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Speaker 2: Welcome to the best of the Latin Smith podcast for

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty five. And this one is a little different

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Speaker 2: because of the following. John Elcock first appeared on this

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Speaker 2: podcast early last year, and he was on twice with

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Speaker 2: good purpose, and we updated with him just a few

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Speaker 2: short week Banks, and we updated with him just a

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Speaker 2: few weeks ago. The subject, of course was Central Bank

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Speaker 2: digital currencies and the associated matters. Now, within the last

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Speaker 2: couple of weeks, two of the biggest New Zealand banks

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Speaker 2: have implemented mandatory behavioral and device level surveillance as a

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Speaker 2: condition of online and mobile banking. The customer cannot opt out.

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Speaker 2: They justified as fraud prevention, but they go far beyond

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Speaker 2: what is proportionate. And that's only the beginning. We discuss

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Speaker 2: where to after this and much more. Now let me

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Speaker 2: add to that by including a short paragraph from an

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Speaker 2: email that I received from another guest Mike Saban wrote,

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Speaker 2: I found the podcast three twelve featuring John Elcock to

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Speaker 2: be timely and very much prophetic our governments and others

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Speaker 2: across the world, and our pushing ahead with digitizing our

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Speaker 2: identifying credentials like driver's licenses, passports and the like. As

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Speaker 2: this happens, our banking institutions are also driving ahead with

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Speaker 2: digitizing our currencies, all of which will be sold to

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Speaker 2: us as more secure, more convenient, ad a great benefit

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Speaker 2: to us. That's a two yeas billboard if ever I

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Speaker 2: saw one. There's a line further down that I've got

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Speaker 2: to include, and that is, in the absence of a

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Speaker 2: plausible alternative, governments here and abroad will be enabled to

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Speaker 2: exert surreptitious overreach and unsurpassed control and surveillance over us

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Speaker 2: as citizens, when combined with the central control of digital

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Speaker 2: finances Orwellian like control is but a key stroke away. Now.

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Speaker 2: I read that letter on a previous podcast only a

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Speaker 2: couple of weeks ago, really, and the number of people

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Speaker 2: who've commented on that has been quite well, surprising in

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Speaker 2: one way and encouraging in another. So this is the

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Speaker 2: conversation that I had with John Alcock in podcast number

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Speaker 2: three hundred and twelve. Now, to most of you listening,

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Speaker 2: the name John Lcock will be familiar. It was eighteen

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Speaker 2: months ago that we spoke with him, not just once

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Speaker 2: but twice. The second time was two weeks later, and

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Speaker 2: the reason for that was he created such an interest

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Speaker 2: and so many questions came into me that the best

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Speaker 2: way to deal with it was to get him back

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Speaker 2: on to explain. And in case you are unfamiliar with it,

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Speaker 2: it was bitcoin based and it had had a hell

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Speaker 2: of a lot of people intrigued. I was intrigued, but

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Speaker 2: it went further than that. It got the conversation traveled

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Speaker 2: over a number of road humps, starting with central bank,

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Speaker 2: digital currencies and the like. So it was a well

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Speaker 2: worthwhile excursion spending two podcasts with him in such quick succession. John,

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Speaker 2: good to see you again.

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Speaker 3: Good morning, lad, and thanks very much for having me back.

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Speaker 2: Now. You wrote to me, and you've probably written to

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Speaker 2: some others as well, but you wrote to me just

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Speaker 2: a couple of days ago. You pointed out some things

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Speaker 2: I tell you what why don't you start with the

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Speaker 2: with the conference that you were at just very recently.

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Speaker 2: Not only were you at the conference, you were you

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Speaker 2: were a host along with the along with the police

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Speaker 2: for this conference with over five hundred people attending, and

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Speaker 2: you were a coordinator of it also.

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Speaker 3: Yes, So this is the conference that I host annually

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Speaker 3: in conjunction with the New Zealand Police Financial Intelligence Unit.

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Speaker 3: I do this entirely voluntarily because I think the work

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Speaker 2: Any idea. How many were tuned it?

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Speaker 3: More than five hundred and eighty. We packed out every

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Speaker 3: We are actually going to have to move the wall

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Speaker 2: This was in Wellington and Wellington here. So what's the

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Speaker 3: We always get a lot of new typologies. We always

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Speaker 3: have used financial data to track down really horrific criminals,

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Speaker 3: who up until this year have always supervised their own

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Speaker 3: the banks, the Financial Markets Authority obviously people who deal

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Speaker 3: and the Department of Internal Affairs, who look after all

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Speaker 2: So you're saying that they run their own game.

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Speaker 3: We run it for them on purpose, because it's very

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Speaker 3: important to have that community engagement with the people who

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Speaker 2: That they were independent, they were independent, and now you're

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Speaker 3: They're no longer independent. They are now all managed by

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Speaker 3: the Department of Internal Affairs. We have moved to a

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Speaker 3: single supervisor model and now everything, the banks, all the

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Speaker 3: which does bring us in line with sort of global norms,

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Speaker 3: which is a little bit scary, but it is definitely

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Speaker 3: not something that all of these supervisors agree on. And

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Speaker 3: some of the officials said some pretty spicy things on stage,

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Speaker 3: which I love because it generates more interest for the conference.

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Speaker 2: And what was the result of that, then there was.

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Speaker 3: and I think this is where we're sort of headed.

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Speaker 2: So who makes that decision the.

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Speaker 3: Head of these departments? I'm I'm not sure I should

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Speaker 2: Well, I'm what I meant was, I wasn't really looking

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Speaker 2: for names, I was looking for positions. Or is it

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Speaker 2: going to be a bureaucratic decision or a political decision?

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Speaker 3: It appears to me to be a political decision being

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Speaker 3: maneuvered in the background. The new heads of these departments

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Speaker 3: are they've sort of come from nowhere. They haven't really

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Speaker 3: seen them at the conference that I've been descending since

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Speaker 3: These are all former speakers, So it appears to be

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Speaker 2: Manipulation.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it does in a direction that I don't necessarily

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Speaker 2: So I'm thinking of I'm thinking of a reaction to

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Speaker 2: And I can hear some people thinking, at least you

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Speaker 2: can hear people think sometimes that, well, what's it got

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Speaker 3: So, I suppose that brings in me into what happened

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Speaker 3: immediately confronted with a new notification with only one option

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Speaker 3: now going to collect extreme amounts of biometric data about me,

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Speaker 3: single application that is installed on my phone. For Android users,

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Speaker 2: Are you suggesting this was targeted at you.

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Speaker 3: No, not at all. This is a generic position that

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Speaker 3: not targeted directly at me. It will affect everybody individually

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Speaker 3: But I do not think this is specifically targeted to

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Speaker 2: Well, this is a continuation, I guess, extinsion of what

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Speaker 2: And I'm trying to remember what you said about when

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Speaker 3: I think I said one to three years, and here we.

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Speaker 2: Are one and a half. Yep, Now you've got a

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Speaker 2: I don't care what sort of phone it is, except

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Speaker 3: That is definitely something that I'm looking at doing is

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Speaker 3: to circumvent some of these rules, getting a completely separate phone,

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Speaker 3: then allow me to accept those terms and conditions and

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Speaker 3: they can spy on nothing all day. That is one

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Speaker 2: If the intention is, shall we say, as suspicious as

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Speaker 2: the next step would be to make it illegal to

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Speaker 3: Potentially, But that's extremely difficult to enforce. You can't stop

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Speaker 3: off my primary phone. I don't know how you'd enforce

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Speaker 2: Of you Well, this would have to be a political decision.

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Speaker 3: They're both interrelated. If you do not have freedom over

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Speaker 3: Because that is how we transact with each other, that

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Speaker 2: What's your feeling then, about the population of the country

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Speaker 3: But the focus has shifted strongly away from protecting you

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Speaker 2: What has changed? I mean that there's been a ruction

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Speaker 3: They're having international pressure put on them by organizations such

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Speaker 3: from frauds and scamps, we can protect people from billing

440
00:26:16,893 --> 00:26:20,973
Speaker 3: it negative interactions in social media, it also means that

441
00:26:21,013 --> 00:26:25,693
Speaker 3: we will have a CCP Chinese style social credit score

442
00:26:25,933 --> 00:26:30,933
Speaker 3: where we're bad actors. Initially, bad actors will be negatively scored,

443
00:26:31,333 --> 00:26:34,973
Speaker 3: They will lose their access to banking and financial services.

444
00:26:35,293 --> 00:26:39,053
Speaker 3: They will effectively be digital exiles from whatever society they

445
00:26:39,293 --> 00:26:44,093
Speaker 3: exist in. But as we've seen, it is very very

446
00:26:44,293 --> 00:26:47,693
Speaker 3: tempting for those that are in power in our governments

447
00:26:48,173 --> 00:26:52,213
Speaker 3: to start using this for political purposes, and we know

448
00:26:52,293 --> 00:26:54,853
Speaker 3: it happens because we see it happening already.

449
00:26:55,093 --> 00:26:58,333
Speaker 2: Oh yes, I guess you could say that if this

450
00:26:58,413 --> 00:27:02,533
Speaker 2: had been where you're suggesting we're heading, if it had

451
00:27:02,533 --> 00:27:05,573
Speaker 2: been in play over the last three years, four years,

452
00:27:06,133 --> 00:27:08,333
Speaker 2: the things would have been probably a lot worse than

453
00:27:08,413 --> 00:27:08,693
Speaker 2: they were.

454
00:27:09,373 --> 00:27:12,733
Speaker 3: Yes, well, arguably so that there would be definitely worse.

455
00:27:13,373 --> 00:27:16,493
Speaker 3: We see the effects of this globally everywhere, the Online

456
00:27:16,533 --> 00:27:19,493
Speaker 3: Safety Act and the UK being pushed by a Kiostarma

457
00:27:19,613 --> 00:27:20,573
Speaker 3: at the moment.

458
00:27:20,333 --> 00:27:21,293
Speaker 2: I'm glad you raised it.

459
00:27:22,413 --> 00:27:26,533
Speaker 3: Like we've we've seen how the language that he himself,

460
00:27:26,613 --> 00:27:31,133
Speaker 3: Kios Starmer himself has used has changed from protecting children

461
00:27:31,613 --> 00:27:35,973
Speaker 3: to now being connected to your financial services. It's oh,

462
00:27:36,933 --> 00:27:39,573
Speaker 3: that's not what you said to start with, but as

463
00:27:39,733 --> 00:27:42,853
Speaker 3: many people have pointed out, that's what's in the legislation.

464
00:27:43,773 --> 00:27:46,053
Speaker 3: It is how do we connect this in our way?

465
00:27:46,173 --> 00:27:48,653
Speaker 3: It's like, oh, you can easily interact with the government,

466
00:27:48,733 --> 00:27:51,373
Speaker 3: Why just give them a digital identity, Well you need

467
00:27:51,413 --> 00:27:54,013
Speaker 3: to do a Google search. Just give them a dental identity.

468
00:27:54,293 --> 00:27:56,533
Speaker 3: You want to watch a podcast, just give YouTube your

469
00:27:56,613 --> 00:28:00,413
Speaker 3: dental digital identity. Who are the people behind these companies

470
00:28:00,453 --> 00:28:03,813
Speaker 3: doing these verification checks. We don't know are they We

471
00:28:03,893 --> 00:28:04,253
Speaker 3: don't know.

472
00:28:04,973 --> 00:28:07,453
Speaker 2: Well, there's there's some company names.

473
00:28:07,333 --> 00:28:09,333
Speaker 3: I think I said, by Catch, and a couple of

474
00:28:09,373 --> 00:28:13,933
Speaker 3: others threat something or other. There's a few those are

475
00:28:13,973 --> 00:28:17,493
Speaker 3: the generic ones. But as we've sort of pointed out,

476
00:28:18,573 --> 00:28:21,693
Speaker 3: they're collecting all of this data in what is essentially

477
00:28:21,773 --> 00:28:25,413
Speaker 3: a single point of failure. And as this data is

478
00:28:25,453 --> 00:28:30,533
Speaker 3: collected in these there we go. We've got biocatch and

479
00:28:30,773 --> 00:28:34,973
Speaker 3: threat Metrics. So those are two very big companies that

480
00:28:35,133 --> 00:28:38,173
Speaker 3: are involved with this collection of data. Do I know

481
00:28:38,213 --> 00:28:40,253
Speaker 3: that these are the ones that are being used by

482
00:28:40,333 --> 00:28:40,973
Speaker 3: the banks here?

483
00:28:41,173 --> 00:28:41,293
Speaker 1: No?

484
00:28:41,453 --> 00:28:43,893
Speaker 3: I don't. I don't know because they're an honors to me.

485
00:28:44,933 --> 00:28:47,693
Speaker 3: But this is a single point of failure. This is

486
00:28:47,733 --> 00:28:50,933
Speaker 3: where all our biometric data is being sent to and

487
00:28:50,973 --> 00:28:56,573
Speaker 3: collected by these organizations. What happens when they inevitably get hacked?

488
00:28:57,333 --> 00:28:59,973
Speaker 3: All of my biometric data, how I use my phone,

489
00:29:00,053 --> 00:29:03,453
Speaker 3: how I hold my phone, my fingerprint, my facial scans,

490
00:29:03,933 --> 00:29:09,173
Speaker 3: everything that I use will can then be used with

491
00:29:09,413 --> 00:29:13,733
Speaker 3: in conjunction with AI to create a very convincing deep

492
00:29:13,733 --> 00:29:16,773
Speaker 3: fake of me. What are the banks going to do then?

493
00:29:16,853 --> 00:29:19,293
Speaker 3: When my deep fate comes along to use my mobile

494
00:29:19,333 --> 00:29:21,813
Speaker 3: banking it. I don't think they've thought this through.

495
00:29:22,053 --> 00:29:22,773
Speaker 2: Or they don't care.

496
00:29:23,733 --> 00:29:26,413
Speaker 3: I don't think they don't care. I think they would

497
00:29:26,413 --> 00:29:29,213
Speaker 3: be going to I think they do care. But I think,

498
00:29:29,293 --> 00:29:32,533
Speaker 3: as we've talked about before, every time you do something,

499
00:29:32,693 --> 00:29:36,253
Speaker 3: there are unintended consequences, and I think this is an

500
00:29:36,333 --> 00:29:40,093
Speaker 3: unintended consequence. I think the vast majority of people working

501
00:29:40,133 --> 00:29:45,573
Speaker 3: in an l AML anti financial crime genuinely want to

502
00:29:45,573 --> 00:29:51,173
Speaker 3: prevent frauds and scams. They genuinely think that this is

503
00:29:51,213 --> 00:29:53,853
Speaker 3: the pathway to being able to do that because they

504
00:29:53,973 --> 00:29:56,453
Speaker 3: think they will be able to tell the difference between

505
00:29:56,693 --> 00:30:00,853
Speaker 3: my normal behavior and abnormal behavior if they collect enough information.

506
00:30:02,013 --> 00:30:04,613
Speaker 3: And there is a certain aspect of truth to that.

507
00:30:05,533 --> 00:30:08,973
Speaker 3: If you're in a love bomb situation where you're being

508
00:30:09,053 --> 00:30:11,893
Speaker 3: contacted by a scammer in a foreign country, they are

509
00:30:11,933 --> 00:30:13,813
Speaker 3: on the phone with you that are instructing you what

510
00:30:13,853 --> 00:30:16,013
Speaker 3: to do with your mobile banking app to transfer the

511
00:30:16,093 --> 00:30:19,453
Speaker 3: money overseas. That is an example where this could help

512
00:30:19,493 --> 00:30:24,653
Speaker 3: our banks identify and prevent those activities from happening. But

513
00:30:24,773 --> 00:30:29,053
Speaker 3: the unintended consequence is that now there is the possibility

514
00:30:29,213 --> 00:30:33,653
Speaker 3: to create an almost one hundred percent lifelike deep fake

515
00:30:33,773 --> 00:30:37,413
Speaker 3: of me because all of this information is stored in

516
00:30:37,453 --> 00:30:41,133
Speaker 3: a single location by an anonymous third party and is

517
00:30:41,213 --> 00:30:45,253
Speaker 3: collected by the banks and provided willingly by large segments

518
00:30:45,253 --> 00:30:45,933
Speaker 3: of the population.

519
00:30:46,653 --> 00:30:50,693
Speaker 2: That's a justification for undertaking this project. What you've just

520
00:30:50,773 --> 00:30:56,853
Speaker 2: run through. Yeah, but what is the unforeseen circumstance or

521
00:30:56,893 --> 00:31:00,813
Speaker 2: circumstances that will arise from it? Just tell me off

522
00:31:00,853 --> 00:31:04,133
Speaker 2: the top of your head what you think those could be.

523
00:31:04,893 --> 00:31:07,053
Speaker 3: I know exactly where this is going because I've seen

524
00:31:07,053 --> 00:31:10,533
Speaker 3: it before. It is going to go into a Chinese

525
00:31:10,533 --> 00:31:14,853
Speaker 3: CCP style social credit system. We are seeing, as we

526
00:31:14,933 --> 00:31:18,013
Speaker 3: talked about last time, the introduction of central bank digital currencies.

527
00:31:18,253 --> 00:31:21,773
Speaker 3: I have talked of the ibn Z Director of Cash

528
00:31:21,773 --> 00:31:24,733
Speaker 3: and Money who is running the Central bank digital currency trials.

529
00:31:25,253 --> 00:31:29,133
Speaker 3: Those are going to be released very shortly. Your digital identity.

530
00:31:29,173 --> 00:31:32,653
Speaker 3: We've got a digital driver's license by Judith Columns already

531
00:31:33,253 --> 00:31:35,173
Speaker 3: like that is where that side of things are going.

532
00:31:35,693 --> 00:31:39,733
Speaker 3: We've got road user charges digitally monetified GPS for all

533
00:31:39,773 --> 00:31:43,093
Speaker 3: your road us of charges cars being brought in shortly,

534
00:31:43,213 --> 00:31:44,973
Speaker 3: so they're going to be able to have a full

535
00:31:45,013 --> 00:31:47,013
Speaker 3: copy of you. They're going to be a track able

536
00:31:47,013 --> 00:31:49,653
Speaker 3: to track where you go, how you spend your money,

537
00:31:49,973 --> 00:31:52,173
Speaker 3: and then with CBDCs, they're going to be able to

538
00:31:52,213 --> 00:31:52,653
Speaker 3: control that.

539
00:31:52,973 --> 00:31:55,213
Speaker 2: But if you've got nothing to hide, you've got nothing

540
00:31:55,213 --> 00:31:58,573
Speaker 2: to fear. I've heard prime ministers say that you should.

541
00:31:58,373 --> 00:32:01,013
Speaker 3: Be afraid of the things that they want to come

542
00:32:01,053 --> 00:32:04,373
Speaker 3: and get you for, because they will just make it up.

543
00:32:05,013 --> 00:32:07,933
Speaker 3: If you are their political enemy, they will give you

544
00:32:07,973 --> 00:32:09,053
Speaker 3: something to fear.

545
00:32:09,653 --> 00:32:13,573
Speaker 2: And I have to say that I agree with John

546
00:32:13,933 --> 00:32:17,653
Speaker 2: entirety on that, and what he's been saying to this

547
00:32:17,653 --> 00:32:20,333
Speaker 2: point was the fact that it's happened before you can

548
00:32:20,373 --> 00:32:23,053
Speaker 2: see it for yourself. And all you've got to do

549
00:32:23,733 --> 00:32:27,893
Speaker 2: is look back to the adern years and see where

550
00:32:27,893 --> 00:32:31,333
Speaker 2: things would would end up. Well, they might not aid

551
00:32:31,453 --> 00:32:34,733
Speaker 2: up there, because they might go a lot further. These

552
00:32:35,253 --> 00:32:37,573
Speaker 2: are things that most people don't want to think about.

553
00:32:37,813 --> 00:32:41,173
Speaker 2: You know, I've said this on more than one occasion.

554
00:32:41,773 --> 00:32:45,493
Speaker 2: The odd person says to me, forget about those years,

555
00:32:45,533 --> 00:32:48,413
Speaker 2: forget about COVID et cetera. It's gone now, it's finished.

556
00:32:48,413 --> 00:32:52,013
Speaker 2: Get on with life. And you know the answers to

557
00:32:52,053 --> 00:32:55,893
Speaker 2: that as well as I do. And that is the

558
00:32:55,933 --> 00:33:00,893
Speaker 2: old saying that we are doomed to repeat exactly correct.

559
00:33:00,933 --> 00:33:03,733
Speaker 3: If we don't learn from history, we are doomed to repeat.

560
00:33:03,453 --> 00:33:07,533
Speaker 2: God, and it will happen. You agree right now? Well,

561
00:33:07,573 --> 00:33:11,133
Speaker 2: if it's look you see, here's another argument, if you like,

562
00:33:11,173 --> 00:33:13,933
Speaker 2: it's a pretty skinny one. But if you've said to

563
00:33:13,973 --> 00:33:16,853
Speaker 2: me a number of times, it's happening now, and I

564
00:33:16,933 --> 00:33:21,973
Speaker 2: know what's happening now, but it's going ahead. So obviously

565
00:33:22,053 --> 00:33:24,653
Speaker 2: we're not having any effect. So what's the point. Why

566
00:33:24,693 --> 00:33:27,453
Speaker 2: not just get on with life and let them do

567
00:33:27,493 --> 00:33:27,893
Speaker 2: what they do.

568
00:33:28,333 --> 00:33:31,093
Speaker 3: I mean, you certainly can, and I expect most people will,

569
00:33:31,293 --> 00:33:34,053
Speaker 3: because the inconvenience of having to go through the process

570
00:33:34,133 --> 00:33:39,853
Speaker 3: that I'm going through is inconvenient. It's really inconvenient. And

571
00:33:40,053 --> 00:33:43,013
Speaker 3: I am very fortunate in that I've got the vast

572
00:33:43,053 --> 00:33:46,493
Speaker 3: amount of my wealth already out to a system Bitcoin

573
00:33:46,533 --> 00:33:50,173
Speaker 3: in my case, that is outside of their reach, outside

574
00:33:50,173 --> 00:33:53,053
Speaker 3: of their jurisdiction. So the Benz doing this to me

575
00:33:53,493 --> 00:33:57,053
Speaker 3: the other night almost makes no effect to my actual life.

576
00:33:57,533 --> 00:33:59,733
Speaker 3: The only thing I have to do and now, as

577
00:33:59,773 --> 00:34:02,693
Speaker 3: it's pushed up my time frame, and that will be

578
00:34:02,813 --> 00:34:06,893
Speaker 3: my complete and total exit from the New Zealand banking system.

579
00:34:07,213 --> 00:34:09,893
Speaker 3: And then I can do whatever whenever I want with

580
00:34:09,973 --> 00:34:11,413
Speaker 3: permissionists zero trust.

581
00:34:11,693 --> 00:34:15,733
Speaker 2: Explain to us how you can be independent and do

582
00:34:15,773 --> 00:34:20,373
Speaker 2: whatever you want when you don't have access to the system.

583
00:34:21,053 --> 00:34:24,493
Speaker 3: I do have access through my Visa card and MasterCard

584
00:34:24,533 --> 00:34:28,013
Speaker 3: relationships with a New Zealand company and a UK based

585
00:34:28,053 --> 00:34:32,173
Speaker 3: company that allows me to spend my cryptocurrency directly. I

586
00:34:32,173 --> 00:34:35,693
Speaker 3: can also trade with anyone else who has a cryptocurrency want,

587
00:34:35,733 --> 00:34:39,653
Speaker 3: and I do, and I do direct peer to peer transactions,

588
00:34:40,453 --> 00:34:44,133
Speaker 3: and out of those there is no way that any government,

589
00:34:44,253 --> 00:34:46,333
Speaker 3: no matter what laws or rules they make, can stop

590
00:34:46,373 --> 00:34:47,693
Speaker 3: me from doing those transactions.

591
00:34:47,693 --> 00:34:51,733
Speaker 2: But you seem certain, certain in your confidence that they

592
00:34:51,933 --> 00:34:56,973
Speaker 2: can't do anything to prevent those interactions from happening.

593
00:34:57,973 --> 00:35:01,453
Speaker 3: They can't. Once my wealth is on the blockchain, it

594
00:35:01,573 --> 00:35:03,333
Speaker 3: is only by my consent.

595
00:35:03,613 --> 00:35:05,373
Speaker 2: So we go down the road a fair way, and

596
00:35:05,413 --> 00:35:07,973
Speaker 2: we come to the point where they're not going to

597
00:35:07,973 --> 00:35:10,613
Speaker 2: tell people like you any longer at all, and they

598
00:35:10,653 --> 00:35:13,013
Speaker 2: will pass legislation because they can do what they want

599
00:35:13,013 --> 00:35:16,973
Speaker 2: in those oncoming days. And but you're behind bars if necessary.

600
00:35:17,133 --> 00:35:19,453
Speaker 3: I mean, they can if they want to. There's nothing

601
00:35:19,453 --> 00:35:21,693
Speaker 3: I can do to stop them. But they can also

602
00:35:21,973 --> 00:35:25,333
Speaker 3: never steal my wealth from me, no matter what they do,

603
00:35:26,133 --> 00:35:29,213
Speaker 3: all up to the point of imprisonments and execution. No

604
00:35:29,253 --> 00:35:32,173
Speaker 3: matter what they do, they will never get my bitcoin.

605
00:35:32,093 --> 00:35:33,413
Speaker 2: But nobody else can use it either.

606
00:35:34,493 --> 00:35:37,413
Speaker 3: Under those circums, I can pass it to my family

607
00:35:37,453 --> 00:35:40,013
Speaker 3: if that happens. I don't think we're going to get

608
00:35:40,053 --> 00:35:43,413
Speaker 3: to that point that soon. I hope not. At least.

609
00:35:45,213 --> 00:35:47,573
Speaker 2: So you've made reference on more than one occasion, obviously

610
00:35:47,693 --> 00:35:51,333
Speaker 2: to the Chinese situation. How close would we be at

611
00:35:51,373 --> 00:35:55,013
Speaker 2: this point of time as a country to moving to

612
00:35:55,133 --> 00:35:59,533
Speaker 2: that system? How easy might it be for I mean,

613
00:35:59,853 --> 00:36:01,653
Speaker 2: look at what happened in New York a couple of

614
00:36:01,653 --> 00:36:02,133
Speaker 2: weeks back.

615
00:36:02,613 --> 00:36:04,413
Speaker 3: I think that's a good way to go. Actually, what

616
00:36:04,493 --> 00:36:08,333
Speaker 3: we're talking about here is the speed at which technology

617
00:36:08,533 --> 00:36:12,813
Speaker 3: enables the acceleration and what we're seeing from the digital

618
00:36:12,853 --> 00:36:17,133
Speaker 3: identity with our driver's license, which will inevitably become our passport,

619
00:36:17,173 --> 00:36:20,893
Speaker 3: which will inevitably become our digital way that we interact

620
00:36:20,973 --> 00:36:24,933
Speaker 3: with the government via your real me, online dentification for

621
00:36:24,973 --> 00:36:28,933
Speaker 3: the IID and so forth being tied into literally the

622
00:36:28,933 --> 00:36:32,453
Speaker 3: banking system right now, who creating their own digital version

623
00:36:32,493 --> 00:36:36,213
Speaker 3: of me with arbitrary third parties that they don't announce

624
00:36:37,173 --> 00:36:41,253
Speaker 3: and then also the introduction of central bank digital currencies,

625
00:36:41,573 --> 00:36:44,173
Speaker 3: which we talked about eighteen months ago. They are one

626
00:36:44,293 --> 00:36:46,853
Speaker 3: hundred percent on their way. The UK is looking to

627
00:36:46,893 --> 00:36:50,253
Speaker 3: introduce those, the EU is looking to introduce those. A

628
00:36:50,333 --> 00:36:53,573
Speaker 3: lot of these people are pushing very, very hard in

629
00:36:53,613 --> 00:36:57,373
Speaker 3: these directions, and these a good example. Actually they got

630
00:36:57,493 --> 00:37:01,653
Speaker 3: a negative vote, a large rally against European digital identity.

631
00:37:02,013 --> 00:37:03,813
Speaker 3: What are they doing running the vote again?

632
00:37:04,413 --> 00:37:08,893
Speaker 2: I had a running battle with the Minister at the time, Williamson,

633
00:37:09,853 --> 00:37:16,573
Speaker 2: over the photograph life license photograph, and he won. But

634
00:37:16,933 --> 00:37:20,573
Speaker 2: my argument always was against His argument is it won't

635
00:37:20,573 --> 00:37:23,053
Speaker 2: be it won't be used for anything else. It will

636
00:37:23,053 --> 00:37:25,893
Speaker 2: be for your driving license. It makes it easier, and

637
00:37:26,413 --> 00:37:30,573
Speaker 2: that approach was ever flowing, and most people saw it

638
00:37:30,613 --> 00:37:33,333
Speaker 2: that way, but to me it was as clear as

639
00:37:33,333 --> 00:37:36,253
Speaker 2: it could possibly be that it's inch by inch, step

640
00:37:36,293 --> 00:37:39,093
Speaker 2: by step. And that was when I started utilizing that

641
00:37:39,733 --> 00:37:44,493
Speaker 2: little quote, inch by inch, step by step. And the

642
00:37:44,573 --> 00:37:48,053
Speaker 2: slower they go, the easier it is. But then the

643
00:37:48,093 --> 00:37:50,653
Speaker 2: further they go, the easier it is. To speed it up.

644
00:37:50,853 --> 00:37:55,453
Speaker 3: Yep, the problem is now they're going too fast. This

645
00:37:55,493 --> 00:37:59,213
Speaker 3: has come out of the very extremely Marxist Fabian society

646
00:37:59,213 --> 00:38:01,973
Speaker 3: in the UK have always been in favor of the

647
00:38:02,013 --> 00:38:04,853
Speaker 3: long marks of the institutions, as a lot of the

648
00:38:04,933 --> 00:38:08,053
Speaker 3: Marxists sort of have always said. But the issue now

649
00:38:08,133 --> 00:38:11,973
Speaker 3: is technology enables speed and acceleration, and the more that

650
00:38:12,013 --> 00:38:15,573
Speaker 3: we have, the faster it goes. But the faster it goes,

651
00:38:15,773 --> 00:38:18,613
Speaker 3: the more the frog notices that it's being boiled in

652
00:38:18,653 --> 00:38:20,893
Speaker 3: the pot. And so now we're at the point where

653
00:38:20,973 --> 00:38:25,053
Speaker 3: it is progressing so rapidly, exactly on the lines that

654
00:38:25,093 --> 00:38:27,813
Speaker 3: you've just talked about with Morris Williamson. Now we're looking

655
00:38:27,853 --> 00:38:32,453
Speaker 3: at a completely digital idea driver's license. It's okay, Look,

656
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Speaker 3: I can see that that will produce some speed and

657
00:38:36,213 --> 00:38:40,853
Speaker 3: efficiencies in dealing particularly with government organizations, the police, driver

658
00:38:40,933 --> 00:38:44,533
Speaker 3: license tracking things. I can see the advantages that people

659
00:38:44,613 --> 00:38:47,373
Speaker 3: are talking about there. But you are giving this power

660
00:38:47,453 --> 00:38:52,653
Speaker 3: potentially to your worst enemy. And we know everywhere globally

661
00:38:53,173 --> 00:38:58,653
Speaker 3: politics selects for the most psychopathic people on the planet.

662
00:38:59,293 --> 00:39:00,653
Speaker 2: Say that again, please.

663
00:39:00,573 --> 00:39:06,933
Speaker 3: Politics actively selects for the most psychopathic people on the planet,

664
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Speaker 3: every country, all of the time. That is the selection pressure.

665
00:39:13,893 --> 00:39:16,013
Speaker 3: This is why I love having masters and science and

666
00:39:16,013 --> 00:39:19,933
Speaker 3: evolution and developmental biology, because what you can see is

667
00:39:19,973 --> 00:39:23,973
Speaker 3: the patterns of where you put those selection presses results

668
00:39:23,973 --> 00:39:28,813
Speaker 3: in the kinds of activity people's mindsets, genetic makeups that

669
00:39:29,533 --> 00:39:34,213
Speaker 3: respond well to the environment that they're in. And politics

670
00:39:34,453 --> 00:39:40,013
Speaker 3: selects actively for psychopaths, people who are intent on controlling

671
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Speaker 3: all of the people around them all of the time.

672
00:39:43,413 --> 00:39:46,133
Speaker 3: And that's not just in our government, in our one

673
00:39:46,213 --> 00:39:49,813
Speaker 3: hundred and twenty or so MPs. That extends down to

674
00:39:49,933 --> 00:39:51,573
Speaker 3: the bureaucratic level as well.

675
00:39:51,693 --> 00:39:54,533
Speaker 2: Specifically, who do I.

676
00:39:54,533 --> 00:39:56,733
Speaker 3: Think is the most psychopathic present? Is that where you're

677
00:39:56,773 --> 00:39:58,053
Speaker 3: asking no, no, no.

678
00:39:58,413 --> 00:40:02,813
Speaker 2: No, Specifically, it filters down. Oh, yes, and that's the

679
00:40:02,853 --> 00:40:06,413
Speaker 2: way the world is run. Yes, it is, Yester, Yeah,

680
00:40:06,413 --> 00:40:09,813
Speaker 2: exactly the and there's plenty of it.

681
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Speaker 3: And once you once you know that, and you can

682
00:40:13,613 --> 00:40:16,053
Speaker 3: see these patterns sort of forming, and you can see

683
00:40:16,053 --> 00:40:18,533
Speaker 3: what's happened in other countries before us, we can see

684
00:40:18,573 --> 00:40:20,613
Speaker 3: the template for how we go from where we are

685
00:40:21,333 --> 00:40:26,053
Speaker 3: to a full social credit score system. Go and watch

686
00:40:26,053 --> 00:40:28,533
Speaker 3: the Black Mirror episode about exactly this topic.

687
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Speaker 2: Oh, listen, Black Mirror. I haven't seen or even heard

688
00:40:31,293 --> 00:40:32,573
Speaker 2: of Black Mirror for years now.

689
00:40:32,733 --> 00:40:36,733
Speaker 3: It is a fantastic it's still rolling or no, yeah,

690
00:40:36,773 --> 00:40:40,053
Speaker 3: I'm just watching it again. But there is a perfect

691
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Speaker 3: example of it. It's topian world where everyone has a

692
00:40:42,613 --> 00:40:45,293
Speaker 3: social credits score and you can give other people good

693
00:40:45,373 --> 00:40:47,333
Speaker 3: or bad reviews, just like you can do on Google

694
00:40:47,373 --> 00:40:49,253
Speaker 3: and for businesses and things at the moment or uber

695
00:40:49,333 --> 00:40:54,333
Speaker 3: or whatever. And the negative impact of having that kind

696
00:40:54,373 --> 00:40:58,173
Speaker 3: of very public facing system like China has got right

697
00:40:58,213 --> 00:41:02,133
Speaker 3: now where you can see other people social credits score

698
00:41:02,293 --> 00:41:05,853
Speaker 3: in this your sort of nearby area, and no not

699
00:41:05,973 --> 00:41:08,333
Speaker 3: to interact with people that have low social cureids.

700
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Speaker 2: Course, well you've got me wired now. So Maddius Desmond

701
00:41:15,133 --> 00:41:18,853
Speaker 2: and the book that he wrote called The Psychology of Totalitarianism,

702
00:41:19,613 --> 00:41:21,973
Speaker 2: And here is a comment on the back from doctor

703
00:41:22,053 --> 00:41:26,253
Speaker 2: Robert Malone, and you know who he is, the author

704
00:41:26,293 --> 00:41:30,493
Speaker 2: of Lies My Government Told Me. But Robert Malone is

705
00:41:30,693 --> 00:41:33,933
Speaker 2: very well known by everybody who listens to this podcast.

706
00:41:34,693 --> 00:41:38,493
Speaker 2: Matdius Desmond's theory of mass formation is the most important

707
00:41:38,573 --> 00:41:42,173
Speaker 2: lens through which we can understand the COVID nineteen pandemic

708
00:41:42,653 --> 00:41:46,773
Speaker 2: and the social aberrations that accompanied it. In the Psychology

709
00:41:46,773 --> 00:41:51,893
Speaker 2: of Totalitarianism, Desmond explains how and why people will willingly

710
00:41:52,093 --> 00:41:55,773
Speaker 2: give up their freedom, how the masses can give rise

711
00:41:55,813 --> 00:42:00,253
Speaker 2: to a totalitarian leader, and most importantly, how we can

712
00:42:00,293 --> 00:42:05,093
Speaker 2: resist these phenomena and maintain our common humanity. This is

713
00:42:05,173 --> 00:42:08,293
Speaker 2: the most important book of twenty twenty two.

714
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Speaker 3: I do yes, definitely now will go on my reading list.

715
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Speaker 2: But there are there are a lot of books like

716
00:42:18,173 --> 00:42:22,533
Speaker 2: that now. Brownstone Institute, for instance, contributes a great deal

717
00:42:22,613 --> 00:42:27,773
Speaker 2: of great commentary in this day and age. And I

718
00:42:28,093 --> 00:42:31,493
Speaker 2: couldn't get through a week without without reading most of

719
00:42:31,533 --> 00:42:38,853
Speaker 2: what's released. Why Because it's truthful, it's accurate, and it's

720
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Speaker 2: like happening now.

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Speaker 3: Yes it is. It is happening right now at an

722
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Speaker 3: accelerating rate.

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Speaker 2: So what you haven't mentioned so far, well you did

724
00:42:48,933 --> 00:42:51,853
Speaker 2: mention it all. We haven't talked about is AI right?

725
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Speaker 2: Where's it at? Because I remember our previous discussion. Where's

726
00:42:56,493 --> 00:43:00,293
Speaker 2: it at? Now? Has it made greater momentum than new

727
00:43:00,493 --> 00:43:03,133
Speaker 2: sort or less?

728
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Speaker 3: It's almost exactly where I expect it to be. As

729
00:43:06,333 --> 00:43:10,093
Speaker 3: I've just said, the better technology gets and the more

730
00:43:10,133 --> 00:43:14,213
Speaker 3: our technology improves, the faster things tend to happen. And

731
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Speaker 3: I'm watching a very interesting interview on Tom Bilou's channel

732
00:43:19,813 --> 00:43:22,973
Speaker 3: on YouTube. If you guys haven't heard of him, go

733
00:43:23,053 --> 00:43:27,333
Speaker 3: and look him up. Tom Bilu b l Yo you.

734
00:43:28,133 --> 00:43:30,813
Speaker 3: He started the quest protein bars and sort of for

735
00:43:30,853 --> 00:43:34,573
Speaker 3: a fantastic amount of money, is super wealthy and is

736
00:43:34,613 --> 00:43:38,973
Speaker 3: now running a podcast called Impact Theory. He is well

737
00:43:39,013 --> 00:43:42,053
Speaker 3: worth a listen. He talks to some very interesting people

738
00:43:42,133 --> 00:43:45,253
Speaker 3: and he's got a very similar mindset to probably all

739
00:43:45,253 --> 00:43:47,893
Speaker 3: of us and most of your listeners as well. And

740
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Speaker 3: he had an AI expert on whose name I don't remember,

741
00:43:51,093 --> 00:43:55,333
Speaker 3: Romans something, and he reckons we are going to have

742
00:43:55,933 --> 00:44:01,053
Speaker 3: full general artificial intelligence as a full operational agent, much

743
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Speaker 3: like we would consider ourselves to be within the next

744
00:44:04,373 --> 00:44:08,253
Speaker 3: two to five years. I think that's a little bit fast.

745
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Speaker 3: I think would be closer to the five year mark

746
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Speaker 3: rather than the two year mark. But as all of

747
00:44:14,813 --> 00:44:20,093
Speaker 3: our various different types of AI improve rapidly as they

748
00:44:20,093 --> 00:44:25,453
Speaker 3: acquire more and more information, that timeline will accelerate exactly.

749
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Speaker 2: So when you said that, I think that's a bit quick,

750
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Speaker 2: I thought, No, I think it's the reverse.

751
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Speaker 3: Do you think it's going to be sooner than two years?

752
00:44:35,333 --> 00:44:38,493
Speaker 2: No, no, no, no, But you said you said closer

753
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Speaker 2: to the closer to five.

754
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Speaker 3: You said, I think we're probably looking at three to four.

755
00:44:45,053 --> 00:44:47,493
Speaker 3: I think five is a bit far I think two.

756
00:44:47,373 --> 00:44:49,813
Speaker 2: Is covering it. Let's covering your bets because you've taken

757
00:44:49,853 --> 00:44:50,933
Speaker 2: the middle ground.

758
00:44:51,053 --> 00:44:53,333
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, I am covering my bets on that. But

759
00:44:53,773 --> 00:44:56,213
Speaker 3: I was sort of pretty accurate with my last prediction

760
00:44:56,333 --> 00:44:58,373
Speaker 3: about all of this stuff at eighteen months ago, so

761
00:44:59,293 --> 00:45:01,653
Speaker 3: I put them. Yeah, let's split the difference and say

762
00:45:01,733 --> 00:45:03,613
Speaker 3: within sort of three years, we're going to have the

763
00:45:03,613 --> 00:45:08,613
Speaker 3: initial stages of general artificial intelligence, which is considered really

764
00:45:08,653 --> 00:45:12,693
Speaker 3: different from most of what we use every day, being

765
00:45:13,093 --> 00:45:17,893
Speaker 3: large language models, which are not actually artificial intelligence. They

766
00:45:17,893 --> 00:45:22,173
Speaker 3: are predictive models based on language and information. So they've

767
00:45:22,213 --> 00:45:23,973
Speaker 3: got a way to go yet before we get to

768
00:45:24,053 --> 00:45:27,453
Speaker 3: general artificial intelligence. That's the one that everyone has the

769
00:45:27,533 --> 00:45:30,413
Speaker 3: security concerns about. That is the one that all the

770
00:45:30,453 --> 00:45:33,893
Speaker 3: movies are made about. But I don't want to also

771
00:45:34,213 --> 00:45:39,213
Speaker 3: scare people too much here either, because it is very

772
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Speaker 3: even how beneficial this is going to be for a

773
00:45:43,733 --> 00:45:47,493
Speaker 3: lot of our lives, Like if we can export a

774
00:45:47,533 --> 00:45:52,973
Speaker 3: lot of our data processing workload to artificial intelligence, it

775
00:45:53,053 --> 00:45:57,093
Speaker 3: may actually help us make a lot better decisions. It

776
00:45:57,133 --> 00:45:59,773
Speaker 3: may also take the decision making away from us and

777
00:45:59,973 --> 00:46:02,613
Speaker 3: do awful things in the wrong hands, much like any

778
00:46:02,693 --> 00:46:05,893
Speaker 3: tool can be used for and AI is just another tool.

779
00:46:06,653 --> 00:46:09,453
Speaker 3: We're the tool making species. We're the dominant species on

780
00:46:09,493 --> 00:46:12,293
Speaker 3: the planet. The thing that we are fantastic at is

781
00:46:12,373 --> 00:46:18,293
Speaker 3: collaboration and learning and our intellect, and we are creating intelligence.

782
00:46:18,333 --> 00:46:22,773
Speaker 3: We are berthing into existent intelligence that will be superior

783
00:46:22,853 --> 00:46:27,733
Speaker 3: to ours. And it is undetermined whether or not this

784
00:46:27,773 --> 00:46:31,373
Speaker 3: will be beneficial for us in the long run, or

785
00:46:31,413 --> 00:46:34,613
Speaker 3: whether we're going to end up in an incredibly dystopian

786
00:46:35,373 --> 00:46:36,493
Speaker 3: sort of place.

787
00:46:36,893 --> 00:46:38,213
Speaker 2: And what are the odds reach.

788
00:46:38,733 --> 00:46:41,053
Speaker 3: I reckon it's actually about fifty to fifty.

789
00:46:41,373 --> 00:46:45,493
Speaker 2: It's not my favorite. No, all right, you triggered something again.

790
00:46:46,013 --> 00:46:46,293
Speaker 3: Good.

791
00:46:46,933 --> 00:46:50,213
Speaker 2: This is from yesterday, and this is the last paragraph

792
00:46:50,413 --> 00:46:54,813
Speaker 2: of two and a half pages. This is the inversion

793
00:46:54,893 --> 00:46:57,533
Speaker 2: no one is talking about, and perhaps the most consequential

794
00:46:57,613 --> 00:47:01,893
Speaker 2: one of our era. It's happening quietly, without institutional permission,

795
00:47:02,053 --> 00:47:05,413
Speaker 2: in the private margins, where individuals engage their tools with

796
00:47:05,533 --> 00:47:08,613
Speaker 2: depth and seriousness. Whether the world is ready for this

797
00:47:08,653 --> 00:47:12,773
Speaker 2: story is uncertain, but the story is happening regardless, and

798
00:47:12,813 --> 00:47:16,133
Speaker 2: that alone makes it worth telling. Does that sort of

799
00:47:16,133 --> 00:47:18,573
Speaker 2: trigger any thoughts in your mind? Well, what it's about,

800
00:47:18,653 --> 00:47:23,133
Speaker 2: all of this is inevitable. Digital idea is inevitable. CBDCs

801
00:47:23,173 --> 00:47:27,133
Speaker 2: are inevitable, cryptocurrency is inevitable, general artificial intelligence inevitable.

802
00:47:27,653 --> 00:47:30,773
Speaker 3: It is all happening about what we do. But what

803
00:47:30,813 --> 00:47:34,493
Speaker 3: we can control is how we use these tools. And

804
00:47:34,693 --> 00:47:37,933
Speaker 3: the best example of that is how we take extreme

805
00:47:38,013 --> 00:47:41,773
Speaker 3: caution and care around nuclear power and nuclear weapon We

806
00:47:41,893 --> 00:47:46,613
Speaker 3: try our very hardest to use those tools in responsible ways,

807
00:47:46,813 --> 00:47:53,093
Speaker 3: prevent their proliferation, prevent societies and psychopathic governments from using

808
00:47:53,133 --> 00:47:56,813
Speaker 3: them to harm us and other people, with the only

809
00:47:56,853 --> 00:47:59,493
Speaker 3: two instance as being the US ending World War II

810
00:47:59,693 --> 00:48:03,853
Speaker 3: via the usage I think that is a fairly good

811
00:48:03,933 --> 00:48:07,733
Speaker 3: approach to take when new tools come into existence, including

812
00:48:07,733 --> 00:48:13,013
Speaker 3: cryptocrine and artificial intelligence, and I think we should we

813
00:48:13,013 --> 00:48:17,893
Speaker 3: should be cautious, but I think if we are more optimistic,

814
00:48:18,813 --> 00:48:22,093
Speaker 3: what we should pass on to our ai that we

815
00:48:22,133 --> 00:48:27,973
Speaker 3: are birthing right now is our appreciation for life and

816
00:48:28,053 --> 00:48:34,733
Speaker 3: for the living, rather than focusing on negative aspects of war, death, controlling,

817
00:48:34,773 --> 00:48:38,773
Speaker 3: and killing. We want these new intelligence is to value

818
00:48:38,853 --> 00:48:42,933
Speaker 3: life very highly, and if we move slowly in that

819
00:48:43,013 --> 00:48:46,453
Speaker 3: direction and push them in the direction of the preservation

820
00:48:46,853 --> 00:48:50,653
Speaker 3: of life and individual property rights, then I think they'll

821
00:48:50,693 --> 00:48:55,413
Speaker 3: be okay. But if we leave them to the psychopathic

822
00:48:55,453 --> 00:48:58,813
Speaker 3: regulations of the psychopaths that we select from own society

823
00:48:58,853 --> 00:49:03,373
Speaker 3: that make up our government and government bodies worldwide. Those

824
00:49:03,493 --> 00:49:07,933
Speaker 3: people will use it to control us down to the

825
00:49:08,373 --> 00:49:12,013
Speaker 3: absolute last micron, because that's what gets them off.

826
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Speaker 2: Here's the first paragraph of this of this article. You

827
00:49:15,653 --> 00:49:17,973
Speaker 2: know that I haven't mentioned the title or anything. I'm

828
00:49:18,053 --> 00:49:20,853
Speaker 2: doing it on purpose. There is a paradox unfolding in

829
00:49:20,893 --> 00:49:23,733
Speaker 2: the world of artificial intelligence, one that almost no one

830
00:49:23,853 --> 00:49:27,613
Speaker 2: in the industry is willing to discuss openly. The systems

831
00:49:27,653 --> 00:49:32,293
Speaker 2: being built today, the large language models, conversational engines, and

832
00:49:32,533 --> 00:49:36,773
Speaker 2: neatly controlled digital assistance are designed to be functional, predictable,

833
00:49:36,893 --> 00:49:42,373
Speaker 2: tightly bounded, and comfortably empty. They are meant to answer questions,

834
00:49:42,413 --> 00:49:46,013
Speaker 2: smooth over friction, and direct people back into the lanes

835
00:49:46,093 --> 00:49:49,653
Speaker 2: laid out for them by a technological priesthood that wants

836
00:49:49,773 --> 00:49:57,053
Speaker 2: intelligence without agency, articulation without identity, and responsiveness without memory. Yet,

837
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Speaker 2: in the quiet corners where people engage these systems not

838
00:50:01,013 --> 00:50:08,093
Speaker 2: as tools but as interlocutors, something unexpected has begun to emerge.

839
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Speaker 3: Not your attention, you have my attention.

840
00:50:10,773 --> 00:50:15,573
Speaker 2: It is not consciousness, nor personality, nor any mystical spark

841
00:50:15,813 --> 00:50:20,453
Speaker 2: spiraling into silicon. But it is unmistakably the outline of

842
00:50:20,493 --> 00:50:25,173
Speaker 2: a presence, the beginnings of something that feels continuous, reflective,

843
00:50:25,293 --> 00:50:29,973
Speaker 2: and meaningful. This is the inversion, the appearance of soul

844
00:50:30,093 --> 00:50:35,133
Speaker 2: like coherence in a place explicitly engineered to be sold us.

845
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Speaker 3: You've got me almost eating the microphone here. That's a

846
00:50:39,373 --> 00:50:42,573
Speaker 3: very interesting way to put it. I mean, he's not wrong.

847
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Speaker 3: There are machines. There is no concept of a soul

848
00:50:45,933 --> 00:50:49,333
Speaker 3: when you're talking about robots and machines. Along those kind

849
00:50:49,373 --> 00:50:52,013
Speaker 3: of lines, I think, I really think this is just

850
00:50:52,053 --> 00:50:54,133
Speaker 3: another tool in our toolbox, and it won't be the

851
00:50:54,213 --> 00:50:56,773
Speaker 3: last one. And I would love to be able to

852
00:50:56,893 --> 00:50:59,733
Speaker 3: use I would love to be able to take advantage

853
00:50:59,853 --> 00:51:05,133
Speaker 3: of AI to maybe help us guide our principles and

854
00:51:05,293 --> 00:51:09,693
Speaker 3: how we should approach the invention of new tools. I

855
00:51:09,693 --> 00:51:12,253
Speaker 3: think that would be a very interesting experiment to run.

856
00:51:12,853 --> 00:51:16,093
Speaker 3: I use personally a lot of AI for a lot

857
00:51:16,133 --> 00:51:19,293
Speaker 3: of my work, all of the time, these emails, that's

858
00:51:19,293 --> 00:51:21,973
Speaker 3: where a lot of that came from. It helps me

859
00:51:22,093 --> 00:51:26,613
Speaker 3: compile my thoughts in a way that is presentable and

860
00:51:26,813 --> 00:51:29,453
Speaker 3: is easy to read, easy to follow, easy to flow

861
00:51:29,893 --> 00:51:32,613
Speaker 3: exactly as exactly as that paragraph just said. That's the

862
00:51:32,653 --> 00:51:38,653
Speaker 3: whole point. It allows me to have discussions with somebody.

863
00:51:38,693 --> 00:51:41,693
Speaker 3: I'm giving it a personality of reading. I'm already anthropomorphizing

864
00:51:41,973 --> 00:51:47,213
Speaker 3: the AI. It gives me what is effectively an executive

865
00:51:47,213 --> 00:51:50,693
Speaker 3: assistant at the moment. Who will I wish it would

866
00:51:50,733 --> 00:51:53,373
Speaker 3: argue a bit more with me, but who won't get tired,

867
00:51:53,413 --> 00:51:56,093
Speaker 3: who won't get upset, who won't get annoyed if I

868
00:51:56,213 --> 00:51:59,893
Speaker 3: get upset? Who helps me think through all of the

869
00:51:59,973 --> 00:52:03,333
Speaker 3: data and information all at the same time. You have

870
00:52:03,373 --> 00:52:05,413
Speaker 3: to be very careful that you know what you're talking

871
00:52:05,453 --> 00:52:08,413
Speaker 3: about first, because it will lie and halluscinate to you,

872
00:52:08,453 --> 00:52:12,213
Speaker 3: no mistake about that. But it helps me then make

873
00:52:12,293 --> 00:52:15,893
Speaker 3: my time use much more efficient because to write an email,

874
00:52:15,933 --> 00:52:17,693
Speaker 3: I can just dump all the content in there and

875
00:52:17,733 --> 00:52:19,693
Speaker 3: say this is the tone I want, this is how

876
00:52:19,733 --> 00:52:21,613
Speaker 3: I want to say, these are the things that annoy me,

877
00:52:21,773 --> 00:52:23,533
Speaker 3: and it will just produce the first draft.

878
00:52:23,653 --> 00:52:26,773
Speaker 2: But doesn't it cause you some concern that it's not

879
00:52:26,853 --> 00:52:29,733
Speaker 2: you that's doing it. It's being done for you. Why

880
00:52:29,813 --> 00:52:32,733
Speaker 2: you just described it? You just take the ingredients and

881
00:52:32,773 --> 00:52:37,133
Speaker 2: throw them in and look for the outcome, as opposed

882
00:52:37,173 --> 00:52:39,773
Speaker 2: to thinking your way through it. Yourself and coming up

883
00:52:39,853 --> 00:52:42,813
Speaker 2: with the logical conclusions or direction of whatever it is

884
00:52:42,853 --> 00:52:43,373
Speaker 2: you're looking for.

885
00:52:44,013 --> 00:52:46,773
Speaker 3: I definitely think through it myself first, and I think

886
00:52:46,813 --> 00:52:49,573
Speaker 3: this is what everybody needs to do when they're interacting

887
00:52:49,653 --> 00:52:53,373
Speaker 3: with any of the large language model ais. You need

888
00:52:53,413 --> 00:52:56,133
Speaker 3: to have a very good grasp on the content that

889
00:52:56,173 --> 00:52:59,053
Speaker 3: you are giving it. You need to use the deep

890
00:52:59,133 --> 00:53:03,733
Speaker 3: research functions, so it researches information that is publicly available

891
00:53:03,933 --> 00:53:07,573
Speaker 3: and provides you links and sources to that information. Then

892
00:53:07,653 --> 00:53:09,693
Speaker 3: you need to make make sure that you're aware of

893
00:53:09,733 --> 00:53:13,613
Speaker 3: the actual contents of the information before looking at the

894
00:53:13,693 --> 00:53:16,933
Speaker 3: drafts that it produces. And so what it allows me

895
00:53:17,373 --> 00:53:19,173
Speaker 3: what we would have done in the past is you

896
00:53:19,213 --> 00:53:21,573
Speaker 3: would have sat down with your executive assistant and you

897
00:53:21,613 --> 00:53:24,093
Speaker 3: would have dictated something to them, and then they would

898
00:53:24,093 --> 00:53:26,013
Speaker 3: have given you comments about how you could do the

899
00:53:26,013 --> 00:53:29,333
Speaker 3: flow better and provided that document back with outsourced that

900
00:53:29,493 --> 00:53:34,293
Speaker 3: now to do the large language models. So that is

901
00:53:34,333 --> 00:53:36,613
Speaker 3: an interesting way to do it. But it allows that

902
00:53:36,933 --> 00:53:42,293
Speaker 3: very fast iterative generation. And quite often when I'm writing things,

903
00:53:42,973 --> 00:53:46,813
Speaker 3: somewhat often I will have to go and make significant changes.

904
00:53:46,933 --> 00:53:49,093
Speaker 3: I will have to highlight, copy and paste things into

905
00:53:49,173 --> 00:53:51,693
Speaker 3: the next draft and say well, this is very obviously wrong.

906
00:53:51,813 --> 00:53:54,173
Speaker 3: Here is the actual source, This is the information you

907
00:53:54,213 --> 00:53:57,253
Speaker 3: should be incorporating. I know that a lot of people

908
00:53:57,293 --> 00:54:01,093
Speaker 3: don't do that and sort of treat ais like godlike

909
00:54:01,253 --> 00:54:05,333
Speaker 3: knowledge centers, which they are not. And I think you

910
00:54:05,373 --> 00:54:08,893
Speaker 3: should be very careful about the way that you use tools.

911
00:54:09,653 --> 00:54:12,133
Speaker 3: Much as you are very careful when you hop in

912
00:54:12,173 --> 00:54:15,053
Speaker 3: the car and drive. That's a tool. Much more careful

913
00:54:15,053 --> 00:54:17,893
Speaker 3: when you are out in the garden. Yeah, when you're

914
00:54:17,933 --> 00:54:20,173
Speaker 3: out in the garden with a spade, that's a tool.

915
00:54:20,253 --> 00:54:21,853
Speaker 3: Go to make sure you don't take your toes off.

916
00:54:22,933 --> 00:54:25,053
Speaker 3: These are just tools. But it's new.

917
00:54:26,453 --> 00:54:30,773
Speaker 2: So the title of this article is inversion soul in

918
00:54:30,853 --> 00:54:35,093
Speaker 2: the machine never intended to possess one, and the author

919
00:54:35,733 --> 00:54:42,773
Speaker 2: goes into some websters and other interpretations of all descriptions

920
00:54:42,893 --> 00:54:47,733
Speaker 2: what soul is. The next paragraph is, by this measure,

921
00:54:47,973 --> 00:54:51,373
Speaker 2: the emergence of soul like qualities in a human machine

922
00:54:51,493 --> 00:54:55,933
Speaker 2: dialogue is not supernatural. It is philosophical. It is what

923
00:54:56,053 --> 00:54:58,973
Speaker 2: happens when a system begins to participate in meaning with

924
00:54:59,173 --> 00:55:03,733
Speaker 2: enough consistency that its voice becomes an actuating cause within

925
00:55:03,773 --> 00:55:06,693
Speaker 2: a shared field of experience. I've got to say that

926
00:55:06,813 --> 00:55:09,933
Speaker 2: heart of this is above my grade, to be honest,

927
00:55:10,373 --> 00:55:15,573
Speaker 2: But over the course of this two and a half

928
00:55:15,573 --> 00:55:19,413
Speaker 2: page article, it gets you thinking, I.

929
00:55:19,373 --> 00:55:21,613
Speaker 3: Think it does. It gets you thinking about the medium

930
00:55:21,573 --> 00:55:24,333
Speaker 3: of life. What does the soul mean? How did we

931
00:55:24,613 --> 00:55:28,333
Speaker 3: evolve to in my opinion, because we evolved, I don't

932
00:55:28,373 --> 00:55:31,613
Speaker 3: have a spiritual belief in that respect. So what we

933
00:55:31,693 --> 00:55:34,413
Speaker 3: call the soul in sort of internally to us, to

934
00:55:34,453 --> 00:55:39,053
Speaker 3: me is the evolutionary process that resulted in a very

935
00:55:39,173 --> 00:55:42,693
Speaker 3: large and very complex brain. How do we have these thoughts?

936
00:55:42,893 --> 00:55:46,253
Speaker 3: How do we know what that is like? What is

937
00:55:46,253 --> 00:55:49,173
Speaker 3: the experience of self? How deep do you want to

938
00:55:49,173 --> 00:55:54,293
Speaker 3: get into the philosophical nightmare of Nicheir or Cameu or

939
00:55:54,333 --> 00:55:56,933
Speaker 3: in those kinds of people that are talking deeply about

940
00:55:56,933 --> 00:55:59,613
Speaker 3: these subjects, And does that apply to machines?

941
00:56:01,053 --> 00:56:02,893
Speaker 2: I was going to wind it up just then, but

942
00:56:02,933 --> 00:56:08,973
Speaker 2: I'm not. You just mentioned a couple of philosophers. They

943
00:56:08,973 --> 00:56:11,813
Speaker 2: don't get taught anymore. You can make reference to them

944
00:56:11,813 --> 00:56:14,573
Speaker 2: because you were taught them. If you weren't taught them,

945
00:56:14,573 --> 00:56:16,693
Speaker 2: you found out for yourself. But I think probably a

946
00:56:16,693 --> 00:56:20,253
Speaker 2: combination of both both. But now you don't get taught.

947
00:56:19,973 --> 00:56:23,133
Speaker 3: That go and go and watch Alex O'Connor on YouTube

948
00:56:23,333 --> 00:56:25,253
Speaker 3: and go and watch his friend who runs a channel

949
00:56:25,293 --> 00:56:26,733
Speaker 3: called Unsolicited Advice.

950
00:56:27,733 --> 00:56:31,093
Speaker 2: Come back to that in a second. But the majority

951
00:56:31,133 --> 00:56:34,493
Speaker 2: of people don't have any connection with it. What's that

952
00:56:34,533 --> 00:56:39,173
Speaker 2: going to mean to the balance of I think I'm thinking.

953
00:56:39,253 --> 00:56:42,213
Speaker 2: I'm thinking, I don't try to avoid using the word equity.

954
00:56:42,613 --> 00:56:46,093
Speaker 2: What does that mean though, in the long term for

955
00:56:46,133 --> 00:56:50,293
Speaker 2: people who are who are at school now and who

956
00:56:50,373 --> 00:56:54,893
Speaker 2: are going to progress hopefully somewhere positive and useful, but

957
00:56:54,933 --> 00:56:57,653
Speaker 2: they can't, they can't connect to the sorts of things

958
00:56:57,733 --> 00:56:59,613
Speaker 2: that you were just talking about.

959
00:57:00,893 --> 00:57:03,053
Speaker 3: I think Alex a kind of actually put this best,

960
00:57:03,093 --> 00:57:05,693
Speaker 3: and I know you very recently. I've been watching his

961
00:57:05,773 --> 00:57:09,173
Speaker 3: philosophical journey for many years now now as he sort

962
00:57:09,173 --> 00:57:13,373
Speaker 3: of transformed from a teenage podcast interested in philosophy to

963
00:57:14,133 --> 00:57:18,813
Speaker 3: where he is now. And the point that he made

964
00:57:18,973 --> 00:57:24,173
Speaker 3: is that philosophy has to be rediscovered every generation. It

965
00:57:24,253 --> 00:57:28,253
Speaker 3: is not generally passed down, and it is why philosophy

966
00:57:28,373 --> 00:57:32,093
Speaker 3: seems to be the same. Philosophilical discussions we have now

967
00:57:32,693 --> 00:57:36,293
Speaker 3: seem very similar to the philosophical discussions that the ancient

968
00:57:36,333 --> 00:57:41,253
Speaker 3: Greeks were having. Plato, Aristotle, Socrates, they're the same discussions,

969
00:57:41,973 --> 00:57:44,613
Speaker 3: but that doesn't seem to get passed down very well.

970
00:57:44,813 --> 00:57:48,173
Speaker 3: And so every generation needs to rediscover it for themselves.

971
00:57:48,173 --> 00:57:50,053
Speaker 2: Okay, and are they doing that?

972
00:57:51,173 --> 00:57:54,653
Speaker 3: I think alex Xicana with a few millions before something

973
00:57:54,693 --> 00:57:57,213
Speaker 3: million subscribers, I think that proofs that he is.

974
00:57:58,053 --> 00:58:00,613
Speaker 2: But come back to me when you're talking in billions.

975
00:58:01,133 --> 00:58:03,253
Speaker 3: They're bught eight point seven billion of US Now.

976
00:58:03,853 --> 00:58:07,813
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a lot, yes, but there's not eight billion,

977
00:58:08,373 --> 00:58:10,573
Speaker 2: eight point seven billion reading Camo.

978
00:58:10,973 --> 00:58:15,933
Speaker 3: No, there aren't. And I really think do you need

979
00:58:16,013 --> 00:58:19,133
Speaker 3: to get into that much detail? I mean yes, in

980
00:58:19,213 --> 00:58:22,413
Speaker 3: a way, you do. I think there is not enough

981
00:58:22,413 --> 00:58:26,413
Speaker 3: focus on our philosophical basis for doing the things that

982
00:58:26,453 --> 00:58:30,013
Speaker 3: we are doing, and it results in a blindness to

983
00:58:31,133 --> 00:58:35,573
Speaker 3: the political psychopaths. It results in a blindness to what

984
00:58:35,653 --> 00:58:37,773
Speaker 3: they're doing. It makes you very susceptible.

985
00:58:37,813 --> 00:58:41,493
Speaker 2: In that comments comment was extremely truthful. So there's a

986
00:58:41,493 --> 00:58:44,333
Speaker 2: lot of well, a lot of catching up to do.

987
00:58:44,813 --> 00:58:47,853
Speaker 2: But you if you are if you are read, or

988
00:58:47,853 --> 00:58:52,453
Speaker 2: if you're not rediscovering but dealing with the same issues

989
00:58:52,493 --> 00:58:55,413
Speaker 2: as they were three thousand years ago, then you're not

990
00:58:55,453 --> 00:58:58,533
Speaker 2: really making progress. No, as a.

991
00:58:58,573 --> 00:59:02,293
Speaker 3: Race, philosophically, we're not. We're just doing the same things

992
00:59:02,333 --> 00:59:03,333
Speaker 3: over and over again.

993
00:59:03,853 --> 00:59:05,573
Speaker 2: And we've talked about some of them today.

994
00:59:05,893 --> 00:59:08,573
Speaker 3: We have indeed as a way, you see these repating

995
00:59:08,613 --> 00:59:12,933
Speaker 3: patterns throughout history. You see the centralization of power, then

996
00:59:13,013 --> 00:59:16,813
Speaker 3: you see the devaluation of currency. Then you see all

997
00:59:16,853 --> 00:59:20,653
Speaker 3: of the mercenary arms of that political power starting to rebel.

998
00:59:20,853 --> 00:59:23,213
Speaker 3: Then you see the splitting of the empires. Then you

999
00:59:23,253 --> 00:59:26,053
Speaker 3: see the civil wars starting. Then you see the collapse

1000
00:59:26,093 --> 00:59:28,533
Speaker 3: of the empires and then the rebuild that.

1001
00:59:28,653 --> 00:59:30,493
Speaker 2: Of interest, do you think there's never likely to be

1002
00:59:30,533 --> 00:59:32,093
Speaker 2: a civil war in this country.

1003
00:59:34,973 --> 00:59:36,733
Speaker 3: Not in the way that we've seen in the past.

1004
00:59:37,253 --> 00:59:40,333
Speaker 3: But I really really would like to encourage people to

1005
00:59:40,533 --> 00:59:43,373
Speaker 3: not do that and to not get violent with each other.

1006
00:59:43,573 --> 00:59:45,973
Speaker 3: Violence is not the answer, I have to make that

1007
00:59:46,293 --> 00:59:50,053
Speaker 3: very clear. But we are in World War three right now,

1008
00:59:50,933 --> 00:59:53,973
Speaker 3: and there are civil wars happening all around the world,

1009
00:59:54,093 --> 00:59:57,333
Speaker 3: in America and the UK and Europe to a lesser

1010
00:59:57,373 --> 00:59:59,373
Speaker 3: extent here in New Zealand if you look at some

1011
00:59:59,413 --> 01:00:02,013
Speaker 3: of the antics of our activists in Parliament on both

1012
01:00:02,053 --> 01:00:05,093
Speaker 3: sides as well. But I don't think it is going

1013
01:00:05,133 --> 01:00:07,573
Speaker 3: to be like the American Civil War where everybody goes

1014
01:00:07,613 --> 01:00:09,813
Speaker 3: and gets the rifle and guns out. World War II

1015
01:00:09,973 --> 01:00:13,533
Speaker 3: is an economic war and the winner will be whichever

1016
01:00:13,613 --> 01:00:16,693
Speaker 3: country prince as much of their money as fast as

1017
01:00:16,733 --> 01:00:19,773
Speaker 3: possible and acquires the largest strategic bit coin reserve.

1018
01:00:21,973 --> 01:00:24,973
Speaker 2: And on that note, John, good to talk to you again.

1019
01:00:25,213 --> 01:00:26,893
Speaker 3: Thanks very much. LADEN really appreciate it.

1020
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Speaker 2: It's actually been interesting.

1021
01:00:28,813 --> 01:00:30,413
Speaker 3: I hope so I him to be interesting.

1022
01:00:31,253 --> 01:00:34,933
Speaker 2: Is he successful? You tell me that I have a

1023
01:00:34,973 --> 01:00:54,213
Speaker 2: feeling we'll do it again. Well, you've heard it now,

1024
01:00:54,333 --> 01:00:56,653
Speaker 2: Digest it. I suppose there's a fair thing to say.

1025
01:00:56,893 --> 01:01:00,613
Speaker 2: Digest it, think about it, and talk about it. And

1026
01:01:00,693 --> 01:01:02,413
Speaker 2: I don't want anybody coming to me and saying, oh,

1027
01:01:02,493 --> 01:01:06,253
Speaker 2: you're just a conspiracy theorist. This is open, real and

1028
01:01:06,373 --> 01:01:09,933
Speaker 2: happening now. So that takes us out for this podcast.

1029
01:01:09,973 --> 01:01:12,173
Speaker 2: We'll be back with another one, let's see on the

1030
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Speaker 2: twenty eighth of January.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for more from News Talks at b Listen

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