cyklista<p>This conversation is worth listening to, imho.. YMMV, of course. </p><p>Chris Dixon on Blockchains, AI, and the Future of the Internet (Ep. 240)</p><p>Can blockchain restore the internet’s original promise, or will AI-driven centralization prevail?</p><p>Chris Dixon believes we’re at a pivotal inflection point in the internet’s evolution. As a general partner at <a href="https://mountains.social/tags/Andreessen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Andreessen</span></a> Horowitz and author of Read Write Own, Chris believes the current internet, dominated by large platforms like YouTube and Spotify, has strayed far from its <a href="https://mountains.social/tags/decentralized" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>decentralized</span></a> roots. He argues that the next era—powered by <a href="https://mountains.social/tags/blockchain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>blockchain</span></a> technology—can restore autonomy to creators, lower barriers for innovation, and shift economic power back to the network’s edges.</p><p>Tyler and Chris discuss the economics of platform dominance, how blockchains merge protocol-based social benefits with corporate-style competitive advantages, the rise of <a href="https://mountains.social/tags/stablecoins" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>stablecoins</span></a> as a viable blockchain-based application, whether Bitcoin or AI-created currencies will dominate machine-to-machine payments, why Stack Overflow could be the first of many casualties in an <a href="https://mountains.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a>-driven web, venture capital’s vulnerability to <a href="https://mountains.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> disruption, whether <a href="https://mountains.social/tags/open" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>open</span></a>-source AI could preserve national sovereignty, NFTs as digital property rights system for AIs, how Kant’s synthetic a priori, Kripke’s modal logic, and Heidegger’s Dasein sneak into Dixon’s term‑sheet thinking, and much more.</p><p><a href="https://conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/chris-dixon/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">conversationswithtyler.com/epi</span><span class="invisible">sodes/chris-dixon/</span></a></p>