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 challengesā¦
Eduardo Beltrame, Bioengineering PhD from Caltech
His primary research focus in on single cell RNA sequencing, developing both experimental and computational workflowsā¦
Tom Bell, Professor at Chapman University School of Law
Professor Bell joined the faculty of Fowler School of Law in 1998.Ā 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 ofā¦
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. Itās 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 wouldnāt 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
