
Erik Torenberg: Upstream of the Revolution
From the New World
The ESG Analogy to Crypto
I think the ESG analogy is doesn't hold as much for me because ESG to me sounds like a way for finance people to seem moral or pure. Whereas I think crypto does have a much richer intellectual substrate to it, right? Like Peter Teal famously said, you know, like crypto is communist, or no, AI is communist, crypto is libertarian. The technology is not nearly there to the same degree that AI is certainly. It's like a much more practical EA, I think, or like much more technical and much more practical, in experimental version of having impact.
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