#11 - Applied History with WhatIfAltHist
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Rudyard, you run a popular YouTube channel called What If All Tist. Maybe you can give a little bit to the audience on your background, kind of stuff you've done, all that kind of stuff. Sure.
So thank you so much for having me. It's a real pleasure. And I'm Rudyard Lynch. I run the YouTube channel, What If All Tist, and we cover topics like history, anthropology, philosophy, and politics, just different elements of the human condition. And I like to say that the underlying causal thing beneath it is human nature and trying to figure out human nature in different contexts. And I started the channel when I was 13 doing something called alternate history. Like, what if the South won the civil war? What if the Nazis won World War two? And, we gradually pivoted out of that where I feel
actually but you're probably aware of this. There's an old Marvel comic series called What If. Do you know that?
No. I don't. I don't rate Marvel. Oh,
okay. That's funny. I thought that that was actually an inspiration. This is, yeah. Now today, Marvel Comics, because of the stupid you know, all the superhero movies endlessly, you know, are not what they were. But when I was a kid, there was a, you could go if you didn't know, this is just like a small little thing. There was a comic book series called what if that had this exact premise. Like, if some canonical event hadn't happened, what if Superman was powered up by Kryptonite or whatever, something like that. But the interesting aspect about that and, of course, the more substantive hist
I haven't.
You haven't? Okay. Well, alright. So this is a big I guess, you know, YouTube is its own culture a little bit different than x. But a lot of tech guys have this saying, you can just do things. Meaning, you can just launch rockets. You can just build cars. You can just do things. There are no rules. There's no constraints. Nothing holding you back. Go. Go. Go. Right? You know? And Anderson has this line, which is that, roughly paraphrases, the world, around you is made by people like you and you can go and reshape it. Right? And there's a truth to that, especially today because of the Internet
So, I didn't wanna get too, will will for this, but the idea in alchemy is that everyone is a radio tower and that the world is a competition of Mhmm. Comp competition of different, Darwinistic radio towers in constant struggle for whichever one gets to conquer the others and then evolve to a higher level. So
but how does alchemy have a concept of radio you mean, are you you're you're backporting the concept of a radio tower? Yes.
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