Uploaded November 2020 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Dan Faggella is Founder and Head of Research at Emerj and advises the UN, Interpol and global enterprises on Artificial Intelligence. He is also a former MMA coach and fighter.

In this conversation we discuss: Lotus eaters and world eaters; digital dominance and tools for today's Napoleons; advertising and future online business models; virtual reality and novel experience; political struggle in digital space and the battle for the computational substrate; the permeability of the Western online ecosystem compared with China's; how physical power interacts with digital power; noomachia, Russia and disinformation; industry and solidarity as foundations for political and economic prowess; Vladislav Surkov's short story "without sky"; societal values and survival.

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