How Do We Get Strangers to Collaborate?

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i used to think id travelled sort of this weird road from like, rural, agricultural midwest all the way to kana hig taxilican valley. Then i discovered tom wolf, the great american novelist reporter, who was basily the inventor of the micro chip in the creatorof unow intel. And he wrote a profile of bob nois which basically was like an iowa farm farm, you know, o grew up in lake ro, iowa, and then moved to am where they created technology as we know it today. I definitely come out of thatt of that kind of former background.

Sam Harris speaks with Marc Andreessen about the current state of Internet technology and culture. They discuss Marc's background in tech, the birth of the Internet, how advertising became the business model for digital media, the three stages of the Web, the blockchain, how successful technology reorders status and power in society, the Bitcoin white paper, the mystery surrounding the identity of Satoshi Nakamoto, the importance of distributed consensus, Bitcoin as digital gold, how society has performed during Covid, James Burnham and managerial capitalism, the principal-agent problem, negative externalities, risk and regulation, trust in institutions, WTF happened in 1971, regulatory capture, banning Trump and Alex Jones from social media, perverse incentives in philanthropy, and other topics.

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