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David Samson
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David Samson
@Primalprimate
Professor ~ Applied evolutionary anthropology | Meta-tribalism | Anti-entropy
Toronto, Ontario انضم Temmuz 2011
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BREAKING: BITCOIN IS GOING TO $1 MILLION - POWER LAW EXPLAINED!
THIS PRESENTATION WILL BLOW YOUR MIND.
I break down the Bitcoin power law in plain English and walks through the new paper arguing that Bitcoin’s price may be shaped by something deeper than hype, noise, and market emotion.
This video defines the key terms for normal people, explains the role of adoption growth and network effects, and shows why the paper’s findings are so mind blowing for anyone still treating Bitcoin like a random speculative toy.
I also also takes aim at the most common anti power law objections.
If you’ve heard people say it is just a line on a chart, just a self fulfilling prophecy, or already broken by volatility, this presentation walks through why those critiques get much weaker once you actually understand the evidence.
Bitcoin bears have spent years laughing at the long term curve.
The problem is that Bitcoin keeps compounding while the mockery ages badly.
If you want a digestible, persuasive, normie friendly explanation of the Bitcoin power law and why it matters, this is for you:
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Humans are the sleepless ape.
My new book, The Sleepless Ape, is now available for preorder and launches May 19. It explores why humans sleep less than other primates—and what our unusual sleep reveals about evolution, social life, and human nature.
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No. The floor is an added bonus to the power law but it is not a test for it.
This is how you test the validity of the power law. So far we passed this test with full colors.
We define the Bitcoin daily slope as Slopes = log(P₂/P₁) / log(t₂/t₁), where P₁ and P₂ are consecutive prices and t₁, t₂ are consecutive times measured from the Genesis Block. If Bitcoin follows a power law of the form P(t) = C·t^α, then these daily slopes are local estimates of the exponent α and should fluctuate around a stable mean (≈ 5.9 in the current model). Rather than focusing on whether price is temporarily above or below the power-law curve, we examine the statistical distribution of these slopes over time.
If Bitcoin continues to obey the same scaling mechanism, the distribution of slopes should remain statistically stable.
Tools such as the Jensen–Shannon divergence can be used to compare recent slope distributions to a historical baseline: small divergence indicates that the scaling behavior is intact, while persistent increases would signal a structural change in the growth regime and a potential departure from the power-law dynamics.
Joe Carlasare@JoeCarlasare
Do you agree with Claude @dotkrueger @Giovann35084111 ?
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The legend @Primalprimate has many things to say here - all good.
Be proactive in creating your own community.
It takes time - but it's worth it.
Rogue | Frontier Philosophy@RoguesPhilo
When I say "organize" this is what I mean. 1. Unify your family 2. Generation one: buy amd organize the land 3. Generation two: develop skills and monetize land 4. Generation three: develop a strong local economy 5. Generation four: develop a state-wide supply chain with other self sufficient family farms. It's that simple, yet, no, we cannot encourage families to organize — that's "fed posting" at best. The immediate response to organize is always "You'll be drone strikes out of existence" or "the government will drop napalm on your land and sacrifice your cattle to Satan." It's ridiculous. Americans appear possessed to run a script whenever anyone suggests they can be self sufficient. The script suggests a multitude of arguments about how one cannot move, nor act beyond the technological system's dominion. Like rabid dogs, they spit and they spew and they contort to avoid any personal responsibility to save themselves. It's frankly disgusting. We post into the void for years about the horrible state of our people and yet whenever we are tasked to be our own remedy, we are decried and the strategies denied as heracy. One must simply respond in return "Are the drone strikes against the Amish in the room with us right now, brother?".
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@LucasMaddy What I appreciate about you both is how deeply you make contact with the source material. Most podcasters barely skim the book while you guys really intellectually wrestle with material. It's a gift.
Awesome work gentlemen 🤝
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Bitcoins Study Sessions #046
Our Tribal Future - Part Two
The camp, band and tribe - in part one we learned the integral components of how humans evolved societal organization.
@Primalprimate uses part two to lay the roadmap.
How do you craft your camp?
What are common pitfalls - and proven solutions?
How did bitcoin change the game by escalating trust from Dunbar's number...to infinity?
@thewholeframe and I dig deep into these strategies, particularly how they are proving successful on the ground through @balajis building in public of The Network State.
These questions and conversations are vital to thriving in modern society.
We build our moral vision through brothers in honor groups - without this, our romantic relationships are doomed to fail.
The world in which you want to live - how do you build it?
Set a goal, break it down...take that first step!
Share with friends and consider us yours.
We're all in this together.
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Bitcoin as a selection-stable technological protocol that channels energy and coordination through time, reduces evolutionary mismatch and incentives for violence.
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In Our Tribal Future, after 300+ pages of analysis on the evolutionary anthropology of tribalism as an all-too-bloody solution to the problem of who-to-trust, David Samson @Primalprimate finally offers humanity another way out...
@JasonPLowery's Softwar thesis!
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@thewholeframe @LucasMaddy Your Substack was a treat; wading deeper!
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Bitcoin is an interface through which we can pull immutable value into this world of constant and evolving change—a world where all things are rivers that cannot be stepped in twice, even the human race.
@LucasMaddy and I’s discussion of Our Tribal Future, by David Samson (@primalprimate) is not the first time we’ve stepped into the river of biological evolution to try and understand bitcoin (@JasonPLowery’s Softwar thesis begins with that solitary river which is the abiogenetic origin of life pouring forth from a single cell..)
But it is the first time we’ve continued on in writing. If you’d like to continue on into the "philosophy and idea-space" (h/t @hashthetic) that is Bitcoin…
Well, "link in bio", as they say (and also below).
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Bitcoin Study Sessions
#044 Natalie Smolenski
We are joined by @NSmolenski, editor of and contributor to "The Satoshi Papers: Reflections on Political Economy After Bitcoin".
Violence - the exercise of force to procure and secure resources and enable payment - is the well-spring from which the state emerged.
But the ability to maintain control, seemingly, has been dependent upon the ability of the state to issue money.
What is the world after Bitcoin, when the state is no longer in control of money?
If religion is the vehicle to enforce the sacrifice demanded of original sin, how are we think about the spiritual domain in today's world?
The non-profit sector seemingly exists as a reward to those profitable enough to buy themselves into the prosperous world of charity - as the state loses it's coercive power of taxation, what does charity look like in the future?
The discussion of the role of violence casts shadows of @JasonPLowery's SOFTWAR.
Most refreshingly, she reminds us:
The state has no rights. All rights are of the people, who can agree to temporarily delegate limited power to the state.
Perhaps the time has come to review those delegations.
@thewholeframe and I agree this is our favorite discussion to date.
Natalie's depth and consideration of thought invites the listener to consider the purpose and nature of the existence of state.
Listen intently. Read the book.
Share with friends and consider us yours.
We're all in this together.
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@thewholeframe @LucasMaddy @verybadwizards Thank you! The excitement is mine, and truly honored to be listed with these authors, as all of them deeply influenced Our Tribal Future. 🙏 I'm staying tuned...
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Deeply appreciate your kind words David.
I'm a longtime fan of Haidt's work (I read the Righteous Mind a coupla times) and also of Tamler Sommers (mainly through the @verybadwizards podcast, one of my faves). Not to mention Lowery and Balaji, of course. Your book ties together a lot of these themes so beautifully.
We are supremely excited to move on to the second part of your book. Thank you again for your encouragement--the pod is a labor of love, and a lot of care goes into our readings, so this is very gratifying.
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I enjoyed this deep dive into evolutionary biology & anthropology with @LucasMaddy. We explore the science behind our tribal nature and what that might have to teach us about bitcoin adoption and Bitcoiner community.
For this, we discussed Our Tribal Future, by David Samson (@Primalprimate). This convo covers just the first part of his book: the How and Why of the Tribal Drive, our shared instinctual coalitionary impulse to create & read symbols that signal our trustworthiness to others.
This evolutionary drive is (as Samson describes) both a blessing and a curse. But the more you are aware of it—of that ancestral voice commanding wordless in your nerves—the more the curse of conflict may be undone, the more the blessings of true community may be found by all who feel alone.
Lucas@LucasMaddy
Bitcoin Study Sessions #043 "Our Tribal Future - Part One" @thewholeframe & I leave the echo-chamber of sound money advocates in this foray into the science, evolution, and determinism of societal organization - The Tribe, composed of Bands built from Camps. Author @Primalprimate (Dr. David Samson) provides historical evidence, current events, scientific justification, and more to drive to his definition of tribes as the natural outgrowth of drive for humanity to form coalitions. In this episode, listeners may ask themselves: What costly signals do I make to show my alliance to my tribe? Why is it I view the "other" (sports team, political ideology) with such fervent opposition? How did selective breeding lead to the scenario that enables pre-meditated "cold-blooded" murder, such as that of Charlie Kirk? Part One gives us the grounding theory, Part Two gives us the roadmap for success. Find your tribe, get some sun, be kind. Share with friends, and consider us yours. We're all in this together.
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This was such a rewarding listen. You both got it — the bridge between ancestral tribes and today’s digital ones. Grateful for the thoughtful read, and can’t wait for Part 2.
(And yes, my editor made me cut a ton on Bitcoin / Lowery / Balaji… glad what’s there still resonated!)
Life has had three ways to solve the Trust Paradox: Kin --> Friendship --> Tribes and we are a privileged species to be here for the latest update to our code --> Proof of Work.
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Bitcoin Study Sessions #043
"Our Tribal Future - Part One"
@thewholeframe & I leave the echo-chamber of sound money advocates in this foray into the science, evolution, and determinism of societal organization - The Tribe, composed of Bands built from Camps.
Author @Primalprimate (Dr. David Samson) provides historical evidence, current events, scientific justification, and more to drive to his definition of tribes as the natural outgrowth of drive for humanity to form coalitions.
In this episode, listeners may ask themselves:
What costly signals do I make to show my alliance to my tribe?
Why is it I view the "other" (sports team, political ideology) with such fervent opposition?
How did selective breeding lead to the scenario that enables pre-meditated "cold-blooded" murder, such as that of Charlie Kirk?
Part One gives us the grounding theory, Part Two gives us the roadmap for success.
Find your tribe, get some sun, be kind.
Share with friends, and consider us yours.
We're all in this together.
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Just finished listening to @thewholeframe and @lucasmaddy’s Bitcoin Study Sessions on Our Tribal Future — and it absolutely made my week.
It’s the most insightful take I’ve heard on the book so far — connecting our ancestral tribes to the merging networks of digital tribes. Thoughtful, rigorous, and full of heart.
Can’t wait for Part 2. ⚡️
(And yes — my editor made me cut thousands of words on Bitcoin / Lowery / Balaji… glad what’s left still shines through.)
One the eve of the fourth turning, listen to Lucas: "Find your tribe, get some sun, be kind."☀️ (and eat meat and stack sats while you're at it).
Lucas@LucasMaddy
Bitcoin Study Sessions #043 "Our Tribal Future - Part One" @thewholeframe & I leave the echo-chamber of sound money advocates in this foray into the science, evolution, and determinism of societal organization - The Tribe, composed of Bands built from Camps. Author @Primalprimate (Dr. David Samson) provides historical evidence, current events, scientific justification, and more to drive to his definition of tribes as the natural outgrowth of drive for humanity to form coalitions. In this episode, listeners may ask themselves: What costly signals do I make to show my alliance to my tribe? Why is it I view the "other" (sports team, political ideology) with such fervent opposition? How did selective breeding lead to the scenario that enables pre-meditated "cold-blooded" murder, such as that of Charlie Kirk? Part One gives us the grounding theory, Part Two gives us the roadmap for success. Find your tribe, get some sun, be kind. Share with friends, and consider us yours. We're all in this together.
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@ed_hagen Thanks Ed 🙏more to come on the story of sleep in human evolution in 2026!
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A fun 15 minute talk by evolutionary anthropologist @Primalprimate (David Samson) putting human sleep in context with that of other great apes, primates, and other species: youtube.com/watch?v=joHFl4…
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Enjoying this book! Nice mini-lending library find
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It's out! The Hardcover edition of my book, OUR TRIBAL FUTURE. bit.ly/3MpJlmI ...and here's a sample of reactions to the book... 👇
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@NahanniFinanci1 It's fundamental. Happy to hear you're enjoying the read! 🙏
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Anthropologist and sleep expert David Samson @Primalprimate from @UofT Mississauga explains how measuring sleep patterns in remote tribes has helped him and his team compare circadian rhythms and report on how this affects our health.
▶️ tinyurl.com/3pfufk4r
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@NTFabiano Surprisingly, I also found coffee craving lessened with > 10 g creatine doses. And I'm a coffee addict.
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I've recently doubled my creatine & halved my coffee intake.
I've noticed significant benefits to my cognition.
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Lousy sleep? It’s quality, not quantity that may be your problem
@UTM_Anthro prof David Samson (@Primalprimate) shares his latest research on sleeplessness with @cbcradio: Quirks & Quarks 😴 bit.ly/4iDJCB0
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Grateful to all the communities involved and @leela_mckinnon as co-author. For those interested in more details or the full paper see this open access:
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/epdf/10.10…
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Our paper suggests that we could be on the verge of a species level sleep enlightenment, if we improve chronohygiene while balancing the benefits of secure sleeping conditions.
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Excited to share our new research: “Are humans facing a sleep epidemic or enlightenment? Large-scale, industrial societies exhibit long, efficient sleep yet weak circadian function.” Let’s break down the key findings in this thread:
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