from its early days, the internet has been, broadly speaking, really skeptical of the idea of elected

representatives. Is it because of hacker culture, codiculture, personality type? I mean, there's been

a deep impulse to get around the idea of

elected representatives and that's kind of appealing but there's also a reason to

be modest when all of the countries in the world that use democracy have converged on one

solution to this problem named the elected representatives and you're like nah they

don't know what they're talking about, we can do better.

Maybe you can, but you want to have like some degree of modesty about something that in

2,500 years of thinking about this, no one has yet really managed to solve in any other way.

Hello and welcome to Web 3 with A16Z. I'm Robert Hackett and today we have a special episode about governance

in many forms from nation states to corporate boards to internet services and beyond.

Our special guests are Noah Feldman, constitutional law professor at

Harvard, who also architected the Meta Oversight Board, among many other things.

He is also the author of several books.

And our other special guest is Andy Hall, Professor of Political Science at Stanford, who is an advisor

to A16Z crypto research, and who also co-authored several papers and posts about Web3 as a laboratory

for designing and testing new political systems including new work we'll link to in the

show notes.

Our hallway style conversation covers technologies and approaches to governance

from constitutions to crypto blockchains and dowes.

As such, we also discuss content moderation and

community standards, best practices for citizens assemblies, courts

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