Dario Rodrigues

In the early chapters of human civilization, trust had almost nothing to know or doubt. It resided in small circles of kinship and very close relations in families, clans, and tribes. In these united ancestral communities, trusting was as natural as breathing. Trust was built with face-to-face interactions, shared experiences, and mutual dependencies. Breaking the […]

1. Da confiança ancestral à situação atual Nos primeiros capítulos da civilização humana, a confiança não tinha quase nada que saber ou duvidar. Residia nos pequenos círculos de parentesco e relações muito próximas em famílias, clãs e tribos. Nestas unidas comunidades ancestrais, confiar era tão natural como respirar. A confiança era construída com interações cara […]

Felizmente, alguns líderes antecipam soluções cruciais: Sam Altman usa a criptografia para proteger os humanos da IA, e Elon Musk muda modelos de negócios e mobiliza a comunidade para prevenir o cancelamento da divergência. Depois do Conselho de Administração da OpenAI ter despedido Sam Altman, acusando-o de “não ser consistentemente sincero”, muitos colaboradores da empresa […]

Fortunately, some leaders anticipate critical solutions: Sam Altman uses cryptography to protect humans from AI, and Elon Musk changes business models and mobilizes the community to prevent cancellation. After OpenAI’s Board of Directors fired Sam Altman, accusing him of ‘not being consistently sincere,’ many company employees who had helped create ChatGPT resigned or threatened to […]

In the current socioeconomic reality, money and power intertwine in a corrosive cycle that weakens fundamental human values and fuels corruption, with war and arms trade being the most devastating examples. There is an urgent need to rethink the one-dimensional nature of our monetary system, where financial incentives are deeply disconnected from human values. The […]

Elon Musk can help free humanity from predatory business models and expose the viral spreading of dangerous beliefs. Greed and partisanship influence false memories and leads individuals to accept pseudo-lies as accurate, increasing citizens’ predisposition to assimilate fake news and false narratives. It is not enough to observe the polarized electoral results in several European […]

By creating technologies, human beings shifted from contemplating nature to manipulating it, which led to millennia of extraordinary progress. However, technologies are a double-edged sword; the downside we always have to bear is that risks increase with technology’s effectiveness; unfortunately, these risks are sometimes misunderstood. All recognize the nuclear threat, but many underestimate the danger […]

The fourth chapter of the book “Political and Economic Implications of Blockchain Technology in Business and Healthcare” is political, arguing that digital centralization should not be an option for the free societies in the Blockchain Era. It presents political solutions and recommendations that figuratively are equivalent to a vaccine against the ideological virus of single […]

The third chapter of the book “Political and Economic Implications of Blockchain Technology in Business and Healthcare” discusses money’s essence, arguing that cryptocurrencies can be considered real money from a market perspective despite having no intrinsic value. As seen throughout the chapter, digital money bring together characteristics and technical attributes of traditional money with comparative […]