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Other Life episodes

September 08, 2022 The ESG Scam: Bitcoin, Indie Media, and Natural Gas with Marty Bent
Marty Bent is the founder of TFTC.io, a media company focused on Bitcoin and freedom in the digital age. We discuss the "ESG" movement, how Marty built his media company, and how he's now building a natural gas company with Bitcoin mining.
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1 hr 9 min
August 26, 2022 The Harvard Finance Bro Building an Urbit Network State in El Salvador
~Nilrun-mardux is co-host of The Network Age podcast and founder of AlephDAO, an early network state project on Urbit via El Salvador.
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1 hr 33 min
August 19, 2022 Charles Taylor and Paperclip Maximizers with Ellie Haine and Joe Edelman
Ellie Hain and Joe Edelman are itinerant thinkers designing a new kind of social movement. We discuss what they've learned from Charles Taylor and Amartya Sen, why Effective Altruism can be so cringe, Joe's role building Couchsurfing.com, and much more.

Ellie Hain
Joe Edelman

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40 min
August 18, 2022 Logistically Accelerating Techno-Economic Interactivity Crumbles Social Order
Logistical acceleration refers to the logistic function, otherwise known as an S-shaped growth curve. Techno-economic interactivity is a key postulate of Land's ideas. Elsewhere, he will frequently use the adjective techonomic.

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9 min
August 11, 2022 How Chris Williamson Grew Modern Wisdom From Zero to 450k Subscribers
Chris Williamson runs the Modern Wisdom podcast and YouTube channel. We discuss how Chris went from zero subscribers to nearly half a million; how to get big guests; and how to think about wisdom in the internet era.
Modern Wisdom by Chris Williamson
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1 hr 22 min
August 02, 2022 Curtis Yarvin on Crypto: Bitcoin, DAOs, Inflation, and Government Crackdowns
Curtis Yarvin is the author of the Gray Mirror newsletter.

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1 hr 11 min
July 29, 2022 Flannery O'Connor and the Mysterious Secrets of Writing
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5 min
July 19, 2022 "The story goes like this: Earth is captured by a technocapital singularity..."
In the most underrated work of social theory from the 1990s, Nick Land presents a sweeping theory of modernity.
With about 3,500 words and only 4 citations, Meltdown seems to comprehend—and arguably foretell—a range of momentous historical developments that will only arrive decades later. From cryptocurrency to the Covid pandemic, Meltdown sees it all coming.
And yet, few social scientists have ever deigned to take this work seriously.
The time is nigh. otherlife.co/renaissance-rationalization
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9 min
July 13, 2022 The Hyperreal Plague: How Girard & Baudrillard Explain the Pandemic with Geoffrey Shullenberger
Geoffrey Shullenberger (@daily_barbarian) is a lecturer at NYU and runs the newsletter and podcast. Geoffrey teaches the Other Life course on René Girard.
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1 hr 13 min
July 06, 2022 Zero-Knowledge Crypto-Anarchy with Rachel-Rose O'Leary from DarkFi
Rachel-Rose O'Leary was an artist before getting into crypto through Nick Land and Julian Assange. She's now a programmer working with Amir Taaki to build a crypto-anarchist DeFi ecosystem called DarkFi.
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1 hr 17 min