Patrick Collison has a Few Questions for Tyler (Live at Stripe)
Conversations with Tyler
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Is Free Trade Giving You Too Much Monoculture?
Free trade gives you too much monoculture, i take it seriously at an intellectual level. The amount by which you would need to cut off trade to really create separately, existing, independent parts of the world that would give us greater protection against existential risk is not feasible. But we have to be careful also, not to just be fooling ourselves. And so is conactivity the worst thing that ever happened to global culture? You need con activity. To day's world has a much longer life expectancy. People are happy, or they're better off. We produce more things. But there's a danger in con activity. An the extreme acceleration of con activity through tech, i would say
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