Presenters
David Ernst, Founder and CEO of Liquid US
David Ernst is a leader of the liquid democracy movement and now a candidate for California Assembly District 19, which centers on the western half of San Francisco. Ernst began working as CTO of a startup called Numerai, a crypto-backed decentralized hedge fund that allows data scientists to earn money when they solve data challenges…
Eduardo Beltrame, Bioengineering PhD from Caltech
His primary research focus in on single cell RNA sequencing, developing both experimental and computational workflows…
Tom Bell, Professor at Chapman University School of Law
Professor Bell joined the faculty of Fowler School of Law in 1998. Professor Bell specializes in high-tech legal issues and has written a variety of works on intellectual property and Internet law, including the book, Intellectual Privilege: Copyright, Common Law, and the Common Good (2014). He received his Juris Doctor from the University of…
New Sovereignties Focus
- Tom is working on 3 projects that use a kernel of Ulex, an open source legal system
- Prospera, a network of sovereign rules in Honduras [https://prospera.hn/]
- Free Society Project, very close to public launches [https://www.freesociety.com/]
- Third project to be announced soon, a virtual special economic zone for Native Americans
- David Ernst is advising projects such as plumia, bitnation, and lieberland
- Setting up Mars colonies is an extremely high profile sovereign project, Musk wants everyone to be able to vote from their phones
- Some challenges Ulex is facing is github expertise and not enough entities running the procedural rules of Ulex
- Designing virtual bohrs might streamline the sovereignty formation process
- David is working on secure internet voting via phone [https://siv.org/]
- SecureID tries to validate proof of personhood for voting in a digital age [https://secureid.org/]
- It might be better to have the mars colony be a pure democracy, not a representative one. It’s possible to have a decentralized representative democracy, where you can pick representatives and delegate your vote on a more personal level. [https://demo.liquid.us/]
- This works for voting, but it wouldn’t work for drafting legislation
- The futarchy market prediction system is very interesting [https://mason.gmu.edu/~rhanson/futarchy.html]
- Everyone wants to scale political systems but it might be more efficient to consider small groups of people first, rather than trying to scale a new system to hundreds of millions of people
- Preconceptions about these new systems pose a major challenge
- Eduardo was in a Caltech discussion group about countries and policy, which is now becoming a 501c3
- Too many people underestimate themselves when the barrier is just a lack of understanding the system
- Networking and nucleating action groups could help solve a myriad of challenges
