8/1/2023 0 Comments Max raskinMR: Do you remember your youngest political memory? SS: I'm afraid that's always been the case. What makes our laissez faire engine work is that we have empathy for each other, that we recognize we can put ourselves in the other person's shoes and ask what would they want? And then we align our interests towards what they want. The title was The Theory of Moral Sentiments, and how he really captures the fact that what really makes the world go round? What really makes the laissez faire engine - a term I use rather than the capitalist engine - because I think the term “capitalist” focuses too much on the accumulation of capital. SS: I know one thing that influenced me is the work of Adam Smith that no one ever reads. MR: When you were writing and publishing on the blockchain and writing about blockchain, do you remember the books that you were reading, the non-technical books that you were reading? That's different from people knowing what I've done and haven't done. And as Brandeis characterized privacy - the right to be left alone. I'm not a big fan of “privacy.” I know that it comes wrong into the ear, but it's that I think we've misunderstood privacy. And so I don't fear the permanent record. Don't take advantage of the fact that people are flawed and they say things they didn't mean, and they do things they wish they hadn't done. SS: It definitely creates a permanent record and what I'm saying to all of my colleagues in the American endeavor is: Chill Out. MR: But in some ways, doesn't blockchain make that worse? Because it creates a permanent record of something. What I'm troubled by is the growing sentiment that says, “Let's take advantage of some misstep that someone made where they said the wrong word and let's turn it into a whole meme to characterize this person for the rest of their life.” And I'm not troubled by the inability to edit after the fact to make everything look pretty. I’m not suggesting that makes me perfect in some way, but we all are who we are. Scott Stornetta: There's something about the transparency as well. Max Raskin: You are one of the two inventors of the original blockchain, and I wonder - is there something to your life philosophy or ideology that values permanence or is skeptical of others?
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