152 - Why Can't We Have Nice Things | Liv Boeree
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She also is one of the few people out there in the world teaching about the lessons of Moloch— the study of human coordination—and is the reason why we wanted to have her on Bankless.
In the episode, Liv makes it clear how Moloch is more than an idea. Coordination and competition failures are happening in every aspect of our lives. Is crypto the solution?
TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Intro
8:24 Getting to Moloch
14:25 Meditations on Moloch
17:30 Defining Moloch
19:40 Unhealthy Competition or Coordination Failure
25:00 Nuclear Proliferation
26:30 Cancer
27:58 Moloch’s Ancient Analogy
31:18 Centralization
36:10 The Prisoner’s Dilemma
38:50 When Moloch is the Most Dangerous
43:50 How to Slay Moloch
52:10 Capitalism
59:44 Defining Moloch Cont.
1:02:20 Changing the Underlying Systems
1:08:20 Crypto & Coordination
1:15:15 Moloch’s All the Way Down
1:18:15 Moloch Isn’t One Thing
1:20:00 Better System Design
1:27:23 Crypto’s Moloch Problem
1:32:32 Moloch Takeaways
1:34:42 Liv’s Personal Moloch Connection
1:37:02 Closing & Disclaimers
RESOURCES
- Liv on Twitter
https://twitter.com/Liv_Boeree - The Evolution of Trust
https://ncase.me/trust/ - Meditations on Moloch
https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/ - The Goddess of Everything Else
https://slatestarcodex.com/2015/08/17/the-goddess-of-everything-else-2/ - Moloch - The Beauty Wars
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fifVuhgvQQ8 - Ethereum Slayer of Moloch
https://newsletter.banklesshq.com/p/ethereum-slayer-of-moloch- - Previous Bankless Podcast: Slaying Moloch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=903tHM4RA9k