Nadia Asparouhova — Tech elites, democracy, open source, & philanthropy

Nadia Asparouhova is currently researching what the new tech elite will look like at nadia.xyz. She is also the author of Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software. We talk about how: * American philanthropy has changed from Rockefeller to Effective Altruism * SBF represented the Davos elite rather than the Silicon Valley elite, * Open source software reveals the limitations of democratic participation, * & much more. 𝐄𝐏𝐈𝐒𝐎𝐃𝐄 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 * Transcript: https://www.dwarkeshpatel.com/p/nadia-asparouhova * Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3VZy8wX * Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3V080AD 𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐌𝐏𝐒 00:00:00 - Intro 00:00:26 - SBF was Davos elite 00:09:38 - Gender sociology of philanthropy 00:16:30 - Was Shakespeare an open source project? 00:22:00 - Need for charismatic leaders 00:33:55 - Political reform 00:40:30 - Why didn’t previous wealth booms lead to new philanthropic movements? 00:53:35 - Creating a 10,000 year endowment 00:57:27 - Why do institutions become left wing? 01:02:27 - Impact of billionaire intellectual funding 01:04:12 - Value of intellectuals 01:08:53 - Climate, AI, & Doomerism 01:18:04 - Religious philanthropy