Packy McCormick

In an attempt to avoid an impasse during the negotiations, one of Cognition’s founders proposed a contest: either he would play Thiel in chess or Ta in poker. If he won, Founders Fund would cede to his demands, and vice versa.

Summing up: Banks’s conception of the Culture is driven by three central ideas. First, there is the thought that, in the future, basic problems of social organization will be given essentially technocratic solutions, and so the competition between cultures will be based upon their viral qualities, not their functional attributes. Second, there is... See more