Alessio Fanelli: belief

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…You know, I guess the main thing I want everybody to remember is that, you know, there's a lot of people in the world. And they have a lot of, you know, diverse experiences and capabilities. And they all matter. And now that we have a, you know, newly powerful technology in our lives, we could think of that one of two ways. One would be, gee, that's really scary. What would happen if all of these people in the world had access to this technology? Some of them might be bad people. Let's make sure they can't have it. Or one might be, wow, of all those people in the world, I bet a lot of them could really improve the lives of a lot of humanity if they had this tool. This has always been the case, you know, from the invention of writing, to the invention of the printing press, to the, you know, development of education. And it's been a constant battle between people who think that the distributed power is unsafe and it should be held on to by an elite few. And people who think that humanity on net, you know, is a marvelous species, particularly when part of a society and a civilization. And we should do everything we can to enable more of them to contribute. This is a really big conversation right now. And, you know, I want to see more and more people showing up and showing what, you know, what the great unwashed masses out there can actually achieve. You know, that actually, you know, regular people are going to do a lot of really valuable work and actually help us be, you know, more safe and also flourishing in our lives and providing a future for our children to flourish in. You know, if we lock things down to the people that we think, you know, the elites that we think can be trusted to run it for us, yeah, I think all bets are off about where that leaves us as a society, you know. Yep. Now that's an important message. And yeah, that's why we've been promoting a lot of open source developers, open source communities, I think, letting the builders build and explore. That's always a good idea. Thank you so much for coming on, Jeremy. This was great. Thank you for having me.…

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