Web3 Working Group – DarkHorse Podcast

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Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying

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🗓️ 13 August 2023

⏱️ 155 minutes

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Summary

Bret Speaks with Amy and Devon James of the Web3 Working Group. They discuss internet history, the future of our internet, and the pitfalls we should avoid.

Find the Web3 Working Group at their website: https://www.web3wg.org/

Find the Web3 Working Group on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@web3wg

Find the Web3 Working Group on Twitter: https://twitter.com/web3wg

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Timestamps:
(00:00) Introductions
(04:44) Sponsors
(06:33) Background
(09:10) Blockchain
(20:00) Custodians and regulations
(30:40) Blockchain, bitcoin, and incentives
(40:39) Authenticity, Deep fakes, and Cryptography
(01:03:15) Potential future catastrophes
(01:08:55) AI and Web3
(01:17:15) Back to AI
(01:29:05) Personal AI assistant, risk and benefits
(01:40:40) Regulations and sanctioned behaviors
(01:52:25) AGI and tracking updates
(02:05:45) Content creators
(02:21:10) Potential future
(02:32:00) Wrap up

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0:00.0	Hey folks, welcome to the Dark Horse Podcast. I have the pleasure of sitting with my good
0:08.9	friends, Amy and Devon James, who are co-executive directors of the Web 3 Working Group, which
0:15.7	is a 501C3. They know things. I've been talking to them for years about questions surrounding
0:23.7	the security and functioning of the Web, and I'm going to persuade them to speak as much
0:30.9	in English as possible in talking about where we are headed and what internet it is we
0:36.8	will face once we get there. Amy and Devon, welcome to the Dark Horse.
0:40.3	Hi Brett, it's so good to see you. Thank you so much for having us.
0:43.4	Thank you. Great to see you Brett. Yeah, it's great to see you guys. It has been a long
0:50.4	journey behind the scenes where we have checked in regularly about issues of safety and security
0:58.5	on the Web, issues of the, wow, I can't use the term equitable anymore, but the way that the
1:06.7	Web distributes content and pays creators all sorts of issues that are increasingly central
1:13.6	to this mechanism we all use to interface. So what I'm hoping you guys will do is talk
1:21.4	to us about the current state of the Web, about Web 3. I'm hoping you will define that term
1:30.4	and we can explore questions about how this interfaces with the various hazards and opportunities
1:37.6	provided by artificial intelligence. Anyway, let's start with that. What can you tell us
1:44.2	about Web 3? What is it and what should we do to make it better?
1:50.2	Okay, well to get started, let's talk about how we got to Web 3. So Web 1 began when
1:56.1	Certim Berners-Lee introduced the Web Protocol in 1989, 1990. And before that, we had access
2:07.6	to the internet via proprietary stacks. So you could get on with Compuserve, you could
2:13.7	get on with AOL. But if you were on Compuserve and I was on AOL, we didn't see the same content
2:20.6	and we couldn't interact with each other because these were closed proprietary stacks.
2:25.5	And the Web was this way that all of the information could get connected and it gave us this
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