We are a survival species. We are a bunch of survivors, and that doesn't mean that there hasn't been horrible tragedies and genocides and awful things in the past, and it also we have never faced full cons of existential threat.

But I do think that humanity has a knack for surviving, and that if we get scared enough, I think maybe reason will prevail out of pure fear and out of pure survivor instinct.

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Society is off track. We all feel it. What's wrong? How do we fix it without throwing out all the good parts?

We have Tim Urban on the podcast today who wrote an excellent book, subtitled a self-help guide on how to solve society's problems.

We're going to talk about a few of those problems today, and Tim's answer on how to solve them.

Number one, we talk about the power games versus the liberal games. That's one takeaway from today's episode.

Number two, we talk about the importance of liberalism to crypto protocols.

Number three, we talk about how to find out whether your crypto tribe is a low-wrong echo chamber or a high-mind idea lab hint you want the second.

Number four, we talk about why we must actually solve this problem in order to survive as a society.

And you know, I asked him if AI is going to come kill us towards the end, because that's the new thing that I always ask.

Apparently we do that now.

We do that now ever since that episode that shall not be named David.

From your perspective, why is this episode with Tim Urban so significant?

And just to make it abundantly clear and Tim will also do this, liberalism, not liberals versus conservatives, liberalism as classic liberal Western values.

The thing that you've heard me and Ryan talk about on the podcast here and there through and through, but consistently from day one, Western democratic liberal values.

We are starting this podcast exploring that idea head on.

And why if we are talking about the layer zero of society, the layer zero of our governance systems of our blockchains, why they must be rooted in critical thinking and what Tim calls ideal labs instead of echo chambers.

And so this episode is really how to fix society at the root level and also talking about all the symptoms in which society is going astray.

And I think really the important thing and really the through line of this episode is there are problems in society that are clashing.

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