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Accelerating Humanity

on YouTube 31m
Talkat Pragma India 2023 · on Thursday, 2023-12-07· [tech-ethics, web-platform]

speaker

name:Juan Benet
website:http://juan.benet.ai

resources

video:https://youtu.be/VnZPyf1Gtdo
slides:none on file

summary

Argues that web3 primitives like IPFS and Filecoin plus token economics can rewire funding, governance, and infrastructure: proposes retroactive funding and impact certificates to pay translational R&D gaps, suggests allocating token emissions to reach nation-state R&D scales (US nondefense ~ $60–80B/year), critiques wasteful PoW and repurposes incentives for verifiable carbon sequestration, and describes building censorship-resistant connectivity via mesh ISPs, Helium-style networks and even crypto-powered satellites to preserve global access and fund science.

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chapters (25)

  1. 0:00Introduction to Pragma and Acceleration
  2. 1:06What is Accelerationism?
  3. 2:45Deceleration vs. acceleration debates
  4. 4:21Differential acceleration and risk
  5. 6:02Areas impacted: bio, governance, energy
  6. 7:36Where crypto fits into human progress
  7. 8:47Incentive structures and economic design
  8. 9:44Rethinking governance and microeconomies
  9. 10:54UBI and global wealth distribution
  10. 12:26Carbon markets and programmable capital
  11. 13:24Mining incentives and unintended outcomes
  12. 14:25Designing better incentive systems
  13. 15:41Crypto for global scientific research
  14. 16:45Decentralized science funding
  15. 18:15Translational science and the “valley of death”
  16. 19:45Reimagining VC and public goods
  17. 21:16Impact certificates and new financial primitives
  18. 22:36Crazy future: crypto funds more R&D than nations
  19. 24:13A better internet and rights-preserving infra
  20. 25:26Why the internet is a human rights issue
  21. 26:56Threats to connectivity and freedom
  22. 28:02Crypto-powered decentralized ISPs
  23. 29:31Launching satellites with crypto
  24. 30:37Crypto's power to build a better world
  25. 31:07Final thoughts and audience thanks

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