Summary We work on how nature collectively computes solutions to problems & how these computations are refined in evolutionary and learning time. We explore these ideas at all levels of biological organization—from societies of cells to animal societies to markets to machine-human hybrid societies. Presenters David Krakauer, Santa Fe Institute David’s research focuses on the… Continue reading David Krakauer, Santa Fe Institute | Collective Computing: Learning from Nature
Summary Instead of trying to design a novel single superintelligent agent that aligns with human values, should we instead make a constellation of decentralized intelligences that can fit into our existing frameworks for cooperation? How can we achieve this? We start the exploration of this topic with principal-agent relationships between agents, and the tools humans… Continue reading Gillian Hadfield, University of Toronto | Incomplete Contracts & AI Alignment
Summary Kate Sills is a software engineer with an interest in economics and law. She has been a columnist for the Cato Institute and was previously a board member of the Tezos Commons Foundation. She graduated from the University of California at Berkeley with a degree in Computer Science. How can we create a blockchain… Continue reading NFTs and Engineering Property Rights | Kate Sills, Agoric
Summary David Brin is best-known for shining light on technology, society, and countless challenges confronting our rambunctious civilization. His best-selling novels include The Postman (filmed in 1997) plus explorations of our near-future in Earth and Existence. Other novels are translated into 25+ languages. His short stories explore vividly speculative ideas. Brin’s nonfiction book The Transparent… Continue reading Transparent Society & Sousveillance | David Brin, Author of The Transparent Society
Summary – Daniel Ellsberg is the author of four books: The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner (2017); Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers (2002); Risk, Ambiguity and Decision (2001); and Papers on the War (1971). – After returning to the RAND Corporation in 1967, Ellsberg worked on the top-secret… Continue reading Nuclear Risks: Doomsday (Still) Hiding in Plain Sight | Daniel Ellsberg, Author of Doomsday Machine
Summary In the first half of this year, we started from scratch: what is cooperation, why is it important, what does it allow humans to do? Then we addressed what could happen if we port the cooperative arrangements that we already have into the digital world enhanced by crypto commerce. Now, what will happen to… Continue reading Staking, Signals, and Other Techniques for Intelligence Coordination | Richard Craib, NumerAI
Summary When we play the game of civilization, very interesting patterns merge: today’s cooperative institutions are such a pattern. We’ve looked at a few of these cooperative arrangements and how they can be ported into the digital world in our previous sessions. Today we talk about how to get there from our world of paper… Continue reading A Peaceful Transition into Cryptocommerce? | Jim Epstein, Primavera De Filippi, Brewster Kahle
Summary Today we will discuss prediction markets and the problems they may help solve. We’ll hear a brief introduction of what Prediction Markets are by Robin Hanson, followed by a discussion of a few current projects (Metaculus, Augur, Replication Markets), and finish with a rundown of the challenges ahead by Chris Hibbert of Agoric and… Continue reading Prediction & Replication Markets, Augur, Metaculus, Gnosis, Oracle Problems, Beauty Contests
Summary Today we discuss how smart contracts can rearrange the more default organizations that make up our world. Those who have started companies know that there is a pretty small menu of choices when it comes to setting up a new organization: for profit, non-profit, recently b-corps. Through smart contracts and DAOs we can attempt… Continue reading DAOs: DAOstack, Decentraland, SifChain, ResearchHub, VitaDAO
Summary Today we hear from Zooko Wilcox of Zcash and Howard Wu of Aleo about Zero-Knowledge Proofs, cryptographic techniques that can be (and are) employed to bring provable privacy and scalability to the many cryptocommercial and governance technologies the group has been discussing. This meeting is part of the Intelligent Cooperation Group and accompanying book… Continue reading Zero-knowledge-enabled Cooperation: Halo 2 & Aleo | Zooko Wilcox, ECC, Howard Wu, Aleo
