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The Internet Found a Way to Monetize Reality Itself. It's Going Exactly as You'd Expect - Week in Tech
I mean, I love that you used the phrase disinformation as gig work.
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The Internet Found a Way to Monetize Reality Itself. It's Going Exactly as You'd Expect - Week in Tech
You wrote, if you build a system that can conjure any event into existence for the right price, it will eventually conjure a political reality.
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The Internet Found a Way to Monetize Reality Itself. It's Going Exactly as You'd Expect - Week in Tech
I think you got an A++ for this one.
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The Internet Found a Way to Monetize Reality Itself. It's Going Exactly as You'd Expect - Week in Tech
Well, mature poets borrow, mature poets steal.
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The Internet Found a Way to Monetize Reality Itself. It's Going Exactly as You'd Expect - Week in Tech
I somewhat naively, on the meme coin stuff, I mean, the last time I was really aware of meme coins was with Doge.
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The Internet Found a Way to Monetize Reality Itself. It's Going Exactly as You'd Expect - Week in Tech
And I kind of, I mean, I obviously haven't spent enough time on X, I guess, but they haven't really crossed my consciousness for a while.
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The Internet Found a Way to Monetize Reality Itself. It's Going Exactly as You'd Expect - Week in Tech
I kind of thought that people were tapped out on meme coins a little bit post-Doge.
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The Internet Found a Way to Monetize Reality Itself. It's Going Exactly as You'd Expect - Week in Tech
But what's the wider meme coin landscape outside of Pump Fun Go?
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The Internet Found a Way to Monetize Reality Itself. It's Going Exactly as You'd Expect - Week in Tech
kyle put this in the in the kind of wider history of like reality tv i mean you know obviously big brother social experiments and then jackass and like i guess like it's more and more extreme reality tv now this is sort of like distributed self-produced reality tv with more direct financial incentives like what's the where does this fit within but yeah the media landscape the last 30 years
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The Internet Found a Way to Monetize Reality Itself. It's Going Exactly as You'd Expect - Week in Tech
This is also obviously an episode of Black Mirror.
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The Internet Found a Way to Monetize Reality Itself. It's Going Exactly as You'd Expect - Week in Tech
I predicted this quite accurately.
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The Internet Found a Way to Monetize Reality Itself. It's Going Exactly as You'd Expect - Week in Tech
Are there any other Black Mirror episodes that we'll have the good fortune of seeing come true this year?
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The Internet Found a Way to Monetize Reality Itself. It's Going Exactly as You'd Expect - Week in Tech
Any predictions from our panel?
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The Internet Found a Way to Monetize Reality Itself. It's Going Exactly as You'd Expect - Week in Tech
Explain that, Taylor.
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The Internet Found a Way to Monetize Reality Itself. It's Going Exactly as You'd Expect - Week in Tech
Natasha, are your sources and people you talk to regularly in Silicon Valley tapped into this world?
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The Internet Found a Way to Monetize Reality Itself. It's Going Exactly as You'd Expect - Week in Tech
What's the tech industry take on all of this?
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The Internet Found a Way to Monetize Reality Itself. It's Going Exactly as You'd Expect - Week in Tech
Well, later in the show, we're going to talk about a venture-backed show, Mafia, featuring Sam Altman, Palmer Luckey, and others in a very strange Founders Fund-sponsored reality TV YouTube show.
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The Internet Found a Way to Monetize Reality Itself. It's Going Exactly as You'd Expect - Week in Tech
But before that, we're going to go to a break.
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The Internet Found a Way to Monetize Reality Itself. It's Going Exactly as You'd Expect - Week in Tech
And when we come back, a top AI advisor in the White House is stepping down at the end of this month.
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The Internet Found a Way to Monetize Reality Itself. It's Going Exactly as You'd Expect - Week in Tech
But will anything change?