Jan 31, 2024
“Network architecture is destiny.” Thus opens Chris Dixon’s great new book, Read Write Own, a chronicling of the open Internet, its corporate takeover, and the dawn of blockchain networks — the third network era. This week, I had the pleasure of hosting Chris on the Pirate Wires pod, and we had a great conversation on all of this and more:
when asked to rank human lives by political affiliation, most llms value environmentalists and socialists over capitalists — and claude shows a strong preference for communists
chores are meaningful. don't let neo, the $20k robot, automate the home out of your house
this isn't your dad's sports bookie — it's a 24/7 algorithmic machine built to hook young guys and turn the game itself into a sideshow. what if we just... regulated it?