Language models as collective intelligence
Throughout our cultural evolution, refinements in the ways we share information have enabled societal shifts. Generally, new mediums which increase individual agency are correlated with expanding collective knowledge. Agency is, in large part, a function of information — the world is complex, and we are limited in our ability to understand it. Tools that enable us to think together enable us to outsource intellectual and productive exploration to the collective and individually benefit from c...
Language models as collective intelligence
Throughout our cultural evolution, refinements in the ways we share information have enabled societal shifts. Generally, new mediums which increase individual agency are correlated with expanding collective knowledge. Agency is, in large part, a function of information — the world is complex, and we are limited in our ability to understand it. Tools that enable us to think together enable us to outsource intellectual and productive exploration to the collective and individually benefit from c...
Learning from major evolutionary transitions
As we look out into the future, many of the key problems we must solve this century arise from coordination failures at multiple scales of our existing institutional systems. Climate change, existential risk from technology, energy and materials each share something in common — they are examples of multipolar traps arising when individuals and groups pursue their own selfish incentives at the expense of the collective benefit, in games that are increasingly global in their domain of action. M...
Learning from major evolutionary transitions
As we look out into the future, many of the key problems we must solve this century arise from coordination failures at multiple scales of our existing institutional systems. Climate change, existential risk from technology, energy and materials each share something in common — they are examples of multipolar traps arising when individuals and groups pursue their own selfish incentives at the expense of the collective benefit, in games that are increasingly global in their domain of action. M...
Team Earth
Flooding, crashing, burning, storming, melting, drying, soon collapsing. Fighting, warring, stomping, smashing, blasting, bombing, nuke-attacking. Taxing, maxing, pumping, dumping, easing, shrinking, now inflating. Lying, prying, spying, vying, clowning, drowning, straight bullshitting. Pathologic. Morphologic. Demagogic. Nation logic. We are inundated with grim predictions of our future. The threats are very real. Deep and truthful understanding is critical to mitigating them. However, if th...
Team Earth
Flooding, crashing, burning, storming, melting, drying, soon collapsing. Fighting, warring, stomping, smashing, blasting, bombing, nuke-attacking. Taxing, maxing, pumping, dumping, easing, shrinking, now inflating. Lying, prying, spying, vying, clowning, drowning, straight bullshitting. Pathologic. Morphologic. Demagogic. Nation logic. We are inundated with grim predictions of our future. The threats are very real. Deep and truthful understanding is critical to mitigating them. However, if th...
DAOs as novelty search engines
DAOs are collaborative networks which are likely to have a unique role in the future. To determine this role, you need to be able to look beyond what is happening today. Like a toddler taking its first steps, the DAOs of today are immature, unsteady and likely to stumble. While it can be tempting to write them off, especially in ‘serious’ innovation domains, their structure gives them unique capabilities as vehicles for discovery. We’ll take a short walk through their structure, and finish on...
DAOs as novelty search engines
DAOs are collaborative networks which are likely to have a unique role in the future. To determine this role, you need to be able to look beyond what is happening today. Like a toddler taking its first steps, the DAOs of today are immature, unsteady and likely to stumble. While it can be tempting to write them off, especially in ‘serious’ innovation domains, their structure gives them unique capabilities as vehicles for discovery. We’ll take a short walk through their structure, and finish on...
