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#52 - Glen Weyl on uprooting capitalism and democracy for a just society

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Is Fusion Too Powerful?

Li: I think the question is really just, like, dut, is it too powerful? And at this i think it's very analogous to fusion. It's like, yes, can generate a lot of energy,. The problem is it can also explode. So the question is, can welike, contain that energy? But, like, it would be really dumb not to try to use that in some way. Now, maybe it turns out after a long time, yout it really can't be contained, and we're just stuck. Like us.

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