Podcast appearances and mentions of Glen Weyl

In this conversation we speak with a true expert at the intersection of AI and Faith, Glen Weyl. He is Founder and Research Lead of the Microsoft Research Project: The Plural Technology Collaboratory. Interviewed by Gilad Berenstein, they dive into the differences between East and West when it comes to the ways AI and technology are woven into religious and spiritual life and more importantly, the influence that these communities have on the development of faith. Glen shares his strongly held view that in the US, voices of people of faith are often too far outside of these key conversations and how we may be able to rectify that.Views and opinions expressed by podcast guests are their own and do not necessarily reflect the view of AI and Faith or any of its leadership.Production: Pablo Salmones and Penny YuenHost: Gilad BerensteinGuest: Glen WeylEditing: Isabelle BraconnotMusic from #UppbeatLicense code: 1ZHLF7FMCNHU39

This episode of the Lawfare Podcast features Glen Weyl, economist and author at Microsoft Research; Jacob Mchangama, Executive Director of the Future of Free Speech Project at Vanderbilt; and Ravi Iyer, Managing Director of the USC Marshall School Neely Center.Together with Renee DiResta, Associate Research Professor at the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown and Contributing Editor at Lawfare, they talk about design vs moderation. Conversations about the challenges of social media often focus on moderation—what stays up and what comes down. Yet the way a social media platform is built influences everything from what we see, to what is amplified, to what content is created in the first place—as users respond to incentives, nudges, and affordances. Design processes are often invisible or opaque, and users have little power—though new decentralized platforms are changing that. So they talk about designing a prosocial media for the future, and the potential for an online world without Caesars.Articles Referenced:https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.10834https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4178647https://www.techdirt.com/2025/01/27/empowering-users-not-overlords-overcoming-digital-helplessness/https://kgi.georgetown.edu/research-and-commentary/better-feeds/https://knightcolumbia.org/content/the-algorithmic-management-of-polarization-and-violence-on-social-mediahttps://time.com/7258238/social-media-tang-siddarth-weyl/https://futurefreespeech.org/scope-creep/https://futurefreespeech.org/preventing-torrents-of-hate-or-stifling-free-expression-online/https://www.thefai.org/posts/shaping-the-future-of-social-media-with-middlewareTo receive ad-free podcasts, become a Lawfare Material Supporter at www.patreon.com/lawfare. You can also support Lawfare by making a one-time donation at https://givebutter.com/lawfare-institute.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/lawfare. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Fri, 28 Feb 2025 06:30:00 +0000 https://tap.podigee.io/49-platform-classics-seven 59fb3898b4741c60e1eaf0dd6278442b by E. Glen Weyl Paper covered in this episode Weyl, E. G. (2010). A Price Theory of Multi-sided Platforms. American Economic Review, 100(4), 1642-1672 Disclaimer This podcast is generated using artificial intelligence technology, drawing content from published scientific papers. While we strive for accuracy, please note: The episode synthesizes and interprets scientific literature, not original research. AI-generated content may contain errors or misinterpretations. This podcast is for informational purposes only and should not be considered professional or medical advice. Listeners are encouraged to refer to the original scientific papers for comprehensive and authoritative information. The views expressed may not necessarily reflect those of the original authors or their institutions. We welcome feedback and corrections. Please consult with qualified professionals before applying any information presented in this podcast. full by E. Glen Weyl no Daniel Trabucchi, Tommaso Buganza and Philip Meier

The Federalist Papers, a series of essays written in the late 18th century, advocated for the ratification of the U.S. Constitution and promoted the idea of a nation designed by intent rather than by accident.  On Tuesday, September 24th, 2024 at 12:00 PM PT, Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence celebrated the launch of the Digitalist Papers, which seek to inspire a new era of governance, informed by the transformative power of technology to address the significant challenges and opportunities posed by AI and other digital technologies.  This event was held at Stanford University's Hoover Institution, featuring presentations and dynamic discussions with the authors—experts in economics, law, technology, management, and political science—who have contributed essays to this newly edited volume. These essays explore how the intersection of technology with each of these fields might lead to better governance. By assembling these diverse voices and releasing these essays ahead of the November election, we aimed to shift the conversation toward designing a more transparent and accountable system of governance. Our goal is to impact the development and integration of digital technologies and transform social structures for the digital age. Join us as we embark on this pivotal journey to redefine the future of governance. This was an in-person event open to the public. Authors include: John H. Cochrane (Stanford), “AI, Society, and Democracy: Just Relax” Sarah Friar (OpenAI) and Laura Bisesto (OpenAI), “The Potential for AI to Restore Local Community Connectedness, the Bedrock of a Healthy Democracy” Mona Hamdy (Anomaly and Harvard University), Johnnie Moore (JDA Worldwide and The Congress of Christian Leaders), and E. Glen Weyl (Plural Technology Collaboratory), “Techno-ideologies of the Twenty-first Century” Reid Hoffman (Greylock) and Greg Beato, “Informational GPS” Lawrence Lessig (Harvard), “Protected Democracy” James Manyika (Google and Alphabet), “Getting AI Right: A 2050 Thought Experiment” Jennifer Pahlka (Niskanen Center and the Federation of American Scientists), “AI Meets the Cascade of Rigidity” Nathaniel Persily (Stanford), “Misunderstanding AI's Democracy Problem” Eric Schmidt (Former CEO and Chairman of Google), “Democracy 2.0” Divya Siddarth (Collective Intelligence Project), Saffron Huang (Collective Intelligence Project), Audrey Tang (Collective Intelligence Project), “A Vision of Democratic AI” Lily L. Tsai (MIT) and Alex Pentland (Stanford), “Rediscovering the Pleasures of Pluralism: The Potential of Digitally Mediated Civic Engagement” Eugene Volokh (Stanford and UCLA), “Generative AI and Political Power”

Intro I think the 80,000 Hours Podcast is a great show. Despite the world of podcasts overflowing with content to choose from, it's reliably been a high-quality production that's been a regular part of my listening habits ever since I discovered it. It was also probably one of the first routes I become more aware of the EA community, which I suspect I might not be alone by.[1] So, as the podcast numbers ticked up, the vague idea to write up a post shouting out some of my favourite episodes took root. I didn't get far with it from there, and now the unreasonable effectiveness of the 80k podcast production team has forced my hand! So in the post I'm going to link to my 10 favourite episodes, along with some final thoughts at the end. I hope to share with you some of my favourite episodes, but I [...] ---Outline:(00:07) Intro(01:12) My Top 10(01:16) 10-4(01:19) 10: #144 – Athena Aktipis on why cancer is actually one of the fundamental phenomena in our universe(01:54) 9: #175 – Lucia Coulter on preventing lead poisoning for $1.66 per child(02:26) 8: #139 – Alan Hájek on puzzles and paradoxes in probability and expected value(03:00) 7: #153 – Elie Hassenfeld on two big picture critiques of GiveWells approach, and six lessons from their recent work(03:39) 6: #129 – Dr James Tibenderana on the state of the art in malaria control and elimination(04:15) 5: #185 – Lewis Bollard on the 7 most promising ways to end factory farming, and whether AI is going to be good or bad for animals(05:00) 4: #67 – David Chalmers on the nature and ethics of consciousness(05:40) Top 3(05:43) 3: #43 – Daniel Ellsberg on the creation of nuclear doomsday machines, the institutional insanity that maintains them, and how they could be dismantled(06:22) 2: #145 – Christopher Brown on why slavery abolition wasnt inevitable(07:07) 1: #100 – Having a successful career with depression, anxiety and imposter syndrome(07:51) Final Thoughts(07:54) Honourable Mentions(08:10) #52 – Glen Weyl on radical institutional reforms that make capitalism and democracy work better, and how to get them(08:52) #116 – Luisa Rodriguez on why global catastrophes seem unlikely to kill us all(09:29) #190 – Eric Schwitzgebel on whether the US is conscious(09:59) But JWS, where are the AI episodes?(12:03) EpilogueThe original text contained 3 footnotes which were omitted from this narration. --- First published: September 9th, 2024 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/C8HWX3XsoB3krSkbm/my-top-10-picks-from-200-episodes-of-the-80k-podcast --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

Chegamos à metade do ano, e com ela uma novidade: a lista de livros para o segundo semestre, uma curadoria de Cristina de Luca e Silvia Bassi para afiar seu cérebro e entender melhor essas mudanças diárias que nos afetam. Quantos livros você quer ler até o final do ano? A nossa lista de 10 sugestões pode ajudar na escolha.Links do episódioO coach de um trilhão de dólares: O manual de liderança do Vale do Silício de Bill Campbell - escrito por Erick Schimdt, Jonathan Rosenberg e Allan Eagle.O playbook de liderança de Bill Campbell - as regras do coach do Vale do Silício, resumidasBrave New Words: How AI Will Revolutionize Education (and Why That's a Good Thing) - escrito por Salman KhanOn the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything - escrito por Natan Silver數位 Plurality: The Future of Collaborative Technology and Democracy - escrito por E. Glen Weyl e Audrey TangMay Contain Lies: How Stories, Statistics and Studies Exploit Our Biases - And What We Can Do About It - escrito por Alex EdmansAI Needs You: How We Can Change AI's Future and Save Our Own - escrito por Verity HardingA geração ansiosa: Como a infância hiperconectada está causando uma epidemia de transtornos mentais - escrito por Jonathan HaidtPensamento eficaz: Como transformar situações cotidianas em resultados extraordinários - escrito por Shane ParrishHow Life Works: A User's Guide to the New Biology - escrito por Philip BallBillionaire, Nerd, Saviour, King - escrito por Anupreeta Das  A The Shift é uma plataforma de conteúdo que descomplica os contextos da inovação disruptiva e da economia digital.Visite o site www.theshift.info e assine a newsletter

Last year, the venture capitalist Marc Andreesen published a document he called “The Techno-Optimist Manifesto.” In it, he argued that “everything good is downstream of growth,” government regulation is bad, and that the only way to achieve real progress is through technology.Of course, Silicon Valley has always been driven by libertarian sensibilities and an optimistic view of technology. But the radical techno-optimism of people like Andreesen, and billionaire entrepreneurs like Peter Thiel and Elon Musk, has morphed into something more extreme. In their view, technology and government are always at odds with one another.But if that's true, then how do you explain someone like Audrey Tang?Tang, who, until May of this year, was Taiwan's first Minister of Digital Affairs, is unabashedly optimistic about technology. But she's also a fervent believer in the power of democratic government.To many in Silicon Valley, this is an oxymoron. But Tang doesn't see it that way. To her, technology and government are – and have always been – symbiotic.So I wanted to ask her what a technologically enabled democracy might look like – and she has plenty of ideas. At times, our conversation got a little bit wonky. But ultimately, this is a conversation about a better, more inclusive form of democracy. And why she thinks technology will get us there.Just a quick note: we recorded this interview a couple of months ago, while Tang was still the Minister of Digital Affairs.Mentions:“vTaiwan”“Polis”“Plurality: The Future of Collaborative Technology and Democracy” by E. Glen Weyl, Audrey Tang and ⿻ Community“Collective Constitutional AI: Aligning a Language Model with Public Input,” AnthropicFurther Reading:“The simple but ingenious system Taiwan uses to crowdsource its laws” by Chris Horton“How Taiwan's Unlikely Digital Minister Hacked the Pandemic” by Andrew Leonard

Davis Mattek is joined by E. Glen Weyl, author of PLURALITY: THE FUTURE OF COLLABORATIVE TECHNOLOGY AND DEMOCRACY to discuss Glen's new book, how his thinking has changed since publishing Radical Markets, co-author Audrey Tang's role as the digital minister of Taiwan and much more. Draft for $1,500,000 on UnderDog Fantasy & Get A $250 Deposit Bonus With A FREE Pick 'Em Bonus Entry: https://play.underdogfantasy.com/p-davis-mattek Sign up for premium fantasy football content, get a weekly BONUS episode of The Taekcast and get exclusive Discord access: www.patreon.com/davismattek Subscribe to the AutoMattek Absolutes Newsletter: https://automattekabsolutes.beehiiv.com/ Audio-Only Podcast Feed For All Davis Mattek Streams: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/grinding-the-variance-a-davis-mattek-fantasy-football-pod/id1756145256 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

En este episodio #LaÚltimaFrontera, Emi Garzón recibe a Audrey Tang, ministra digital de #Taiwan y Glen Weyl, fundador de la fundación Radicalxchange y de la oficina del director de tecnología y economista político y tecnólogo social de #Microsoft. También, hablan sobre la IA como nuevo motor de la industria automotriz, la seguridad, asistencia digital, entretenimiento, conducción autónoma y monitoreo. ¿Cómo están las automotrices introduciendo a la Inteligencia Artificial?

We know by now that the old system is crumbling, that the old paradigms are no longer fit for purpose and we need to take part in the birth of something new: this is what this podcast is for. But what are the tools and how can we begin actually to build something relevant and useful within the strictures of a system that is still trying to cling onto legitimacy and power? Michael Haupt was a key figure in the widespread introduction of mobile telephones to South Africa ahead of the first all-race elections in 1994.  He was head-hunted soon after and the next decade saw him working around the globe in 16 cities on 6 continents.  He was in Thailand, taking a year out when he had a vision - an actual not-expected, not-planned, not-drug-or-meditation-mediated set of visions - that showed him how the world could look and feel like if we manage to craft a route through to what he calls the Transition Phase of our evolution. This moment was pivotal in his life. Now he's a 'Resilience Strategist' bridging between those businesses that are switched on enough to know that corporate greenwashing is no longer useful, and agile enough to find what is. He's building mycelial links to others who are working in this area and he's thinking deeply - so deeply - about where we could go and the actual logistics of how we might get there. I've been holding a lot of conversations on the back of launching Any Human Power about how we could build a future that is fit for purpose, where the human and More-Than-Human worlds flourish on a thriving planet. Thanks to Audrey Tang and Glen Weyl, I can see some of the routes through to political and technological change. Thanks to the Gaia Foundation, the Sustainable Food Trust, the million and one permaculture organisations around the world, I can see a way to mending our totally broken food and farming system. I can see ways to shift transport and power generation and city design.  What I have lacked, until now, is the ideas that might bring the great behemoth that is the corporate world on board in a way that's useful.  And this is what Michael is doing. As ever, this was a wide, deep conversation and it pushed the edge of my thinking, but it brought me to a place where I can more clearly see a few more steps forward. I hope it does the same for you. 00:00 Introduction: Reconnecting with Nature01:19 Welcome to the Podcast01:40 Michael's Journey to Resilience Strategy02:14 Load Shedding in South Africa03:49 Understanding Resilience Strategy04:52 Michael's Life Journey and Worldview07:40 The Vision on the Beach12:15 Potential Futures and Human Coordination15:22 Cycles of Civilisations18:12 Class-Based vs. Values-Based Societies20:19 Emerging Consciousness and Systemic Change22:01 The Role of Currency and Mutual Credit27:25 Coordinating for Systemic Change28:55 South African Elections and Corporate Responsibility32:10 Legal Personhood for Natural Entities35:12 The Mycelial Network and Future Coordination38:28 Encouraging Systemic Change39:13 Resilience Strategies and City Exclusion40:12 Rural Experiments and Human Purpose41:12 Challenges of Implementation45:27 Local Currencies and Community Commitment50:50 Ownership vs. Stewardship53:22 Rediscovering Connectedness57:26 Emerging Incentive Mechanisms01:09:35 Forking Governance and Parallel Systems01:16:25 The Power of NarrativeMichael on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelhaupt/A blog past about the Thai beach experience: https://michaelhaupt.com/the-beach-4b6e60e407e8Michael - Liminal School liminalschool.org Cycle of Civilization: https://bit.ly/7-Phases-Glo Interstructure: https://bit.ly/Int-Struct Roger Briggs, Emerging World - explains the shifts in consciousness: https://bit.ly/Em-World Will Ruddick, Commitment Pooling: https://bit.ly/CommPool Joe Brewer Bioregional Movement: https://bit.ly/JBrewerClare Graves' Momentous Leap: https://bit.ly/MoLeap GaiaNet: https://www.gaianet.earth/Dark Matter Labs: https://darkmatterlabs.org/

If the current electoral/governance system is not fit for purpose (and who could possibly imagine it was?) how can we lay the foundations for new ways of organising democracy, new ways of voting, new ideas of what governance is for and how it could work in the twenty-first century.  How, in short, do we create space for future generations to be able to decide their own futures in ways that are not constrained by material or political strictures they've inherited from us? In this ground-breaking conversation with Glenn Weyl, economist, philosopher, film producer, visionary - and co-author with Audrey Tang of the book Plurality, which emerged from a collaboration to ask all of these questions - and from Audrey's experiences in re-shaping the democracy in Taiwan towards connection, collaboration and - above all -peaceful resolutions of the many internal contradictions of that state. Glen currently works at Microsoft where he is the founder and research lead of the Microsoft Research Special Project the Plural Technology Collaboratory, though he was previously GeoPolitical advisor to the CTO.  He also founded and serves on the board of the RadicalxChange Foundation the leading thing tank in the web 3 space, and is founder and chair of the Plurality Institute which coordinates an academic research network developing technology for cooperation across different disciplines. He's also senior advisor to the Getting-Plurality Research Network at the Harvard Edmond and Lily Saffra Centre for Ethics.  He previously lead Web 3 technical strategy at Microsoft's Office of the CTO and taught economics at the Universities of Chicago, Yale, Princeton and Harvard Glen's websiteThe Plurality InstituteRadicalxChange FoundationQuadratic voting explainedPLURALITY - the book Audrey Tang on Twitter Trailer for film biopic about Audrey Tang: The Good Enough Ancestor Project LibertyQuadratic Voting - with Ruth Catlow in Episode #193

In a world constantly torn by social division amplified by polarizing scissor statements throughout social media, Taiwan conducted a social experiment aimed at strengthening social unity while also embracing diversity. Plurality details how Taiwan's Digital Minister Audrey Tang and her collaborators achieved inclusive, technology-fueled growth that harnessed digital tools to provide an antidote to information chaos and warfare. The open-source book is living proof that present global challenges can be solved through democratic solutions that embody a decentralised ethos.We were joined by Audrey Tang and Glen Weyl, co-authors of Plurality, to discuss the social dynamics they studied and how technology can be used to unite rather than divide.Topics covered in this episode:How Audrey & Glen met and Plurality's genesisAudrey's journey from civic hacker to Taiwan's Digital Affairs MinisterHow democracy is perceived around the worldEstablishing a co-creating mentalityScissor statements and how to avoid divisionHow Polis worksLeveraging Web3 to strengthen democracy & social collaborationDecentralised co-ownershipWeb3 governanceHuman facilitatorsEpisode links:Audrey Tang on TwitterGlen Weyl on TwitterPlurality Book on TwitterPlurality Institute on TwitterRadical xChangeSponsors:Gnosis: Gnosis builds decentralized infrastructure for the Ethereum ecosystem, since 2015. This year marks the launch of Gnosis Pay— the world's first Decentralized Payment Network. Get started today at - gnosis.ioChorus1: Chorus1 is one of the largest node operators worldwide, supporting more than 100,000 delegators, across 45 networks. The recently launched OPUS allows staking up to 8,000 ETH in a single transaction. Enjoy the highest yields and institutional grade security at - chorus.oneThis episode is hosted by Friederike Ernst.

La exministra de asuntos digitales de Taiwan, Audrey Tag y el fundador de RadicalXchange, Glen Weyl, presentaron en Colombia su nuevo libro: Plurarity. The future of collaborative technology and democracy.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

My guest is Glen Weyl, an influential economist and social technologist known for his interdisciplinary work at the intersection of economics, computer science, sociology, and political science. He is a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research, a co-author of the books “Radical Markets” and the recently published “Plurality: The Future of Collaborative Technology and Democracy” which he co-authored with Audrey Tang, who has served as the 1st Minister of Digital Affairs of Taiwan. Glen co-founded the RadicalxChange Foundation, the Plural Technology Collaboratory, and the Plurality Institute. He taught economics at the University of Chicago, Princeton, and Yale. Glen's work frequently explores the potential of technology and market mechanisms to drive social change and address systemic inequalities. In his new book, Glen lays the foundation for a new societal vision: plurality. Our conversation is structured into three distinct parts. We begin by situating the concept of plurality in today's philosophical and technological landscape. We then discuss the technologies that will enable plurality to materialize, and finally, we conclude with a discussion of the challenges ahead. By the end of this discussion, you will know what plurality is, how different it is from the vision of today's tech CEOs, the role open source AI and blockchain can play to scale plurality, but also the role legal rules and standards are playing, which of the scaling theory concepts (including fractals, fragility, robustness, chaos, etc.) helped Glen and Audrey define their strategy to take over other visions, and more. I hope you enjoy the conversation. Find me on X at @ProfSchrepel⁠⁠⁠. Also, be sure to subscribe to the Scaling Theory podcast; it helps its growth.

In 2019 Erik Torenberg sat down with Balaji Srinivasan and Glen Weyl to talk about the future of a decentralized world. They cover decentralized governance, politics, voting, and more. This conversation was recorded orginally for Village Global's Venture Stories. -- RECOMMENDED PODCAST:  The Riff Byrne Hobart, the writer of The Diff, is revered in Silicon Valley. You can get an hour with him each week. See for yourself how his thinking can upgrade yours. Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6rANlV54GCARLgMOtpkzKt Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-riff-with-byrne-hobart-and-erik-torenberg/id1716646486 -- SPONSORS: BEEHIIV | SQUAD

A.I.-generated art has flooded the internet, and a lot of it is derivative, even boring or offensive. But what could it look like for artists to collaborate with A.I. systems in making art that is actually generative, challenging, transcendent?Holly Herndon offered one answer with her 2019 album “PROTO.” Along with Mathew Dryhurst and the programmer Jules LaPlace, she built an A.I. called “Spawn” trained on human voices that adds an uncanny yet oddly personal layer to the music. Beyond her music and visual art, Herndon is trying to solve a problem that many creative people are encountering as A.I. becomes more prominent: How do you encourage experimentation without stealing others' work to train A.I. models? Along with Dryhurst, Jordan Meyer and Patrick Hoepner, she co-founded Spawning, a company figuring out how to allow artists — and all of us creating content on the internet — to “consent” to our work being used as training data.In this conversation, we discuss how Herndon collaborated with a human chorus and her “A.I. baby,” Spawn, on “PROTO”; how A.I. voice imitators grew out of electronic music and other musical genres; why Herndon prefers the term “collective intelligence” to “artificial intelligence”; why an “opt-in” model could help us retain more control of our work as A.I. trawls the internet for data; and much more.Mentioned:“Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt” by Holly Herndon“xhairymutantx” by Holly Herndon and Mat Dryhurst, for the Whitney Museum of Art“Fade” by Holly Herndon“Swim” by Holly Herndon“Jolene” by Holly Herndon and Holly+“Movement” by Holly Herndon“Chorus” by Holly Herndon“Godmother” by Holly Herndon“The Precision of Infinity” by Jlin and Philip GlassHolly+Book Recommendations:Intelligence and Spirit by Reza NegarestaniChildren of Time by Adrian TchaikovskyPlurality by E. Glen Weyl, Audrey Tang and ⿻ CommunityThoughts? Guest suggestions? Email us at ezrakleinshow@nytimes.com.You can find transcripts (posted midday) and more episodes of “The Ezra Klein Show” at nytimes.com/ezra-klein-podcast. Book recommendations from all our guests are listed at https://www.nytimes.com/article/ezra-klein-show-book-recs.This episode of “The Ezra Klein Show” was produced by Annie Galvin. Fact-checking by Michelle Harris. Our senior engineer is Jeff Geld, with additional mixing by Aman Sahota. Our senior editor is Claire Gordon. The show's production team also includes Rollin Hu, Elias Isquith and Kristin Lin. Original music by Isaac Jones. Audience strategy by Kristina Samulewski and Shannon Busta. The executive producer of New York Times Opinion Audio is Annie-Rose Strasser. And special thanks to Sonia Herrero and Jack Hamilton.

This week's episode of "The Mixtape with Scott" features an insightful conversation with E. Glen Weyl, a distinguished economist whose career has spanned academia and industry. Glen earned his PhD from Princeton, spent three years at the Harvard Society of Fellows, and served as an assistant professor at the University of Chicago, where he made significant contributions to micro theory applications to industrial organization. However, Glen's journey took a transformative turn when he left academia to join Microsoft, where he currently leads the Plural Technology Collaboratory, focusing on technological solutions for societal cooperation.Many listeners might recognize Glen from his influential book "Radical Markets," co-authored with Eric Posner. This work introduced the innovative voting mechanism known as quadratic voting, reflecting Glen's deepening interest in democratic processes and governance. His latest book, "Plurality: The Future of Collaborative Technology and Democracy,” (Amazon link) co-authored with Taiwan's Digital Minister Audrey Tang, serves as a manifesto for harnessing digital technology to foster social unity and diversity. The book presents bold ideas, from digitally empowered communication to transforming global trade, aiming to enrich relationships and ensure inclusivity.In addition to his writing, Glen has also ventured into film as an executive producer of the documentary "Good Enough Ancestor," which highlights Audrey Tang's work in digital democracy. That trailer can be found here; Glen was executive producer on it.Throughout our interview, Glen shares his experiences and insights from his varied projects, illustrating his renaissance man persona. From his academic roots to his pioneering efforts at Microsoft and beyond, Glen's story is a testament to his innovative spirit and dedication to leveraging technology for societal good. This episode promises to be an engaging exploration of his remarkable career and visionary ideas.So thank you for once again for tuning into the podcast! I hope you enjoy this interview as much as I did. Don't forget to subscribe, follow, all that and tell people about it! Thank you for reading Scott's Substack. This post is public so feel free to share it. Get full access to Scott's Substack at causalinf.substack.com/subscribe

In today's episode, guest host Margaret Levi interviews Matt Prewitt, President of RadicalxChange Foundation. With the tables turned from our last episode, Margaret interviews Matt on rethinking property rights. Beginning with a reflection on the state of political liberalism, Matt dives into the mechanics of Partial Common Ownership (also known as “Plural Property”) and it being part of the solution to manage assets in a fairer, more efficient way and how experimentation like PCO can lead toward a politics of change.RadicalxChange has been working with Margaret Levi and her team at Stanford, together with Dark Matter Labs, on exploring and reimagining the institutions of ownership.This episode is part of a short series exploring the theme of What and How We Own: Building a Politics of Change.Read more in our newsletter What & How We Own: The Politics of Change | Part II.Links & References:References:Adam Smith | WikipediaLiberalism | WikipediaLiberalism - Ronald DworkinPartial Common Ownership AKA Plural Property | RxC WikiPCO Art | RxC WikiRadical Markets by Glen Weyl and Eric PosnerElinor Ostrom | WikipediaBios:Matt Prewitt (he/him) is a lawyer, technologist, and writer. He is the President of the RadicalxChange Foundation.Matt's Social Links:@m_t_prewitt | XMargaret Levi is Professor of Political Science and Senior Fellow at the Center for Democracy, Development and Rule of Law (CDDRL) at the Freeman Spogli Institute (FSI) at Stanford University.Margaret's Social Links:Margaret Levi | Website@margaretlevi | X (Twitter)Additional Credits:This episode was recorded and produced by Matt Prewitt.This is a RadicalxChange Production. Connect with RadicalxChange Foundation:RadicalxChange Website@RadxChange | TwitterRxC | YouTubeRxC | InstagramRxC | LinkedInJoin the conversation on Discord.Credits:Produced by G. Angela Corpus.Co-Produced, Edited, Narrated, and Audio Engineered by Aaron Benavides.Executive Produced by G. Angela Corpus and Matt Prewitt.Intro/Outro music by MagnusMoone, “Wind in the Willows,” is licensed under an Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 International License (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0)

今天又是圓夢的一集！ 非常榮幸邀請到以市場機制促進公共利益，號稱21世紀最深刻的民主與經濟思考的一本書《激進市場》的作者Glen Weyl，來聊聊他對「民主」的見解與分析！當然，這也是久違的雙語訪問，謝謝我們的好朋友Vivian擔當這次的翻譯。 馬上就來歡迎今天的大來賓 E. Glen Weyl 格倫·韋爾！ - - - - - -- - - - - - 【寶博朋友說千萬粉絲專屬社群頻道 Discord 開張啦

इस हफ़्ते हम चर्चा करते है एक किताब पर जिसमें बाज़ार के बेहतर कार्यान्वन को लेकर कुछ क्रांतिकारी सुझाव दिए गए है। आइये, इन विचारों को परख कर देखते है कि क्या ये काम करेंगे या इन में कुछ कमियां है।   This week on Puliyabaazi, we discuss some radical ideas that try to solve some of the weaknesses of current market models. What are these radical market models? What is the problem they are trying to solve? Are they feasible? Join us on this thought exercise.  Book being discussed: Radical Markets: Uprooting Capitalism and Democracy for a Just Society by Eric A. Posner and E. Glen Weyl  https://amzn.eu/d/inpbMnn *****   related Puliyabaazi  ***** बौद्धिक सम्पदा: पेटेंट, कॉपीराइट, और ट्रेड सीक्रेट की कहानी. Intellectual Property Rights. https://puliyabaazi.in/episode/bauddhik-smpdaa-pettett-kopiiraaitt-aur-ttredd-siikrett-kii-khaanii-intellectual-property-rights जो मेरा है, क्या वो सच में मेरा है? Why Property Rights Matter. https://puliyabaazi.in/episode/jo-meraa-hai-kyaa-vo-sc-me-meraa-hai-why-property-rights-matter   ***************** Website: https://puliyabaazi.in Write to us at puliyabaazi@gmail.com  Hosts: @saurabhchandra @pranaykotas @thescribblebee  Puliyabaazi is on these platforms: Twitter: @puliyabaazi  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/puliyabaazi/ Subscribe & listen to the podcast on iTunes, Google Podcasts, Castbox, AudioBoom, YouTube, Spotify or any other podcast app.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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There are many alternative discovery procedures that are superior to market competition. Let's nurture and scale them, says Evgeny Morozov. Future Histories International Find all English episodes of Future Histories here: https://futurehistories-international.com/ and subscribe to the Future Histories International RSS-Feed (English episodes only)   Collaborative Podcast Transcription If you would like to support Future Histories by contributing to the collaborative transcription of episodes, please contact us at: transkription@futurehistories.today (German) Kollaborative Podcast-Transkription FAQ: shorturl.at/eL578 Shownotes Evgeny's Website: https://evgenymorozov.com/ Evgeny on Twitter: https://twitter.com/evgenymorozov Evgeny's upcoming Podcast – The Santiago Boys: https://the-santiago-boys.com/ Morozov, Evgeny. 2019. Digital Socialism?. New Left Review vol. 116/117: https://newleftreview.org/issues/II116/articles/evgeny-morozov-digital-socialism Morozov, Evgeny. 2022. Critique of Techno-Feudal Reason. New Left Review vol. 133/134: https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii133/articles/evgeny-morozov-critique-of-techno-feudal-reason Durand, Cédric. 2022. Scouting Capital's Frontiers. New Left Review vol. 136: https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii136/articles/cedric-durand-scouting-capital-s-frontiers Morozov, Evgeny. 2021. Beyond Competition: Alternative Discovery Procedures & The Postcapitalist Public Sphere. Lecture at University of California, Berkeley: https://matrix.berkeley.edu/research-article/evgeny-morozov-beyond-competition-alternative-discovery-procedures-the-postcapitalist-public-sphere/ Morozov, Evgeny. 2014. The Planning Machine: Project Cybersyn and the origins of the Big Data nation. The New Yorker. October 13, 2014 Issue: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/10/13/planning-machine Morozov, Evgeny. 2013. To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism. Public Affairs.: https://www.publicaffairsbooks.com/titles/evgeny-morozov/to-save-everything-click-here/9781610393706/ Selected Writings (2006-2013): https://web.archive.org/web/20210202002521/http://www.evgenymorozov.com/writings.html The Syllabus: https://www.the-syllabus.com/    Further Shownotes James M. Buchanan (Wikipedia): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_M._Buchanan Stafford Beer (Monoskop): https://monoskop.org/Stafford_Beer Viable System Model (VSM): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viable_system_model "Designing Freedom" - The 1973 CBC Massey Lectures by Stafford Beer [audio]: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/the-1973-cbc-massey-lectures-designing-freedom-1.2946819 "Designing Freedom" - The 1973 CBC Massey Lectures by Stafford Beer [pdf via Internet Archive]: https://archive.org/details/designingfreedom00beer/mode/2up Medina, Eden. 2011. Cybernetic Revolutionaries. Cambridge: MIT Press: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/cybernetic-revolutionaries Raymond Williams: https://raymondwilliams.co.uk/about-raymond-williams/ Stefano Harney: https://egs.edu/biography/stefano-harney/ Max Weber (Monoskop): https://monoskop.org/Max_Weber Carl Menger (Wikipedia): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Menger Jürgen Habermas (Monoskop): https://monoskop.org/J%C3%BCrgen_Habermas Santa Fe Institute: https://www.santafe.edu/ Herbert Marcuse (Monoskop): https://monoskop.org/Herbert_Marcuse Anwar Shaikh: https://www.anwarshaikhecon.org/ Cybersyn Project Chile: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Cybersyn Maslow's hierarchy of needs (Wikipedia): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow%27s_hierarchy_of_needs Posner, Eric A., and E. Glen Weyl. 2018. Radical Markets - Uprooting Capitalism and Democracy for a Just Society. Princeton University Press.: https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691177502/radical-markets   Further Future Histories Episodes on related topics S02E31 | Thomas Swann on Anarchist Cybernetics: https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e31-thomas-swann-on-anarchist-cybernetics/  S02E27 | Nick Dyer-Witheford on Biocommunism: https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e27-nick-dyer-witheford-on-biocommunism/ S02E11 | James Muldoon on Platform Socialism: https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e11-james-muldoon-on-platform-socialism/ S02E10 | Aaron Benanav on Associational Socialism and Democratic Planning: https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e10-aaron-benanav-on-associational-socialism-and-democratic-planning/ [German] S02E07 | Simon Schaupp zu Technopolitik von unten: https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e07-simon-schaupp-zu-technopolitik-von-unten/ S01E58 | Jasper Bernes on Planning and Anarchy: https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e58-jasper-bernes-on-planning-and-anarchy/ [German] S01E51 | Timo Daum zur unsichtbaren Hand des Plans: https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e51-timo-daum-zur-unsichtbaren-hand-des-plans/ S01E44 | Benjamin Bratton on Synthetic Catallaxies, Platforms of Platforms & Red Futurism: https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e44-benjamin-bratton-on-synthetic-catallaxies-platforms-of-platforms-red-futurism-part-1-2/ [German] S01E18 | Simon Schaupp zu Kybernetik und radikaler Demokratie: https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e18-simon-schaupp-zu-kybernetik-und-radikaler-demokratie/ S01E16 | Richard Barbrook on Imaginary Futures: https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e16-richard-barbrook-on-imaginary-futures/ [German] S01E01 | Benjamin Seibel zu Kybernetik: https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e01-benjamin-seibel-zu-kybernetik/   If you like Future Histories, you can help with your support on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/join/FutureHistories? Write me at office@futurehistories.today and join the discussion on Twitter (#FutureHistories): https://twitter.com/FutureHpodcast or on Mastodon: @FutureHistories@mstdn.social or on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/FutureHistories/ or on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfRFz38oh9RH73-pWcME6yw www.futurehistories.today   Episode Keywords: #EvgenyMorozov, #Interview, #JanGroos, #FutureHistories, #FutureHistoriesInternational, #Cybernetics,  #CyberCommunism, #Communism, #Technopolitics, #Cybersyn, #TheSantiagoBoys, #Chile, #SalvadorAllende, #StaffordBeer, #DigitalSocialism, #ImaginaryFutures, #Self-Organization, #Cybernetics, #Autonomy, #CentralControlStructure, #Decentralisation, #OrganizationalCybernetics, #CyberneticPlannedEconomy, #DigitalSocialism, #Socialism, #Anarchism, #Capitalism, #Competition, 

Shrey Jain, an applied scientist at Microsoft Research Special Projects, speaks with Matt Prewitt on a very timely and topical subject: AI and – more specifically – the dangers it poses to the nature of natural human communication (“context collapse”). They take a deep dive into the current threats to privacy by expanding beyond the often discussed cryptographic sense into “privacy as contextual integrity”, and the immediate opportunity to embed ethical guardrails into this ever-changing realm of generative AI through possible solutions of designated verified signatures in “plural publics”.Shrey's recently published paper co-authored with Divya Siddarth and E. Glen Weyl “Plural Publics” is linked in the episode notes.Links & References: Georg Simmel and The Sociology of Secrecy and of Secret SocietiesJohn Dewey on The Public and Its Problems: An Essay in Political Inquiry on JSTORScamming in AI via The Washington Post - They thought loved ones were calling for help. It was an AI scam."Privacy as Contextual Integrity" by Helen NissenbaumAlso see: Privacy in Context: Technology, Policy, and the Integrity of... (book)Jaron Lanier on How to Fix Twitter—And All of Social Media - The AtlanticAI Education - Will ChatGPT Kill the Student Essay? - The AtlanticShrey Jain, Divya Siddarth, and E. Glen Weyl. “Plural Publics.” Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics, Harvard University, March 20, 2023.Bios:Shrey Jain (he/him) is an Applied Scientist at Microsoft Research Special Projects. His research area is AI Security and Cryptography with a specific focus on information integrity in an era of generative AI. Shrey's work has been featured in CBC News, The Globe and Mail, Financial Times, National Post, CTV News, and the Toronto Star.Shrey's Social Links:Twitter: @shreyjainethConnect with Shrey on LinkedInShrey's Substack: GlasswingMatt Prewitt (he/him) is a lawyer, technologist, and writer. He is President of the RadicalxChange Foundation.Matt's Social LInks:Twitter: @m_t_prewittMatt's Substack: Matt's WritingsConnect with RadicalxChange:Follow us on Twitter.Visit our website.Join the conversation on Discord.Credits:Produced by G. Angela Corpus.Edited and Audio Engineered by Aaron Benavides.Executive Produced by G. Angela Corpus and Matt Prewitt.Intro/Outro music by MagnusMoone, “Wind in the Willows,” is licensed under an Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 International License (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0)This is a RadicalxChange Production.

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Join Federico Ast (President, Kleros Cooperative) in conversation with economist Glen Weyl as they discuss everything from economics, Web3 and how to create a better world through technology.   They discuss everything from Glen's colourful past leading up to getting into Web3 and how technology can be used to create a better world. They also touch upon the practical applications of SBTs and his vision for the Plurality Institute.

In the second episode of OTNS,  Primavera (@yaoeo) and I are speaking to Glen Weyl (@glenweyl), the founder of RadicalxChange and a co-author of Vitalik Buterin's article on Decentralized Society. During the discussion we spoke about Balaji's oversimplifications in the book, how TNS was not written for human beings, and Glen's alternative for a Networked Society differs.Overthrowing the Network State (OTNS) is a series in collaboration with Blockchaingov where we critique The Network State  by Balaji Srinivasan while also pulling out the salvageable parts and concepts in discussion with a variety of guests. We are overall critical of Balaji's specific ideas in the book, but we want to discuss it with intellectual honesty and highlight the larger concepts around how these technologies are and could subvert state structures. You can find the first episode of OTNS where we give our initial criticisms and  alternatives here. Blockchaingov is a 5-year long, transdisciplinary research effort aimed at restoring trust in institutions at the community and global levels, by promoting better on chain and off chain distributed governance practices. Throughout the series, each discussion will include me and a member of Blockchaingov with either a new guest each episode or just a discussion between us to tackle various topics from the book.If you liked the podcast be sure to give it a review on your preferred podcast platform. If you find content like this important consider donating to my Patreon starting at just $3 per month. It takes quite a lot of my time and resources so any amount helps. Follow me on Twitter (@TBSocialist) or Mastodon (@theblockchainsocialist@social.coop) and join the r/CryptoLeftists subreddit and Discord to join the discussion.Support the show

Web3 combines the ideals of the original internet with the most exciting aspects of new technology.  And the reason this tech currently embodies Web3 is that the architecture of this technology - the very fabric of it - is open source, anti-authority, and decentralized.  It could be a version of the internet where everyone has custody over their data. But it could also be a place where fraud runs rampant, where people hack each other's data, and a place that promises something that will never exist.  Show Notes: Buy a copy of Glen Weyl's book Radical Markets: Uprooting Capitalism and Democracy for a Just Society here.  Read Molly White's blog ‘Web 3 is Going Just Great'. Vlad Ginzburg created blockparty.co to allow creators and brands to create unique, connected NFTs.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In his foundational 1972 paper “More Is Different,” physicist Phil Anderson made the case that reducing the objects of scientific study to their smallest components does not allow researchers to predict the behaviors of those systems upon reconstruction. Another way of putting this is that different disciplines reveal different truths at different scales. Contrary to long-held convictions that there would one day be one great unifying theory to explain it all, fundamental research in this century looks more like a bouquet of complementary approaches. This pluralistic thinking hearkens back to the work of 19th century psychologist William James and looks forward into the growing popularity of evidence-based approaches that cultivate diversity in team-building, governance, and ecological systems. Context-dependent theory and practice calls for choirs of voices…so how do we encourage this? New systems must emerge to handle the complexity of digital society…what might they look like?Welcome to COMPLEXITY, the official podcast of the Santa Fe Institute. I'm your host, Michael Garfield, and every other week we'll bring you with us for far-ranging conversations with our worldwide network of rigorous researchers developing new frameworks to explain the deepest mysteries of the universe.This week on the show we dip back into our sub-series on SFI's Emergent Political Economies research theme with a trialogue featuring Microsoft Research Lead Glen Weyl (founder of RadicalXChange and founder-chair of The Plurality Institute), and SFI Resident Professor Cristopher Moore (author of over 150 papers at the intersection of physics and computer science). In our conversation we discuss the case for a radically pluralistic approach, explore the links between plurality and quantum mechanics, and outline potential technological solutions to the “sense-making” problems of the 21st century.Be sure to check out our extensive show notes with links to all our references at complexity.simplecast.com. If you value our research and communication efforts, please subscribe, rate and review us at Apple Podcasts or Spotify, and consider making a donation — or finding other ways to engage with us, including our upcoming program for Undergraduate Complexity Research, our new SFI Press book Ex Machina by John H. Miller, and an open postdoctoral fellowship in Belief Dynamics — at santafe.edu/engage.Thank you for listening!Join our Facebook discussion group to meet like minds and talk about each episode.Podcast theme music by Mitch Mignano.Follow us on social media:Twitter • YouTube • Facebook • Instagram • LinkedInReferenced & Related WorksWhy I Am A Pluralistby Glen WeylReflecting on A Possible Quadratic Wormhole between Quantum Mechanics and Pluralityby Michael Freedman, Michal Fabinger, Glen WeylDecentralized Society: Finding Web3's Soulby Glen Weyl, Puja Ohlhaver, Vitalik ButerinAI is an Ideology, Not a Technologyby Glen Weyl & Jaron LanierHow Civic Technology Can Help Stop a Pandemicby Jaron Lanier & Glen WeylA Flexible Design for Funding Public Goodsby Vitalik Buterin, Zöe Hitzig, Glen WeylEquality of Power and Fair Public Decision-makingby Nicole Immorlica, Benjamin Plautt, Glen WeylScale and information-processing thresholds in Holocene social evolutionby Jaeweon Shin, Michael Holton Price, David Wolpert, Hajime Shimao, Brendan Tracey & Timothy Kohler Toward a Connected Societyby Danielle AllenThe role of directionality, heterogeneity and correlations in epidemic risk and spreadby Antoine Allard, Cris Moore, Samuel Scarpino, Benjamin Althouse, and Laurent Hébert-DufresneThe Generals' Scuttlebutt: Byzantine-Resilient Gossip Protocolsby Sandro Coretti, Aggelos Kiayias, Cristopher Moore, Alexander RussellEffective Resistance for Pandemics: Mobility Network Sparsification for High-Fidelity Epidemic Simulationby Alexander Mercier, Samuel Scarpino, and Cris MooreHow Accurate are Rebuttable Presumptions of Pretrial Dangerousness? A Natural Experiment from New Mexicoby Cris Moore, Elise Ferguson, Paul GuerinThe Uncertainty Principle: In an age of profound disagreements, mathematics shows us how to pursue truth togetherby Cris Moore & John KaagOn Becoming Aware: A pragmatics of experiencingby Nathalie Depraz, Francisco Varela, and Pierre VermerschThe Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform The Worldby David Deutsch[Twitter thread on chess]by Vitalik ButerinLetter from Birmingham Jailby Martin Luther King, Jr.The End of History and The Last Manby Francis FukuyamaEnabling the Individual: Simmel, Dewey and “The Need for a Philosophy of Education”by H. KoenigEncyclical Letter Fratelli Tutti of The Holy Father Francis on Fraternity and Social Friendshipby Pope FrancisWhat can we know about that which we cannot even imagine?by David WolpertJ.C.R. Licklider (1, 2)Allison Duettman (re: existential hope)Evan Miyazono (re: Protocol Labs research)Intangible Capital (“an open access scientific journal that publishes theoretical or empirical peer-reviewed articles, which contribute to advance the understanding of phenomena related with all aspects of management and organizational behavior, approached from the perspectives of intellectual capital, strategic management, human resource management, applied psychology, education, IT, supply chain management, accounting…”)Polis (“a real-time system for gathering, analyzing and understanding what large groups of people think in their own words, enabled by advanced statistics and machine learning”)Related Complexity Podcast Episodes7 - Rajiv Sethi on Stereotypes, Crime, and The Pursuit of Justice51 - Cris Moore on Algorithmic Justice & The Physics of Inference55 - James Evans on Social Computing and Diversity by Design68 - W. Brian Arthur on Economics in Nouns and Verbs (Part 1)69 - W. Brian Arthur (Part 2) on "Prim Dreams of Order vs. Messy Vitality" in Economics, Math, and Physics82 - David Krakauer on Emergent Political Economies and A Science of Possibility (EPE 01)83 - Eric Beinhocker & Diane Coyle on Rethinking Economics for A Sustainable & Prosperous World (EPE 02)84 - Ricardo Hausmann & J. Doyne Farmer on Evolving Technologies & Market Ecologies (EPE 03)91 - Steven Teles & Rajiv Sethi on Jailbreaking The Captured Economy (EPE 04)

Today we're giving you access to the fireside chat Sinan moderated live at the MIT Conference on Digital Experimentation (CODE@MIT). Joined by Prominent Researchers, Hanna Halaburda (NYU Stern), Neha Narula (MIT Digital Currency Initiative), Catherine Tucker (MIT Sloan) and E. Glen Weyl (Microsoft), to discuss the promise and peril of Blockchain, Cryptocurrencies and Web3. Remember to rate, review, subscribe and share with a friend. Enjoy the show!Visit ide.mit.edu/podcast for more.Follow @sinanaral and @mit_ide on Twitter and @professorsinan and @digitalinsiderpod on Instagram and TikTok.Please remember to rate us and leave a review - the best way to support the podcast.

When most people hear “crypto,” the first thing they think of is “currencies.” Cryptocurrencies have skyrocketed in popularity over the past few years. And they've given rise to an entire ecosystem of financial speculation, get rich quick schemes, and in some cases outright fraud.But there's another side of crypto that gets less attention: the segment of the community that is interested in the way the technology that powers crypto can decentralize decision making, make institutions more transparent and transform the way organizations are governed. That's the side I find far more interesting.There are few individuals as central to that latter segment of crypto as Vitalik Buterin. When he was still just a teenager, Buterin co-founded Ethereum, a decentralized platform whose token Ether is the second most valuable cryptocurrency today, surpassed only by Bitcoin. But the vision behind Ethereum was that the blockchain technology could be used for more than digital money; it could create a sort of digital infrastructure on top of which organizations and companies and applications could be built — ostensibly free of centralizing structures like banks and governments.Over the last decade, Buterin has become arguably the core public intellectual on the nonfinancial side of crypto. His new book, “Proof of Stake,” is a collection of long, thoughtful essays that taken together lay out a vision of crypto as a truly transformative technology — one with the potential to revolutionize everything from city governance to voting systems to online identity.I myself have dueling impulses about Buterin's vision. On the one hand, I believe many of our governing systems and institutions are badly in need of the kind of reimagining he is engaged in. On the other hand, I'm deeply skeptical of whether the issues Buterin and his ilk are focused on are actually technological problems that blockchains can solve. So this is a conversation that sits squarely within that tension.Mentioned:Seeing Like a State by James C. ScottBook recommendations:The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. ShirerHarry Potter and The Methods of Rationality by Eliezer YudkowskyAlgorithmic Game Theory by Noam Nisan, Tim Roughgarden, Eva Tardos and Vijay V. VaziraniThoughts? Guest suggestions? Email us at ezrakleinshow@nytimes.com.You can find transcripts (posted midday) and more episodes of “The Ezra Klein Show” at nytimes.com/ezra-klein-podcast, and you can find Ezra on Twitter @ezraklein. Book recommendations from all our guests are listed at https://www.nytimes.com/article/ezra-klein-show-book-recs.“The Ezra Klein Show” is produced by Annie Galvin and Rogé Karma. Fact-checking by Michelle Harris, Mary Marge Locker and Kate Sinclair. Original music by Isaac Jones. Mixing by Sonia Herrero, Isaac Jones and Carole Sabouraud. Audience strategy by Shannon Busta. Special thanks to Kristin Lin, Kristina Samulewski, Will Wilkinson, Alex Tabarrok, Glen Weyl and Nathan Schneider.

In this bonus episode I give my review of the recent article published titled Decentralized Society: Finding Web3's Soul written by Vitalik Buterin, the founder of Ethereum, Glen Weyl, and Puja Ohlhaver. The paper received a bit of attention as it goes into some high level details about how the authors view a potential future with the use of blockchains for more non-financial uses. This includes in particular leveraging what Vitalik termed as "soulbound" tokens, or largely non-transferrable NFTs which has been controversial for many.  Instead of taking pundits for their word I took a deep dive into the paper myself and share some of my thoughts on what is being presented in it. This is a teaser of a Patreon bonus episode. Get the full version on Patreon. If you liked the podcast be sure to give it a review on your preferred podcast platform. If you find content like this important consider donating to my Patreon starting at just $3 per month. It takes quite a lot of my time and resources so any amount helps. Follow me on Twitter (@TBSocialist) and join the r/CryptoLeftists subreddit and Discord to join the discussion.Support the show

In this #FinancialFox episode, Steffy speaks with E. Glen Weyl, Founder and Chairperson of the RadicalxChange Foundation, a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research, and a lecturer at Princeton University. In this episode they discuss SoulBound tokens, a new Web3 project focused on digital identity and decentralised reputation. In a white paper entitled “Decentralized Society: Finding Web3's Soul,” Vitalik Buterin, Glen Weyl and their fellow authors detail their vision for a fully decentralized society (DeSoc) and how we could make it a reality with SoulBound tokens. Tune in to learn more about digital identity in web3 !

As a blockchain maxi, Brian has been talking about the power of the blockchain to change the world from how we store and share data to how we manage information sharing and autonomous decentralization.  With the recent emergence of Soulbound Tokens, this future is one step closer to becoming a reality. Soulbound Tokens (SBTs) were proposed in May 2022 by E. Glen Weyl, Puja Ohlhaver, and Ethereum creator Vitalik Buterin. As you'll hear in this episode, the use-cases and value of SBTs is genuinely endless, but that isn't saying there aren't cons to this technology what is beautiful is the tools and tech are just now getting built, so we have the possibility of shaping how they are created.  SBTs will disrupt: Managing a DAO License trackings such as wedding, educational and professional and drivers license Proof of work Proof of attendance  Trust  And much more, with the simple essence being SBTs are NFTs that can't be sold or transferred and would live in your soul wallet.  Discover the latest Web3 strategies to improve your business at the upcoming Crypto Business Conference in San Diego, October 9th-11th, 2022  https://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/nft365 ______________________________________________________________ Learn more about the NFT365 Podcast

In this episode, we dive into Soulbound Tokens (SBTs) with Glen Weyl, Co-author of Decentralized Society: Finding Web3's Soul. We discuss the definition of souls & SBTs, the concerns around SBTs, the range of its potential uses, and much more. Glen Weyl is a Political Economist and Principal Researcher at Microsoft, the Founder of RadicalxChange Foundation, and Co-author of Radical Markets. Show Notes: (00:00:00) – Glen's background. (00:02:45) – Introduction to SBTs. (00:06:55) – The what and why of SBTs. (00:17:53) – Standardization of SBTs. (00:21:35) – Potential use-cases for SBTs. (00:32:54) – Unlocking the creator economy. (00:40:46) – What are souls? (00:43:09) – Concerns about SBTs. (00:46:26) – Countering malicious SBTs. (00:49:43) – Key recovery tools. Resources: Glen's Twitter Decentralized Society: Finding Web3's Soul Glen's Website Vitalik on Soulbound Tokens More

Have you ever played Civilization?  Glen Weyl is is co-creator of quadratic voting, a collective decision-making procedure designed to allow fine-grained expression of how strongly voters feel about an issue,[2] and quadratic funding, a method of democratically disbursing resources.Kate Sills is a software engineer at Agoric, building composable smart contract components in a secure subset of JavaScript. Previously, Kate has researched and written on the potential uses of smart contracts to enforce agreements and create institutions orthogonal to legal jurisdictions.Paul Gebheim has spent the better part of 20 years creating software that gets stuff done, makes things go, shows you what's up, or keeps you connected. Recently he also helped to build a company based in the foundation of real life connection and the principal: It has to feel good to be good. This episode goes through chapter 5 of the book: IMPROVE COOPERATION | Info, Money, New Rights to Do Things  Session summary: (425) G. Weyl, K. Sills, P. Gebheim: New Info, Money, Rights, Contracts, Privacy | Gaming the Future Ch. 5 - YouTube The Foresight Institute is a research organization and non-profit that supports the beneficial development of high-impact technologies. Since our founding in 1987 on a vision of guiding powerful technologies, we have continued to evolve into a many-armed organization that focuses on several fields of science and technology that are too ambitious for legacy institutions to support.Allison Duettmann is the president and CEO of Foresight Institute. She directs the Intelligent Cooperation, Molecular Machines, Biotech & Health Extension, Neurotech, and Space Programs, Fellowships, Prizes, and Tech Trees, and shares this work with the public. She founded Existentialhope.com, co-edited Superintelligence: Coordination & Strategy, co-authored Gaming the Future, and co-initiated The Longevity Prize. Apply to Foresight's virtual salons and in person workshops here!We are entirely funded by your donations. If you enjoy what we do please consider donating through our donation page.Visit our website for more content, or join us here:TwitterFacebookLinkedInEvery word ever spoken on this podcast is now AI-searchable using Fathom.fm, a search engine for podcasts.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

What is a Soul Bound Token? Welcome to the cryptohunt jam where we spend one minute a day to explain crypto. In plain english. Today: What is an SBT, which is short for Sould Bound Token? The idea of the soul bound token is relatively new, and was proposed by three authors: Glen Weyl, Puja Ohlhaver, and none other than Ethereum co-founder Vitalki Buterin. In short, it describes a record of your accomplishments on the blockchain. You'll remember that blockchains are really nothing more than databases, with the twist that anyone can verify a record's correctness. And the idea here is to record your achievements on it, and record them in a way that only your wallet can hold them. They can never be transferred, hence the name soul bound - bound to you. Sounds abstract? It is, but think about it this way: If you play a video game online and earn a badge, or do a workout with your AppleWatch and get a virtual medal - those are all digital recognitions of something you accomplished, they are just not recorded on a blockchain. But the blockchain does make sense if you take the concept further: Your university could issue you an SBT that undeniably verifies your degrees. A former employer could do the same for a reference. And whoever you show it to, can trust them instantly. We'll see where this goes. But we think it's one of the few practical applications where the idea of a blockchain provides extra value. What do you think? Disclaimer: This podcast references our opinion and is for information purposes only. It is not intended to be investment advice. Do your own research and seek a duly licensed professional for investment advice. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/cryptohunt/message

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[This episode originally aired on July 23rd, 2020.] Imagine a world where every country has a digital minister and technologically-enabled legislative bodies. Votes are completely transparent and audio and video of all conversations between lawmakers and lobbyists are available to the public immediately. Conspiracy theories are acted upon within two hours and replaced by humorous videos that clarify the truth. Imagine that expressing outrage about your local political environment turned into a participatory process where you were invited to solve that problem and even entered into a face to face group workshop. Does that sound impossible? It's ambitious and optimistic, but that's everything that our guest this episode, Audrey Tang, digital minister of Taiwan, has been working on in her own country for many years. Audrey's path into public service began in 2014 with her participation in the Sunflower Movement, a student-led protest in Taiwan's parliamentary building, and she's been building on that experience ever since, leading her country into a future of truly participatory digital democracy. 

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Critique of OpenPhil's macroeconomic policy advocacy, published by Hauke Hillebrandt on March 24, 2022 on The Effective Altruism Forum. Summary Recently, some defended OpenPhil-funded advocacy for looser (i.e. more expansive) macroeconomic policy (i.e. both fiscal and monetary policy). This is because in the 2010s, and also after covid hit, looser policy and higher inflation were better than lost growth and unemployment.[1] While this might be true, here I argue that OpenPhil grants in '21 caused looser macroeconomic policy, which contributed to overshooting on inflation. My model is based on the following claims: Short-term inflation is too high, volatile, and dispersed Inflation in poorer countries Real wages are down Inflation causes populism Looser policy is a major cause of inflation OpenPhil's advocacy caused looser policy Strong claim: Risk could have been predicted before the event and loose policy was a mistake ex-ante Weak claim: Risk was hard to predict and was only a mistake ex-post To be clear, I'm not arguing that inflation is always worse than unemployment and my ambition here is not to evaluate the program's overall impact. Rather, I single out grants made in '21, which caused looser policy and might have caused harm on the '21 margin. In other words, given diminishing returns to looser policy in '21, the marginal benefits looser policy was low as it didn't add many jobs. However, inflation had high costs on the '21 margin like adverse effects in developing countries, reduction of real wages for some populations, which might increase populism and make the US Democrats lose upcoming elections. I also highlight some general issues with macroeconomic advocacy like reducing central bank independence, problems with lobbying foreign central banks, and having to be very careful and do a lot of analysis before making grants that might have a lot of leverage and are not robustly good (like improving health). The EA community promotes OpenPhil's work and funges with their grants,[2] and so it's important to figure out whether we're value-aligned.[3] This is also an example of red teaming. Thanks to Joel Becker, Remmelt Ellen, Fin Moorhouse, Peter McCluskey, Michael Dickens, Glen Weyl, Tyler Cowen, Rob Wiblin, Michael Townsend, Ben Edelman, Andreas Prenner, and Kevin Kuruc for feedback on earlier versions of this manuscript. Errors and opinions are mine. Short-term inflation is too high, volatile, and dispersed While average long-term inflation is not too high, it is too high in the short-term. This high inflation volatility and dispersion are causing instability and harm. Even if longer-term inflation is too low, the current spike in inflation is not an effective way of remedying it. There is no consensus on how high inflation should be. [4] But few economists argue that inflation should be >4%, and many say that the European Central Bank (ECB) should target 2%.[5] Yet, the IMF's forecasted ~4% inflation in rich countries and ~6% in poorer countries for 2022 (antebellum).[6] EU inflation hit 6.2% in Feb ‘22.[7] The ECB projects 3.5% in 2022, 1.7% in 2023.[8] In some countries inflation is higher: ~12% in Estonia and Lithuania, 8.5% in Belgium and Slovakia.[9] Eurozone inflation dispersion is normally at 1 SD, now it's at 2.7 SD.[10] Such excessive inflation dispersion can be problematic because countries cannot adjust their exchange rate. US inflation hit 7.9% in Jan ‘22.[11] In some small towns in the Midwest and South, inflation is 9% or more.[12] Even if one excludes more volatile prices from inflation like food and energy, inflation, right now, is too high.[13] However, the median prediction of inflation for 2022 by economists is 3.5%.[14] Markets predict inflation to go down in the next few years: In the US, average inflation is forecast to stay high at an...

Glen Weyl is Microsoft's Office of the Chief Technology Officer Political Economist and Social Technologist (OCTOPEST), where he advises Microsoft's senior leaders on macroeconomics, geopolitics and the future of technology. Glen also co-authored Radical Markets: Uprooting Capitalism and Democracy for a Just Society; a book about "Revolutionary ideas on how to use markets to bring about fairness and prosperity for all". In our conversation, we discuss — Quadratic voting and funding The new political divides of the 21st century What the history of personal computing teaches us about the possibility of shaping technological progress Glen's impression of rationalism, effective altruism and longtermism Why and how longtermism should be more generative of new ideas Underrated thinkers relevant for today

Glen Weyl is Microsoft Office of CTO Political Economist & Social Technologist, founder of RadicalXChange, and author of “Radical Markets: Uprooting Capitalism and Democracy for a Just Society”.Glen is reimagining democracy with two revolutionary concepts -- quadratic voting and quadratic funding. Auren and Glen cover how quadratic voting and quadratic funding can revitalize collective decision-making, current applications of both concepts, and how they can be used by corporations. They also explore why accessing high-quality data is so hard and what businesses can do to significantly improve their data accuracy.World of DaaS is brought to you by SafeGraph. For more episodes, visit safegraph.com/podcastsYou can find Auren Hoffman (CEO of SafeGraph) on Twitter at @auren

In this episode of our Money Reimagined podcast, Sheila Warren and Michael Casey speak with two outside-the-box thinkers on their ideas for improving governance. Quadratic Voting and Open AuctionsOne of our guests was Glen Weyl, the political economist and Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research New England, who co-authored the book “Radical Markets” with University of Chicago Law School professor Eric Posner. We chose to focus on just two of the many ideas that that book puts forward. One is quadratic voting, which allows people not only to vote for or against a particular issue but to express how strongly they hold that view by buying extra votes – up to a certain limit of assigned credits. The cost in credits of each additional vote increases by a quadratic formula. It's designed to help small groups of voters who care deeply about particular issues while still constraining them from overly skewing results.Weyl has also worked on a variation of the concept with Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin called quadratic funding, which in theory could diminish the influence of wealthy “whales” in voting systems that are based on financial holdings or contributions. The second big idea we explored is that of perpetual open auctions. Here, every bit of property, including what we might otherwise think of as public property, is owned by private entities with the proviso that it is always up for auction and that the majority of the value created from it is shared equally among citizens as a social dividend. Weyl and Posner argue that such an arrangement would incentivize owners to manage the property well, and that the wider distribution of wealth creation would give a greater number of people the wherewithal to start businesses. It would also be easier to develop land for infrastructure, such as high-speed rail lines, because the developer could easily acquire it. Both of these ideas are rooted more in legal and process innovation than in software and distributed computing per se. But they intersect nicely with concepts associated with the crypto and blockchain space. One is the potential for self-sovereign identity models to prevent people from gaming quadratic voting. Another is the potential enhancements that smart contracts, non-fungible token-based property, and decentralized finance (DeFi) concepts such as automated market-making might bring to open auctions. Also, quadratic funding might fix free-rider problems in blockchain projects, Buterin believes. Smart taxationOur other guest was Jeff Saviano, the global lead of tax innovation at EY. He is a member of the Prosperity Collaborative, within which organizations such as the World Bank, MIT Media Lab's Connection Sciences lab and the New America Foundation are working with governments to improve transparency and efficiency in the collection and distribution of taxes. Saviano talks of how blockchain-based tracing systems might not only give taxpayers a transparent view of how their taxes are being spent but also incorporate programmability. For example, the actual, uniquely identified dollars that you contribute could be channeled directly and transparently into identifiable services that immediately benefit you and your community. Or, governments could use smart contracts to put hard constraints on those dollars, so only certain categories of expenditure, and not others, are enabled.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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This week I interviewed Daniel Kronovet (@kronosapiens) at Colony, “An Operating System for Organizations”. The Colony Network is a suite of smart contracts, running on Ethereum. It provides a general purpose framework for the essential functions organizations require, such as ownership, structure, authority, and financial management. Along the way, we talk about organizations and society as systems of information processing, the relationships of models to reality, and some classic (and modern) political economic thought.Colony Discord -> discord.gg/erRD8gbSign up for the Blockchain 101 for Socialists Live Session (May 2nd)More Information -> www.reddit.com/r/cryptoleftists/…ine_live_session/Newsletter: theblockchainsocialist.com/sign-up-for…newsletter/Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.com/e/blockchain-10…m_term=fullLinkCrypto Leftists Discord: discord.gg/Hs78cVMMentioned Articles in the EpisodeAI is an Ideology (Jaron Lanier and Glen Weyl) -> www.wired.com/story/opinion-ai-i…-not-a-technology/Designing Freedom (Stafford Beer) -> monoskop.org/images/e/e3/Beer_S…igning_Freedom.pdfThe Use of Knowledge in Society (Friedrich Hayek)  -> www.econlib.org/library/Essays/hykKnw.htmlReputation Systems: Promise and Peril (Daniel Kronovet) -> kronosapiens.github.io/blog/2018/06/…se-peril.htmlThe Great Transformation (Karl Polanyi) -> en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_T…sformation_(book)If you liked the podcast be sure to give it a review on your preferred podcast platform. If you want to see more content like this, please consider donating to my Patreon. I will never have ads to keep independence. Also, please sign up for the Newsletter, follow me on Twitter (@TBSocialist), and join the r/CryptoLeftists subreddit to continue the discussion and give your thoughts.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/theblockchainsocialist)

Today’s episode features a conversation between Santi Siri - Founder of Democracy Earth Foundation, the Y Combinator-backed non-profit enabling token-based community participation - and Patrick Stanley, Blockstack’s Head of Growth. Together, they explore the concept of democracy, the decline of nation-states, and the potential of open-source protocols and crypto networks to enable free, sovereign, and incorruptible governance. 00:42 Patrick tells the story of how he and Santi met in San Francisco through Balaji Srinivasan. https://twitter.com/balajis https://www.amazon.com/Sovereign-Individual-Mastering-Transition-Information/dp/0684832720 02:19 Patrick: "For the folks who don't know you: who are you and what have you been working on?” 02:24 Santi: "For the last six years or so I've been implementing new kinds of democratic experiments... which led to the formation of The Democracy Earth Foundation where we explore this intersection of using blockchain based networks to deploy democracy over the Internet." https://democracy.earth https://twitter.com/democracyearth 04:03 Patrick: "Can you unpack your tweet: 'The Internet is not compatible with the nation state?'" https://twitter.com/santisiri/status/998028341633568769 05:40 Santi: "If not even the US is protected from foreign influence meddling with domestic affairs, then the nation state is no more. We have to acknowledge the fact that we live in the Age of Information.” 06:05 Patrick: "Presuming that's correct, what's next then?" 06:13 Santi: "I think it's the most interesting moment in time to be working on software." 06:55 Santi: "Democracy is simply an idea that can be extremely helpful when you really need it the most: when you face disagreements as a society or organization." 07:25 Patrick: "Where do you believe democracy should be applied in the context of deep disagreements in the crypto protocol space?" 07:36 Santi: "It is challenging in crypto because it's an environment where creating an identity is extremely, extremely cheap." 08:11 Santi: "Most of the governance happening in crypto today is fundamentally proof of stake or coin voting. For private endeavors, it works very well - it's like shareholder voting. Often less than 1% has over 50% of the vote." 08:38 Patrick: "Something about that sounds wrong, doesn't it?" 08:41 Santi: "Governance is tricky because it's not just the elite that understands how the system works. There are other constituents that are the people impacted by an economy. Not everyone is an economist, but everyone is impacted by the decisions they make about the economy." 9:00 Santi: "So if you don't want to have an elite running a society and you really want a society where everyone's input is considered, democracy becomes very useful. The challenge is not just reaching the best decision in a collective way, but reaching a legitimate decision - one that the greater constituency supports, and not just a powerful minority." 9:58 Patrick: "You've been working on quadratic voting. Can you tell folks what this is and what hopes you have for it?" 10:10 Santi: "Quadratic voting is an idea that comes from the Microsoft researcher and founder of the RadicalxChange movement, Glen Weyl..." http://glenweyl.com/research/ https://radicalxchange.org/ 10:27 Santi: "The idea is you can vote on any issue and every voter gets the same amount of credits, but the more votes you put on a specific issue, it will cost you an exponential amount.” 10:58 Santi: "If you really care for one issue, the opportunity cost will be really high for not supporting other issues." 11:11 Santi: "This leads to this outcome where the winning option is something that is the preference of the community, but also - because of this interesting quality of square roots - it's also an option that has the greatest support among the quantity of voters." 11:29 Patrick: "The one catch there that I'm thinking of is Sybil attacks... how do you stop those?" 11:50 Santi: "We're actually researching using quadratic voting to validate identities themselves." 12:32 Santi: "The two requirements of quadratic voting (qv) is that you need to have a strong consensus and identities participating. This is a requirement of any democratic system. And then you have a Universal Basic Income mechanism of some kind." 12:54 Patrick: "You mentioned previously a fear of becoming Facebook in the process of solving this problem. What's the concern there?" 13:21 Santi: "Facebook became a relevant attack vector for legacy democracies because they've become the largest identity registry in the world." 13:36 Santi: "There are two ways to subvert democracy: one is control the identity registry of voters and the other one is gossip - false information that confuses the voters." 13:53 Santi: "If we're going to do any kind of formalization of identity... to help people trust that there's a human behind an address and that that human doesn't hold the keys to any other address within a consensus... we should do it in a way that prevents the formation of a monopoly." 14:20 Santi: "If you end up having a monopoly like Facebook or the People's Republic of China, then you have this Orwellian situation that works against the interests of democracy: free speech, the right to legitimate information...." 14:40 Santi: "The challenge is how do you have a marketplace that does not allow for the formation of monopolies?" 15:29 Santi: "We've been very lucky at Democracy Earth to do the first quadratic voting implementation for the state of Colorado." 15:58 Santi: "It's an incredible precedent. The first official quadratic voting round under the US government." 16:15 Patrick: "Do you feel online voting has more or fewer attack vectors than traditional voting?" 16:46 Santi: "Where there are deep disagreements, the stakes are high, and where the stakes are very high, attacks will happen." 17:21 Santi: "In traditional democracies, I think the best recommendation I've seen is actually from the German Supreme Court in 2009 where they argued... that hybrid models are ultimately best." 17:47 Santi: "The idea of paper is important because in large populations there are still not 100% digital natives. ... Our parents and elders are really digital migrants and we need to respect that reality." 18:12 Santi: "Democracy, at the end of the day, is always a work in progress.... It's really an ideology about how we make decisions." 18:47 Santi: "We cannot surrender this battle in the world of crypto." 18:56 Santi: "If this is the new world that we're creating... a new kind of plutocracy or oligarchy... we deserve better... and we should be daring to think about what democracy means in all of these contexts." 19:12 Santi: "We can really make something better that what the nation state has given us." 19:17 Patrick: "What are you excited about and see as worth pursuing in the next 20 or so years?" 19:48 Santi: "The rise of nations and the idea of nationality was a consequence of information technology. The printing press allowed for people to start writing and publishing books not in the language of power - that was Latin - but in their vernacular local languages. ... that gave this sense of being part of a large imagined community through literature." 20:23 Santi: "With crypto I think we're witnessing a similar phenomenon. In the rise of maximalism and these new protocols are a kind of nationalism." 20:32 Santi: "It's very clear these are nations founded not in a common language, but actually in a common ideology. If you're an Austrian economics money fetishist, you'll be a Bitcoiner." 21:22 Santi: "We troll each other too much, but we're really good, nice idealists." 21:35 Patrick: "The great thing about Twitter is you can lose your mind in public." 21:50 Santi: "The revolution of our generation is in crypto." 22:01 Patrick: "I would classify Bitcoiners as probably more libertarian, conservative leaning, less likely to be liberal - not to say there aren't any liberals in Bitcoin - and very much in the Hayek/Austrian school of economic thinking." 22:38 Patrick: "It does feel like people are splitting up into their own ideologies, but it still does feel like it's very early on and we're kind of in the Germanic nation state building era." 22:51 Santi: "We're discovering where the boundaries and new geographies and frontiers are. But there are frontiers and maximalism as nationalism is a very real thing." 23:06 Patrick: "Definitely. And I also think there will be fights and violence and - at a minimum - cyber warfare and meme warfare and potentially physical warfare between protocols. There's a lot at stake - especially over a long enough timeline, if these things accrue value." 23:33 Patrick: "Crypto is inherently political." 24:10 Santi: "I recently was with an expert on military defense and strategy and the way they approach the idea of how the world is at right now around in terms of cyber attacks and this whole new ground of the battlefield is that we're not in war or peace, but a world of un-peace. Everyone has to assume they've already been attacked." 25:10 Santi: "In China, you have to use a VPN. It's interesting. ... being there really pushes you to think about how you're being observed." 25:38 Patrick: "What changed in your mind about China visiting recently?" 25:43 Santi: "It's the one place where Communism took over and won and it's been the highest growth country on the whole planet for the last three to four decades." 26:08 Santi: "It turns out the Communist elites are the best administrators of modern capitalism." 26:23 Santi: "You feel the authoritarian state everywhere. You see cameras everywhere." 26:46 Santi: "There are some things about the transformation of China that you can really see being there. Of course, they are the worst about free speech - you have to access the Internet through a VPN. But on climate change, the silence coming from every single motor [being electric] in Beijing is really mind blowing." 27:31 Santi: "Communism was this terrible thing in the 20th Century. I watched the horror of Venezuela very closely and went to Cuba for a month when I was very young and it was a heartbreaking environment. It really was a big failure." 27:45 Santi: "But the Chinese experiment - at the same time - had this tremendous potential of bringing 300 - 400 million people into the life of the middle class." 27:58 Santi: "I come from a developing nation and I scratch my head how we can deal with 30% of the people in my country that are below the poverty line." 28:19 Santi: "There are a lot of things going wrong [in China] - I mean they're persecuting Muslims... that's why we need the Internet." 28:32 Santi: "For Democracy Earth, I think there's no bigger, killer use case than a Chinese democracy." 28:43 Patrick: "What do you think China got right that Cuba got wrong?" 28:46 Santi: "Deng Xiaoping allowing private property and capitalism." 29:12 Santi: "It is the labor of the world - the proletariat of the world. All of our iPhones, all of our computers, all of our chips...." 29:35 Santi: "In this age where we do perceive rising inequality, we do perceive the advance of automation. ... I don't think we should be so afraid of these ideas." 30:15 Santi: "All of the revolutions that happened in the 20th century happened in poor countries." 30:47 Santi: "People are talking about taxing AIs and robots - that's kind of what Marx was talking about." 31:02 Santi: "I don't believe much in revolutions because they all have this original sin of violence and I think we have much better tools than guns." 31:26 Santi: "We can definitely use computers to create better societies." 31:34 Patrick: "If some democracy is good, is absolute democracy better? And how do you avoid the Kyklos?" 32:46 Patrick: "It's democracy, aristocracy, and monarchy. And the three degenerate forms of these are ochlocracy, oligarchy, and tyranny." 33:08 Santi: "These thinkers are trying to find the gears of history, which are very hard to find. But if they are somewhere, I think it's looking through the lens information and information theory." 33:27 Santi: "I don't like absolutist ideas in politics. We need to use different tools for different means. It's evident that private endeavors and companies are much better governed by dictators - some people call them CEOs.” 34:04 Santi: "What I'm reading a lot lately is 'An Introduction to the Theory of Mechanism Design’ by Tobin Borgers." https://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Theory-Mechanism-Design/dp/019973402X 34:43 Santi: "I began my career as a video game developer and today I find myself reading a lot about game theory as it applies to the context of crypto." 35:10 Patrick: "Any other recommendations for books about game theory?" 35:24 Santi: "George Gilder's 'Knowledge and Power' which applies an information theory lens to understand capitalism." 35:46 Patrick: "There's probably a lot of listeners trying to learn more about how democracy can work online and what are the hard problems being solved... what would you recommend checking out?" 36:04 Santi: "I feel compelled to recommend the work we've been doing at Democracy Earth at democracy.earth and @democracyearth on Twitter." 36:43 Santi: "Everyone I talk to is very confused about things right now." 36:50 Patrick: "What do you mean?" 37:16 Santi: "We lost our compass in terms of what's democracy in modern day America - in the civilization we're creating. So we're all in a state of confusion." 37:31 Patrick: "Any other books or blog posts you'd recommend to listeners on democracy?" 37:37 Santi: "Hélène Landemore's 'Democratic Reason'" https://press.princeton.edu/titles/9907.html 38:07 Goodbyes. 38:19 Credits. Santi Siri: twitter.com/SantiSiri Patrick Stanley: twitter.com/PatrickWStanley Zach Valenti: twitter.com/ZachValenti See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.