How do we prevent the corruption of the concentration of power, while allowing those who have the expertise needed to make informed decisions on complicated topics to be empowered to make those decisions? How do we balance the need for experts to have more influence...
Humanity is facing some very difficult problems. It will take a lot of mental work to ensure the wellbeing of humanity, and life itself. There are two potential sources of mental work; humanity, and artificial intelligence. Artificial intelligence comes with a large...
https://youtube.com/watch?v=bhkpxLcm7bI%3Fwmode%3Dopaque%26enablejsapi%3D1 “Together we are smarter than anyone.” When you think about how we make decisions in our society, for example voting for president or Brexit, have you ever wondered “Really? Is this the best we...
According to Hugo Mercier, researcher at the CNRS (Institut Jean Nicod, Paris), human reasoning has evolved to argue. We would think that human reason should simply and dispassionately find the best answer. In Hugo’s TedX talk, he reveals how our tendency to...
I was honored to speak at the Trusted Seeds Unconference on Liquid Democracy. Here is the report on the entire event: Building Protopian Futures Unconference Report: A Peer Learning Resource for Community Stewards https://trustedseed.org/building-protopian-futures...
