Summary Balaji has turned his attention to the creation a Network State, in particular a polis with a transhumanist mission “which starts with a virtual university, bootstraps a digital economy, and can be forked to create new opt-in polities.” Such “cloud cities” allow their members to collectively negotiate with existing jurisdictions and crowdfund territory in… Continue reading Balaji S. Srinivasan: The Network State
Summary Robin Hanson joins the Intelligent Voluntary Cooperation group to discuss his Simple Model of Grabby Aliens. His claim: we have the data to make informed predictions around how common “loud” (expansionary, fast-growing and environment-changing) extraterrestrial civilizations may be, where they are and when we may come into contact with them. This meeting is part… Continue reading Robin Hanson, George Mason University: A Simple Model of Grabby Aliens
Summary Today we’re discussing “From Value Diversity to Voluntary Cooperation”. Upon investigation, we discover that values are quite diverse, even within an individual. Often our values are hard to determine with certainty at all! Is internal conflict a feature or bug? With so little insight into our own values and as our environment becomes more… Continue reading Robin Hanson, George Mason University : Value Drift | Mark S. Miller – Toward Paretotopia
Summary Welcome to the Intelligent Voluntary Cooperation group! The Purpose of This Group This group will meet monthly to hear keynote presentations based on chapters of a book being written by Allison, Mark, and Christine called Voluntary Intelligent Cooperation and to discuss the topics. We hope to invite those who work on decentralized technologies for… Continue reading Intelligent Cooperation Intro: Mark S. Miller, Christine Peterson, Allison Duettmann
