Kind of giving a short of some of my thoughts about ETH 2.0 as well as learnings that we've done from Cosmos and how I think like you know things that should be I think should be integrated into ETH 2.0 that can help improve ETH 2.0. So you know a bit about me I work mostly on Cosmos and Tenderband but I also have a podcast called Epicenter and a podcast called SICKA so just a little bit of background of where I'm coming from. So yeah at the end of 2.0 the basics many people are probably somewhat familiar but just for a brief overview what we have is we have this multi-phase system where we have this like phase I think this phase numbers are wrong it's actually phase zero but yeah the first phase which is we just basically have this main chain which is the current proof of work theory that we have today and then we start building this beacon chain which is provides this Casper FFG state. Then we get to phase two then so this phase zero thing this is what's happening in like a couple of months. Then eventually we'll get to this point where we start to do shards and we provide data to the shards. Then in the next phase we'll finally start to add an execution engine. By the way so far the only thing that has been planned up to now is up to this point not at this point, up to this point right. You'll notice that there's not much we can actually do with these shards yet. Then finally in the next phase we'll add the execution engine where we can actually run an EVM or WebAssembly VM or something like that and then finally in phase four we're going to start working on cross-shared transactions and this phase has not even been like specced or discussed or like you know. So this is kind of like you know my main issue here is I think this is going about it in the wrong order. I think we'll talk about it in a minute but one thing that's even more worrisome to me is this one-way staking portion. You know in this phase, in the first phase we have this one-way burn where I have Ether on the main net Ethereum. I have to burn my Ether.  I have to burn my Ether and then that gets sent over and you'll notice it's a different color because you know it's a different type of Ether. If you can't transfer it back I think that these things are going to have two different exchange values. They're going to be treated very differently and you know when you try to bring it back you can't. It's a one-way burn. This is very worrisome to me. So what do I think is wrong here? So you know heads up I love proof of stake. You know I've spent the last two and a half years of my life working on proof of stake but you know proof of stake has some problems as well. You know you know we don't know exactly how it faces with decentralization. You know in cosmos we see this concern today where there are you know I'm partially blaming for a lot of it but you know there are a lot of like centralization happening in the ballot here I said. We don't know how resistant it is to cartelization. We don't know you know especially in a proof of stake system where you use the money token as a stake. How does that affect the economics of the system?  One thing I'm personally very worried about is the neutrality of proof of stake which we can get into later. You know all of these things you know I'm very worried about proof of stake but the main fundamental issue with proof of stake is it's highly experimental and I just do not feel comfortable shifting a 30 billion dollar network to this untested security model. Like you know I think that proof of stake will eventually will find out the answers to these questions but it will take time and experimentation. And I don't think kind of jump head first because and I think there's like sort of panic moment where it's like oh we feel like we're behind and so we need to like just jump into the next fast spot. I think that's making some tasty decisions. So I think the problem came when we started this which is the merging of Kasper and Shardis. I think that you know up until last year up until last summer the Kasper team, research team was distinct from the Shardis team. And then about last summer they decided to merge these into you know Shasper or E2.0 or whatever. And so this is where I think the things went wrong and I would say that you know when we're weighing these two things I think Shardis is way more important than proof of stake. Like you know Shardis there is an immediate urgent demand need and demand for it. We needed to scale a theory of proof of stake. You know it's great but I think it can come in time. And so here's my proposal of what I think is a more reasonable way of approaching it. Okay this is what we have today. The current Ethereum main chain, we have proof of work and we have EVM here. But first off you know let's focus more on sidechains. Where you know and let's test these sidechains with proof of stake and these proof of stake tracks. So you stake your Ether on the Ethereum main chain and then you could become a validator on the sidechains. And so you know you can move your Ether back and forth onto the sidechains, use them there, move them back. These sidechains that have the EVM on them. We already have a lot of people experimenting on things like this day like the POA network has their X sidechain and stuff and so this is really good. But they're not using it. They're using it with proof of authority. I think what we should be focused on is experimenting with proof of stake on sidechains first. Also you know a little bit of a plug for Cosmos. You know if you don't want to use the EVM for all these you can use different types of VMs and systems. The purpose of IDC which Chris gave a great talk on it this morning is really generalized so you can allow you to talk between many different frameworks. You can talk EVM change or Cosmos' decay change or yellow change or parity substrate change. That's really the goal. So let's test proof of stake on sidechains first. Then eventually there's already so much great research happening in the process of... I think that the thing between sidechains and shards it's a little bit more of a spectrum. There's a lot of research that's already been going into how to make more and more trustless sidechains. I think we should really double down on those efforts. I think the scale labs people they've been doing a really cool job on coming up with some great ideas there. I don't want to go too much into their stuff but you should take a look at how they do it. They have this one staking manager contract that basically assigns validators to different shards and stuff and it's running on the Ethereum proof of work chain in the EVM. There's also a lot of other cool stuff. Like everyone is working on ZK roll up. This doesn't matter as an example but there's a lot of cool people working on ZK roll up techniques. The plasma group came up with this OVM system and some people had consensus. They had some cool stuff with minimal viable merchant senses. This guy, many of you know him. He's been kind of working on a lot of cool ideas and here he has secret projects so I can't go too much into it but he's working on some cool stuff along these lines. I think we should really be focusing on building these proof of stakes, testing proof of stake at the shards. Then, once some time passed, then what we can do is suddenly take off the, keep the EVM on there but remove the plug into it where basically stop allowing people to deploy new contracts on the route chain. All the contracts that are still there still are running but no more deployment of new contracts. If you want to deploy a new contract, they go on to the shards. Next, after some more time goes, then we can start to allow a system that allows you to easily migrate some of the contracts off of the route EVM onto other chains. Then finally, when a lot of time goes by, like maybe five years, something, ten years, proof of work has proved itself on Bitcoin and Ethereum for like ten years. I think proof of stake needs that level of confidence and history to it before we should be ready. Finally, we can go ahead and change the proof of work chain to a proof of stake chain. How am I doing on time? Okay. Cool. Now, so that's kind of my proposal for the ETH 3.0 roadmap. Now we'll talk a little bit about application-specific shards which I think is great that I've seen this actually happening in the last couple of months now with this whole execution environment idea that's kind of being adopted which is really good and so I can just talk a little bit about why I think it's great. So, you know, I think smart contracting systems really should be used for contracting, not for applications. Now, contracting are things that like are short-term, one-time use things need high levels of customizability. ICOs are the like perfect use case for smart contracting because they are short-term use things. They need high levels of customizability. But like, you know, if you're building a DEX, you're building a prediction market system, you probably want a more custom-built, efficient state machine for this. You get a lot of benefits when you do this. You reduce a lot of the attack surface, a lot of the issues with, you know, a lot of the biggest contract bugs usually have come from weird vulnerabilities and like nuances of EVM, whether it's the DAO bug, the Parity bugs, or, you know, most of the bugs usually come from weird things with EVM. You get a lot more efficiency gains because you have a custom-built state machine.  Finally, you can fine-tune to optimize for your application. So, you know, right now, you can't really implement Zcache like privacy in the EVM in an efficient way because it's very, you know, it's not fine-tuned for it. A great example actually, it's missing the cryptography that you need. A great example of fine-tuning for your application, if you want to build a payment system, right? Payments, there's a reason Bitcoin was built as a UTXO system. UTXOs are better at payments because, you know, they can be parallelized way more easily. But, you know, the EVM was optimized for the average use case, not for the specific use case. And so, for the average use case, you need an account because, but if you want to build a payment system, you probably want to optimize for your application. Choose the best design patterns that are here for your application. And so, this is why I think you really should be in this Ethereum sharding, you should kind of not be focused on trying to make all shards equivalent, they all run the same VM, but really, you should be focused on application-specific shards. And this is kind of what, like, Polkadot has been doing for a while and it's actually, it's great because I think Ethereum is starting to realize this and it's shifting towards this with the whole execution environment system. The other thing is what I like to call the maker dilemma. So I'd like to explain why I think maker should be not on Ethereum. I think maker being on Ethereum is a parasitic relationship in both directions. Maker versus Ethereum and Ethereum versus Maker. Here's why. So, for a maker, as a die holder, you are getting the security of the MKR token. If the MKR holders wanted to, they could steal all of the collateral from the maker system. So you're getting the security of the MKR token, but you're paying for the security of ETH, which doesn't make sense, you know. But paying your transaction fees at ETH and like, you know, the gas fees are like changing relative to the demand of Ethereum rather than to the demand of the maker system. And so you're overpaying for security. It's harmful in the other direction as well because let's say there's a contentious hard fork in Ethereum tomorrow.  Who decides which fork wins? Historically, I would say that ETH is probably one of the strongest voices on which side of the fork wins. But I'd say today I think it's probably the MKR holders because the MKR holders could decide, you know what, in this contentious fork, we're just going to stop running the oracles on one side of the chain. And when they start to stop running the oracles the dye on that side of the chain just crashes and the entire DeFi ecosystem on that side of the chain crashes. And so this is kind of very, so this is giving the MKR DAO, the maker DAO, way undue amount of influence over Ethereum governance. And I think this is unhealthy for Ethereum in the long term where you give certain projects or entities such a high amount of influence. And so this is why I think by putting the applications on their own isolated charts where they don't have that much high control over the governance of the system as a whole, I think that can help along with some of these kind of dilemmas. And better for the maker system the dye holders as well. Okay, I'm going to do that. Okay. So the next thing I'd like to talk about is delegation and protocol. So the Ethereum, they very much don't, they don't want people to, at the base layer, they don't have this notion of delegation. In Cosmos, what we do is, you know, validators and delegators, in the protocol you can go ahead and delegate your atoms to a validator and they would basically state for you. And then the protocol would keep track of like, oh, okay, these many of my atoms came from this delegator, these many of mine came from this delegator, what not. And if this validator gets slashed, then all the delegators so that the validator go down together. Now, Ethereum thinks that, you know, we could do this process through smart contracts, where, you know, you could go ahead and, you know, as a validator, I have a validator company called SIGGA, I go ahead and deploy a validation contract and people can give each to me in the contract and I can validate on their behalf. This is sub-optimal, there's some easy reasons why sub-optimal, one is, you know, I don't really want thousands of validators writing their own contracts, eventually some of them are going to have bugs, I'd rather have a default one into the protocol. But more importantly, there's a feature you can only get when you put delegating in the protocol natively. So, let's say, it's called instant redelegation. So, this is how redelegation would have to work in Ethereum. So, let's say I have some each delegated to validator A and I want to change it to validator B. What I would have to do is, I would have to unbond from validator A, wait the entire unbonding period, I've got what the recent numbers are, it's about three months or six months, so I have to wait that entire unbonding period, then I get the money back in my account and then I can delegate to validator B. That means I have to go for months without rewards just in order to change who I'm delegated to. This makes validation super sticky. If you're a delegation in protocol, what you can do is you can just instantly swap your ETH from one validator A to validator B instantaneously and what we can do is we can put, because it's all in the same state, we can create something called pseudo unbonding period. So, let's say you're delegated to validator A, you go ahead and change it to B. What happens is you're put into a pseudo unbonding period for validator A while you actually delegated it to B and you're getting the rewards from validator B. But, let's say some evidence comes that you double signed or something, we can slash you because it's all in the same state. We can still slash in validator B even though you're in this pseudo unbonding period for validator A. So, this is really important because I think it will reduce the stickiness of delegation. You know, proof of work centralization isn't great, but it's not that it's okay because miners are able to jump between mining pools as fast as they want. They can just instantly, you know, let's say I'm delegated to, you know, I'm mining with a pool that is supporting a bit that I don't like, I can just easily switch my hash rate to a different pool. And we need to make it that easy to do for delegation as well, otherwise we're getting into a very sticky validator set that's not going to be able to change over time. Finally, the last thing I'd like to talk about is proportional slashing. So, proportional slashing is also something that, you know, I think Ethereum has started to adopt since we started talking about it, but, you know, the idea is, you know, we should slash validators more for the larger the validator is. So, let's say this validator has 5,000 e, and this one has 1,000 e, and they both get slashed. This one should get slashed at a higher percent, 5% rather than 1%. So, not only do they get more tokens slashed because they're bigger, but they also get a higher percentage of tokens slashed. This incentivizes people to not delegate towards larger validators. Otherwise, you could go towards smaller validators. But that way, why wouldn't I just instead just civil, right? Like, instead of running 1 validator of 5,000 e, I'll put that into 5 validators of 1,000 e each. So, what we can do here to solve this is we also punish more heavily the more number of validators fault at roughly the same time. So, if 1 validator of 5,000 e is double signed, maybe we can slash them at 5%, but let's say 5 validators of 1,000 e each slash, we should slash all of them at 20%. So, we kind of have to take, within an epoch, we can say if multiple validators double sign within the same epoch or are online during the same epoch, we slash them even more. This also has a very nice side benefit that incentivizes you to de-correlate yourself from all the other validators. So, let's say you know many other validators are running on Google Cloud. You want to not run on Google Cloud because you know that if Google Cloud has some issues, they're going to go offline and you want to be as separate from that as possible so you don't get slashed at a higher rate. And so, you know, this is the general form of the equation that I think really works. It's the square of sum of square roots. This might sound like a familiar formula that's also similar to the one that's in the quadratic, like the radical market stuff, the quadratic stuff.  But really, because we've used this formula, it actually magnifies the slash more because two validators slashed at the same time. And so, you know, what we might want to do is add some constants to this. How do we choose what to add the constants? One thing that I think we should do is let's say you are a validator of 10%, and if someone else who's a validator of 1%, and you both double sign together, you get slash at 29. There's 29% slash. But what if the other person is trying to grieve you? They're willing to lose that 1%, but in order to punish you as much as possible. So what they could do is they could actually split that 1% into a thousand different validators and get them all to double sign at the same time as you. They lost the same amount, but they suddenly magnified the slash to 1,300%. Which is crazy. And so what we should actually do is this k should be kind of based off of, you should take into account the inverse genie coefficient. So the more unequal that validators, the number of validators you've got to slash in that epoch, the more unequal their stakes are, the lower that constant should go. And the more equal their stakes are, they should go higher. And so that would kind of basically help solve a lot of those kind of greaking attacks. Yeah, that's it. Thank you so much.


Okay guys, in this video I'm gonna talk about gathering data and becoming a sniper. I want you to look at something real quick. We've talked about the road to the cell. Remember in the beginning we said have a great attitude, right? Make sure that the customer's fired up, they love us. Then the second, what do we do? Meet and greet, we made sure they love us. Secondly, what do we do? We made a best friend in two minutes, okay? Two minutes, we made sure they loved us. Remember that, the customer loves you, they love everything about you. After that, what do we do? Fact find, qualify. After that, what do we do? We talked about qualifications with maybe credit or maybe budget goals. Hey guys, what's up? It's Andy, do me a favor real quick. Whatever you're doing, stop right now. Grab a pen, grab a piece of paper, write down my cell phone number. 918-210-254.<PHONE_NUMBER>. Whatever you're struggling with, whatever you need help with, you wanna go to the next level, you wanna go to the next gear, you wanna make more money, I don't care what it is, you need more leads. Shoot me a text, let me know what I can help you with. Let's get back to the video. Okay, now look, as I'm writing these out, I just want you to understand this. What comes next? The gathering the data, everything we've done up to this point, you should be a sniper. That's what I want, okay? Most people, they go out to the lot and they're machine gun sprayers. They're just like, what about this one? What about this? It's like, it's like, what about that one? What about that one? What about that one? What about that one? And you're hoping they're gonna say yes to one of them. No, everything that you do, all these steps, the road to the cell has got you right now to get ready to do a walk around on the right unit, okay? So you wanna be a sniper, all right? Now how do you be a sniper? It's real easy.  Okay, like you're connecting two people together.  Now watch this, okay? Once the customer sees more, rarely will they go back to less. If you put them on too much unit, you will never be able to take them backwards to a different unit again. Be really careful. Be a sniper right now and I'll explain this. So what does a matchmaker do? What takes the goals of the customer, what the customer kinda said they wanted? It takes the budget, the idea of the budget. You're always gonna need to bump your customers. It's always gonna happen, rarely will it not.  And you're gonna take these three things and then you're gonna matchmaker them with the perfect unit. I wanna tell you this, there is the right unit on your ground that will pay you a lot of money. Also will make your customer very happy. But you got one shot, okay? I'm not telling you you can't show them to 10 or 20 units. I'm not telling you that. I'm telling you if you do, remember what I said earlier, confused mind does nothing. I dare you to confuse your customers. I dare you. Listen, let someone's wife go look at three or four, five, six kitchens, okay? They can't decide without going home what they wanna do. There's too many different four plans. Show them one kitchen, paint a picture of them having dinner in that kitchen with their family out on the road. You know what? That's all they need, but you showed them too many kitchens now. Now it's not about I wanna kitchen. It's what four plans should I go with? Remember this, slow down, gather the data, okay? Which is what I called this, gathering the data and be a sniper.  But remember this, once the customer sees more, they'll rarely or never go back to less. So what I want you to do is make a real strategic plan on which unit you're gonna show them. And by the way, you wanna set it up. What does that mean? Setting it up sounds like this. Hey guys, based on all the information you gave me, I just talked to my GM, I talked to my general manager. We've got an RV or we've got a camper in stock. Guys, I don't know how we still got this. Guys, if I had a hundred of these, I could sell a hundred today. It's one of our most popular units. But everything that you said, it nails it, okay? I'm gonna double check to make sure it's still available. I'll be right back. If it is, you guys owe me a steak dinner. Oh my gosh. Guess what? Here's what you're doing. You're setting up the cell. You're creating the anticipation that you have something special to show them. Remember, Sniper? Okay, and now I'm gonna come back. I'm like, okay guys, I just checked it out. It's here. Oh my gosh. Come on, let's go check this out together. Let's go. I'm walking out there. Here she is guys. Let me tell you why X, Y and Z work out perfect. You remember your goals? You remember your budget? You know what I'm saying? You remember the things that you told me where you're gonna take it to, right? Who was gonna be with you as a family to enjoy it? Guys, picture this one sitting out in the woods. Woo! Man guys, I don't know how I got this one. We got 200 RVs or campers here in the park and this one matches every box. And on top of that, it's gonna make you so happy because of this reason, that reason, this reason. When you're taking it up into the Colorado mountains, it's got the cold weather package, guys. You know that 95% of our campers here don't have the cold weather package. 5% of them do. And the one that you guys that fits everything you guys want actually has that. That's fate. I should be like a magic matchmaker. Isn't that cool? That's what you are. Notice this. You're getting the customer excited. They can feed off the emotion and the energy and the desire, then the fire that you have that this right here is the perfect one for them. And since you're so convinced of it and you're so convicted that this is the one and you're so sold on it, they will become sold. They will become convicted. They will give up on their beliefs that anything else on your showroom is what they're interested in and then that's what they're interested in because of you, okay? That's called being a sniper. You loaded it in the chamber. You slowly took it. You're precise. You gathered the data. Bam. That's it. Your customers will love you for it. They didn't have to get confused and look at tons of campers and RVs on the floor. They found one.   You built a connection. They love you for it. You gathered the data. You slowed down and boom! Now you're getting them excited. You're getting them jacked up. And you know that if you do your job right selling this one, that you'll be back inside doing the paperwork on it here in a minute. That's what this is about guys. So gather the data. Be a matchmaker, okay? And remember, find the perfect unit. The perfect one like a sniper. And I guarantee you this 90% of the time you could do a one show deal. If you do this right and you follow the road to the cell just like I told you, okay? A one show deal where you can go out there and boom! Land them on the right one right out the gate. And let me finish one last thing. The person that knows their inventory the most makes the most money. Never forget that okay? Every single RV you have on the ground. Every single camper. Every unit you have. You should know new and used. What it is. How much money it is. How many miles are on it. What year it is. I mean everything about it. What kind of special features it has. It's your job when you prescribe a solution right? Prescribe a solution to understand what it is that you have. Because most sales people what they do is they sit on their butts all day long. And when someone comes in they go ask their managers what they have. That's not your manager's job, that's your job. 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Hello, I'm Mike McKee, the Bishop of the North Texas Conference of the United Methodist Church. On May the 10th, United Methodist from around the world will gather together for 10 days in Portland, Oregon. We begin on May the 10th and conclude May the 20th. And during that time, you will hear and read about what we do in Portland, Oregon. But what I want you to know is we are more. We are more than a 10-day meeting. We are more than what you may read about that comes from Portland, Oregon. We are more. We are people who are bold. We are people who are courageous. We are people who are passionate. We are people who are faithful and we are people who are loving. And we are people who witness in this particular area, an eight state region, the United Methodist Church, called the South Central Jurisdiction. I invite you to go to the website. We are more.fed. And there you can learn through social media, Facebook, Instagram and Twitter about the stories of witnesses in this eight state region. And I want you to know we are more. We are witnesses for the Gospel of Jesus Christ, for the transformation of the world. We are more.fed. Go and check the stories of witnesses that will be unfolding there for a period of weeks. We are more. We are the faithful people of the United Methodist Church.


Hello. It's been a while. That Austin or Chicago? I'm in Chicago. You got to be an Austin. He took me away from my beloved White Sox game, so. Sorry, well you can't see them, you can't see them in person anyway, so. No, it's all television. So I wanted to challenge this concept that we have an orgy of altruism in the US today. Okay. You know, I see these political self-described political leaders and elected officials as mouthing the words of altruism, but I suspect their motives are significantly different. I mean, not unlike kind of the Wesley Mouch and the Orrin Boyle, you know, they know how to say the right words for public consumption, but when it comes down to it, they're out for themselves to maximize their personal gain. And, you know, here in Illinois, four of the last seven governors we've had have ended up in jail for corruption and you listened to any of their speeches at the time and it was all about the public welfare and the public good and doing the best for the common man. So is this really an orgy of altruism? Or is this a self-interest on the part of maybe incompetent, talentless people who could do nothing else but feed off the public? Rhetorically. So I certainly wouldn't call itself interest what they're doing. I would call it self-destructive. You know, as you said, seven of them or whatever, five of the seven in jail, that's not exactly self-interested, but it's not altruism. I get what you're saying. So it's not altruism itself, you know, in grand, in grandisings, power, lust, whatever, but it's about a false sense of self in that sense here. I still think it's an orgy of altruism and this is the reason I think it's an orgy of altruism. I think it's an orgy of altruism because they couldn't get away with what they're doing unless they appeal to the altruism in the culture, unless they appeal to the to the altruistic ideas that people view, don't live by the way, because even there, right, the masses don't live altruistically, not completely. If they did, they would die and they wouldn't be as productive as they are. I mean, think about even Silicon Valley where they talk altruism, but they don't live it. They're out to make money, they're out to do the yoga and their meditation and to do seminars on self-help and to enhance their own well-being. So in many respects, they're acting self-interestedly in quotes. But the most standard in all the culture all over is altruism. That's how these bastards get power. That's how they maintain power.  That's why they get the public support. That's why Silicon Valley in spite of pursuing their own, again, so-called self-interest, are quite ready to squash the opposition in the name of altruism because they're hooting the meek or they're insulting somebody's insulting somebody and we can't let people get hurt feelings. That's why, so altruism is never a system unless it's enforced by law and the communism under fascism. And even then the rulers are not really altruistic, right? Was Hitler an altruist in the sense that he lived it? No. I mean, he used it to gain power and sustain power and had everybody else exercise it. The orgy of altruism is in the appeal and it's not just the appeal. It's in the fact that the culture accept the guilt. So take, take, for example, the whole racial issue right now. How did, how do these people get so many white people to feel so guilty and so, you know, upset and so willing to give up their freedom and to give up maybe, you know, not yet, but maybe at some point to give up a lot of their money for reparations or whatever it is. How did they get them to do that by appealing to altruism? That's the sense, I mean, it's an orgy of altruism. Not that, yeah, these people, I mean, I don't even believe the intellectuals are motivated by altruism. I think the intellectuals are motivated by, by the same thing, Tui is motivated by. Like, Tui is not motivated by altruism. Tui is motivated by hatred, right? He's motivated by nihilism. He's motivated by the wanting to see everything fall apart and destroy people and watch them grovel. But to do that, he uses altruism as the tool. And that's the sense in which I think I ran meant orgy of altruism. And that's the sense that I mean, and trying to convey what I mean by altruism. So, David, do you want to follow up? Or does that make sense? So some of the characters in an Atlas drug like a Wesley Mouch or an Orrin Boyle, are they altruists? No, they are what I would call self-destructive. So my view, this is a problem that we don't have a good word for this, right? We don't have a good word for this yet. And I think our philosophers need to come up with a good word because I don't think I'm random. We've got altruists. We've got what we conceive of as self-injury. And then we need a term to capture the power-lusting. Ultimately, we need to capture, we need a word for Bernie Madoff, right? Because I think Bernie Madoff captures all of this, right? Power, prestige, wealth. So we need a word for using others, you know, exploiting others for your sake, right? And that's self-interest. I don't want to use self-interest for that. I have used, instead of myself, self-destructive because I think that's essentially what it is. But that's not satisfying because I don't think people really get it. They are second handers of a sword, aren't they, by using altruism's rhetoric. But you need a term that they're not self-interested in a proper sense and they're not altruistic. And parasites. Self-destructive doesn't capture the predatory aspect of it. Because I could be self-destructive in ways that were not predatory, like the governors of Illinois. Or a drug addict. A drug addict is self-destructive and predatory. And you'd still say he's not selfish, even though he thinks he's doing what's making him high, right? So you need a term. And I've talked to Ankhon Gregg and encouraged him to come up with a term. Because we need a term that captures this. And it really inhibits our ability to communicate, in my view. Because when I go and talk about self-interest properly understood and people say, but look, these politicians and these Booney Madoff, and there's no one word, there's no concept that I can capture with that. And then that creates cognitive, it makes it difficult for the audience to separate the Booney Madoff from the Steve Jobs or the John Gault from the Arlen Boyle. How do they separate the two? They both seem to be pursuing their self-interest. But there's a fundamental difference between the two. They're predators. And anyway, we need a concept. So David, I agree that they're not altruist, but I don't agree that they're self-interested. Not in the way we understand it. And what we're missing is that third term to capture what it is they really are. I propose the term parasite because it's parasitism directly on their economic victims, but also on intellectual victims. And they're using ideas, other people's ideas second hand. That captures the predatory side of it. It doesn't capture the self-constructive part of it. So it doesn't capture the drug user is not a parasite, but he's not altruist.  So we need, I mean, narcissists, I mean, a lot of words, none of them captures it exactly. So that's where I would take this. It's anti-egoist, non-altruist. But you need a concept. What we need today, what I call the new intellectual, would be any man or woman who is willing to think. Meaning any man or woman who knows that man's life must be guided by reason, by the intellect, not by feelings, wishes, wins, or mystic revelations. Any man or woman who values his life and who does not want to give in to today's cult of despair, cynicism, and impotence, and does not intend to give up the world to the dark ages and to the role of the collectivist, broods. All right, before we go on, reminder, please like the show. We've got 163 live listeners right now. 30 likes. That should be at least 100. I figure at least 100 of you actually like the show.  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So today people, I bring you this amazing location we still see you taking a peek inside Adam's Smasher's secret room and also gain some pretty amazing loot at the same time. How's it going guys, my name's DPJ and if you enjoyed this video, leaving a like really helps out and if you like what you see and want to see more, subscribe and turn notifications on. So Adam's Smasher, I mean let's just say he plays a big role in this game and in the ending of the campaign. Now for people who haven't gotten this far yet, I won't say any more. But this bionic man has a secret hidden room which beholds also an amazing legendary blueprint. But before we get into that, let me straight up say this location you can visit but unless you have done a certain thing, this is locked and requires a passcode to enter. Now personally I have no idea what this passcode is, but I did eventually gain access to the room and figured out it required you to actually complete the last part of the story Now you first come to this area of where the secret room is, within a side mission called Chipping Inn where you get Johnny Silverhand's jacket, gun and Porsche. But unless you looked around at the end of that mission, you will never have seen this room. And to be honest, I wouldn't have either, it was brought to my attention by Simba over on my discord so a massive shout out to him. But yeah, like I said, even if you've seen this room already, you more than likely can't access it. And that's because like I said, you need to complete the last part of the campaign. So talking about that, eventually upon doing a main storyline, you will get to a mission called Nocturne OP 51N1. And before entering this mission, you will get a warning of no return until it's done. This mission obviously starts off a chain of missions which you can't remove yourself from until you've completed the game. Now I won't mention anything more in terms of the story, but in regards to the secret room, you gain access to it once you return to the game after you've completed the game. So you will need to head back to this location, you see me pinpoint on the map right now. Now I will state, having reinforced tendons does help a ton as you do need to jump over a few things to gain access and these are purchased from most reproducts across the city. So follow as I do now on screen, follow through I take to this secret room and I'll catch you back in a quick second. So once here you can have a look around and to be honest, it's pretty cool seeing Adam Smasher's gear here. But what you also get, which is exclusive to this room alone, is this amazing legendary iconic blueprint. It's fought a weapon called the Beijing Chong I believe that's pronounced and it's a smart shotgun, which is guys, if you remember, the eight-barreled beast we saw gameplay of long before this game was released. Also, upon crafting this thing it gains a random damage and a random stat. So this monster not only shoots eight shots at the same time, it shoots explosive rounds and reaps enemies two shreds, but it's also a very different weapon every time you craft it too, which is as cool as heck. But yeah people, this is how you gain access to Adam Smasher's secret room and get this amazing legendary iconic blueprint. And guys, the end of the video has arrived. If you enjoyed it, leaving a like really helps me out. If you're new around here and want to see more Cyberpunk on a daily basis, be sure to subscribe. And if you never want to miss a video I upload, you can turn notifications on by hitting that bell button. But guys, thanks as always for stopping by. Hopefully you enjoyed the video and hopefully I'll see you on that next. One.


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