Erik is joined on this episode by Richard Craib (@richardcraib), founder of Numerai and Erasure, and Riva-Melissa Tez (@rivatez), part of strategy at Intel.

They discuss:

- What Richard is working on at Numerai, a hedge fund that gives away its (anonymized) data for free.

- The Erasure protocol and the value of information marketplaces.

- Whether prediction markets for stocks can work.

- Whether the Numerai model could work with other types of data, for example, in healthcare.

- Whether the quality of startups in San Francisco is going down or up.

- The future of universities.

- The lack of diversity of political views in San Francisco.

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