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Jul 2023
1h 48m

#4 - Jordan Hall: Building a better civi...

Liv Boeree
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A philosophical and technical dive with Ttchnologist and systems thinker Jordan Hall into the anthropological drivers of competition, complexity, power structures, and the role of AI in shaping a post-competitive, ”Game B” future. 
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