1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:17,320 Welcome to the Free Cities podcast. My name is Timothy Allen and this is the official podcast 2 00:00:17,320 --> 00:00:19,020 of the Free Cities Foundation. 3 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:36,540 Hello and welcome to this bonus episode of the Free Cities podcast. This is bonus episode number 4 00:00:36,540 --> 00:00:44,540 three. These are the episodes which are only available to our subscribers on fountain.fm 5 00:00:44,540 --> 00:00:51,480 and I'll be dropping them periodically over the year but especially in the weeks that regular 6 00:00:51,480 --> 00:00:59,240 release episodes are ones that subscribers have already been granted early access to. Right, 7 00:00:59,240 --> 00:01:06,780 this show where do i start well this is a very long episode over three and a half hours in total 8 00:01:06,780 --> 00:01:14,580 but as always there's a reason for that a bit of background this was november 2022 9 00:01:14,580 --> 00:01:23,320 and i was in san salvador speaking at adopting btc which is a bitcoin conference in el salvador 10 00:01:23,320 --> 00:01:30,460 and at the opening party I just met a guy. We started chatting at the bar, we ended up 11 00:01:30,460 --> 00:01:35,320 eating food together and had a very very interesting conversation at that party. 12 00:01:35,320 --> 00:01:51,394 That guy was a gentleman by the name of Jake Hamilton and later on in the trip I had a day off and I contacted him and said look would you mind just sitting down and shooting the shit with me 13 00:01:51,474 --> 00:01:56,374 As we say, nothing's off topic. We just start talking and we see where it goes. 14 00:01:56,514 --> 00:01:58,914 And that's pretty much what we did. 15 00:01:59,674 --> 00:02:09,414 Initially, we began talking about Erbit, which is a very interesting decentralized operating system that Jake is basically a dev for, 16 00:02:09,414 --> 00:02:15,914 which was the original hook for me into a conversation with him however this conversation 17 00:02:15,914 --> 00:02:23,314 soon veers off into a myriad of directions now when I'm editing these podcasts I normally keep 18 00:02:23,314 --> 00:02:30,334 a small list beside me that I write in real time of the subjects covered as I'm listening to the 19 00:02:30,334 --> 00:02:35,214 episode that way when I get to the end it's very much easier for me to sort of get a sense of what 20 00:02:35,214 --> 00:02:41,874 we spoke about and especially it's good when I'm writing an episode description. For this episode 21 00:02:41,874 --> 00:02:51,574 well I ended up creating over 60 different topic titles. Things that we talked about but to give 22 00:02:51,574 --> 00:02:57,674 you an idea just so you know what you're letting yourself in for. As I've said we began talking 23 00:02:57,674 --> 00:03:07,654 about erbit and we went on to these as follows digital nomadism ethics complex systems ai the 24 00:03:07,654 --> 00:03:15,974 akashic records bitcoin and time plank seconds non-computational quantum physics metaphysics 25 00:03:15,974 --> 00:03:22,554 the origin of humans dwelling in the digital realm then we have a whole talk on religion 26 00:03:22,554 --> 00:03:40,628 christianity simulation theory the end of humanity dmt one part of the conversation is all about psychedelics and near experiences fasting spirituality ketamine spirit animals you name it sugar proof of work 27 00:03:40,628 --> 00:03:49,328 existential traps narcissism ai again stark net the bitcoin circular economy bitcoin maximalism 28 00:03:49,328 --> 00:03:57,328 philosophy of bitcoin bitcoin as monetary critique which was a very interesting part digital aliens 29 00:03:57,328 --> 00:04:05,168 who is satoshi nakamoto neural link conflict cultural patrimony the list goes on it does 30 00:04:05,168 --> 00:04:12,728 actually go on i gave this to my ai to try and sum it up as well um it didn't come up with much 31 00:04:12,728 --> 00:04:21,068 it just said in quotes erbit bitcoin digital nomadism effective altruism and various aspects 32 00:04:21,068 --> 00:04:27,588 of technology consciousness and the future of humanity i prefer my list anyway it's the kind 33 00:04:27,588 --> 00:04:35,288 of podcast that i absolutely love and i was very thankful that jake agreed to do it because really 34 00:04:35,288 --> 00:04:39,728 he was just some bloke i met at a party we'd never met before i haven't met since actually 35 00:04:39,728 --> 00:04:46,708 and he was a very accommodating to me especially to talk for like i say three and a half hours 36 00:04:46,708 --> 00:04:54,068 at their erbit dev house in san salvador which was an incredible place this kind of james bond 37 00:04:54,068 --> 00:05:02,108 style pad just above san salvador overlooking the whole city i think i mentioned it at the beginning 38 00:05:02,108 --> 00:05:08,168 of the podcast anyway i think this is the perfect episode to be a bonus episode because it's quite 39 00:05:08,168 --> 00:05:22,522 techy quite relevant to the NOSTA crowd and the value for value crowd I think And also of course Bitcoiners It never really been listened to by anyone I originally recorded it for a podcast that I just 40 00:05:22,522 --> 00:05:27,542 started at the time, which never went anywhere because I ended up doing this podcast literally 41 00:05:27,542 --> 00:05:33,442 a few weeks afterwards. So it's just sat there doing nothing for a couple of years like the other 42 00:05:33,442 --> 00:05:41,442 ones that i'm going to be releasing here you can follow jake actually on twitter if you want to 43 00:05:41,442 --> 00:05:48,882 continue listening to his takes on life he has an equally left field timeline you can follow him at 44 00:05:48,882 --> 00:05:59,382 his wonderfully warm and inviting username at 36 underscore 72541890 he told me the relevance of 45 00:05:59,382 --> 00:06:05,662 that number once but i've completely forgotten and chat gbt can't even work it out either i tried 46 00:06:05,662 --> 00:06:11,682 everything to work out what that means he describes himself on twitter as a teleo punk 47 00:06:11,682 --> 00:06:22,642 martian patriot erbit bitcoin dev and nrx whatever that is anyway get ready for this one you really 48 00:06:22,642 --> 00:06:29,222 might need to sit back and relax i hope you enjoy it i absolutely loved it and really the 49 00:06:29,222 --> 00:06:34,242 reason I get up in the morning sometimes is to have conversations like this absolutely loved it 50 00:06:34,242 --> 00:06:43,582 so please sit back relax and enjoy this bonus episode number three which is my conversation with 51 00:06:43,582 --> 00:06:45,702 Jake Hamilton 52 00:06:59,222 --> 00:07:29,202 Thank you.