Show Notes
Sam Hammond is is Chief Economist at the Foundation for American Innovation. He discusses:
How collapsing transaction costs could push towards privatising the nation-state
The “distributed denial of service” problem for courts and regulators
Why perfect enforcement of existing laws would be effectively totalitarian
Estonia's government-as-API as a model for AI-era governance
Whether 20th-century social democracy was a technological aberration
Why post-AGI states might look more like Dubai than Denmark
Mormons, religion, and social scaffolding for a post-scarcity world
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