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25 Apr 2018 Conversations with Tyler Balaji Srinivasan on the Power and Promise of the Blockchain
“I would say, however, there’s a bunch of these small countries that punch above their weight from a software standpoint.”
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- 25 Apr 2018
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…When it comes to cybersecurity, quite arguably the form of warfare of the future or even the present, is it the small or large countries that have the comparative advantage in either attack or defense? That’s interesting. Israel has some great cybersecurity people. So does Estonia. So does Singapore. So does China — gigantic. It has a lot. I’m not sure you can initially correlate that to country size. I would say, however, there’s a bunch of these small countries that punch above their weight from a software standpoint. Peter Thiel has suggested that, with the onset of artificial intelligence, this will encourage at least authoritarianism of the negative sort, or possibly even totalitarianism. Do you agree?…
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