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Human Forever with James Poulos

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Getting Out of the Sideborg Enclosure

"It's almost like getting out of this sideborg enclosure is going to require, over the next several years, a lot of learning how to click around your computer in ways you've never done before," he says. "The little bit of extra friction required to kind of navigate into these new worlds, whether it's buying books on bitcoin or, you know, joining herbit, or what have you,. It's actually a kind of positive self selection effect, where it pulls out the people who like to tinker." He adds: "People can choose their own level of involvement and and it's good to have options".

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