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Ep. 69: Ben Landau-Taylor on social technology, institutions, and the future.

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Is Great Founding Theory Distinguishable?

Great founder theory focuses on the institutions, and that's kind of the primary unit of analysis. It is agnostic to the other sources of society change, or sources of greatness. The hand on the lever is going to be institutional. And then the lever can be like a bureaucracy that's been built and doesn't really have like, the will behind it. So if you're looking at where the intervention points in changing human society? Ah, i think that tends to come from the institutional side.

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