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Sep 2024
1h 35m

Governing democracy, the internet, and b...

Andreessen Horowitz
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Who gets to decide what, for whom? Governance is one of the trickiest challenges people have faced, from ancient city-states to AI startups. Experts Noah Feldman, constitutional law scholar at Harvard who architected the Meta oversight board and has written multiple books, and Andrew Hall, professor of political science at Stanford and consultant to a16z cry ... Show More
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