Briar Patch Observatory Podcast

• https://briarpod.net/. https://twitter.com/PLanghaus
• Pedro Domingues - seminal book on machine learning.
• George Hotz - open source people. Open source self-driving cars.
• Centralized vs decentralization - some things work better than not in a decentralized. We must observe - what emerges? Does an army work better centralized? Decent. Nimbler. Centralized command can be slow. Decentralized army does not end up winning a war. You want centralized decision making, but communication about lessons learned.
• Where we organize centralized or decent - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Hotz. Post-modernist - don't believe in grand theories.
• Individual sovereignity - a technical problem. If I have a box that makes food, water, shelter - why do you need the state?
• Replace the state - better technical not ideological. State loses, freedom wins. Focus as a technical question not political one.
• What about protection? Defense wins over offense.
• Whether offense or defense wins - depends on time. In military history - it shifted. Defense may work.
• Why we need to defend ourselves.
• George dissociates from power. If you have
• You may not be interested in politics, but politics are interested in you - Trotsky.