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Ep 65: Marc Andreessen and the Case for AI Optimism

Joe Lonsdale: American Optimist

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Silicon Valley: A Liberal Wounded

I think there's a very straightforward explanation for the white happen, which is basically, it has to do with the one of the fundamental personality traits that human beings called openness trait openness. And so at the time you have a clustering of people who are high and openness inevitably they're there on there on the political left. So I think we're just a classic example of what happens when very open people cluster together. You know look I'd just say like left or liberal I said illiberal too like why is it so illiberal because that wasn't the case in the 90s right. Or was it well but you know it's the paradox of tolerance right like to write to be maxim

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