Nadia joins Erik, Dan and Antonio to debate the different movements in tech and determine what they should be doing to achieve the impact they want to have. Nadia is a tech researcher (nadia.xyz.) and the author of Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software. Moment of Zen is part of the Turpentine podcast network. To learn more: Turpentine.co
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TIMESTAMPS:
(00:00) Episode Preview
(01:03) New Podcast recommendation: In The Arena
(01:28) Why it’s important to break down the elite camps and their worldviews
(02:51) Elite bracket breakdown
(10:00) Technooptimism, AI, and regulation
(12:08) Davos mindset versus revolutionaries
(13:00) Why doesn’t tech support the arts?
(15:00) Sponsor: Secureframe
(17:00) Tech needs to tell a better story
(21:42) Where does Elon fit into this framework?
(23:13) Institutionalists vs anti-institutionalists (Elon, Sachs, Sam Altman, Thiel, Vijaya)
(35:00) How does the tech worldview enter politics and public stewardship successfully?
(39:00) Is Twitter an institution?
(42:00) Antonio’s depressing statement
(48:30) How the desire for high status in a digital world has affected local philanthropy
(55:44) Who are the most high status people in the world? High status education?
(01:04:00) Building parallel institutions
(01:08:00) Nadia discusses her article about GitHub
(01:15:00) What do American intellectuals get? Experts? Substackers?
(01:17:00) Idea machines
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