🔮 Moon ladders; China’s tech policy; electric vehicles; blue hydrogen & Luddites++ #335

Hi, I’m Azeem Azhar. I convene Exponential View to help us understand how our societies and political economy will change under the force of rapidly accelerating technologies.

Crypto has arrived as a political force. This is one of several implications of the skirmish between crypto lobbyists and the US regulators we've witnessed in the past couple of weeks; EV member, an erstwhile regulator with a deep understanding of blockchain, Kevin Werbach, discusses what is going on between the lines.

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🌗 Codex by OpenAI is a nifty AI programme that writes code for you. Enter what you want and voila you have an AI creating code for you. It is a wow moment... natural language to working code. It is not without limitations. Gary Marcus points out that the AI “is often correct on simple tasks, but …