#290 — What Went Wrong?

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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