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#8 Kate Darling, MIT: A Systemic View on Regulation and Gender Roles in Tech Mar 28, 2019

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Kate Darling, a Research Specialist at the MIT Media Lab and an Affiliate at the Harvard Berkman Center. We chat about the balances in regulating technology, the negative systemic impacts of our current gender roles, and how being a mother has helped Kate empathize more! https://twitter.com/grok_ https://twitter.com/mitDCI https://twitter.com/RhysLindmark

#7 Venerable Tenzin Priyadarshi, The Daily Embodiment of Ethical Principles Mar 12, 2019

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Venerable Tenzin Priyadarshi, the Founder and CEO of the Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values at the MIT, and Director of the Ethics Initiative at the MIT Media Lab. We chat about how we can embody ethical principles, meditation, and ethics as an optimization framework. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenzin_Priyadarshi https://twitter.com/mitDCI https://twitter.com/RhysLindmark

#6 Glen Weyl: Funding Civil Society with Liberal Radicalism Mar 05, 2019

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Glen Weyl, the author of the book, Radical Markets and the founder of RadicalXChange (conference in Detroit March 22–24!). We chat about social innovation, funding civil society with Liberal Radicalism, and the powerful cultural aspects of the blockchain ecosystem. https://twitter.com/glenweyl https://twitter.com/radxchange/ https://twitter.com/mitdci https://twitter.com/RhysLindmark

#5 Anand Giridharadas, Winners Take All: Should Billionaires Even Exist? Feb 07, 2019

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Anand Giridharadas, the author of the book, "Winners Take All". We chat about whether billionaires should even exist, localism vs. globalism, taxes vs. charity, and much more. https://twitter.com/AnandWrites https://twitter.com/mitdci https://twitter.com/RhysLindmark

#4 Joi Ito: Applying a Systems Paradigm to Cryptocurrency Jan 24, 2019

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Joi Ito, the Director of the MIT Media Lab (among many things). We chat about the central question of his PhD thesis, "How can we understand and effectively intervene in interconnected complex adaptive systems?" and then apply that to cryptocurrency. https://twitter.com/mitdci https://twitter.com/joi https://twitter.com/RhysLindmark

#3 Renee DiResta: Russia Disinformation Campaign and Our Weaponized Information Ecosystem Jan 14, 2019

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Renee DiResta, Director of Research at cybersecurity company New Knowledge. (Among many other things.) We chat about her recent report on Russia's disinformation campaign and our weaponized information ecosystem more broadly.

Nadia Eghbal, Protocol Labs: Why Give Away Money and How to Fund Digital Infrastructure Jan 07, 2019

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Nadia Eghbal, a researcher at Protocol Labs. We chat about her grant program to give people money on the internet and her current mindset towards funding digital infrastructure.

#1 Tadge Dryja, Digital Currency Initiative: uTreeXO and Bootstrapping Bitcoin Upgrades Dec 20, 2018

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Tadge Dryja, a research scientist at DCI who co-invented the Lightning Network. We chat about his current research (uTreeXO, a dynamic accumulator for Bitcoin state) and discuss non-fork ways to bootstrap upgrades to a network (a bridge node for uTreeXO).

#52 Arthur Brock, Holochain: Verbing the World Through an Agent-Centric Blockchain Oct 24, 2018

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Arthur Brock, the founder and acting CEO of Holochain. We chat about the shift from nouns to verbs and how Holochain's agent-centric architecture works. Thanks to KeepKey for sponsoring the show! www.keepkey.com/

#51 Daniel Schmachtenberger: Meta Existential Risk Oct 03, 2018

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Daniel Schmachtenberger, the co-founder of Neurohacker Collective. We chat about meta existential risk. Thanks to KeepKey for sponsoring the show! www.keepkey.com/

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