Web Three Is Ushering a New Age of Monotizing Everything

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"We have basically, we think, a chance to kind of do the other half of the anernut its. Now i think about itr you know, the other rd and it's basically have a trust layer, a money layer and an ownership layer that rides on top of the sort of untrusted, unowned so far," he says. "And then kind of, you know, fill in all the things that we wish we had been able to do from the start, but now we can actually do."

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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