EverydaySpy Podcast • December 15, 2022 • Solo Episode
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Nadia Asparouhova is currently researching what the new tech elite will look like at nadia.xyz. She is also the author of Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software.
We talk about how:
* American philanthropy has changed from Rockefeller to Effective Altruism
* SBF represented the Davos elite rather than the Silicon Valley elite,
* Open source software reveals the limitations of democratic participation,
* & much more.
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Timestamps
(0:00:00) - Intro
(0:00:26) - SBF was Davos elite
(0:09:38) - Gender sociology of philanthropy
(0:16:30) - Was Shakespeare an open source project?
(0:22:00) - Need for charismatic leaders
(0:33:55) - Political reform
(0:40:30) - Why didn’t previous wealth booms lead to new philanthropic movements?
(0:53:35) - Creating a 10,000 year endowment
(0:57:27) - Why do institutions become left wing?
(1:02:27) - Impact of billionaire intellectual funding
(1:04:12) - Value of intellectuals
(1:08:53) - Climate, AI, & Doomerism
(1:18:04) - Religious philanthropy