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Tech Won’t Save Us: Jack Dorsey’s Embrace of Crypto-Libertarianism (Patreon)

Published:
2024-07-11 13:36:44
Imported:
2026-06

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I’m on Paris Marx’s podcast Tech Won’t Save Us, talking about Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey and just what the heck it is he believes and wants.

Paris and I first met at the Crypto Policy Symposium in September 2022. He wanted me on the podcast, but crypto fell out of public attention. But when I posted about Jack Dorsey and Bluesky, he realised there was a hook there.

So in practice I ramble quite a lot about crypto as well, ‘cos Jack’s right into that stuff. The recording is just over an hour.

Comments

AnIconic Dog

great appearance! And I’m going to look into bluesky now; I’ve been completely keyed out of social media for awhile, since it got too dangerous on twitter for trans people to exist there publicly without risking waves of assholes. It’s nice to hear that there’re actually pleasant communities, and possibly even that we might have another period where people follow friends around the net, rather than trying to do war of the ultimate mega platforms 24/7 I know y’all are doing these shorter blogs about AI, but if you ever get the chance, I think it would be excellent to read a longer dissection of AI-bullshit from you. One of the most notable things, and the earliest reasons I decided you were excellent to follow on crypto topics, is because you were able to explain it clearly and cogently from a comp-sci perspective (and with a sense of humor and realism, too!) There’s a real absence of that right now, in AI coverage, but I heard it for the first time in a long time in that interview you did with Paris. You and Stephen Diehl were particularly good at dissecting why crypto wouldn’t work on its own terms, as software, and how that software displayed its political ideologies, using the terms relevant to the industry but with appropriate explanations to keep lay audiences engaged. It helped cut through the smoke and mirrors mirage that the crypto guys kept trying to put up by shouting ‘blockchain for business’ and the like. I enjoyed hearing how you broke down why Nvidia vs the hype guys, and it’s useful to hear you pointing out that some of this tech might have some utility using the non-marketing terms (I.e, that line about how there’s probably room for good spellcheck, but using the terms LLM; and other examples where you used the terms for the model instead of the marketing term ‘AI’). I think that kind of specificity is really beneficial and possibly more important than it was with crypto; I worry that lay audiences right now are distracted by the promises of tech that has some potential use case but can’t see past the hype to see how limited it is. You’ve regularly demonstrated the skill for making that information clear.