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@jack Dorsey Tech and Freedom (Fragment 3 of the full transcript being prepared by me.) So who do you have to ask for permission? (1) Government, (2) corporation, (3) your self. Number one we discussed a little bit which is the government. The government is very similar to number two which is a corporation. The difference is a government has a monopoly on violence. It has an army. It can force you to do things through weapons. While you may think you own a piece of property, or you own a piece of clothing, or anything that you feel like you have ownership over, it's actually just a lease from the government. They're giving you permission to continue to own it. They can seize it at any point if you do something that is against their policy or against their laws, or against their their rules. So there is no true ownership with this monopoly of violence. [00:06:24] A corporation is a little bit different. It's actually considered to be a citizen with the rights of a citizen but has super rights as well which reduces the liability on individuals and puts them into this abstract shadow. So they can do things that a government necessarily couldn't do, an individual couldn't do. And a lot of the power of those permission sets that we talked about money, speech, and intelligence are going into corporations. [00:06:59] So, almost every interaction you have today through your phone is backed by some company, and that company has one person ultimately who is leading it, and that one person represents a single point of failure. If the government wants to coerce that person, they can put pressure through their monopoly of violence, and they can force that CEO, force that leader of the company to do things that they want. [00:07:28] All these corporations have business models. They have profit incentive. You are not their customer, especially within social media. You are actually the product. The advertisers are the customer. And when the advertisers want something done, and they say if you don't do this we're going to pull our advertising money, and it hurts your business, those corporations are going to act. And you see this in traditional media and you see this in social media as well. [00:07:56] The final entity that you have to ask for permission is yourself. We build up identity. We build up ego. We build up an understanding of how people relate to us and think about us. You've heard this term “cancel culture”, and what it means to be judged by the culture, or be judged by society, or be judged by a community, and that is this implicit permission that you're forcing yourself to do. You're not going to do certain things because you fear potentially how it might build up your identity, or take away from your identity, or your reputation. And what I'm going to talk about for the majority of this talk is how you take that back, how you become more self-aware, and how you recognize where you're asking for permission, and where through better technology you can build it for yourself. [00:08:56] (To be continued)

@jack Dorsey Tech and Freedom (Fragment 2 of the full transcript being prepared by me.) The next one is speech. So, today it's a lot easier to speak freely, and you have tools to do so. But you're still going to a site, to an app, you're putting your name, and your email address, your phone number. They're checking this information. They grant you permission. They grant you a slice of their platform for you to express yourself. If you're trying to get your message out to the world, you go through media, you have to get permission from the media whether that be a journalist, or a reporter, or a time on the channel which is paid for by their advertisers. So, just to speak and even to speak point to point, peer to peer through iMessage, or Whatsapp, or signal, in many cases these accounts can be shut down if you don't do the right thing, if you don't follow policy. And you could be the best actor in the world in terms of following all the rules and following all the policies, and these systems may make a mistake and shut down your account making you have to go to the company or go to the service and ask for permission to get your account back. [00:03:50] Intelligence is one that's on the horizon now. Long time ago, intelligence was kept in the Church, before the printing press, in order to get to the intelligence. And what I mean by intelligence is not the intelligence of your self but true intelligence which is from a network from a group of people from a community from society all coming together to advance Humanity. In order for you to read the scripture for instance, or to read the latest science, you had to get permission from these institutions. And the printing press opened that up. The institutions fought heavily against that for hundreds of years. The internet has opened that up even more. But now this is all about to change because of AI. AI has the ability to look at all the written intelligence that we've ever put forth in humanity ― all the images, all the video, all the media ― and bring it together in an aggregation and understand it in a way that you as an individual would never be able to understand, but a company who is putting these things together can understand. So, this ― right here ― is a picture of a drawing of a neuron, and there's millions, if not billions, of these in your brain. And individually they do nothing but taken together they have created every single thing that you're aware of, every single thing that you can think of in the future, everything you can dream of. And all of these systems, all these permissions, are based on networks of these very very simple cells. [00:05:32]

@jack Dorsey #Tech and Freedom (Fragment 1) Okay. Thank you all. First I just want to express my gratitude to Rick for curating this festival and Feta for making it all happen. Just a round of applause for them. It's been a beautiful weekend. So, we're going to talk about permission and all the things that you have to ask for permission for in your life. Some of these things you probably don't realize. Some of them you do. And we're going to talk about how technology can take away that need to ask for permission and actually how to practice it. And this is a talk. This is a conversation. So, if you have a question, if you want me to repeat something, if you want me to go deeper into something you don't understand ― a concept ― just raise your hand and we'll run a mic over to you. If you get bored, you need a cigarette, you need an espresso, you need to walk out ― it's too hot ― there's no judgment, no bad feeling. Everyone comes at this at the time they need to come in. So don't feel bad about walking out and blowing this whole thing off either. We're broadcasting globally as well and I'm super excited to be here to talk about this. So, next slide. So, everything you see on this slide ― (1) money, (2) speech, and (3) intelligence ― today, you have to to ask for a permission to interact. I'm sure you all have had an experience of going to a bank, and you put money in, and you put more money in, and you put more money in, and then you need the money, and you need to take some out, and you need to talk with someone about taking out. In some cases, they may block you from taking that money out. In some cases, they may hold the money. In some cases, they say, I don't know where the money went. It's disappeared. But to even participate in this economy today you need permission. You need permission from your government to actually use the currency that you have in your pocket. You need permission from your bank of course, and every single person you interact with also requires that permission just to participate. There's no freedom in this. It's all friction, and some of that friction is good to minimize fraud and minimize criminal activity. But most of you in this room and online have to pay a pretty significant cost to protect against those things. (To be continued)

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