All Models Are Wrong

33:51

What the Internet Archive founder predicted 50 years...

All Models Are Wrong ·

2026/10/05

Brewster Kahle started planning the Internet Archive (creators of the Wayback Machine) in 1980 at the MIT AI lab, when he figured that machines worth talking to would need a library to learn from. Forty-six years later, he says the biggest obstacle to that future is a handful of companies that want to control information instead of selling it.We recorded this conversation live at DWeb Camp 2026 outside Berlin. We talk about where the early web went wrong and what Europe's copyright carve-out

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5:31

All Models Are Wrong Introduction

All Models Are Wrong ·

2026/10/01

Find the video version of this episode here.As some of you may have seen, the blog and podcast I ran for 7 years ended but the rebirth is here. The short description for All Models Are Wrong is:“Technology is never just technology. All Models Are Wrong examines who controls and benefits from these systems and how they might be organized differently.”My thesis is that the continued development and introduction of “frontier technologies” will (as it has already) bisect traditional political camps in

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7:28

This is the End of The Blockchain Socialist

All Models Are Wrong ·

2026/09/30

Thank you for following me along for the ride so far. I hope you’ll continue sticking around. Subscribe - https://allmodelsarewrong.online/ Support the show Subscribe on Substack - https://allmodelsarewrong.online/ Buy my book - https://linktr.ee/blockchainradicals

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28:33

Yanis Varoufakis on blockchain, the digital euro and...

All Models Are Wrong ·

2026/07/23

I spoke to Yanis Varoufakis, economist and former Greek finance minister, at Web3 Summit in Berlin on June 18th, 2026, about why he thinks blockchain is one of the few tools left that can actually pull power away from Big Tech and the banks. Truly a privilege that I had the chance to speak with him on such a stage. We dig into his concept of techno-feudalism and cloud capital, his monetary commons proposal for a transparent monetary system that could undercut private banks, and the digital wa...

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32:25

Zero Knowledge: Solution for Digital Identity? w/ Leo...

All Models Are Wrong ·

2026/07/16

I spoke to Leo Fan, founder of Cysic, about what zero-knowledge proofs actually are, and why they might be one of the more promising answers to the internet's identity problem. We dig into how a ZK proof lets you prove something is true without handing over any identifying personal information, why that matters as digital identity systems become pushed by governments, and Cysic's model for verifiable compute. Leo also breaks down why the hardware and cost problems around ZK have kept it fr...

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64:55

AI, Empire, and the Left's Missing Voice w/ Nick Srnicek

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2026/07/02

I spoke to Nick Srnicek, author of Platform Capitalism, co-author of Inventing the Future, and most recently Silicon Empires, about why AI is consolidating Big Tech's power rather than disrupting it. We dig into why the AI upstarts remain dependent on the infrastructure of the incumbents, why the gap between open and closed models may widen as frontier training costs spiral upward, and the real biosecurity risks buried under Silicon Valley's safety discourse. Nick also breaks down what ...

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63:34

Harnessing Collective Intelligence better than LLMs...

All Models Are Wrong ·

2026/06/11

I spoke to Sean Geobey, associate professor at the University of Waterloo and Director of Groupthink Labs, about collective intelligence, cooperative economics, and what decentralized technology could actually offer the solidarity economy. We dig into how collective intelligence works at scale, from participatory budgeting experiments in Kitchener to the structural barriers that make setting up a cooperative three times harder than incorporating a business. We also get into the limits of GDP ...

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62:49

The Intelligence Curse w/ Evan Miyazono

All Models Are Wrong ·

2026/05/25

I spoke to Evan Miyazono, founder of Atlas Computing, about the neglected risks of advanced AI and what it would actually take to govern it. We dig into the threats he thinks aren't getting enough attention, from asymmetrically offensive cyber capabilities and economic disruption to what he calls the "intelligence curse," a dynamic where governments lose any incentive to invest in their populations once labor becomes synthetic. We also get into formal verification as a framework for AI govern...

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63:22

Self-Repaying Loans and the Fight for Crypto's Soul...

All Models Are Wrong ·

2026/05/07

I spoke to Scoopy Trooples, the pseudonymous co-founder of Alchemix, about self-repaying loans, the wreckage of DeFi scams, and what ethical crypto finance could actually look like. We dig into how Alchemix works, allowing your debt pays itself off over time and what's new in V3. We also get into the broader rot in the space: meme coin pump-and-dumps, celebrity rug pulls, prediction market gambling, and how DeFi summer's promise curdled into financial nihilism. Scoopy is one of the rare crypt...

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59:54

Sovereignty for Sale w/ Atossa Abrahamian

All Models Are Wrong ·

2026/04/23

I spoke to Atossa Araxia Abrahamian, an independent journalist and author of The Hidden Globe, about the world of offshore finance, special economic zones, and network states. We dig into her reporting on a proposed crypto enclave in St. Kitts and Nevis, the history and reality of these zones, and what happens when libertarian ideas about sovereignty and markets collide with real communities pushing back. The network state adjacent project is called Destiny and is being proposed by Olivier Ja...

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42:28

MEV Is Broken on Ethereum — Can Encrypted Mempools...

All Models Are Wrong ·

2026/04/14

I spoke to Luis Bezzenberger of Brainbot and core contributor to Shutter Network, about MEV and threshold encryption for encrypted mempools. Luis comes from a background in distributed systems and has spent years thinking about how cryptography can level the playing field between ordinary users and sophisticated actors who exploit the transparency of public mempools. We dig into how threshold encryption works, why encrypted mempools like what Shutter Network is building, could protect users f...

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59:33

Crypto and Stablecoins in Tanzania w/ Victor Muhagachi

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2026/04/02

I spoke to Victor Muhagachi, co-founder of NEDA Labs, building digital asset payment infrastructure in Tanzania and East Africa, about what it actually looks like to bring crypto to communities in this context. Victor grew up watching mobile money transform how people transact across Africa but also watching 15-20% of people's money disappear just in the act of digitizing it. We dig into NEDA Labs work on Tanzanian Shilling stablecoin rails and the experience of talking to regulators. We...

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42:56

Why he left crypto for AI w/ Nader Dabit

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2026/03/24

I spoke to Nader Dabit, longtime crypto developer and educator who built at Aave, Lens, and Developer DAO, about what it felt like to be at the frontier of Web3 and why he eventually left. Nader spent years genuinely believing in decentralized social and censorship resistant platforms, and we dig into why those ideas haven't found their footing: the brutal difficulty of onboarding people, a culture that kept rewarding hype over substance, and watching the space forgive grifters over and over ...

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63:12

Collective action strategies in the age of AI w/ Nick...

All Models Are Wrong ·

2026/03/04

I spoke to Nick Vincent, assistant professor of computing science at Simon Fraser University and author of the Data Leverage substack, about what it actually means that AI systems are built on the collective output of humanity's digital labor and what we can do about it. Nick has spent years researching how data functions as a bargaining tool, and we get into the nitty gritty of what that looks like in practice: data strikes, data poisoning, and redirecting your data to competitors as forms o...

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48:49

Delete Coinbase! Use this instead... w/ UnhappyBen...

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2026/02/23

I spoke to UnhappyBen, head of growth and marketing at Peer (formerly known as ZKP2P) which is a service that allows you to officially delete Coinbase and every other centralized exchange account you may have. Peer is protocol that allows people to do P2P trading of crypto assets and fiat through neobanks like Revolut, Venmo, Wise, etc. while providing a high degree of privacy using zero knowledge proofs. In case you didn't see it, I spoke about the solution in a recent video of mine where I ...

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54:23

Public or Perish: Decentralized Municipal Socialism...

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2026/02/15

I spoke to Boris Mamlyuk, co-founder of Clean App an AI-powered, crowdsourced environmental app designed for users to report waste and hazards in real-time, essentially a system for reporting civic feedback. I had him on to talk about the app which boasts over 1 million installs, his critique of the crypto libertarian project's capture by Wall Street interests, and how decentralized technologies can strengthen the civic sphere against both state surveillance and corporate data monopolie...

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75:43

What if AI was Cooperative instead? w/ Tan Zhi Xuan

All Models Are Wrong ·

2026/02/05

I spoke to Tan Zhi Xuan, Assistant Professor at the National University of Singapore's Department of Computer Science and founder of the Cooperative Intelligence and Systems Lab, a research group confronting the gap between the rationalist AI alignment discourse focused on superintelligence and what is actually happening. I had her on to talk about her work on cooperative AI (designing AI systems and institutions that promote beneficial cooperation among AI-empowered actors rather than confli...

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36:14

Did we learn anything from Anonymous? w/ Kate...

All Models Are Wrong ·

2026/01/27

Continuing the publication of interviews from DevConnect in Buenos Aires, I sat down with Kate Stapleton, a former member of Anonymous and privacy advocate, now able to speak publicly after the statute of limitations expired. In this interview, Kate recounts the origins of Anonymous in early internet culture, IRC, and the Church of Scientology protests, while challenging the myth of Anonymous as a single unified movement. For safety and clarity, she does not reveal her former online handles, ...

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28:34

Why did Democracy fail in DAOs? w/ Theo Beutel |...

All Models Are Wrong ·

2026/01/19

Continuing the publication of interviews from DevConnect in Buenos Aires, I sat down with Theo Beutel (academic secretariat at the Ethereum Foundation, researcher at Centre for Democracy Studies Aarau, University of Zurich) to reflect on attempts at democracy with DAOs. As someone who has worked as the governance lead at several DAOs, Theo had a lot of insight to share. We discussed his recent paper Digital Democracy in Decentralised Autonomous Organisations, the role of academia in Ethereum ...

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56:31

Is Crypto Governance Dead? w/ Eugene Leventhal |...

All Models Are Wrong ·

2026/01/12

In this episode recorded at DevConnect in Buenos Aires, I sit down with Eugene Leventhal (researcher at Metagov, podcaster at Governance Futures, new head of governance at Octant) to discuss the current crisis in crypto governance. The general feeling is that governance has been declared dead, foundations are being pushed aside, and the decentralization theater is being abandoned now that Trump's election has lifted compliance pressure. Eugene unpacks what he calls the "original sin of DAOs" ...

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