51. Crypto, AI, and Techno-optimism with Liron Shapira

David speaks with Liron Shapira, Founder&CEO of RelationshipHero.com, a relationship coaching service with over 100,000 clients.

Liron is a technologist, rationalist, and serial entrepreneur, whose skeptical takes about crypto and other bloated startups on BloatedMVP.com have been read over a million times.

If you wanted an opportunity to dig into everything that is at the frontier of technology right now, then this is the episode for you.

📜 Full transcript:

www.theknowledge.io/lironshapira/

📹 Watch on YouTube

https://youtu.be/w72vE97OzDw

👤 Connect with Liron:

Twitter: @liron | https://twitter.com/liron

Website: RelationshipHero.com | http://relationshiphero.com/

Mentioned in the show:

Quixey | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quixey

Les Wrong Sequences | https://www.lesswrong.com/tag/sequences

Predictably Irrational | https://amzn.to/41kE4U4

Dan Ariely | https://danariely.com/

Paul Graham | http://www.paulgraham.com/

Great Filter | https://astronomy.com/news/2020/11/the-great-filter-a-possible-solution-to-the-fermi-paradox

Robin Hanson | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Hanson

The Fermi Paradox | https://www.space.com/25325-fermi-paradox.html

SpaceX | https://www.spacex.com/

Axie Infinity | https://axieinfinity.com/

Helium | https://www.helium.com/

Wifi Coin | https://morioh.com/p/98a74f3fd8c3

LoRaWAN | https://lora-alliance.org/about-lorawan/

LongFi | https://www.data-alliance.net/blog/longfi-wireless-technology-of-the-helium-network/#:~:text=LongFi

Mark Andreessen | https://twitter.com/pmarca

Andreessen Horowitz | https://a16z.com/

BlackRock | https://www.blackrock.com/corporate/global-directory

Chris Dixon | https://cdixon.org/

Balaji Srinivasan | https://twitter.com/balajis

a16z | https://a16z.com/

Nasim Taleb | https://twitter.com/nntaleb

NFTs | https://www.theknowledge.io/nfts-explained/

Ideological Turing Tests | https://www.econlib.org/archives/2011/06/the_ideological.html

Bitcoin | https://bitcoin.org/en/

Lindy effect | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect

The Oracle Problem | https://blog.chain.link/what-is-the-blockchain-oracle-problem/#:~:text=decentralized

Hollow Abstraction | https://twitter.com/liron/status/1464219456918413313

Machine Intelligence Research Institute | https://intelligence.org/about/

Gary Marcus | http://garymarcus.com/index.html

Steve Wozniak | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Stephen-Gary-Wozniak

Luddites | https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofBritain/The-Luddites/

GitHub Copilot | https://github.com/features/copilot

Mike Maples Jr. | https://twitter.com/m2jr

Palmer Luckey | https://twitter.com/palmerluckey

Oculus | https://www.oculus.com/experiences/quest/

Elon Musk | https://twitter.com/elonmusk

Neuralink | https://neuralink.com/

Ready Player One | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ready_Player_One_(film)

Google Glass | https://www.google.com/glass/start/

General Magic | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Magic

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