One of the challenges of the world right now is that we're definitely in a less peaceful and less safe world than 10 or 15 years ago.

The vision of safety that we're competing with is basically, oh, you know, let's trust the uncle in the sky,

and the uncle in the sky is going to figure everything out for us in exchange for taking away all of

our privacy and all of our agency.

Crypto does not have the ability to fix the dollar.

Crypto has the ability to create its own thing that does not have some of the disadvantages

that the dollar has.

And each individual person is free to use it or free to not use it.

I think in general there is this pattern where you just have to force yourself to do things manually,

at least sometimes even though you don't have to, just to make sure that your brain stays on.

Learning actively is just 10 times more effective than learning passively, even for the same amount of time spent.

For years, the Internet promised more openness, more freedom, and more agency.

But as systems become more centralized and AI becomes more capable, those questions start to look different.

The Talek-Budoran has spent much of the last decade thinking about how technology can protect individual agency

instead of replacing it, not by trying to control the entire world, but by creating spaces,

what he calls sanctuary technologies, where people can coordinate, create, and think freely.

At the same time, AI is changing how people learn, work, and even reason.

The challenge is not just building more powerful systems,

but making sure humans remain active participants rather than passive users.

Sophia Doe and Bingy Pondé speak with Vitalik Boudarin about technology, freedom, and the future of human agency.

Today, we're actually joined by Vitalik, who is the founder of Ethereum and also a super

prominent thinker.

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