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Dwarkesh PodcastPatrick McKenzie — Money laundering, big tech censorship, SBF & Japan
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EPISODE INFO
- Released
- July 24, 2024
- Duration
- 2h 2m
- Channel
- Dwarkesh Podcast
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EPISODE DESCRIPTION
I talked with Patrick McKenzie (known online as patio11) about how a small team he ran over a Discord server got vaccines into Americans' arms: A story of broken incentives, outrageous incompetence, and how a few individuals with high agency saved 1000s of lives. Plus unconstitutional censorship, money laundering, Factorio, and a friendly debate about crypto. Enjoy! 𝐄𝐏𝐈𝐒𝐎𝐃𝐄 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒
- Transcript: https://www.dwarkeshpatel.com/p/patrick-mckenzie
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EPISODE SUMMARY
In this episode of Dwarkesh Podcast, featuring Patrick McKenzie and Dwarkesh Patel, Patrick McKenzie — Money laundering, big tech censorship, SBF & Japan explores Discord volunteers outperformed governments in America’s chaotic vaccine rollout Patrick McKenzie recounts how a handful of tech volunteers on Discord created VaccinateCA, an ad‑hoc vaccine‑finder that effectively became the U.S. clearinghouse for COVID vaccine locations, exposing severe failures in public health logistics and software capacity.
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