Gaming the Future Book Club: Meet our Special Guests & Claim Gitcoin Bounties!

Dear Players,

It’s not too late to join the Foresight’s new weekly virtual book club this Sunday, from 11 am PT – 1 pm PT!

Gaming the Future is a living book and book club focused on advancing technologies for intelligent voluntary cooperation by Allison Duettmann, Mark S. Miller, and Christine Peterson.

The Book

Opportunities for bright futures enabled by bio, nano, and computing technologies are now within our reach. Their proliferation also comes with risks and authoritarian attempts at control. We explore how technologies of intelligent voluntary cooperation can help us navigate the traps. Cryptocommerce enables decentralized, secure cooperation across humans – and AIs. This unlocks Paretotropian futures of high technology in which valuing entities can pursue their highest function through iterative play.

Short-cuts to the chapters in this book:

We hope you find interest in critiquing and augmenting the ideas by commenting. This book, like a good game, is here to be iterated and improved for the next round.

The Book Club: Schedule, Special Guests, and Gitcoin Bounties

As a paid subscriber, you receive invitations to Gaming the Future Book Club meetings, running weekly throughout May and June on Sundays, at 11 am PT.

We’ll discuss the ideas in the book, chapter by chapter, live with the authors and other like minds. Below is a list of the exciting keynote guests you’ll be meeting, whose talks are featured throughout the digital book:

Sunday, May 8: Christine Peterson, Foresight Institute, Mark S. Miller, Agoric Allison Duettmann, Foresight Institute
Saturday, May 14: David Friedman, Author of Legal Systems Very Different from Ours
Sunday, May 22: Kate Sills, Paul Gebheim, Forecast Foundation
Sunday, May 29: Primavera De Filippi, Koala, Arthur Breitman, Tezos
Sunday, June 5: David Brin, Author of Transparent Society
Sunday, June 12: Gernot Heiser, SeL4
Sunday, June 19: Trent McConaghy, Ocean Protocol
Sunday, June 26: Stuart Armstrong, Future of Humanity Institute, Robin Hanson, George Mason University

The Game

In place of the usual discussion guide we’ll be inviting you to a weekly side quest: a challenge question that’s been turned into a Gitcoin bounty. If your ideas win, you can claim the prize and secure your place in history by contributing to the book!

Some of our more competitive players have already gotten a head start on the bounties, which are embedded in each chapter. It’s fun to see the community unfold, which brings to mind an analogy from Steven Pinker: a beautiful, spontaneous order that resembles the evolution and reinvention of language itself.

Founding members will receive a special edition physical version of the book, in addition to book club membership.

→ We hope you’ll join the book club by becoming a paid subscriber! ←

See you on Sunday!

Allison Duettmann
Christine Peterson
Mark S. Miller
Foresight Institute

Gaming the Future: The Book!