Infinite Loops

Alex Danco—Where the Circle Begins, or Ends (EP.117)

Aug 4, 2022

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The Challenge of Luxury Good Manufacturers

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All Fiction That Does Not Violate the Laws of Physics Is Fact

04:23

Introduction

2min

The Anti X Is Always the X

2min

Pink Floyd - A Hundred and 50 Years Ago

2min

The Real Doo, Mother of a Million Things

2min

All Fiction That Does Not Violate the Laws of Physics Is Fact

4min

You Can't Read Anyone's Mind

2min

What Is Pilo Genetic Inertia?

2min

Philo Genetic Man

2min

The Great Joke of Human Nature

2min

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What Is the Tip of the Spear in a Lot of These Changes?

2min

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What Is the Link Between Claud Shannon and Gregory Bateson?

2min

12.

What's the Next Big Thing?

2min

13.

Is There a Patient Zero Here?

2min

14.

The Death and Rebirth

2min

15.

Is the Monomyth Forsake Christianity?

3min

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Bill Bryson's One Summer America, 19 27

2min

17.

Is That Book True? Who Cares?

2min

18.

Death Insurance, Endurance, Everything Is How You Frame It

2min

19.

What Is Hot and Cold Media?

2min

20.

You See the Wire?

2min

21.

How Does Institutional Behavior Work, and How Do People Make Decisions Within the Context of an Institution?

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22.

The Greatest Soap Opera Ever Written, War and Peace

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23.

The Greatest Joke in the Wire

4min

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Is This a Markable Joke?

2min

25.

Is Accreditation Worthless?

2min

26.

The Challenge of Luxury Good Manufacturers

4min

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Do You Think Luxury Beliefs Are Real?

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28.

What Do People Show Off That Is Easier to Aquire?

4min

Our recurring guest (who rarely recurs these days), Alex Danco, comes back for his sixth appearance on Infinite Loops! Important Links:

Show Notes:

Our planned, but unplanned conversations
Pink Floyd were philosophers
From Heraclitus, to Lao Tzu, to Gita, to Deutsch
Where does decision making come from?
Projection 101
Can you versus can’t you read people’s mind
Jim throwing big fancy words like “Phylogenetic inertia”
Corn: The apex predator
Self-serving nature of memetic theory
The Mirror Philosophy
What is a “creator”?
Communication theory by Gregory Bateson
The Founding Murderer
Consequences of eating the fruit from the tree of knowledge
"The most entertaining outcome is the most likely.”
Hot media vs. Cool media
The Wire, and dumb Stringer
The state of accreditation
Balancing mystery with transparency
Knowing pop culture as a status symbol
And MUCH more!

Books Mentioned:

The Science of Storytelling; by Will Storr
The Status Game; by Will Storr
Happy; by Derren Brown
The Selfish Gene; by Richard Dawkins
Steps to an Ecology of Mind; by Gregory Bateson
War and Peace; by Leo Tolstoy

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Infinite Loops

Alex Danco—Where the Circle Begins, or Ends (EP.117)

What Ideas Are Actually New?

Bill Bryson's One Summer America, 19 27

The Challenge of Luxury Good Manufacturers

All Fiction That Does Not Violate the Laws of Physics Is Fact

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