Is It a Failure to Get Our Heads Straight?

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i look back on it as a kind of failed dress rehearsal for something much worse. And i'm not drawing the comforting lesson that i i could draw from our performance over these last couple of years, that we've learned many lessons. Even if we've made some obvious mistakes, we understand what those mistakes were, and we're not going to make those mistakes again. I just feel like were, we're all waking up from a bad dream, and in in the waking state, some of the horrible creatures of the dream are still with us. That inspires confidence in our civilization, just like g you know, by the way, si's af family pocaster.

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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