In Foresight’s group Intelligent Cooperation we work on leveraging computer science, cryptocommerce, and related fields to build a future defined by intelligent cooperation. We explore innovations that support cooperation across a diversity of agents pursuing a diversity of goals, that offer decentralized defenses against automated physical and digital threats.
Allison Duettman – Foresight Institute, Christine Peterson – Foresight Institute and Mark S. Miller – Agoric.
This session introduces the purpose of the intelligent cooperation group and the book draft it’s based on. Allison Duettmann, Mark S. Miller, and Christine Peterson discuss cooperation in the face of value diversity, arrangements unlocked by cryptocommerce, decentralized defenses against automated threats and how a market-inspired approach to computation can enable us to extend cooperation to other intelligences.
Recording can be found here.
Robin Hanson – George Mason University and Mark S. Miller – Agoric.
Robin Hanson is an associate professor of economics at George Mason University, and research associate at the Future of Humanity Institute of Oxford University. In this session he talks about Value Drift & Futarchy.
Mark S. Miller is a Chief Scientist at Agoric and a Foresight Institute Research Fellow. In this video he discusses the concept of “Paretotropism”; how civilization is, imperfectly, climbing pareto-preferred hills, and how to we can aid this dynamic.
Recording can be found here.
Robin Hanson – George Mason University.
In this session Robin Hanson is back. This time he discusses the concept of “grabby” (meaning loud) aliens, and how we should consider communicating with them.
Recording can be found here.
Balaji S. Srinivasan – Angel investor and entrepreneur.
Balaji S. Srinivasan is formerly the CTO of Coinbase and General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz. In this session he discusses what he refers to as “The Network State” – a network of cyberspace-based polities that enable their members to collectively negotiate with existing jurisdictions, crowdfund territory, and coordinate on common interests.
Recording and a complete lecture summary can be found here.
Dr. Vernon L. Smith – Nobel Prize in Economic Science, Andrew McAfee – MIT Sloan School of Management.
Andrew McAfee is the Co-Director of the IDE and a Principal Research Scientist at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He visits the Foresight Intelligent Cooperation group to discuss how we can accelerate the drivers of civilizational progress.
Dr. Vernon L. Smith was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 2002 for his groundbreaking work in experimental economics. In this session he talks about classical theory of price discovery in markets.
Recording can be found here.
Tyler Cowen – George Mason University.
Tyler Cowen is a professor of economics at George Mason University, co-writes Marginal Revolution, and hosts Conversations with Tyler. He joined us to discuss his book Stubborn Attachments, sustained economic growth as the engine of a flourishing civilization, and how to overcome the great stagnation via altruism and cooperation.
Recording can be found here.
Audrey Tang – Taiwan’s digital minister.
Audrey Tang is a software programmer as well as the digital minister of Taiwan, in charge of social innovation. In this session she talks about what it means to be a conservative anarchist while working with the government, quadratic funding & voting, democracy tech vs. surveillance tech, loss of institutional trust and emerging attractors for non-coercive cooperation.
Recording and a complete lecture summary can be found here.
Arthur Breitman – Tezos, Marc Stiegler – Object-capabilities Computer Scientist.
Arthur Breitman is the creator of Tezos, a public blockchain enabling decentralized governance through self-amendments. He talks in this video about how and why we could and should govern blockchain.
Marc Stiegler is an American science fiction author and software developer. He wrote the classic short story “The Gentle Seduction”. He joined Foresights group to talk about the Digital Path & Blockchain for Secure Title Registries.
Recording and complete lecture summary can be found here.
Glen Weyl – RadicalxChange.
Glen Weyl serves at Microsoft’s Office of the Chief Technology Officer Political Economist and Social Technologist (OCTOPEST), and is Founder and Chair of the RadicalxChange Foundation, a non-profit that coordinates a global social movement for social technology. In this session he talks about using social technologies to help create an economy of increasing returns.
Recording and complete lecture summary can be found here.
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