⿻(((E. Glen Weyl/衛谷倫))) 🇺🇸/🇩🇪/🇹🇼 🖖
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It's my honor today to announce the launch of a collaborative book project with my hero,
@audreyt
, "Plurality: Technology for Collaborative Diversity and Democracy": . As you will read if you click through, this will be a unique project, mirroring in the
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I was trained as an economist but no longer identify as one. I’ll write a longer essay on why soon, but briefly: I no longer accept as true the basic premises of the field that differentiate it from other social sciences. Not to say there if nothing to be gained by entertaining
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I am excited to release this paper with Joel Miller and Leon Erichsen with the first formal mathematical analysis of Plural Voting: , as discussed more informally in the
#DeSoc
paper with
@pujaohlhaver
and
@VitalikButerin
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Couldn't be more excited to put out probably most ambitious paper I have ever written, and the one I am proudest of. With
@VitalikButerin
and
@zhitzig
, we propose a mechanism and philosophy for a self-organizing decentralized ecosystem of public goods: .
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I am delighted to be launching today the
@PluralityInst
: , an interdisciplinary academic technology research network focused on reusable computational systems that facilitate the flourishing of and cooperation across diverse social groups.
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I am really excited to see a former post-doc in one of my labs launch the first large-scale academic survey of the Web3 community:
@stateof_crypto
, . I think this is an incredibly important effort, because so many claims fly around about what Web3 folks
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@VitalikButerin
Let me try to nuance further. On the one hand, I don't think blockchains are necessary to "solve the double spend problem" and that there are many better approaches we will get to. On the other hand, the idea that the features that allow it to solve that problem are mostly
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Today I'm honored to start a new role as
@Microsoft
's Office of the Chief Technology Officer Political Economist and Social Technologist (OCTOPEST), reporting to
@fkardar
under
@kevin_scott
. While
@MSFTResearch
is the best research environment in the world,
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This is why I consider myself a political economist.
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Feeling really bad for genuinely idealistic and good people who are being hit hard by the cryptocrash, especially those who risked their human capital and careers based on promises of stable careers others had no business promising. At same time, there's a test of values.
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This was the most eventful year of my life, with
#RadicalMarkets
,
@RadxChange
, buying a house etc. But it looks like next year holds even more, as Alisha and I are expecting a baby girl in early May!
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@VitalikButerin
While overall I like this post. there is one very fundamental point on which I think it is just completely wrong and unfortunately much else turns on it. I hope you'll agree with me once I clarify and if not I am very happy to be on it as I think it is basically verifiable.
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Hey
@VitalikButerin
, looks like we should try to chat with
@elonmusk
at some point.
Socialism vs capitalism is not even the right question. What really matters is avoiding monopolies that restrict people’s freedom.
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These premises but that their negations are as true and fruitful as they are. I no longer believe in methodical individualism; I think social groups are just as much a thing as are individuals and that individuals beliefs and preferences
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It's hard to know precisely what
@peterthiel
,
@JDVance1
and his crew are after, but if you take seriously the writings they most often cite (the Sovereign Individual, Moldbug, etc.) it seems pretty clear they believe the state of the contemporary West to be so irrecoverable that
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Are just as much derived from group beliefs and preferences as the reverse. I no longer believe in the priority of preference, utility and reason over communication. Communication is, in a world of limited individual rationality, as important to making rationality possible
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That politics and collective choice are as fundamental and pervasive as is bilateral or price mediated exchange. Sociology and economics are equally fundamental, neither a mere superstructure of the other. Instead they form an equilibrium like supply and demand.
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Am I the only one who finds the phrase "whispering in the ears of princes" (Al Roth, 1986) to describe the role of economists precisely the opposite of what we should be doing? The great political economists broke the power of princes by speaking to the public (1/2)
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Marshall is equating libertarianism with white supremacy. I think this is roughly equivalent to equating socialism with Stalinism, conservatism with Nazism or Islam with terrorism. This attitude of some of the left is unbelievably destructive and dangerous.
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As I've been working on my critique of Radical Markets, I've been going over how strange and fundamentally anti-technological and radically conservative the whole framing of mainstream economics is. After all, economic systems are basically information and communications tech.
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This podcast I did with
@balajis
and
@eriktorenberg
is probably the most informationally dense I've ever done: . It will reward slow listening, and was so much fun to record!
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For those interested in a short summary of our new white paper with
@VitalikButerin
and
@zhitzig
, see
@_lunar_mining
's exclusive
@coindesk
:
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To be free is not merely to cast off one's chains but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others. Nelson Mandela
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It seems to me (but if someone has a counterexample please highlight) that the most serious organized and broad-based movement for a positive, forward-looking, liberal vision of the future (w possible and overlapping exception of
#RadicalxChange
) is the blockchain movement (1/2).
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As rationality and strategy are to communicating. I no longer believe most goods are private good and thus that something like general equilibrium is a reasonable benchmark to describe resource allocation. I believe that most goods are at least common to some group and thus
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Starting now until early July I am on paternity leave, so don't expect to hear or hear back from me.
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Today may be the most important/culminating of my professional life. Together with dozens of colleagues and collaborators, I’m releasing/launching a series of papers, initiatives and other work. Thanks especially to one of my favorite journalists,
@RanaForoohar
,
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New
@Medium
post/manifesto with
@VitalikButerin
on the emerging collaboration between
#RadicalMarkets
and
#ethereum
: .
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Ah, Silicon Valley, land of my youth. So much idealism & energy, so much open-mindedness & purpose, so much naïveté & greed, so much self-serving self-deception, so much disregard for human culture & humans, so much motivated forgetting, so much power & so little wisdom.
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I spent most of the last day of 2018 defending the political sociology of the
@NiskanenCenter
-style project of uniting self-identified or previously self-identified libertarians with progressives. Today I offer an intellectual critique and explain why I am no fellow traveler.
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Yo crypto bro world:
@pujaohlhaver
did most of the work on the DeSoc paper and I tried hard to get her to let me make her first author. She is only second because of dumb modesty. Please don’t write her out of history. She’s one of the few women of color on a key paper in web 3
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So many thanks to
@VitalikButerin
and the whole
#EDCON
team for a wonderful introduction to the
#Ethereum
community. So many opportunities for collaboration with
#RadicalMarkets
and radical mechanism design. Looking forward to much more!
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By popular demand, here is the syllabus for my course on
#RadicalMarkets
@Princeton
this fall...readings are a great way to dive deeper for those interested:
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I just had a great email exchange (xChange?) with
@VitalikButerin
and we decided it might be instructive to post it, though before you dive in read the caveats about inside baseball at the beginning: .
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Thrilled to announce, at long last, the release of my paper on identity with
@immorlica
and Matt Jackson. Thanks to
@wirelineio
and
@LucasGeiger
for all their support! Be sure to check out the fabulous work of
@Gradish
on making these ideas a reality.
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The darkest day for the world in my lifetime.
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We are thinking of a "Radical Markets Devcon" to bring together the exponentially growing community working on artistic, political, commercial and entrepreneurial applications of
#RadicalMarkets
. If you might be interested in helping organize write to weyl
@princeton
.edu.
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Ok, I couldn't resist just one baby photo, my favorite. This is Alma Margret Weyl at her naming ceremony with our amazing Rabbi
@AmichaiLauLavie
and my incredible wife
@ProfTortuga
at which we explained her name as follows.
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I am so honored to be chosen by my hero and the most brilliant person I've ever met, Jaron Lanier, as his nominee for
@WIRED
's 25th anniversary edition: . Thanks to
@nitashatiku
,
@sarahfallon
,
@nxthompson
and everyone else who made this possible!
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What are people’s favorite examples of something genuinely good for the world that was significantly facilitated by crypto/Web 3 already not hypothetically?
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After my second trip to Latin America in a month, I am convinced that it will be the most important region of the world for
@RadxChange
in the next year. The energy there around these ideas is something I have never seen before.
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Thanks
@jetjocko
for a beautiful write-up
@WIRED
of the exciting
@COHouseDem
experiment with
#QuadraticVoting
led by
@HansenforCO
and
@DemocracyEarth
/
@santisiri
that promises to transform democracy: .
@RadxChange
is happening now, thanks
@nielsrosenquist
!
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Thank you to
@ATabarrok
for a beautiful, short, clear exposition of the economics around
#LiberalRadicalism
with
@VitalikButerin
and
@zhitzig
: . This is what economically literate folks that do not want to read a 40 page paper should turn to.
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We may never know the motives of today's attacker. What I do know, however, is that I have been deeply disturbed by the views I hear many of my friends who I considered to be on the moderate left increasingly express, repeatedly supporting violence, abrogation of the
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.
@balajis
I’d really enjoy your putting some of your predictions about various institutions collapsing into the form of objectively verifiable quantitative predictions that resolve in the next 3-5 years. I am very likely happy to be the other side of the bet.
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V excited to announce the first in a new type of writing I am trying...this one is with my long-time friend and collaborator Eduardo Azevedo and my cubicle mate
@pennockd
on "Channel Auctions", which we think may be a better design than English or Dutch: .
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While we are definitely going to hold a RadicalxChange conference on for the broad
#RadicalMarkets
community, I have gotten increasing interest from people in the
@ethereum
community in a workshop or something at
#devcon
. If you are interested/have ideas, please reply.
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It is one of the greatest honors of my life to be announcing here () the launch of the newest
@MSFTResearch
special project the Decentralized Social Technology Collaboratory (), where my new role is Research Lead.
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Why are medical service providers not required to disclose the cost you will face before you agree to a service?
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Thanks to everyone for responding to my query on beneficial Web 3 projects. I got a lot of good answers. Some of my favorite:
1.
@gitcoin
,
@Givethio
,
@coordinape
and other ways to creatively and dynamically make charitable and public goods funding work.
2. Multi-sigs are way
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It is an incredible relief and satisfaction to see the new administration planning to finally make use of the work I did with
@dsallentess
,
@GaneshSitaraman
,
@JuliusKrein
,
@ATabarrok
,
@SlaughterAM
and others this spring: . Sad it took a change of admin.
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Yesterday I got a preview from Richard Garfield, creator of Magic The Gathering, of a new game based on COST/SALSA. I think it is going to be a hit and a huge breakthrough for
@RadxChange
ideas.
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Thanks to
@ethereum
for the chance to give the final keynote today and to everyone for your enthusiasm. Looking forward to building
#RadicalxChange
with you all. Sorry for misusing "institutions" in your language ...to an economist this means eg democracy not eg Goldman Sachs.
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Great piece by
@tonysheng
about
#RadicalMarkets
for
@decentraland
and more broadly
#cryptoeconomic
design:
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Thanks to
@Noahpinion
for a great piece on Taiwan: . Hope to see more from him and others. Estonia is another to be considered.
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2019 looks to be the most dangerous year for liberal democracy in living memory, with economies on the edge and governments falling left and right. Working people around the rich world no longer feel the system is working for them or a sense of agency.
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I am doing my best to make my way through
@NancyMacLean5
's hit job on James Buchanan, but I am finding it really tough going. Almost every page is full of willful misunderstandings, conspiracy theories, bizarre one-sided understandings of basic issues in political theory
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Russian deserters must be treated as refugees eligible for asylum by EU countries: . The law appears quite settled. This needs to be blasted out to the troops along with bounty offers.
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I
#standindivisible
because I will not allow my brothers and sisters be dehumanized because of where they were born. cc
@indivisibleteam
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Asylum in liberal democratic countries now for Russian defectors,deserters and their families. 300k asylum seekers with valuable materiel or 3m Ukrainian asylum seekers wounded and starving in a month.
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Many times this weekend I was asked to give the elevator version of
@RadxChange
views. Here is my attempt: Civilization requires large scale organization. Presently this is mostly either corporations or nation states. Corporations are profit-seeking and exploitative.
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What an honor to be on a podcast with the only superhero I have met,
@audreyt
. This is one of the best conversations I've had in my life.
What if technology could amplify our agreements, instead of our conflicts? What if it could help us make laws? Hear
@audreyt
, Digital Minister of Taiwan, talk about how she is already making this happen in her country (46 min. Listen) >
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Thanks to
@TheEconomist
for publishing my letter with
@VitalikButerin
this week on using Quadratic Funding and similar mechanisms to expand public good provision without growing the administrative state:
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I'm about to write a critique of
#RadicalMarkets
the book, and in that spirit in a conversation with the inimitable
@zhitzig
realized two things I have been very wrong about separate from this. Thought I should call these out:
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This
@TheEconomist
piece on identity is one of the best things I've read all year: . Vital primer on what is so broken about our digital economy and society in deep historico-philosphical perspective.
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For those who think any softening of private property rights is equivalent to large scale violence, I really recommend this excellent piece by
@MattBruenig
: . The right-libertarian view on the sacredness of property is pretty close to endorsing feudalism
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in a democratic spirit. If there are princes today, and I think there are, we should be in the business of building social movements to deny their legitimacy, not whispering things to them. Otherwise, in the name of being neutral advisers, we become the servants of power. (2/2)
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Those of you who knew my grandma Muriel Weyl will understand when I mourn her loss Saturday night and remember her as the most generous and loving person I’ve known. She had a long and very full life, meeting three great grandchildren before she passed peacefully in her sleep.
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I am trying to make a list of software projects related to
#RadicalMarkets
. If you are working on something, especially in the
#blockchain
space, related to the COST, QV or Data as Labor, please tweet to me or email me at weyl
@princeton
.edu.
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Nation states are arbitrary, historically-derived and unresponsive to new technological and social structures. We can do better with new social technologies that allow a rich and diverse civil society that is socially responsive and democratically governed.
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Classic
@devonzuegel
post identifies what is fundamentally broken about economics/game theory: . They assume the key issue in incentive theory is conflict between selfish individuals. In reality, the main issue is conflict between diverse communities
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While among the craziest two days of my life,
@audreyt
's visit to Boston was among the most meaningful moments in my career. From the moment of picking her up at the airport to dropping her off at the airport again, I saw everyone in her presence basking in her glow.
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Thanks to Ann Tyson
@csmonitor
for the best coverage I’ve seen yet of the amazing contributions of
@audreyt
to digital democracy:
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Just in time for Thanksgiving, RadicalxChange has a website: . Thanks so much to
@mickeymuldoon
, Joss Clifford-Firth,
@Gigamesh
and
@CharlieThomps0n
! Much more will be coming soon, including an inaugural blog post by myself and
@VitalikButerin
.
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Today my hero, dear friend and collaborator,
@audreyt
, survived an assassination attempt at her office along with several of her staff:
I will be praying for her and hers. Do not doubt this work is deadly serious.
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Better name for QV?
@glenweyl
@Mordechaile
@JohnnieM
@JuliusKrein
@SlaughterAM
@astradisastra
@kimmaicutler
Intensity voting?
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My tentative view of what blockchains are best suited to doing: creating strong "common knowledge" in the game theoretic sense (similar to what folks in this space call "consensus"): everyone knows something, and everyone knows that everyone knows, and so on.
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Today is the darkest day in politics in my life.
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Warning: this is a very long tweet storm. Following up on
@chafkin
’s book, I took the plunge into The Sovereign Individual. What a ride. One of the more important/influential books of our time and one that should be far more widely read than it has been.
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Activists, policy makers and artists passionate about
#RadicalMarkets
& interested in helping shape the
#RadicalxChange
conference and movement, please reach out to me (weyl
@princeton
.edu) or Avital Balwit <azb4sj
@virginia
.edu>. We need courageous and creative leaders like you!
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Why do I think the dominant technological trajectory of Web 3 is unlikely to deliver "decentralization" of the type we have reason to value and if anything is likely to increase centralization? Why do I nonetheless think it's an exciting space that could
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A cool diagram that
@VitalikButerin
devised for my piece on ideologies for the 21st century fell out in the editing process but is now back: . Working on making it higher fidelity with some friends including
@owocki
.
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Finally, my longest both in words and time to prepare, essay in this series, and entree to my soon forthcoming critique of
#RadicalMarkets
. Guess this is going to be the one that hits closest to home for most of my readers, and most distinguishes
@RadxChange
from
#RadicalMarkets
A new installment in
@glenweyl
's "Why I Am Not" series focusing on technocracy, a system which the RadicalxChange movement is often misunderstood as supporting.
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So excited for this conversation!
I’m in Taipei with these brilliant individuals.
Come to our talk tomorrow if you could use an optimistic take on the future of technology, collaboration, and democracy..
@VitalikButerin
@audreyt
@glenweyl
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If you didn't believe in the power of digital democracy that
@taiwanpdis
,
@g0vtw
and
@audreyt
are bringing to Taiwan, look at what they did for Covid. . I hope
@RadxChange
will help bring these ideas to the world!
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I feel like people are missing how bad the whole Alameda-FTX thing was even before the fraud. They were running big AI models on social media data to front run the next memecoin. That’s the sort of stuff that was at the root of 2007-9 and should be illegal.
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The outpouring of enthusiasm, action and engagement we have seen
@RadxChange
and immediately after has floored me. I truly believe we can grow this movement to be a central force defining global politics and society in the next few years.
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While we had to put this together quickly and a bit dirty given how fast this space is moving, I think this is probably the most important document I’ve contributed to. Can’t wait to see the world it helps build.
1/ A first sketch of Decentralized Society (DeSoc):
…
Honored to have collaborated with
@glenweyl
and
@vitalikbuterin
on what will hopefully become a novel field of research, inquiry, and co-creation across our technological stack.
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I knew
#DeSoc
had important ideas, that
@pujaohlhaver
had written it beautifully in the limited time and that
@VitalikButerin
has a large top-of-funnel, but I didn’t realize quite how viral a dense academic style paper could go. 2 weeks in and already top 5 downloads in last
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