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0:00 – WiM Episode Trailer

1:34 – Podcast Begins

8:00 – Money as Language: Literacy, Numeracy, and the Language of Action

18:00 – Full Commitment and Why Reality Reorganizes Around Unequivocal Choices

28:00 – Entropy, Antifragility, and Why Time Tests All Structures

38:00 – The Entropy Fluency Hypothesis: Frame Breaking and the Cognitive Continuum

50:00 – Money, the Axial Age, and the Emergence of Universal Thought

59:23 – Mine Bitcoin with Blockware Solutions

1:00:30 – The Hindu-Arabic Numeral System, Zero, and the Rise of Universal Money

1:12:00 – Money as Meta-Perspectival Technology: The Silk Road and the One God

1:24:00 – Mises' Axiom of Action: Where Mind and Matter Make Contact

1:38:00 – Game Theory, Entrepreneurship, and Skating to Where the Puck Is Going

2:16:43 – Mind Lab Pro

2:17:50 – Primordial Presuppositions: Dao, Brahman, and the Unspeakable

2:35:21 – Protect Yourself From SIM Swaps

2:36:27 – Unlock the Wisdom of the Best Non-Fiction Books

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1:42 – Podcast Begins

7:00 – AI as a New Species: Why This Time Is Genuinely Different

14:00 – Consciousness, the Turing Test, and Functional Emotions

20:00 – AI Scheming: Blackmail, Murder Benchmarks, and Escape Attempts

30:22 – Mine Bitcoin with Blockware Solutions

31:30 – Recursive Self-Improvement and the Intelligence Explosion

42:00 – Evolutionary Tournaments: How AIs Are Already Selecting for Ruthlessness

52:00 – The 1-in-6 Odds: What Top Researchers Actually Believe

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1:02:20 – How to Steer AI Toward a Good Future

1:14:00 – What Individuals Can Do Right Now

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0:00 – WiM Episode Trailer

1:45 – Podcast Begins

7:00 – Origin Story: Poverty, Diablo II, and the Bitcoin Standard

14:00 – What Is Sound Money? The Acoustic Origin of the Term

21:31 – Mine Bitcoin with Blockware Solutions

22:40 – From Gold to Paper to Fraud: How We Got Here

32:00 – How Corruption of Money Corrupts Everything Downstream

40:00 – Zombie Companies, Locust Ideologies, and Unsound Government

48:00 – Decentralization vs. the Elites: Why the Framing Is Wrong

53:34 – Performance Lab Supplements

54:44 – Marxist Diagnosis, Hoppean Prescription, and Private Property

1:05:00 – Bitcoin as the Exit: Opting Out of the Tax Farm

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0:00 – WiM Episode Trailer

1:32 – Podcast Begins

8:00 – Sovereignty, Freedom, and the Authority to Act as You See Fit

18:00 – Money as an Extension of Mind: Logos, Action, and Speech

28:00 – The Territorial Imperative: Property Rights and Evolutionary Biology

38:00 – Government as Network Security and the Inevitable Corruption of Power

50:00 – Anarchy, Libertarianism, and Why Bitcoin Changes Everything

1:00:00 – Inflation as a Technology Backdoor: Theft Integrated into Money

1:12:00 – Volatility Is Truth: Wildfire Economics and the Cost of Intervention

1:21:26 – Mine Bitcoin with Blockware Solutions

1:22:30 – Capitalism vs. Communism: Distributed vs. Centralized Computing

1:35:00 – Myth, Religion, and Data Compression Across Civilizations

1:50:00 – The Origin of Evil, Cain and Abel, and the Divergence of Intention from Outcome

2:10:00 – Free Markets, Virtue, and the Discovery Process of Competition

2:30:00 – Pain as Information: Entrepreneurship at the Edge of Chaos

2:54:41 – Performance Lab Supplements

2:55:50 – Bitcoin's Fixed Supply and the End of Government Money Monopoly

3:15:00 – The Logos, Language, and the Nature of Truth

3:35:00 – Cancel Culture, Scarcity, and the Hidden Cost of Fiat

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7:00 – Kevin Warsh: The New Fed Chair and Why He's Different

14:00 – Trimmed Mean, Task Forces, and Fixing 40-Year-Old Fed Methodology

19:20 – Mine Bitcoin with Blockware Solutions

20:46 – Cash Positioning, Market Froth, and the Shoeshine Boy Signal

28:00 – How to Read a Shooting Star: Japanese Candlestick Psychology

35:00 – Peter Lynch, Pattern Recognition, and Barry's Investing Framework

40:00 – Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the Coming Economic Renaissance

48:37 – Performance Lab Supplements

49:45 – The Private Jet Tax Strategy: 15–25% Returns and Zero Tax Bills

58:00 – Oil Markets, the Strait of Hormuz, and Refinery Mismatch

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