Immigration, Nations, and Borderless Money (vlog 2/23/18)
Episode 3 of my crypto-philosopher series. I'm still learning how to keep these things short (my goal is to get hem under 5 minutes). Didn't get there this time, but I think I was able to avoid too much unnecessary information.
In this episode, I examine some questions concerning immigration: do Nations have a right to close their borders? Under what conditions (if any) oblige nations to open their borders?
Ultimately I shift the conversation to blockchain technologies and its impact on matters of financial control. I present my intuitions concerning nationhood and offer some insights on what things I think are important to consider in determining what legitimizes a state's existence.
My position on these issues will most likely not surprise anyone who has listened to me talk about these issues or read any of my writings.
Inevitably, blockchain technologies will make us reconsider some of our common intuitions around what legitimizes a state, and what legitimizes exclusion form that state.
Personally, I am waiting to discover a convincing argument for the legitimacy of nations.
thank you for your time and attention, see you in the comments!
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Great video!
For me it's clear that borders doesn't mean anything now when people can communicate across them faster for everyday that goes. The interesting question then comes how will cultures be preserved and what will they develop into? Since the new system is so much faster the ones who want to stick to the old will be left behind and will have a harder time to compete against other countries that adopt change faster.
It's pretty amazing actually how we now have a system that doesn't really need banks that much anymore. It took around 10 years of testing it with Bitcoin but now the next 10 years will be going even faster in terms of evolution. Clearly this is something that cannot be stopped. Unless you shut down the whole Internet.
Everyone will mix more in the future. The thing that people didn't predict 100 years ago was that something like the Blockchain would come and transform all areas of life. Math is clearly a better system than letting humans make these big decisions. Since humans are emotional and could easily make big mistakes. Or as Tai Lopez said in one of his videos about Blockchain that humans have perverse incentives to manipulate and control things. The Blockchain doesn't have this!
Humans are clearly cool and we love them but as the main authority that run things clearly it's best to put math in that role to make everything more fair. Then let humans verify stuff. What we will detect is that humans are nicer and more fair than the media is showing us. The Blockchain could empower people more to give higher value out in forms of dicsussion.
Can you create a Blockchain that is more closed off from the globalized world that is an interesting question. Like an internal Blockchain. A border Blockchain perhaps. I guess we will find out more about this in the future. But the authority of value is clearly going away since we are empowering humans with super machines. If we keep empower humans more what will they be able to do? Will it be very risky?
This stuff is clearly too complex for any human to get an overall view on. I say that when AI comes that we plug it into an AI Blockchain in a closed system to see what it does. Maybe it can create a super stable society.
Currently reading this book about Superintelligence that we soon will have on earth. When you look at the smartest people on earth what they say about this then you see how this could actually be very dangerous.. Or amazing. We have to wait and see.
Yo! thank you for such a thoughtful response. You are really helping with my project, and I enjoy reading your thoughts and engaging with someone who has evidently thought about these topics and the impact of technology in the same ways I have.
Your post elicited a few thoughts and responses in me that I will share
"its clear that border don't mean anything now.." Maybe it's western privilege or youthful indoctrination but I am hesitant to go so far as to say borders don't mean anything. Their significance has greatly diminished now that we can transmit value across border w/o permission, and I thik a more philosophically sound argument needs to be presented to justify their existence.
You hinted at one of the justification that might exist for the existence of borders, cultures. You are right, preserving cultures will probably become infinitely more difficult, which I think is reflected in the "crises" Amerca, and other European countries like Poland, are facing and why we see a rise in Nationalism across the globe. We live in a truly globalized society, and our access to people and information makes the world a lot smaller place. "strangers" in foreign countries no longer seem so "strange." We share common news, tv shows, cultural icons etc. As humans begin to move more freely across the globe, i hope a more "human culture" will start to form. and what I mean by this is a culture that all humans feel they belong to, that can help us identify as ONE rather than fragmented. Undeniably, humans will still seek to feel connected to their ancestry, and I think it will be important for people to find ways to preserve their traditions as well.
You had an interesting line of thought when you talked about closed blockchains. I think that is undeniably going to be what we will see immerge in the future. My hope is that the ethos of decentralization does not become a side note and that as people are slowly indoctrinated into the ecosystem that the early adopters will not be clouded by greed and fear and that the potential for uplifting all of humanity through technology is not forgotten. As Tai says, "beware perverse incentives."
Thank you for the book recommendation. It is second on my read list now, right behind "The spider and the starfish."
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Thank you!
Speaking of immigration from a European perspective I could tell that here it's a totally different situation than what goes in America. In Europe the native population can see that clearly there is someone that is pushing an agenda into making Europe unstable. What we experience here is how someone is funding people smuggling.
Someone is clearly pulling some strings to make Europe very unsafe. Natural immigration no European has a problem with but currently there is an invasion of illegals. Most of west Europe is extremely unsafe right now since someone funds this whole operation. The Europeans are very generous but when someone tries to destroy their whole land then nationalism will rise. Also the major difference is that Europe is smaller than America so it becomes a more packed effect that cause huge problems. And you can't group all Europeans under something and call it EU since there are so many different countries and cultures in Europe.
Since I been to Poland I know that there they have the opposite problem of what Sweden has. It's too much extremism because of poverty. Sweden is too kind so no laws work at all there and Poland is too hard. Even the police in Sweden doesn't do their job and is too kind. It's like they don't understand their role. I lived in Sweden in a new area and saw how it got totally destroyed because of an invasion of gangs. This has made Sweden a very unsafe country since they have no clue who is in the country.
In Europe I would now just recommend Estonia and Czech Republic when it comes to safety. The rest of the countries have so many illegals that anything could happen at any time. Someone is using the roman tactic of divide et impera. Divide and Rule. Also been to Italy and seen how that country has been totally destroyed because of this as well. So Europe is in deep trouble! Heading for war I would say in 5-10 years.
Hey brotherhood :) How are you doing?
Dude, you should become a teacher :D You talk about interesting things though :)
Where the heck did you learn how to mine man?
Winny out...for now ;)
What's good winny? sorry I've been ghost. Some things are going on that ill hit you on discord about.
You know, I use to want to be a professor... I think that hasn't gone away full stop.
And I use this software called minergate. Its really easy to set up, and its a fun way to get involved!