Ep 342: Vitalik Buterin Fights the Dragon-Tyrant
The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma
The Dragon Tyrant and the Normalization of Life
RJ: I want to ask you about your childhood. And that's going to be an interesting and like pretty quick transition to go through in a lot of cases. In 2005 Nick Bostrom wrote in a sick all the fable of the Dragon Tyrant which routinely slaughter people so that they do a deal with the Dragon - every year we'll send you people in a train and you can take them, but you leave the rest of us alone. They build the railroads and whatever and eventually over the centuries there is this custom that okay, the old people first and the old people go first and etc. etc. So I find it sort of profoundly moving fable and it's
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