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Election Special 4: What is Governance for and how can we shape genuine democracy - with Glen Weyl of the Plurality Institute
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Election Special 4: What is Governance for and how can we shape genuine democracy - with Glen Weyl of the Plurality Institute
FromAccidental Gods
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63 minutes
Released:
Jun 28, 2024
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If the current electoral/governance system is not fit for purpose (and who could possibly imagine it was?) how can we lay the foundations for new ways of organising democracy, new ways of voting, new ideas of what governance is for and how it could work in the twenty-first century. How, in short, do we create space for future generations to be able to decide their own futures in ways that are not constrained by material or political strictures they've inherited from us? In this ground-breaking conversation with Glenn Weyl, economist, philosopher, film producer, visionary - and co-author with Audrey Tang of the book Plurality, which emerged from a collaboration to ask all of these questions - and from Audrey's experiences in re-shaping the democracy in Taiwan towards connection, collaboration and - above all -peaceful resolutions of the many internal contradictions of that state. Glen currently works at Microsoft where he is the founder and research lead of the Microsoft Research Special Project the Plural Technology Collaboratory, though he was previously GeoPolitical advisor to the CTO. He also founded and serves on the board of the RadicalxChange Foundation the leading thing tank in the web 3 space, and is founder and chair of the Plurality Institute which coordinates an academic research network developing technology for cooperation across different disciplines. He's also senior advisor to the Getting-Plurality Research Network at the Harvard Edmond and Lily Saffra Centre for Ethics. He previously lead Web 3 technical strategy at Microsoft's Office of the CTO and taught economics at the Universities of Chicago, Yale, Princeton and Harvard Glen's websiteThe Plurality InstituteRadicalxChange FoundationQuadratic voting explainedPLURALITY - the book Audrey Tang on Twitter Trailer for film biopic about Audrey Tang: The Good Enough Ancestor Project LibertyQuadratic Voting - with Ruth Catlow in Episode #193
Released:
Jun 28, 2024
Format:
Podcast episode
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