Gray Tribe

One other thing that worries me is how a lot of recent SV tech rhetoric is much more nationalist than before. Ensuring "we" win the global competition. People being tribal is inevitable and can sometimes be channeled toward good, but it's not the sort of thing you want from a global technological vanguard community. I much prefer the old SV that idealistically identified itself with the progress of all of humanity.

One reason I really appreciate crypto is that I think it still has that spirit.

There’s definitely an unhealthy confluence of nationalists and techno-opportunists in SV; masquerading as techno-optimism…but it’s really just “we win…we profit” stuff. I don’t want to see it co-opt crypto…which can succeed regardless of geopolitics.