#290 — What Went Wrong?
Making Sense with Sam Harris
Waking Up with Sam Harris
4.6 • 29.7K Ratings
🗓️ 21 July 2022
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Sam Harris speaks with Marc Andreessen about the current state of Internet technology and culture. They discuss Marc's background in tech, the birth of the Internet, how advertising became the business model for digital media, the three stages of the Web, the blockchain, how successful technology reorders status and power in society, the Bitcoin white paper, the mystery surrounding the identity of Satoshi Nakamoto, the importance of distributed consensus, Bitcoin as digital gold, how society has performed during Covid, James Burnham and managerial capitalism, the principal-agent problem, negative externalities, risk and regulation, trust in institutions, WTF happened in 1971, regulatory capture, banning Trump and Alex Jones from social media, perverse incentives in philanthropy, and other topics.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Making Sense Podcast. |
| 0:09.1 | This is Sam Harris. |
| 0:11.3 | Just a note to say that if you're hearing this, you are not currently on our subscriber |
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| 0:28.3 | other subscriber-only content. |
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| 0:34.6 | of our subscribers. |
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| 0:40.4 | Okay, just a brief housekeeping here. |
| 0:50.5 | I hope you all enjoyed the beginning of the Oliver Berkman series on time management |
| 0:55.4 | that I previewed here in the last episode. |
| 0:58.7 | Again, the rest of that will soon be appearing over a waking up in our new life section. |
| 1:06.3 | And the whole point of this section is to bring relevant philosophy and science to bear |
| 1:12.0 | on the question of how to live a good life. |
| 1:15.2 | And that will include conversations between me and outside experts, but also courses designed |
| 1:22.1 | by other people. |
| 1:24.0 | And we have some interesting courses already in the works there. |
| 1:27.8 | Also I enjoyed the previous podcast with Peter Zion and Ian Bremer. |
| 1:32.5 | That was a new format where I invited a subject matter expert to ride shotgun with me and |
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