 NYDIG
00:31:54 Genetic Information as a River Flowing Through Time
00:34:53 The Danger of Subduing Human Nature…
00:38:14 The Power Projection Game is Ruthlessly Egalitarian
00:40:51 To Trust Incentives is to Reduce the Need for Interpersonal Trust
00:45:05 Nuclear Armament as a 51% Attack on The Global Power Projection Game
00:47:39 An Intra-Speceil Surrogate to War is Necessary for Individual Sovereignty
00:50:44 Proof-of-Work: A Fair Power Projection Competition over Property
00:54:38 “Human in the Loop” as the Limiting Factor in All Future Warfare
00:59:06 The Nuclear-Hardened History of TCP/IP and Protocol Network Effects
01:05:18 The Dynamic Tension Between Centralization and Decentralization

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