Robert Hackett

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665 appearances 4 recordings 1 series first heard Jan 2025 last heard 1 Aug

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The a16z Show · Marc Andreessen and Chris Dixon: What’s at Stake in Crypto Regulation · 1 Aug 2026 podcast

Tell us, what does Clarity unlock if it passes in a year, two years, indeterminate future?

All right, well, time will tell whether policymakers listen to you guys, heed your advice, and realize that rules are better than no rules, that the time is urgent, and that the benefits will accrue to whoever sets the standards first.

Thank you both for coming on the show.

Thank you.

The a16z Show · AI Just Gave You Superpowers — Now What? · 19 Mar 2026 podcast

Hi, everybody.

We're here with Christian Catalini, who's the co-founder of LightSpark and founder of the MIT Crypto Economics Lab, as well as Eddie Lazarin.

And we're here to talk about a new economics paper that Christian published called Some Simple Economics of AGI.

Christian, I think the title of this paper is slightly misleading in that it's actually not incredibly simple.

It's more than 100 pages long, and there are many complex mathematical formula involved.

Maybe some of the insights you've managed to distill down into a simple kind of framework for people to understand things.

But, you know, over the course of 100 pages, there is a lot of complexity also in your analysis.

So I'd love to ask, what began you on this journey?

to investigate the economic relationship of AI and the world we live in right now, the robots and the humans.

resonates and what doesn't.

Even so, you have managed to distill down the findings in a way that people can get a handle on pretty reliably well.

You even have little short branded ways of understanding the existential crises that we all face, such as the codifier's curse and several other of these kinds of labels that you've invented to describe the world we're entering.

Let me just ask you, though, you said this stemmed from an existential crisis.

How were you feeling psychologically?

What is your state?

Great.

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