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Tag: governance

  • Disneyworld meets US Customs

    Disneyworld meets US Customs

    In Disneyworld, the 50 minute lines are an experience. You get interesting visuals about Star Wars, Avatar and other franchises. The lines are designed to always give the sensation of movement. They twist back and forth, in short twists – so you feel like you’re always turning a corner. You enter isolated tunnels and small…

  • A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace

    Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed. You have neither solicited nor received ours. We did not invite you. You do not know us, nor do you know our world. Cyberspace does not lie within your borders. — Read on www.eff.org/cyberspace-independence While leafing through an airport magazine featuring the Grateful Dead,…

  • AI Governance Ideas by Vitalik

    The core problem with democratic / decentralized modes of governance (including DAOs on ethereum) is limits to human attention: there are many thousands of decisions to make, involving many domains of expertise, and most people don’t have the time or skill to be experts in even one, let alone all of them. The usual solution,…

  • The hardest questions you can ask AI while expecting a reasonable response

    Somewhere in the bowels of X, Sam Altman suggested asking an AI to provide the hardest question it could reasonably answer. Perplexity provides 1/ difficult questions it can answer reasonably well (given the availability of public information), and 2/ questions that are hard to answer. These are the questions it can reasonably answer based on…

  • Talented People

    This goes hard. Political parties should do more of this. It’s critical to governing effectively. “Distance yourself from people you don’t want to become” (Shane Parrish)

  • Can AI help you simplify and understand local government?(Project Report – Success)

    Can AI help you simplify and understand local government?(Project Report – Success)

    I wanted to see if AI could provide insight into local government. AI does analysis really well, those datasets are available, and it’s not something a normal person can do, unless they have hours to spare. Can AI simplify government bureaucracies so we can better understand our government. The answer? Yes, it can.

  • What are some positive ways the world could rebuild around AI technologies? (Prompt)

    AI could be used as a lever to rebuild institutions, markets, and daily life in ways that are more productive, fair, and humane than today, but only if we design for that explicitly rather than just “optimize engagement” or “cut headcount.”

  • How to compare countries

    you should always compare countries based on GDP PPP (Purchasing Power Parity) which erases…artificial distortion by adjusting for local price levels, giving you the true productive capacity of each economy and a much truer notion of domestic living standards. Useful. More here.

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