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Nov 12, 2020Liked by Nikhil Basu Trivedi

How do you imagine the government working together with civilians to create the next big thing? Will there be new financial mechanisms or regulations? Curious to hear your thoughts on this.

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Nov 12, 2020Liked by Nikhil Basu Trivedi

Thoughtful post and good questions.

I spent a lot of time tackling disinfo via video, specifically AI-generated audio/video (deepfakes). The way you framed your question as "decrease" misinfo versus "eliminate" is the right approach (i.e. it's impossible to completely get rid of).

Our view to increase trust and decrease disinfo is encapsulated in a new video platform https://Maven.video that better aligns incentives between stakeholders.

You'll still get extremism but will people really pay en masse? Will creators really go down deeper in extremism with fewer and fewer payers? Extremism thrives on attention and this flips the model. The end result here is an increase in higher-quality content.

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Nov 11, 2020Liked by Nikhil Basu Trivedi

Whatif.vc is a good place to check out mental health early stage investments. A friend of joined as a partner and when it got started last year and they are doing really well. It was interesting to see Calm sponsoring the voting results.

I believe if people get more engaged politically (volunteer at the voting booth), they would be able to trust more. We don't trust what we don't understand. We don't trust people we don't know. I am choosing to engage in conversations mostly privately. I found that people tend to get a bit unlike themselves online behind the keyboard.

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