Best Simon de la Rouviere Podcasts (2024)

Today, we look at the problem of modern slavery and how it intersects with wildlife conservation. This subject is brought to the fore by growing interest in using blockchain technologies to illuminate the business processes which conceal the presence of slavery. Our guests are Brian Iselin, founder of SlaveFreeTrade.org, and Bubba Cook, Western and…

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State Change #43 - The Battle for your attention, Meher Roy, Simon de la Rouviere 42:34

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Recalling State Change #40 Weaponized AI propaganda machine, we discussed at length the value of attention. Today we take this subject to it’s maximum extend. Software engineer Simon de la Rouviere and biochemical engineer Meher Roy shed light on how the battle for our attention is the basis for the online economy. We see it in the business models …

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State Change #42 The Use of Knowledge in Society, Jeffrey Tucker, Kirk Dameron, Stephen Macaskill 48:11

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While today decentralization seems like a revelation, one thinker more than any other stands as its chief proponent. In 1945 Friedrich Hayek bucked the post war fashion of command-control thinking and announced the futility of central economic or societal planning. His essay, The Use of Knowledge in Society, is a concise and accurate argument for t…

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State Change #40 Weaponized AI propaganda machine, Amanda Gutterman, Berit Anderson, Brett Horvath 47:20

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The surprising outcome of the last US Presidential election brought attention to the effect fake news and social media manipulation can have on public thought. Today we are going to take a deep look at what exactly took place, while considering possible solutions to the problems we uncover. Berit Anderson and Brett Horvath, Co-founders of Scout.ai,…

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State Change #39 Technologies of Social Organization — Vinay Gupta, Joseph Lubin 35:07

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Technology enables new forms of social organisation. That statement is itself a truism, but as we see technological development accelerate, our means of organising ourselves is constantly changing. Our guests today are Joseph Lubin and Vinay Gupta. Joe is the Founder of ConsenSys and co-founder of Ethereum. He has a background in robotics, software…

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State Change #41 Unpacking Digital Identity - Christian Lundkvist, Stephen Wilson 54:15

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Today we compare in-depth the self-sovereign and federated models of identity. Why is our means of proving who we are important? Well, for one thing, relying on an authority which doesn’t have our best interests at heart to manage our identity is one of the many problems exploited by the decentralized propaganda machine described last episode. Our …

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State Change #38 — Truffles in the Azure Marketplace 15:41

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In brief: Ethereum developer framework Truffle offers a Swiss Army Knife of solutions to the blockchain application developer. Recently Truffle was added to the Azure marketplace, allowing the Microsoft development community can take advantage of this powerful tool.Since June of 2015 developer Tim Coulter has been assembling the scripts and tools h…

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State Change #37 - State Channels Deep Dive with Ameen Soleimani 19:55

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In Brief: Imagine the security of a blockchain transaction with the speed and low cost of a packet of information sent through traditional infrastructure. This is what state channels can offer any blockchain.After finishing his work on the Co-tricity project (the ConsenSys run part of which is now Innogy), Ameen Soleimani, has turned his attention …

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State Change #36 - The uPort Developer Alpha & 2016 in Review 30:25

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In Brief: Longtime applied cryptography guru and uPort developer Pelle Braendgaard announces the upcoming release of the uPort developer Alpha! Then we take a look at tokenless blockchains and examine the fundamental confusion behind DAO projects.uPort promises to solve the biggest problem on the internet: representing a unique human being. Existin…

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State Change #35 — Delivering Big: The Synechron Partnership 11:32

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In Brief: ConsnenSys and enterprise software giant Synechron have joined forces to take the blockchain solution world by storm.Synechron is a global financial services software delivery firm. Seeing an opportunity to improve back and middle office efficiency and revolutionize multi-party payments, the software giant is moving into the permissioned …

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