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Published · transcript-backedSam Altman: belief
27 Feb 2019 Conversations with Tyler Sam Altman on Loving Community, Hating Coworking, and the Hunt for Talent
“We talked a bunch of times tonight about network effects. That would be the most powerful network effect the world has ever seen economically, and I think that would be cool.”
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- 27 Feb 2019
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…What’s the best-case scenario for crypto? I’m not suggesting you’re predicting it, but how might it go best? I’m excited about universal basic income. I don’t think countries are going to implement that anytime soon. I can imagine a crypto system where you see something that is more powerful than any government on Earth, where you actually figure out a way to give every person on Earth a coin, and then you make this gigantic network that everyone believes in, and you can do redistribution outside the control of any government. We talked a bunch of times tonight about network effects. That would be the most powerful network effect the world has ever seen economically, and I think that would be cool. If much of economic and social activity ever moves into virtual reality, will we use crypto and virtual reality or just trade dollars?…
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