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Hi and welcome to the A16Z podcast. This episode of the podcast is all about

community and culture online. Moderated by Chris Dixon, general partner at A16Z and including

Alex Lay, VP of Product at Reddit, Michael Temkin, CEO of Rabbit, and Jeffrey Wu, co-founder

and CEO of Human, is all about how our idea of community

is changing, what a community is, who it's made of, and what it does thanks to the internet.

This conversation was recorded as part of our summit event in November 2017.

It's interesting because these communities, prior to the internet, I don't know, they may have

been formed through in-person meetup groups or magazines or something like this, but now it's happening in a much more kind of bottom-up way where people are self-organizing into very large communities of interest communities and doing things like kind of bottom-up science and research and things like this too.

Yeah, no, I think it's a good point.

I mean, I think a lot of the behaviors were somewhat illicit or sketchy, right?

Like people talking about not eating or people talking about cognitive enhancers.

And you have the range of people looking at military research compounds to people talking

about microdosing illegal substances.

So I think it is a lot harder to

have these conversations when there was in the internet and these platforms that enable these

conversations. But I think in some sense, I think all of these communities, yeah, we're empowered

by the availability of breaking on geographic walls. We could just have these very easy conversations

of the people that align are on interests.

And we got interested, my co-friend and I, Michael,

in terms of enhancing cognition.

We thought that humans, what really differentiates us

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