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20VC with Harry Stebbings· Oct 25, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersRishi Sunak on Talent, Investment and Policy Trade-Offs in 2021Guest Rishi Sunak · Host Harry StebbingsIn an interview recorded while he was chancellor, Sunak discusses startup-inspired policymaking, immigration proposals, the Future Fund and the limits of government action.
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Lex Fridman· Mar 17, 2020PodcastMoney Is a Game of Points: Vitalik Buterin on Coordination, Public Goods, and Quadratic FundingHost Lex FridmanVitalik Buterin explains money as a social point system, why value can survive without physical backing, and how quadratic funding tries to fix public-good underfunding.
20:44ENLex Fridman· Jan 5, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersThe Staff Job That Became a Dictatorship: Stalin's Improbable Road to PowerGuest Stephen Kotkin · Host Lex FridmanStephen Kotkin traces how war, revolution, contingency, and a new administrative post let Stalin build a personal dictatorship inside the Bolshevik regime.
29:54ENLex FridmanPodcastSeven Levels of a Pandemic: Pain, Challenge and Hope From Biology to PhilosophyHost Lex FridmanLex Fridman maps the coronavirus onto seven levels of attack on society and proposes a response and a reason for hope at each one.
28:53ENLex FridmanPodcastTake Back MIT: Eric Weinstein on Broken Institutions and the Scientists Who Should Reclaim ThemHost Lex FridmanIn a clip from their longer conversation, Eric Weinstein and Lex Fridman argue over whether MIT can be won back from its administrators, and what it means to be betrayed by the institutions we trust.