Tyler Cowen: prediction

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…When you say the moment that went viral but was misunderstood, what are you referring to? I asked Marc Andreessen about Web 3.0. and everyone on Twitter went crazy about this. Marc had a perfectly normal answer to a normal question. Now, I’m still not convinced by Web 3.0, and Marc’s answer didn’t convince me. But people treated it as some kind of massive, scandalous admission of something, and it was just a normal conversation. After it was recorded, I don’t think either Marc or I thought anything about that moment, but somehow that was the time when people wanted to jump down Marc’s throat over something, and they picked up on that clip. I think the best answer to what’s the use case for Web 3. 0 is just we don’t know yet. There are lots of talented people working on it at the moment, as you might have said with the early internet. Now, I’m still skeptical, but it’s not a terrible answer. That was the misunderstood viral moment, I would say. Yes. The other viral moment — I think I know what you’re referring to — was the excerpt in the Sam Bankman-Fried conversation, right?…

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