E26: Clash of Elites with Nadia Asparouhova

People have lumped tech into a monolith but Nadia joins Erik, Dan and Antonio to debate the different movements and determine what they should be doing to achieve the impact they want to have. Nadia is a tech researcher (nadia.xyz.) and the author of Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software. Moment of Zen is part of the Turpentine podcast network. To learn more: Turpentine.co

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TIMESTAMPS:

(00:00) Episode Preview

(01:03) New Podcast recommendation: Media Empires

(01:28) Why it’s important to break down the elite camps and their worldviews

(02:51) Elite bracket breakdown

(10:00) Technooptimism, AI, and regulation

(12:08) Davos mindset versus revolutionaries

(13:00) Why doesn’t tech support the arts?

(15:00) Sponsor: Secureframe

(17:00) Tech needs to tell a better story

(21:42) Where does Elon fit into this framework?

(23:13) Institutionalists vs anti-institutionalists (Elon, Sachs, Sam Altman, Thiel, Vijaya) 

(35:00) How does the tech worldview enter politics and public stewardship successfully?

(39:00) Is Twitter an institution?

(42:00) Antonio’s depressing statement

(48:30) How the desire for high status in a digital world has affected local philanthropy

(55:44) Who are the most high status people in the world? High status education?

(1:04:00) Building parallel institutions

(1:08:00) Nadia discusses her article about GitHub

(1:15:00) What do American intellectuals get? Experts? Substackers?

(1:17:00) Idea machines

LINKS:

Silicon Valley’s Civil War: https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/silicon-valley-civil-war

GitHub article: https://www.wired.com/story/github-tech-values/

Idea Machines: https://nadia.xyz/idea-machines

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@eriktorenberg (Erik)

@antoniogm (Antonio)

@dwr (Dan)

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