#231 – Alex Gladstein: Bitcoin, Authoritarianism, and Human Rights

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Lex Fridman

Philosophy, Society & Culture, Science, Technology

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🗓️ 16 October 2021

⏱️ 161 minutes

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0:00.0	The following is a conversation with Alex Gladstein, chief strategy officer at the Human Rights
0:05.2	Foundation and the Auslow Freedom Forum.
0:08.5	In recent times, Alex has focused on how cryptocurrency and especially Bitcoin can be a tool for
0:14.0	empowering democracy and several liberties in the world, most crucially, parts of the
0:19.4	world that are living under authoritarian regimes.
0:23.6	As a side note, let me say that I have been learning a lot about the ways in which money
0:28.4	can be used to mass power and in the same way the decentralization of money can be used
0:33.8	to resist the corrupting nature of this power.
0:36.9	Alex and I do not agree on everything, but we strive for the same betterment of humanity.
0:42.8	He is sensitive to the suffering in the world and is dedicating his life to finding solutions
0:48.1	that lessen that suffering.
0:49.5	Whether Bitcoin is one such solution, I don't know, but I think it has a chance and that
0:55.5	means it is worth exploring deeply.
0:58.5	I'm staying in this path of learning, patiently and with as little ego as possible, I hope
1:03.9	you come along with me on this journey as well.
1:08.1	And now a quick few seconds summary of the sponsors.
1:11.5	Check them out in the description, it's the best way to support this podcast.
1:15.6	First is Stripe, a payment platform.
1:18.8	Second is PaperSpace, a platform I use to train and deploy machine learning models.
1:24.0	Third is Codecademy, a website where you can learn to code.
1:28.2	Fourth is N.I, a company that helps engineers solve the world's toughest problems and fifth
1:35.0	is 8th sleep.
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