End of the Chain

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December 11, 2019Imagination is the Limit of AI - Simon Greenman
About this episode
Simon Greenman is the founder of Best Practice AI, an enterprise consulting firm that helps executives and boards integrate the technology into their existing business structures. Simon is also the Chair of the Harvard Business School Angels London chapter and has made over 100 investments into startup companies.
Simon's Links
Linkedin
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What to listen for
What the hype cycle around AI is, it's Utopian/Dystopian narrative, what is real and what is not.
How AI has exploded because deep neural networks (large pattern recognition statistics) enable machine learning through data ‘by itself’.
Why autonomous vehicles are the mother of AI problems; you need to solve so many problems at once for them to work and something not far off human ‘common sense’ to make them work safely.
Why AI in healthcare has the potential to transform disease diagnostics and early detection.
What gaps or metrics to use for AI companies when angel investing.
How the life cycle of an AI startup is different than other startups.
How do we think about privacy in the age of AI?
Who is going to be dominant in AI, and will we see techno-nationalism – a Chinese versus US versus European platforms.
Why it is always the case of the unknown unknowns - the unintended consequences that will happen with AI that we cannot predict.
Why we need to manage and regulate the adoption of AI and fourth revolution technologies to help us improve human life for the good of society.
How projects need to focus on data wrangling and data access not just use cases.
Why the constancy of change and being adaptable is the most important skill, we all need to have in the future world of work.
Reference Material
Apple Card Gender Problem
Uber NTSB Report
Tesla Summon Self-Driving incident
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December 06, 2019Liquidity for Debt - Péter Petrovics, Co-founder of Augmint
About this episode
Peter is the Co-Founder of Augmint, a decentralized stablecoin pegged to the Euro. The project is still in its nascent stage and Peter spoke with me at length about how he sees the project developing over the next few years.
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What to listen for
How Augmint creates a new money system backed by cryptoassets as collateral.
How credit money on the blockchain works and their unique token system which maintains supply.
How are the interest rates are calculated and set by their monetary board who are elected by stakeholders.
How fixed versus floating collateral loan products in Augmint work.
We have fiat gateways where collateral in Augmint can be converted into Euro.
How they are different from their competitor, DAI and how Maker is taking 100% of Ether loans and this is their niche market.
What is the difference between credit money system and a collateralized stablecoin?
Why the challenge of new money is the financial technology and making it convenient.
Why crypto should not start by competing with payments or micropayments.
How Augmint could be multi-chain at some point in the future, but plans to stay on Ethereum for the long term.
What their exchange listing strategy is and potential use cases for the future.
Reference Material
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December 02, 2019Elastic Supply Money - Brandon Iles, Co-Founder of Ampleforth
About this episode
Brandon is the Co-Founder of Ampleforth, an elastic supply money, which adjusts supply if price moves outside of a target band. In a market filled with crypto variants, Ampleforth separates itself from the rest with its novel supply mechanism. New seniorage is distributed equally amongst holders, like a stock split.
Brandon also worked at Google Search and so we jumped into his experiences there and how the company is leading the way in Total Information Awareness.
Brandon's Links
Linkedin
Crunchbase
Angelist
Github
Show Transcription Notes
Where to find the show
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What to listen for
What the economic structure of Ampleforth is and how it differs from Bitcoin.
Why Ampleforth is the smallest change to Bitcoin that is economically interesting.
Why the Ample has a price target and how that affects supply.
Why Amples will be volatile for a long time until mass usage comes about.
Why Ampleforth has volatility of both price and supply
How Ampleforth changes the game slightly of asset accumulation.
Why Bitcoin has no value and cannot be captured by any existing financial models.
Why Ampleforth had to adjust the smoothing parameter to increase the speed price returns to the target price band.
Why the creation of new Amples is akin to a stock split.
How Ampleforth can adjust the global supply of Amples without heavy gas costs.
Why Ampleforth is not in the business of creating Layer 1 blockchains and are chain agnostic.
How Uniswap interacts with Ampleforth and why it's different than any other smart contract interaction.
How Brandon and Evan met in 2014 and started Ampleforth.
Reference Material
Total Information Awareness
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November 28, 2019Tax is Control - Dominic Frisby
About this episode
Dominic is is a British author, comedian and voice actor. He joins the podcast to talk about his new book "Daylight Robbery How Tax Shaped Our Past and Will Change Our Future." We discussed how crypto will force governments how they collect taxes and the history of tax collection. Dominic puts forward a riveting account of money and taxes in his book. The story of money cannot be told without accounting for the history of taxes.
Buy Daylight Robbery: How Tax Shaped Our Past and Will Change Our Future on Amazon
Listen to the Audiobook on Audible.com
Dominic's Links
Personal Website
Twitter
Show Transcription Notes
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What to listen for
Why cryptocurrencies could break the tax system.
How our tax system evolved and what the future has planned for governments.
Why Hong Kong is the best example of a tax system in the world and the Authoritarian Libertarian Scottish man responsible for it.
Why we don't have simpler, easier tax codes.
Why the Peasant's revolt is deserving of a mini-series.
How international corporations exploit the tax system and what can be done to tax it.
How the gig/freelance economy is making taxation harder to enforce and why there will be a billion freelancers by 2025.
Reference Material
Peasants' Revolt
Hong Kong Financial Secretary John James Cowperthwaite
Meet the invisible hand behind Hong Kong’s rise - Article on Cowperthwaite
How Google avoids paying its taxes and sticks you with the bill.
The gig economy goes global.
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November 18, 2019All Roads Lead to Open Borders - Bryan Caplan
About this episode
Bryan Caplan is the author of Open Borders: The Science and Ethics of Immigration. In this episode he blows away all of the arguments Sam put forward for closed borders. After listening, you will probably change your mind on open borders as well.
Buy Open Borders: The Science and Ethics of Immigration on Amazon
Bryan's Links
Personal Website
Twitter
Show Transcription Notes
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What to listen for
Why open borders will increase global GDP by 200%
Why the idea of open borders covers all beliefs and political views.
What the Justice and Abundance story is for immigration.
Why the social science shows that immigration benefits offset any negative aspects.
Why the United States should let in Antartican farmers.
Where immigrants typically move when the immigrate and how they diffuse into the United States.
How many immigrants would move to the United States and Europe if there were open borders.
How we can design keyhole solutions that alleviate the fears and concerns of native populations.
How mass immigration has helped China become a global superpower.
Reference Material
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November 07, 2019Liquidity Attracts Liquidity - Marius Jansen COO Deribit
About this episode
What are the difficulties of starting and running a crypto exchange? Marius sat down for an hour to discuss Deribit, its creation, working with his brother and what lies next.
Marius' Links
Twitter
Linkedin
Show Transcription Notes
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What to listen for
How Marius got into Bitcoin with his brother and how they started Deribit.
How he navigates running a family business.
What his personality is and how it complement his brothers.
How he preforms his role as Deribit COO and what his tasks are.
What are are some of the challenges of growing a company from zero employees.
How he takes more risk in running business for growth.
How Deribit views soon to be launched competition.
What some of the differences between East and West are regarding crypto trading.
What Deribits growth plans are for the long term.
How Deribit caters to institutional clients.
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October 21, 2019The Future is Hard to Predict - Kelly Weinersmith
About this episode
Kelly is the author of Soonish: Ten Emerging Technologies That'll Improve and/or Ruin Everything. Kelly discusses the impact of her book since its been launched, what technologies have come to use and what are some of the consequences and benefits of the ten topics covered in the book.
Kelly's Links
Personal Website
Twitter
Buy Soonish on Amazon
Show Transcription Notes
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What to listen for
Why the next human overlords will be parasites.
What society can define as technology breakthroughs.
What are the technology breakthroughs of the future.
How modern life is prone to lower birthrates and higher resource usage.
How humans eclipse the pressures of carrying capacity
Why Kelly is an optimist about the future.
Why launching material into space with nukes is probably a bad idea.
Why Kelly doesn’t get jealous of other scientists and what field she would pursue if not a microbiologist.
How she responds to high schoolers who read her book Soonish.
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September 11, 2019The Rise of Chinese AI - Nina Xiang
About this episode
What is the real state of Chinese AI technologies and are they poised to surpass Europe and the United States as the world leader? Nina Xiang, founder of the China Money Network sits down to tell about her findings which she presented in her book "Red AI: Victories and Warnings From China’s Rise In Artificial Intelligence."
Nina's Links
Red AI Book Buy on Amazon
China Money Network Website
Show Transcription Notes
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What to listen for
What the inspiration for creating the book was and why Nina started the China Money Network.
What 4S/3L is and why it's the best lens to view Chinese companies through.
Why China is still behind the US in AI by many years.
How Made in China 2025 is affecting AI companies.
What role the CCP plays in Chinese companies and the effect it has on technology development.
Her thoughts on companies operating outside of the tier 1 cities.
Why Chinese politicians hold so much power in each region and can help make or break a business.
Her thoughts on the US tariffs and the harsh treatment of Chinese students abroad.
Why the Chinese Social Credit Score is needed, but is prone to data privacy breaches.
How robust data privacy laws can be enacted in China.
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August 30, 2019Five Levels of Trading - Patrick Dugan
About this episode
Patrick shares his huge wealth of knowledge about trading. We delve deep into current movements of Bitcoin, the overarching macro events driving the economy between the US and China and the coming dollar shortage.
Patrick's Links
TradeLayer: tradelayer.org
Twitter: https://twitter.com/duganist
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What to listen for
What the five levels of trading are and how you can progress through them.
How Tradelayer is creating a decentralized clearing house.
Why open interest is the most important value for crypto derivatives.
Why crypto derivatives are the future of banking.
Why the Ethereum Pump and Dump was a Divercion!
Eurodollars and Tether, there isn't much difference and why they 100% don't have the assets to back up USDT.
Why the future of banking includes Bitcoin.
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August 22, 2019Bitcoin First Principles - Aleksandar Svetski
About this episode
Aleksander is the founder of Amber, a Bitcoin dollar cost averaging app for Australians. We debate Bitcoin, it's impact and what the future holds for the cryptocurrency.
Aleksandar's Links
Amber: https://getamber.io/
Medium: https://medium.com/@AleksandarSvetski
Twitter: https://twitter.com/alekssvetski
FULL TRANSCRIPT OF EPISODE
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What to listen for
What his first principles for Bitcoin are and how they drive his business.
Why everyone should have some exposure to Bitcoin.
Why he thinks everyone should think about adding Bitcoin to their portfolio.
What the problems with Bitcoin custodians represent.
Why he thinks Bitcoin is digital gold and why holding physical gold is a bad idea.
How Bitcoin will provide privacy in the second layer.
What the benefits of a Bitcoin ETF will provide retail investors.
His rebuttal to my claim that Bitcoin has no intrinsic value.
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