Patrick Collison: belief

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…Yes. And the right kinds of implicit barriers to too much outside influence. But they also tend to be stimulated by some major outside influences, such as in the Renaissance, rediscovering technologies from China and the Arabic world, rediscovering antiquity — a huge prod. Just like here, part of the prod is Moore’s Law. My goodness, what can we do now? And we’re going to exhaust all those possibilities as quickly as we can. So you need the prod. You need the insulation. You need the common language. You need the barriers. You need to be weird and have a theory of your own weirdness that’s different from what your own weirdness actually is because you’re, too, looking at it from the inside. And this area has that. It’s great. It’s inspiring. I want to actually get back to the topic of weirdness a little bit later on, but quickly, before we shift focus from Silicon Valley, many in Silicon Valley are talking about the idea of universal basic income and what we do when the robots take all of our jobs. And I think you were initially a supporter of it, and then you changed your mind. Correct.…

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