Is Technological Progress Good For Everyone? With Daron Acemoglu
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The Risks of a Lot of Funding From Concentrated Places
There is some serial correlation with Elon Musk at the least at the beginning, he did multiple firms right. Unless you really come in big time with some regulation, individual people can have more choices about technology than any other political choice. The view isolated entrepreneurs become the view of academia as a result of donations and access to data. And so you end up being captured by these large institutions. He created this image of the lonely professor that fights against evilness in spite of the funding was a bit if you're a great man or great people without at least too much substance in my view.
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