#259 — The Reckoning to Come

Sam Harris speaks with Balaji Srinivasan about several
civilizational challenges and possible paths forward. They
discuss the evidence of American decline, the rise of India and
China, centralizing and decentralizing trends in politics, the
relationship between politics and technology, the failures of the
FDA and TSA, how regulation preserves monopolies, the
significance of Bitcoin and blockchain technology, the problem of
cybersecurity, the Chinese government’s attack on Bitcoin, the
threat of US regulation of cryptocurrency, blockchain
scalability, creator coins, life in Singapore, virtual
government, the future of decentralized journalism, independent
replication in science, wealth inequality, ubiquitous investing,
social status, non-zero-sum capitalism, “start-up countries”, and
other topics.


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