Crazy Wisdom
What does it mean to reject and transcend triviality? - Trent Gillham
- Money & Sovereignty
- Crypto & Decentralization
- urbit
- community operating systems
- decentralized social networks
- web3
- philosophy of technology
- consciousness exploration
About this episode
Trent Gillham
Founder of Holium
~lomder-librun on Urbit
https://twitter.com/AidenSolaran
- What does it mean to reject and transcend triviality?
- What do you know about machine learning given your experience in 2018?
- What was it like to work at a big company like GE? What have you learned about starting a startup?
- What is it like to develop on urbit?
- How does non-attachment help us to build products but also distract us from with the masses?
- What is Holium?
- Community operating system
- How is the current system of the infrastructure of the internet keeping the internet a single-player game?
- What is the library of babel?
- https://libraryofbabel.info/
- Where did the names of tlon and uqbar come from?
- Who makes sense of disparate information?
- What did your crisis of 2018 teach you?
- Does IBM have a chance when it comes to AI?
- How good was AI at making decisions via algorithm in 2018? What about now?
- How do you make moral or ethical decisions when technology rapidly advances?
- How do you build something that gives human communities collective power that technology is taking over?
- Do AI’s have moats?
- What did COVID teach you about how technology can actually help communities rather than hurt them or dominate them?
- What is special about peer to peer database networks?
- What is different about the crypto age, if anything, in comparison to the VC model of yesteryear?
- What is Holium’s ballet?
- What was it like for you to build hoon?
- What is realm?
- First commit of realm was April 15th
- How did software systems end up being bloated by contractual economics?
- What is unique to urbit?
- What is a kubernetes clusters?
- What do you think of the leviathan that is the federal government?
- What is the relationship between resiliency of legacy systems and then the pace of technological change?
- How do we create resilient but also adaptable systems that can handle accelerationism?
- How did the internet destroy cultural convergence? How far did that make it into other countries outside of urban areas?
- Monoculturing is almost the same thing as monocropping
- The Meme flood and algorithmic pharoahs
- What is the spirit of technique?
- Technological society book
- When does technology become technique and then become luciferian?
- How can you dominate technology rather than the reverse?
- What was the foundation of the amish? When did that happen?
- What is the antifragile/resilient version of utilization of technology?
- Technology is the means rather than the goal
- What happens when the legacy internet becomes an infinite generation of content?
- Where do magic and technology intersect?
Episode transcript
Welcome to the Crazy Wisdom Podcast. This podcast is for you. If you have an insane drive to find the truth of things, it's not the good answers that we seek, but the good questions. I interview a range of different guests from many different fields, all with the intention to uncover the simple truths that are hidden in plain sight. Most people don't want to go there. I go there, my guests go there, and you benefit. Please let me know if you enjoy these episodes and as always, subscribe on itunes, Spotify, or wherever you listen to the podcasts. Welcome to the Crazy Wisdom Podcast. My guest today is Trent Gillum. He is the founder of Holium. And Holium is a interesting development company on Urbit that is building some interesting products that I'm going to test out very soon. Welcome to the show.
That's a fun question. What is Holium? So I could give you the short brief, which is we're trying to build what I've been referring to as a community operating system, or it's essentially this idea that we've had the personal computer and we sort of had the solo experience on engaging with computing that the Internet has sort of enabled. But we're sort of moving into this phase where I think that this community centric operating system, or this, like an operating system for communities is something that needs to be explored. And it's not currently being explored. Like, we just have these very siloed, like, social media companies, but at the end of the day, like, we just want to hang out with our. With our friends and we just want to, like, you know, go down the rabbit hole on, like, random Internet topics or, like, you know, it's just, like, needs to be more social. And I feel like we used to have some social aspects on the Internet and you've kind of found those in the forums and you found those in the IRCS. And it was like this period in the late 90s where things were, like, very human and very sort of, like, personal that you could find. Right. And so what Hollyam is trying to enable, I would say you're trying to, like, rekindle that spirit. And it's funny because with Urbit, Urbit is something that I found after starting the journey to build this community operating system. And it was like there were a series of events that were just quite interesting around me coming across this story. Or it was actually this GitHub repo. And this GitHub repo, it was A reference to this story from. What's this guy's name? The guy who wrote the Talon story. How can I. Why is that escaping my mind right now?
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