Hacking State
Exploring how technology changes our relationship to power, each other, and ourselves. Making sense of the techno-acceleration, Alex Murshak conducts in-depth interviews on the philosophy of technology. Hacking State is about doing more with less, pushing limitations, and finding gainful exploits at every level of the human operating system; from minds, to bodies, to tools, organizations, governments, and higher order social systems. Heidegger describes the nature of technology as a kind of revealing. It remains to be seen where and whether technology gives us Nietzschean will-to-power-like mastery over nature and ourselves or, as Plato warns, we are liable to be lead astray by novel ideas. Our capacity to harness nature has never been greater. Science and technology have unlocked immense power. Yet the human animal remains remarkably similar across millennia. In such a situation, discernment is our greatest asset. It is our relationship to ourselves, our systems, and one another, that will determine our future.
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Thursday May 25, 2023
Thursday May 25, 2023
Robin Hanson and I discuss prediction markets, decision markets, Futarchy, and Demarchy.
We cover simple and more elaborate applications of prediction markets, common objections to them and barriers to implementation at the organization level, when a prediction market becomes a decision market, his vision for Futarchy--a proposed system of government whereby elected officials use prediction markets to inform policy decisions based on measurable objectives--and Demarchy, another alternative governance mechanism where policy-makers are chosen at random from among the population.
Professor Robin Hanson is Associate Professor of Economics at George Mason University and a research associate at the Future of Humanity Institute of Oxford University.
Robin Hanson's Twitter: https://twitter.com/robinhanson
Personal site: http://mason.gmu.edu/~rhanson/home.html
University bio: https://economics.gmu.edu/people/rhanson
On prediction markets: http://mason.gmu.edu/~rhanson/ideafutures.html
On Futarchy: http://mason.gmu.edu/~rhanson/futarchy.html
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Political Technology
Our capacity to harness nature has never been greater. Science and technology have unlocked immense power, making us comparable to the Gods of yore. Yet the human animal remains remarkably similar across millenia. In such a situation, it is our relationship to ourselves, our systems, and one another, that requires tending to, as we shepherd humanity into the aeons on the horizon. Hacking State is about doing more with less, pushing limitations, and finding gainful exploits at every level of the human operating system; from minds, to bodies, to tools, to organizations, governments, and social systems.