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2+title = "Neal Davis: Urbit, Sentience, and DAOs | The UIUC Talkshow #21"
3+podcast = "The UIUC Talkshow"
4+date = "2022-09-30"
5+URL = "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jO9HwAbf-tY"
6+image = "https://storage.googleapis.com/media.urbit.org/site/ecosystem/podcasts/uiuc.png"
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9+Neal Davis is a Computer Science Professor at UIUC and Urbit's director of developer experience.
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11+Since we started the UIUC Talkshow, we've said the show is about people who are sane in a way most people are crazy. Neal Davis is exactly one of them. It’s not surprise he believes we need to be weirder.
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13+He started as a nuclear engineer but throughout his life, he's reflected on the definition of a "good and wise life." This led him to want to "elevate sentience" in his life and the life of others. A beautiful and unique pursuit.
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15+That philosophy guides the type of work he devotes himself to and that’s he how he found Urbit, an ambitious project to rebuild and rethink the internet from first principles.
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17+Join us on this conversation to learn more about Urbit, Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs), Balaji’s Network States, and why the best things that happen to you are accidents.
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19+This is the UIUC Talkshow.
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25+Neal Davis' Twitter: https://twitter.com/sigilante
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27+Neal Davis’ Urbit: ~lagrev-nocfep
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29+Urbit's Website: https://urbit.org/
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31+Urbit's Hackaton: https://uc4uc.com/
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