The Hive Brain

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1. 00:00Event

   There has over the past few weeks been a controversy with the Joe Rogan podcast and a scientist named Peter Hotez and his willingness to debate RFK jr. on the show. Peter has initially responded no, I do not want to come on the show. And people like Joe himself and others have come out to say we're gonna give you x amount of money to the charity of your choice to come on the show and do the debate.

2. 00:00Reference

   A scientist named Peter Hotez, or a doctor, and his willingness to debate RFK jr. on the show.

3. 00:00Reference

   His willingness to debate RFK jr. on the show, to come on and have this debate.

4. 00:00Reference

   People like Joe himself and others have come out of the woodwork to then say that well we're gonna give you x amount of money to the charity of your choice to come on the show and do the debate.

5. 00:00Claim

   For the past 90 episodes of the podcast we have been filtering through the layers of information and knowledge necessary to get to a point where we can see that this is certainly something that Bitcoin fixes, and it allows for the first time ever in the history of the extended order to be so connected and to have such friction-free exchange.

6. 01:27Claim

   How can they remove noise from the signal so that they can then make the best energy allocation decisions for themselves, so they can align incentives that they have in returning with more energy reserves than they started with.

7. 02:04Quote

   If they really wanted to express their opinion that this should happen, or that this needs to happen for the benefit of the extended order, the best way to do that would be with sending sats. Money talks, and that is certainly the case in this scenario.

8. 03:25Analogy

   You go from a world where information travels through word of mouth to then being written on scrolls, to then using the printing press, to having wires, to radio, to television, to standalone very basic internet sites, to what is now near real-time social media apps.

9. 03:25Claim

   It's never been easier for information to permeate throughout the entire system for everyone to have access to it, to remove the ability for insider information by making it publicly available to the maximum number of participants at any given time.

10. 04:36Claim

    Now more entities can begin to see reality as it is in real time. There is less noise to signal if there are inconsistencies in the narrative, it's harder to hide because there are more eyes on the dissemination of that information. So now you begin to build an incentive model to ensure that high quality information rises to the top of the heap.

11. 06:46Claim

    If you can establish trust with an audience in the digital age, you are maximizing efficiency of the technology at hand to do the same work for an unlimited number of customers. It doesn't require any more work on your part to reach a million people than it does to reach a thousand people. The delivery fee for disseminating that new information is essentially near zero.

12. 06:46Event

    One current issue is the most prominent second layer delivery networks in this system have been centralized so that means that it can be censored, but again with people like Elon buying Twitter for the time being, the looser restrictions on what you can and can't say have really seen this phenomenon explode.

13. 07:40Claim

    If you report on real-time information in a reliable manner over time, there is a value in that. What are the incentives not to break that trust? If you do, you lose the value of future incomes because of it. It becomes very expensive to veer from what is actually happening because you are so highly rewarded for accuracy.

14. 07:40Claim

    We could eventually find ourselves at a point where an entity who had established this trust model became so energy independent that no amount of short-term energy reserves could possibly be worth it, on an incentive basis, to sacrifice the future streams that they have access to, essentially becoming incorruptible.

15. 09:53Analogy

    If you had to stick your hand inside of a box to try and identify whatever is inside, you couldn't use your eyes, you couldn't use any other senses except your fingers. Are you likely to be more accurate describing reality if you're able to use ten fingers versus a single finger?

16. 11:04Claim

    All of those individuals contributing monetary energy to the pool that would like to see this gentleman come on the Joe Rogan experience and debate RFK jr., they are expressing the value to those individuals that it would be to see this information exchanged. They are saying this is more important than anything else I could do with this money, with this energy.

17. 12:06Claim

    There are barriers to entry, there are maximums or minimums that have to be overcome as to who can contribute, and all of the friction that is in place of contributing to this pot of energy is removing the overall total flows. Anything that is in the way of adding energy to that pool is making us less efficient.

18. 12:06Idea

    This is how you express what you want to see what action you want to see taken in the real world, will be defined by what you are willing to stream stats to. As soon as the efficiencies that are allowed by the Bitcoin network, all the things like lightning layer two, the ability to stream stats, the ability to build up these pools that cannot be stopped by any third party, that can't be stopped by any government or any company.

19. 13:37Claim

    If they have followers and they see that these things are not able to function inside of a fiat system because there are gatekeepers that could potentially censor the information or censor the transaction, those are the moments that are going to help catapult adoption to levels that we have never seen before.

20. 15:00Quote

    It's essentially the scoreboard for what is most important inside of the extended order. It is the true voice of the hive mind.

21. 15:00Claim

    This is almost like the central nervous system of the hive mind of life. What issue has the most amount of sats pointed at it, that is incredibly valuable for the management of the extended order. Better management means less wastage, means it's more efficient on mass.

22. 15:31Prediction

    Any jurisdiction that embraces the technology that allows them to gauge where their interests are best served will have an extreme advantage in the speed of tackling problems or friction inside of their systems versus the legacy system.

23. 16:46Claim

    The current model for governance is a top-down model where issues are forced on the population based on things like suboptimal polling results, and that narrative has to be propagated through the system by individuals that have access to lots and lots of attention. It's becoming more and more evident how inaccurate these methods can be.

24. 16:46Claim

    We don't know what we want to know most. Just having an opinion or having a costless way to contribute to the conversation obviously doesn't work, that exposes you to a large number of attacks that don't require any energy to put forth an opinion. As soon as you have to tie physical energy to that opinion, it becomes a much higher signal as to what is real signal versus noise.

25. 17:26Claim

    If you are established in the system, you are incentivized to be more accurate in your description of reality. The further you stray from that, when coupled with a larger audience to then fact-check that information, that is going to result in less energy flowing back in your direction, which means you are less fit for the future because of a lack of future revenue streams.

26. 18:56Claim

    No topic is too niche or focused. The sats overall flows will be determined by the market, but any contribution will be rewarded if there is even the slightest market for it. The cost for rewarding behavior is the same whether it's a massive issue or something much more nuanced and more localized.

27. 19:34Open question

    It's still early enough in the process, it's to be determined how these markets are actually structured. Are they on top of something like a Twitter, are they on top of something like a YouTube, where these platforms will adopt this ability, or will it happen somewhere else? All that we can see is there's value there, someone will solve it.

28. 20:12Idea

    It ends up looking a lot, as I said before, like the brain of the extended order, because what's happening at this very marketplace of ideas of deciding where to allocate the most amount of energy is then the calculation of the opportunity cost performed at an extended order wide level. A central hub where decisions on energy allocation are constantly made and updated, that is the brain.

29. 20:55Open question

    So-called Bitcoin maximalists tend to be correct on a number of different issues. Statistically speaking it appears as though this is not normal. The question that needs to be asked is why is that? What is unique to this specific cohort that allows them to see so many things, to be so accurate as to what the future might hold?

30. 21:43Claim

    No one starts off correct about Bitcoin. The realization that you could have been so flawed in your thinking opens a percentage of the population up to the idea that they need to be on guard in other areas of information spread, and it opens you up to the possibility of asking, where else have I been this ignorant of the way that the world actually works.

31. 22:17Claim

    There is an evolutionary advantage to being able to filter signal from noise as quickly as possible and change direction based on quality new information, and the more information becomes available, the more this trait will have a hand in the selection of energy allocators in the future.

32. 22:17Claim

    When energy transmission was slow and filled with various amounts of friction, this skill was not highly selected for because there wasn't a huge opportunity to flex that ability. Now as information flows freer and freer with less and less friction, this becomes even more important than it had been.

33. 23:35Prediction · condensed

    This will only speed up. It will only become a more important part of the hive mind. There's no reason to think that this trend doesn't continue, and doesn't continue to pick up speed as more and more minds gather and they can exchange with less and less friction.

34. 24:11Claim

    We have to find a way to root our ability to express value where we want energy to be allocated, that has to be grounded in the real world, and there's only one way to do that now, and that is Bitcoin. The banking system can be controlled, the ability for value to pool and be directed to certain issues or people can be manipulated, and that will add friction to this evolution.

35. 24:44Prediction

    Inside the current system, you're going to see evolution slow. Outside of that, where this information can flow freely, where no one has the ability to stop the flow of sats, this is where you're going to see it skyrocket.

36. 25:29Event · condensed

    It's going to take an issue like the covid vaccinations, a global, extended order wide phenomenon, to show the limitations that are in place, because that is the threshold for which the value has to overcome in order to be transferable and to make sense.

37. 26:19Claim

    It's going to happen from the top down. These high profile cases will increase the awareness of the issues at an exponential rate because of the reach of the people who are experiencing firsthand the shortcomings of the fiat system.

38. 26:54Quote

    When the penny drops for them it drops for so many other individuals because they're able to share that message, and it is setting up to be the perfect storm for onboarding.

39. 26:54Prediction

    This flood of users getting access to this info for the first time, coupled with Bitcoin's absolute scarcity, means this is when we will start to see the infamous green god candles. The volatility to the upside moves can only increase.

40. 27:42Quote

    I see it as the extended order realizing that absolute scarcity is a real thing and exists, and the problem is going to be how do we get access to it as fast as we can. We're gonna see things skyrocket, it's gonna go through the roof, it's gonna blow past expectations that you thought were possible.

41. 28:27Claim

    Lightning and the hard cap on Bitcoin and the near zero costs and the microtransactions available on lightning allow for opportunity cost to be calculated for the very first time, meaning any person who is in demand in any area now knows for sure exactly what they are leaving on the table based on the actions they decide to take.

42. 29:00Reference

    If you want to talk to a famous athlete they can set the threshold for where they're going to spend their energy based on how much energy is being directed towards them. If you want to talk to Lionel Messi, you're gonna have to send x amount of sats that Lionel Messi sets himself.

43. 29:00Quote

    I will not speak to anyone unless they provide me with this much energy before I do that. Then that is worth my time. And now I know the true opportunity cost of any other action based on the threshold that I set.