Episode · The Ben & Marc Show · 2024-02-28
Chris Dixon on The Ben & Marc Show: books mentioned
Future of Crypto, Blockchain & Web3 w/ Chris Dixon
Welcome to “The Ben & Marc Show”, featuring a16z’s co-founders Ben Horowitz and Marc Andreessen. This week, Marc and Ben are joined by guest Chris Dixon to discuss his recent NY Times bestselling book “Read Write Own”, as well as the future of crypto, blockchain and Web3.
Marc Andreessen discussed Fully Automated Luxury Communism by Aaron Bastani. Also mentioned: Read Write Own by Chris Dixon.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Read Write Own
Read Write Own by Chris Dixon is a comprehensive exploration of blockchains, artificial intelligence, and the future architecture of the internet.
Discussed“today we have a special guest Chris Dixon who has written a new book called read write own”
Where to get it
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Fully Automated Luxury Communism
Fully Automated Luxury Communism by Aaron Bastani is a radical leftist manifesto envisioning a post-scarcity future enabled by automation, renewable energy, and advanced artificial intelligence.
Discussed“in various other communist regimes there was always this kind of idea there's actually a book on this from a from a from a modern communist called fully luxur fully automated luxury communism”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (2) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“so what I want to do with the book so I I you know I've spent years talking about this topic and in in those conversations realized that um some of the sort of background context was missing”
“although one of the critiques of my book so far has been that RSS is actually very successful I it's not not successful at its original Vision at all”