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Nat Friedman - Reading Ancient Scrolls, Open Source, & AI
Dwarkesh Podcast
Is There a Ceiling Raising Technology in Africa?
Many of those projects fail. There were a lot of attempts to bring internet to Africa by large and wealthy tech companies and American universities. But if you go to Africa, there is internet now. In Africa, it was that initially ceiling raising technology and then this force of capitalism that made it work in the end. So I think on balance, we have too many attempts to do that that look good, feel good, sound good, and don't matter.
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