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RadicalxChange(s)Takahiro Anno: Fixing Bugs in DemocracyExecutive Director Jess Scully speaks with Takahiro Anno, an AI engineer, science fiction writer and newly elected member of Japan's House of Councillors. Anno shares his remarkable journey from software engineer to politician, driven by a desire to "fix the bugs" in society and democracy.Anno's political rise has been rapid. In his first-ever campaign for Tokyo Governor in July 2024, Anno received over 150,000 votes, an unprecedented milestone for a candidate in their 30s with no prior political experience. Following this success, he founded Team Mirai in May 2025 and, just months later, won a seat in Japan's national...
2025-11-1126 min
RadicalxChange(s)Max Semenchuk: Digital Democracy, War & ResilienceJoin new host and Executive Director Jess Scully for a critical conversation on digital resilience, democracy, and reconstruction with Max Semenchuk, Program Director of the Web3 Institute in Ukraine.In this episode, Max explains why, even in the midst of full-scale war, digital innovation has become a critical priority for the Ukrainian government. He provides context on the immense challenges facing the nation, including population decline from 52 million to 37 million and the pressures of war on democracy. The core mission, he argues, is not just to survive, but to "build a country desirable for the young to...
2025-11-0723 min
Burning PlatformsRadicalXChange with Jess ScullyIs Big Tech’s domination of AI inevitable or are there different ways of organising our data to shift the power the dynamic? We discuss the RadicalXChange project with its new director, Jess Scully.
Regular panellists Digital Rights Watch Chair Lizzie O’Shea, Health Engine CEO Dan Stinton and Per Capita’s Peter Lewis also discuss:
Government blocks text and data mining
Human Rights over our brain waves
Sam Altman’s wank-bot
To find out more about RadicalxChange go to: https://www.radicalxchange.org/
To discuss the issues raised in this ep...
2025-10-281h 04
RadicalxChange(s)Jonathon Keats: Experimental PhilosopherSome people might call Jonathon Keats an artist, but he calls himself an experimental philosopher. His body of work explores the way that human life intersects with political and economic systems. His first major work, in the year 2000, involved sitting in a chair thinking for hours, and then selling his thoughts to patrons at prices calculated on the basis of their income. He once copyrighted his own mind as a sculpture. He created a ringtone based on John Cage’s famous piece, 4’33”, which is four minutes and thirty-three seconds of complete silence. He built a pinhole camera that takes photog...
2025-05-161h 08
RadicalxChange(s)J.H.H. Weiler: Academic & Professor at NYU LawIn today’s episode, renowned academic and legal scholar Professor Joseph H.H. Weiler speaks with Matt about The Trial of Jesus – connecting the historical event as a lens for understanding justice, religious pluralism, and democracy. The examination leads us through the limits of state neutrality in matters of faith, the balance between freedom of and from religion, and the evolving role of digital platforms. Professor Weiler shares perspectives from his extensive legal scholarship while reflecting on the intersection of theology, democracy, and technological change in our modern world. An incredibly poignant episode that is a must-listen.Note...
2025-03-161h 25
RadicalxChange(s)Audrey Tang: On Becoming a "Good Enough Ancestor"In this episode, Matt Prewitt sits down with Audrey Tang, Taiwan’s Cyber Ambassador-at-large and 1st Digital Minister, as well as the star of the new short documentary Good Enough Ancestor. It is a fascinating conversation exploring the profound intersections of technology, spirituality, and democracy. Topics they cover include: Daoism and spiritual practice – and their favorite Leonard Cohen lyrics.“Laser blended vision” as a metaphor for democracy – integrating different perspectives into a coherent whole.“High-bandwidth, low-latency” democracy – allowing for real-time collaboration.January 6 vs. Taiwan’s Sunflower Movement – contrasting two parliamentary occupations.Marshall McLuhan’s “hot and cool media” – and what it...
2025-03-111h 30
RadicalxChange(s)Gary Zhexi Zhang: Artist & WriterMatt Prewitt and Gary Zhexi Zhang discuss Chinese cybernetics, focusing on pioneer Qian Xuesen and how the field developed differently in China versus the West. They explore how Chinese cybernetics emerged as a practical tool for nation-building, examining its scientific foundations, political context, and broader cultural impact. Together, they discuss key concepts like information control systems while highlighting the field's interdisciplinary nature and its evolution from thermodynamic to information-based approaches.Links & References: References:The Critical Legacy of Chinese Cybernetics by Gary Zhexi Zhang | Combinations Magazine Cybernetics - WikipediaNorbert Wiener ("Father of Cybernetics")Whose entropy is...
2025-01-3057 min
RadicalxChange(s)Joe Edelman: Co-Founder of Meaning Alignment InstituteWhat happens when artificial intelligence starts weighing in on our moral decisions? Matt Prewitt is joined by Meaning Alignment Institute co-founder Joe Edelman to explore this thought-provoking territory in examining how AI is already shaping our daily experiences and values through social media algorithms. They explore the tools developed to help individuals negotiate their values and the implications of AI in moral reasoning – venturing into compelling questions about human-AI symbiosis, the nature of meaningful experiences, and whether machines can truly understand what matters to us. For anyone intrigued by the future of human consciousness and decision-making in an AI-integrated wo...
2024-12-061h 21
Edge CityMatt Prewitt: Social Technology, Community Currencies, and RadicalxChangeWe chat with Matt Prewitt from RadicalxChange about rethinking communities through intentional design and social technology. The conversation explores various types of intentional communities, including affinity communities, individualist escape communities, and responsible experimenters.Matt highlights how responsible experimentation can create more sustainable and impactful spaces and argues that mutual vulnerability is essential for building trust and shared identity. This is illustrated by RadicalxChange's use of community currencies like "∈dges" at Edge City’s pop-up villages, an experiment to incentivize local exchange and keeping value circulating in the community.The chat closes with ideas on how such...
2024-10-311h 26
RadicalxChange(s)Janine Leger & Timour Kosters: Co-Founders of Edge CityJoin host Matt Prewitt in an inspiring conversation with Edge City co-founders Janine Leger and Timour Kosters, as they dive into the transformative world of pop-up villages and cities. Discover the story behind Edge City's latest experiment, Edge Esmeralda, and learn how temporary communities are reshaping the way we live and work. Janine and Timour share their passion for experimentation, collaboration, co-creation, and their vision for building healthier, more dynamic environments.From the Whole Earth Catalog to the Chautauqua movement, this episode explores the rich history of pop-up communities while introducing groundbreaking ideas like community currencies ("∈dges") an...
2024-09-1147 min
Tech MirrorPlurality: A Vision of the Future of Democracy and SocietyTaiwan’s inaugural Digital Minister, Audrey Tang, and author and founder of RadicalxChange Glen Weyl, join Johanna for an in-depth conversation on utilising technology to reduce division,improve governance, and regulate and the speed of innovation Audrey and Glen share their inspiring stories of grass-roots political action turned tech revolution and speak about Australia’s unique democratic inventiveness, their experiences unifying groups of people through new types of social media, opposing foreign state actors, prebunking misinformation, building bridges between diverse political positions, and making democracy quicker and more representative - all while keeping pace with rapid technological deve...
2024-09-101h 25
RadicalxChange(s)Frank McCourt: Founder of Project Liberty (Part II)In this episode, Project Liberty Founder Frank McCourt joins Matt for a second round to discuss the challenges and opportunities presented by rapidly developing AI technologies. Building on their previous chat about digital infrastructure, they explore whether AI will exacerbate social media, digital advertising, and data centralization issues, or fundamentally change them. McCourt emphasizes fixing the internet’s design flaws to ensure AI benefits society, advocates for returning data ownership to individuals and stresses the need for political engagement to align AI with democratic values. Tune in for this enlightening conversation and what we can do moving forward....
2024-07-281h 15
Accidental GodsElection Special 4: What is Governance for and how can we shape genuine democracy - with Glen Weyl of the Plurality InstituteIf 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 fourth election special, I have a profound conversation with Glen Weyl...
2024-06-281h 03
RadicalxChange(s)Frank McCourt: Founder of Project Liberty (Part I)Today, in Part I of a two-episode conversation, Matt Prewitt is joined by civic entrepreneur and Founder of Project Liberty, Frank McCourt, who is on a mission to reclaim the internet and prioritize human rights in our digital landscape. Drawing parallels between the early public oversight of television and the current state of the internet, Frank highlights the commodification of our data and identities online. He advocates for new protocols and a movement inspired by historical fights against oppression to secure genuine data rights and agency online. As we look to the future, Project Liberty's endeavors may play a...
2024-05-281h 01
RadicalxChange(s)Tahir Amin: Co-Founder & CEO of I-MAKIn today’s episode, Matt Prewitt engages in a thought-provoking dialogue with Tahir Amin, the Co-Founder and CEO of the Initiative for Medicines, Access, and Knowledge (I-MAK). Together, they delve into the history of the patent and trademark systems – flaws and all, especially within the pharmaceutical realm. Tahir, drawing from his experience as a former intellectual property lawyer turned reform advocate, sheds light on how these systems have been manipulated by large corporations to prolong monopolies rather than foster invention. He proposes substantial reforms to address these systemic issues, advocating for a fundamental restructuring of the patent system. This insi...
2024-04-301h 27
RadicalxChange(s)Indy Johar: Architect and Co-Founder of Dark Matter LabsIn this final episode of our short series, host Matt Prewitt speaks with Indy Johar, architect and co-founder of Dark Matter Labs. Together they discuss the topic of ownership through the lens of theories of governance. Indy advocates for decentralized protocols in property governance, emphasizing complex contributions and contextual responsiveness – moving away from control-oriented systems towards ennobling frameworks that empower individuals and foster deeper engagement.RadicalxChange has been working with Indy Johar and Dark Matter Labs, together with Margaret Levi and her team at Stanford, on exploring and reimagining the institutions of ownership.This episode is...
2024-04-2759 min
RadicalxChange(s)Matt Prewitt: Lawyer, Writer, & President of RadicalxChange FoundationIn today’s episode, guest host Margaret Levi interviews Matt Prewitt, President of RadicalxChange Foundation. With the tables turned from our last episode, Margaret interviews Matt on rethinking property rights. Beginning with a reflection on the state of political liberalism, Matt dives into the mechanics of Partial Common Ownership (also known as “Plural Property”) and it being part of the solution to manage assets in a fairer, more efficient way and how experimentation like PCO can lead toward a politics of change.RadicalxChange has been working with Margaret Levi and her team at Stanford, together with Dark Matter...
2024-04-1548 min
RadicalxChange(s)Margaret Levi: Political Scientist, Author, & Professor at Stanford UniversityWelcome back to RadicalxChange(s), and happy 2024!In our first episode of the year, Matt speaks with Margaret Levi, distinguished political scientist, author, and professor at Stanford University. They delve into Margaret and her team’s groundbreaking work of reimagining property rights. The captivating discussion revolves around their approach's key principles: emphasizing well-being, holistic sustainability encompassing culture and biodiversity, and striving for equality.RadicalxChange has been working with Margaret Levi and her team at Stanford, together with Dark Matter Labs, on exploring and reimagining the institutions of ownership.This episode is part of a...
2024-01-0749 min
RadicalxChange(s)Barry Threw: Executive & Artistic Director of Gray AreaIn this episode of RadicalxChange(s), host Matt Prewitt engages in a deep and thoughtful conversation with Barry Threw, Executive & Artistic Director of Gray Area. They explore Barry's diverse career integrating art, technology, and humanities for economic, social, and ecological regeneration, and examine the cultural shifts in the San Francisco Bay Area. Barry and Matt saunter through anecdotes from Burning Man to Joan Didion to the technocratic molding of the Silicon Valley phenomenon — an exciting pathway of cultural importance to walk along.References:Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus by Douglas RushkoffSlouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Di...
2023-10-041h 38
區塊勢【零到烏托邦 EP.3】分散式身分（DID）：新世界的基礎建設 ft. da0 黃豆泥零到烏托邦是一個由 da0 製作、與區塊勢共同發行的節目，目的是介紹區塊鏈和相關的 Web3 技術有哪些應用於提升社會服務、增進公共利益的前沿實驗，進而探討更多未來發展的可能性。在這一集中，主持人 Noah 邀請到 FAB DAO 共同發起人，同時也是 da0 成員，目前正在台灣數位發展部（MODA）多元宇宙科任職的黃豆泥，來談談他近來投入相當多時間研究的分散式身分（DID）課題。如同豆泥所言，這是一段「在科幻世界到來之前，描繪未來場景」的有趣對話。 - - - - - - - - - - - - 本集內容： (02:40) 為什麼人們在線上世界需要分散式身分（DID）？ (10:10) 構成 DID 的三大元素：發行機構、儲存方式、簽證資料 (14:00) DID 與「驗明正身」：以 Gitcoin Passport 為例 (25:50) DID 與「溯源」：以 RadicalxChange 六大主題為例 (31:20) DID 與「隱私」：以「零知識證明」（ZKP）為例 (36:50) DID 與「聲譽」：個人資料的有效保護與自主運用 (44:10) RNS.ID：帛琉推出的電子公民身分 (48:50) 數位游牧者的烏托邦 vs. 主權國家的電子公民身分 (51:10) 台灣如何逐漸向 DID 靠近？以「行動自然人憑證」為思路 - - - - - - - - - - - - 參考連結： ✨ W3C Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) https://www.w3.org/TR/did-core/ ✨ Gitcoin Passport https://passport.gitcoin.co/ ✨ RadicalxChange https://www.radicalxchange.org/ ✨ 台灣教育部數位證書認證系統 https://dcert.moe.gov.tw/about ✨ 圖靈證書 https://certs.turingchain.tech/ ✨ 帛琉 RNS.ID https://rns.id/ ✨ 黑山 Zuzalu https://zuzalu.city/ - - - - - - - - - - - - da0 是一個由 g0v 零時政府衍生出來的去中心社群，目標是透過探索 Web3 技術成為 g0v 成長的曲速引擎。 麻煩大家在 Apple Podcast 替區塊勢節目評分，這有助於將節目推薦給更多人。此外，這是區塊勢的文章列表，方便你隨時查閱最新、過往內容。 👉 新訂戶首月 0 元：blocktrend.substack.com/subscribe 👉 區塊勢的線上課程：hahow.in/cr/blockchain-use-cases 👉 各式推薦連結：blocktrend.substack.com/p/referral Powered by Firstory Hosting
2023-05-1354 min
RadicalxChange(s)Deepti Doshi: Co-Director of New_ PublicIn today’s episode, Deepti Doshi, Co-Director of New_ Public (and leader in the intersection of social media, community organizing, and leadership development) speaks with Matt Prewitt on how to create online spaces that foster interconnection, mutual dependency, and democratic outcomes. Together, they explore the need for socio-technical expertise and community stewards to work together to design a healthier and more equitable digital ecosystem. They give consideration to the role of technology and tools in creating democratic spaces, and the potential impact of generative AI on social spaces and democracy. They share a hopeful and exciting outlook for building a...
2023-05-021h 18
RadicalxChange(s)Victoria Ivanova: R&D Strategic Lead at Serpentine Arts TechnologiesIn today’s ep, Matt Prewitt speaks with Victoria Ivanova, R&D Strategic Lead of Serpentine Arts and curator-strategist-writer, about the role art and culture have in society in preserving democratic ideals while offering critical and actionable solutions for the emerging technological era.They delve into the historical and present significance of art, its crisis of meaning in the age of accelerationism and powerful AI, and the potential for Plural Property (Partial Common Ownership) to create a more fair and dynamic market for art; thereby rethinking art ownership and promoting a more equitable future. This con...
2023-04-151h 38
RadicalxChange(s)Shrey Jain: Applied Scientist at Microsoft Research Special ProjectsShrey Jain, an applied scientist at Microsoft Research Special Projects, speaks with Matt Prewitt on a very timely and topical subject: AI and – more specifically – the dangers it poses to the nature of natural human communication (“context collapse”). They take a deep dive into the current threats to privacy by expanding beyond the often discussed cryptographic sense into “privacy as contextual integrity”, and the immediate opportunity to embed ethical guardrails into this ever-changing realm of generative AI through possible solutions of designated verified signatures in “plural publics”.Shrey’s recently published paper co-authored with Divya Siddarth and E. Glen Weyl “Plur...
2023-03-241h 10
RadicalxChange ReplayedRethinking Art Ownership: Partial Common Ownership as a Step Towards a More Symbiotic Ecosystem [audio article]This is the audio version of RadicalxChange and Serpentine Arts Technologies' latest white paper titled Rethinking Art Ownership: Partial Common Ownership as a Step Towards a More Symbiotic Ecosystem.Through a collaboration between Serpentine Arts Technologies and RadicalxChange Foundation, it was written by Paula Berman (RxC), Victoria Ivanova (Serpentine), and Matt Prewitt (RxC).This episode was narrated, co-produced, and audio engineered by Aaron Benavides and produced by G. Angela Corpus.This audio version is a RadicalxChange Production.
2023-03-0113 min
RadicalxChange(s)Partial Common Ownership/Plural Property: In Conversation with Will Holley, Graven Prest, Kevin SeagravesIn today's episode, Will Holley (Founder of 721 Labs), Graven Prest (Co-Founder of the Geo Web project), and Kevin Seagraves (CEO of NiftyApes) are three mission-focused entrepreneurs who join host Matt Prewitt in a roundtable discussion on the topic of Plural Property — RadicalxChange's umbrella term for Partial Common Ownership, Harberger Taxation, Self-Assessed Licenses Sold via Auction or SALSA, and Common Ownership Self-Assessed Tax or COST.NOTE: This is a regular season episode of the RadicalxChange(s) podcast. Our mini season of "A New Era of Democracy" will continue following this episode.Links for Today’s Episode:Rx...
2023-02-101h 16
The DeSci PodcastVitalik Buterin on Decentralized Science, Aging, AI and Scientific ProgressToday we have a special one! In this episode, we have Vitalik Buterin as a guest, interviewed by Vincent Weisser.
They discuss the intersection of science and cryptocurrency, focusing on the concept of "decentralized science." Vitalik explains how decentralized technologies, such as cryptocurrency, can improve science and the institutions of science by allowing for more diverse funding and collaboration among people.
He also mentions specific tools, such as quadratic funding and decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs), that can be used to fund and structure scientific projects. He also highlights his current project, "Balvi", which is focused on a...
2023-01-1548 min
RadicalxChange ReplayedCommunicating Democratic Ideals Through Art | Charlotte Kent and Fred TurnerIn this exciting and inspiring talk, Professors Charlotte Kent and Fred Turner discuss the great potential art holds in creating shifts in the public consciousness through examples of historical art movements, art’s impact on technology and society at large, and its effective way of communicating democratic ideals.They also cover the background and process behind Fred's latest book "Seeing Silicon Valley: Life Inside a Fraying America", a collaboration with notable photographer Mary Beth Meehan. This episode was originally produced for the 2021 RxC Annual Conference RxC TV program.SpeakersCharlotte Kent
2022-12-2046 min
RadicalxChange(s)A New Era of Democracy Ep. 3 | Zizi PapacharissiThis episode is a continuation of a mini season of RadicalxChange(s) titled A New Era of Democracy.In today’s episode, we welcome Professor of Communications and Political Science Zizi Papacharissi who discusses her latest book, After Democracy with host Matt Prewitt. In this thought-provoking conversation, they examine how social media affects our culture, our relationships, and consequently our democratic processes, while exploring potential ways to imagine new and better forms of democracy by “living with technology, not through technology.”Zizi Papacharissi, PhD, is Professor and Head of the Communication Department, Professor of Political Scienc...
2022-11-221h 17
Street Art Collector#20 - Dscreet: Operating in a controversial crypto worldDscreet is an artist and filmmaker best known to street art fans for his iconic owl characters that can be found worldwide. Beyond his street art and graffiti, though, Dscreet is a highly acclaimed filmmaker and creative of all expressions who's been honing his skills for some 30 years, building quality relationships with other creatives and exploring how different mediums can broaden the audience he can reach. As a filmmaker, moving image always appealed to Dscreet. He loved the idea of animating his characters and worked well with others on collaborative projects. Basically, it wasn't so much of a...
2022-11-0836 minRadicalxChange(s)Christine Lemmer-Webber: CTO of Spritely Institute, ActivityPub Co-Editor, and User Freedom ActivistIn this exciting episode, Matt Prewitt speaks with the inquisitive and captivating Christine Lemmer-Webber, who is CTO of the Spritely Institute and whose lifelong work focuses on advocating user freedom. This philosophical and technical discussion focuses on the many ways to look at ethical methods of building technology without usurping the free agency of others; a pluralistic view of examining technical design with different lenses. NOTE: This is a regular season episode of the RadicalxChange(s) podcast. Our mini season of "A New Era of Democracy" will continue following this episode.Things Mentioned: Spritely In...
2022-07-211h 40
GreenPill25 - Collective Decision Making with Matt Prewitt✨ Subscribe to the Green Pill Podcast ✨ https://availableon.com/greenpill 🟢 Get the GreenPilled Book 🟢 https://greenpill.party/ Apple Show Link: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/greenpill/id1609313639 Spotify Show Link: https://open.spotify.com/show/0l6aXWC94dd0RA3tkKfxjd ----- Matt Prewitt | Green Pill #25 Matt Prewitt is President of RadicalxChange, a research partner at Amentum, and thinks deeply about power concentration in the world. In this episode, we dive into building out radical markets—using markets in new places with new mechanisms.
2022-07-071h 06
Around The CoinSuji Yan, Founder of Mask NetworkSuji Yan, founder, and CEO of Dimension & Mask Network. Dropped out of UIUC (the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Computer Engineering Department to start a business. Former independent reporter of Qdaily & Caixin Media, former engineer of the autonomous driving company; currently a mentor of RadicalxChange Fellowship; co-authored articles by amateur and “Radical Market” / RadicalxChange, and other economists and legal scholars; once published by Wired, South China Morning Post, Wall Street Journal, New York Times and so on. At present, individuals mainly focus on open source, encryption, and privacy protection (product: mask.io ).(for company logo: https://dimensiondev.github.io/Mask-VI/ )Lear...
2022-07-011h 11Around the CoinSuji Yan, Founder of Mask NetworkSuji Yan, founder, and CEO of Dimension & Mask Network. Dropped out of UIUC (the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Computer Engineering Department to start a business. Former independent reporter of Qdaily & Caixin Media, former engineer of the autonomous driving company; currently a mentor of RadicalxChange Fellowship; co-authored articles by amateur and “Radical Market” / RadicalxChange, and other economists and legal scholars; once published by Wired, South China Morning Post, Wall Street Journal, New York Times and so on. At present, individuals mainly focus on open source, encryption, and privacy protection (product: mask.io ).(for company logo: https://dimensiondev.github.io/Mask-VI/ )Lear...
2022-07-011h 11
UnchainedHow Soulbound Tokens Could Reduce Speculation and Improve DAO VotingGlen Weyl, RadicalxChange Foundation founder and political economist & social technologist at Microsoft Special Projects, and Puja Ohlhaver, strategist at Flashbots, discuss “soulbound tokens” and their implications for collaboration and social organization in a variety of spaces. Topics covered include: how Glen got involved in crypto, wrote a book, and came to co-write a paper with Vitalik Buterin how Puja studied economics and got in touch with Glen in pursuit of a middle ground between left and right politics what soulbound NFTs are and how they work how Vitalik’s paper articulated how the concept of the soulbound token could a...
2022-06-0757 minUnchainedHow Soulbound Tokens Could Reduce Speculation and Improve DAO VotingGlen Weyl, RadicalxChange Foundation founder and political economist & social technologist at Microsoft Special Projects, and Puja Ohlhaver, strategist at Flashbots, discuss “soulbound tokens” and their implications for collaboration and social organization in a variety of spaces. Topics covered include: how Glen got involved in crypto, wrote a book, and came to co-write a paper with Vitalik Buterin how Puja studied economics and got in touch with Glen in pursuit of a middle ground between left and right politics what soulbound NFTs are and how they work how Vitalik’s paper articulated how the concept of the soulbound token could a...
2022-06-0757 minRadicalxChange ReplayedHow Indigenous Learnings Can Help Liberate Democratic Institutions of Today | Tyson Yunkaporta and Jim RuttThis entertainingly honest conversation between Tyson Yunkaporta and Jim Rutt discusses how indigenous learnings can help liberate the democratic institutions of today. They explore the notion of "humans as custodial species" (via Yunkaporta's book, "Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World"), and the role we serve tied to the earth around us on a spiritual and physical level. Jim and Tyson take you down an exciting path paved with history, tech, and new and old philosophies that will keep you thinking.This was originally aired on RxC TV as part of the 2021 RadicalxChange unConference Online.
2022-05-301h 24
The Block Explorer#47 - RadicalxChange with Matthew PrewittWe explore the future possibilities of funding public goods and governance using Quadratic Voting and Quadratic Funding RadicalxChange movement with Matthew Prewitt.
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2022-05-181h 12
THE ONE'S CHANGING THE WORLD -PODCASTDESIGNING THE DIGITAL ECONOMY- PLURALISTIC FUTURE - GLEN WEYL : MICROSOFT#microsoft #radicalxchange #glenweyl #pluralistictech #socialtech
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Glen Weyl is an economist and a researcher at Microsoft and author of the book Radical Markets: Uprooting Capitalism and Democracy for a Just Society with co-author Eric Posner. Weyl is co-creator of quadratic voting, a collective decision-making procedure designed to allow fine-grained expression of how strongly voters feel about an issue, and quadratic funding, a method of democratically disbursing resources Weyl uses ideas from political economy to develop social technology for widely-shared prosperity and diverse cooperation. Those ideas have inspired a social m...
2022-05-1632 minRadicalxChange ReplayedValue in the Data Economy | Diane Coyle, Sushant Kumar, and Matt PrewittData and the Data Economy are increasingly important issues affecting all of society. Hear from a panel of experts on responsible technology and public policy discussing mental models of how value accrues in the Data Economy, how to form protective legislation and infrastructure, and dealing with extreme concentrations of power and wealth plaguing the data economy. This was originally aired on RxC TV as part of the 2021 RadicalxChange unConference Online.SpeakersSushant Kumar (@sushants) As Director on the Responsible Technology team, based in India, Sushant is focused on Omidyar Network’s work on a ne...
2022-05-0541 min
RadicalxChange ReplayedA New Chapter for RadicalxChange [audio article]The audio version of RadicalxChange's latest blog post titled A New Chapter for RadicalxChange. Written by the RadicalxChange Foundation team. Listen to and/or read the article to learn and connect more about RadicalxChange's evolving mission.Written by the RadicalxChange Foundation team. Voiced, audio engineered, and co-produced by Aaron Benavides. Produced by G. Angela Corpus.
2022-04-1812 min
RadicalxChange(s)A New Era of Democracy Ep. 2 | Anasuya SenguptaThis episode is part of a mini season of RadicalxChange(s) titled A New Era of Democracy.Lauded poet, author, and activist Anasuya Sengupta joins Matt Prewitt on this episode to discuss the culture of Wikipedia, the embedded power dynamics of digital technologies, and how plurality plays a role in empowering the global South's presence on the internet.Links:State of the Internet’s Languages Report | Whose Knowledge?State of the Internet’s Languages websiteAnasuya Sengupta (@anasuyashh) is Co-Founder and Co-Director of Whose Knowledge?, a global multilingual campaign to center the knowledge of m...
2022-04-081h 17GreenPill7 - Radical Markets with Glen Weyl✨ Subscribe to the Green Pill Podcast ✨ https://availableon.com/greenpill 🟢 Get the GreenPilled Book 🟢 https://greenpill.party/ Apple Show Link: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/greenpill/id1609313639 Spotify Show Link: https://open.spotify.com/show/0l6aXWC94dd0RA3tkKfxjd?si=5fdadfbcd8d34bd4 ----- Glen Weyl - GreenPill #7 Glen Weyl is the Founder of RadicalxChange, a 'Social movement for next-generation political economies.' Glen is also a Political Economist and Social Technologist the Microsoft office of the CTO. As a thought leader in an...
2022-03-3144 min
RadicalxChange(s)A New Era of Democracy Ep. 1 | Audrey Tang and Jo Guldi with Rosa O’HaraThis episode is part of a mini season of RadicalxChange(s) titled A New Era of Democracy.Rosa O’Hara moderates a discussion between Audrey Tang and Jo Guldi on Taiwan’s expeditious response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the history of the g0v movement, the democratic power of embracing new forms of civic technology, and more.Audrey Tang (@audreyt) is Taiwan’s Digital Minister in charge of Social Innovation. She is known for revitalizing the computer languages Perl and Haskell, as well as for building the online spreadsheet system EtherCalc in collaboration with Dan Brickl...
2022-02-231h 05RadicalxChange(s)James Evans: Computational Social Scientist, Knowledge Lab Director, and Professor at UChicagoIn this conversation with James A. Evans, we examine the relationship between artificial intelligence and democracy, the tradeoffs between hybridization and speciation, and much more.James is a professor at the University of Chicago, director of its Knowledge Lab, and external professor at the Santa Fe Institute. His research focuses on the collective system of thinking and knowing, ranging from the distribution of attention and intuition, the origin of ideas and shared habits of reasoning to processes of agreement (and dispute), accumulation of certainty (and doubt), and the texture—novelty, ambiguity, topology—of understanding. James is especially inter...
2021-08-111h 29RadicalxChange(s)Jo Guldi and Brent Hecht: Maps, Computers, and Other Abstractions - Information Infrastructure and LegitimacyThis episode ended up being a wide-ranging discussion that surfaced essential ideas about getting more thoughtful about the boundary between public and private power by understanding what’s infrastructure and what isn’t. The seed for this conversation was whether we should understand Google’s index of pages as a form of public infrastructure and, if so, why. This question could hardly be more relevant as public infrastructure investments dominate the conversation in the United States. But perhaps we need to broaden our view from physical infrastructure to informational infrastructure, which might indeed be even more critical.Jo Gul...
2021-06-281h 16RadicalxChange ReplayedQuadratic Voting at Work | Charlotte Cavaille, Chris Hansen, and Sachin Mittal in Conversation With Jake InterranteQuadratic Voting offers hope to revitalize collective decision-making in a wide range of domains in society and the economy, e.g., corporations, governments, unions, games, ratings, research, et cetera. An increasing number of examples support that hope in this radical voting method. In this panel discussion, you hear from current practices by policy-makers in the Colorado government and academic researchers and their insights from working with Quadratic Voting in preference polling. Speakers Charlotte Cavaille is an Assistant Professor at the Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan. Before moving to Mi...
2021-06-121h 26
Boundaryless Conversations PodcastS2 Ep. 17 Gregory Landua – Platform for Ecological RegenerationToday we’re joined by co-founder and co-Chief Regeneration Officer of Regen Network, Gregory Landua. Regen Network is a land ecological commons management platform and the backbone for a new approach to ecosystem service markets based on verified ecological state.
Their community of actors engage with ecological regeneration, ecological monitoring, verification, distributed computing and technology development, centered around Regen Ledger. Network members track specific changes of land, oceans and watersheds. By improving our understanding of ecosystems and enabling rewards for verified positive changes, Regen Network catalyses the regeneration of the earth's ecosystems.
Gregory embraces the practical aspects of regenerative agriculture desi...
2021-05-181h 04RadicalxChange ReplayedData Agency: Individual or Shared? | Matt Prewitt, Nick Vincent, and Kaliya Young in Conversation With Jennifer MoroneDigital networks have centralized power over identities and information, creating problems for both markets and democracy. Does the solution require more shared agency over data? What might that look like? This panel discussion is structured around thought experiments to find solutions to this issue. SPEAKERS Matt Prewitt is RadicalxChange Foundation’s president, a writer and blockchain industry advisor, and a former plaintiff’s side antitrust and consumer class action litigator and federal law clerk. Nick Vincent is a Ph.D. student in Northwestern University's Technology and Social Behavior program and is part of the Peo...
2021-05-171h 07RadicalxChange(s)Yakov Feygin and Nick Vincent: On Data DividendsThe backstory to this episode is a lengthy research collaboration focused on how the value of data gets captured. With that in mind, how to design a tax that would fairly redistribute it. You can see the collaboration results at Datadividends.org -- a proposal for a simple, eminently implementable tax that would go to the heart of the economic distortion caused by the data economy. In this conversation with Yakov Feygin and Nick Vincent, we focus on how data and other assets get their value; compare data policy to the industrial policy of the depression era; and much...
2021-05-031h 50RadicalxChange ReplayedPluralism Through Personal AIs | Steve Omohundro Interviewed by Puja OhlhaverArtificial Intelligence is transforming every aspect of business and society. The usual narrative focuses on monolithic AIs owned by large corporations and governments that promote the interests of the powerful. But imagine a world in which each person has their own "personal AI," which deeply models their beliefs, desires, and values and promotes those interests. Such agents enable much richer and more frequent "semantic voting," improving feedback for governance. They dramatically change the incentives for advertisers and news sources. When personal agents filter manipulative and malicious content, it incentivizes the creation of content aligned with a person's values. Personal...
2021-04-2448 minRadicalxChange ReplayedBlockchain and RadicalxChange Communities: Better Together | Vitalik ButerinVitalik Buterin is a Russian-Canadian programmer and writer best known as the Ethereum blockchain's inventor and co-founder. Buterin became involved with blockchain technologies early in its inception, co-founding Bitcoin Magazine in 2011. In 2014, Buterin launched Ethereum and is now leading research at the Ethereum Foundation. He is also one of the co-creators of Quadratic Funding and is a board member of RadicalxChange Foundation. This keynote was taped at the RadicalxChange conference in Detroit, March 2019.
2021-04-0527 minRadicalxChange ReplayedPolitical Solidarity in the U.S. | Jonathan Herzog, Badrun Khan, and Blair Walsingham in Conversation With Darren SandCandidates for office and elected officials around the world are bringing RadicalxChange’s ideas to life. On this panel, a group of diverse, young candidates for office will discuss the values that motivate their campaigns and some particular policy proposals they hope to achieve. This wide-ranging conversation will cover the problems posed by concentrations of power (economic and political), technology, and the degradation of democracy. SpeakersJonathan Herzog is a civil rights organizer, legal advocate, and Democratic congressional candidate in New York's 10th District. He has worked hand in hand with the Senior Advi...
2021-03-1741 minRadicalxChange(s)Tom Atlee: Social, Peace and Environmental Activist and AuthorTom Atlee is the founder of the nonprofit Co-Intelligence Institute, author of The Tao of Democracy and Reflections on Evolutionary Activism, and creator of the Wise Democracy Pattern Language. He has published many articles in alternative journals, collaborated on numerous projects and books, been on several nonprofit boards, and consulted on social change projects internationally. Born in 1947, Atlee was raised as a Quaker peace and social justice activist. On the 1986 Great Peace March, a nine-month cross-country US trek undertaken by four hundred ordinary people, he experienced bottom-up self-organization and palpable collective intelligence for the first time. This w...
2021-03-131h 04RadicalxChange ReplayedRace and Our Political Moment | Briana Agyemang, Ahmed H. Ahmed, and Jessica Lynch in Conversation With Jermaine JohnsonGeorge Floyd's death has shocked the world and sparked an uprising across the US. This is a discussion around response and reactions to the moment and probing for a way forward. Speakers Brianna Agyemang is the renowned co-founder of #TheShowMustBePaused & The Brownie Agency. Agyemang is also Sr. Artist Campaign Manager at Apple’s artist-services division, Platoon. Ahmed H. Ahmed is the Director, Partnership & Professional Learning at Overcoming Racism. He facilitates race and equity professional development and provides coaching and support for partner organizations while expanding its scope and impact. A Boston University alumnus, Ahmed t...
2021-02-1946 minRadicalxChange(s)Jo Guldi: Professor of Digital Humanities, Historian of Political Economy, and AuthorJo Guldi is a scholar of Britain's history and empire who is especially involved in questions of state expansion, the contestation of property under capitalism, and how state and property concepts are recorded in the built environment's landscape. These themes informed her first book, Roads to Power, which examined Britain’s interkingdom highway and its users from 1740 to 1848. They also inform her current research into rent disputes and land reform for my next monograph, The Long Land War, which profiles three moments in the history of property: the Irish Land Court of 1881 and its invention of rent control, the id...
2021-02-091h 16RadicalxChange ReplayedLand Value: Past, Present, and Future | Jo Guldi and Alisha Holland in Conversation With Matt PrewittLand has been central to economic inequality for centuries. Today, we sometimes see homeownership as a path to the middle class, but it is important to see how this particular asset still drives inequality. This panel discusses the past and present of ideas like Henry George's land value tax, hoping to draw lessons for the real economy. SpeakersJo Guldi is a scholar of the history of Britain and its empire who is especially involved in questions of state expansion, the contestation of property under capitalism, and how state and property concepts are recorded in t...
2021-02-061h 21RadicalxChange ReplayedDemocracy in the Age of Cryptography | Santiago Siri Interviewed by Steven McKieLook at any review of the past decade, and you will find Bitcoin standing strong as the one experiment that defined information technology for the past ten years. Such is its global relevance that 2019 marked the first time both the President of the United States of America and the President of the People's Republic of China referred to blockchains directly in their words. While Mr. Trump praised the US Dollar might serve as the leading global reserve currency, President Xi arguably contributed to hit the market hard when one of his speeches about blockchain technology inadvertently prompted BTC to...
2021-02-0247 minRadicalxChange ReplayedDoes Civic/Gov-Tech Improve Democratic Government in Cities? | Amanda Brink, Michelle Kobayashi, and Micah Sifry in Conversation With Joel RogersOne promise of civ-gov tech is that it helps optimize democratic government, particularly in the cities where most people live. This panel explores how well that promise is being kept and how to improve things if it's not. SPEAKERSAmanda Brink is a Wisconsin-based political operative with over 12 years of experience in the field. A utility infielder, happy to assist with campaign management, overall strategy, fundraising, organizing, operations, compliance, digital, press, training, recounts, logistics, advance, and more. Former O.F.A., H.F.A., Tony for WI, Burns for W.I., Dems in P...
2021-01-2448 min
PSA TodayPSA Today #31: Kaliya and Seth are joined by Matt Prewitt, President of the RadicalXchange Foundation: how data coalitions can overcome the addiction and exploitation of today's tech platformsMatt Prewitt is President of RadicalExchange.org. He is a lawyer, writer and technologist.
On this episode, we discuss the evolution of RadicalXchange, from the seminal work of Glen Weyl and Eric Posner to the proposal for a Data Freedom Act. We locate the birth of addiction and exploitation data dynamics in the Persuasive Tech lab of BJ Fogg at Stanford, and think about data coalitions (formerly known as MIDs in Jaron Lanier and Weyls 2018 HBR "A Blueprint for a Better Society") as a progressive alternative. Note that Kaliya and Seth both contributed to the proposal that has...
2021-01-2042 minRadicalxChange(s)TrailerMeet the RadicalxChange(s) podcast and its hosts Jennifer Morone and Matt Prewitt. Jennifer Lyn Morone is RadicalxChange Foundation’s CEO and a multidisciplinary visual artist, activist, and filmmaker. Her work focuses on the human experience with technology, economics, politics, and identity, and the moral and ethical issues that arise from such systems. Her interests lie in exploring ways of creating social justice and equal distribution of the future. Morone is a trained sculptor with BFA from SUNY Purchase and earned her MA in Design Interactions at the Royal College of Art in London with Dunne and...
2021-01-1401 minRadicalxChange ReplayedRadical Agreement in Politics | Paula Berman, Jennifer Morone, and Mark Reiff in Conversation With Leon ErichsenIn 2020, ideological conflicts reached a fever pitch, and the media landscape has become extraordinarily disorienting. Are we simply heading into a more fragmented era? This panel aims to find the light at the end of the tunnel, discussing all kinds of approaches to discover common ground for a more nuanced and vital politics. SPEAKERS Paula Berman is a researcher and builder at the intersection of technology and democracy. She is a founding member of Democracy Earth Foundation, a non-profit organization backed by Y Combinator and Templeton World Charity Foundation, building open-source censorship-resistant digital democracies. J...
2021-01-091h 15RadicalxChange(s)Fred Turner: Stanford Professor, Author, and Media ScientistFred Turner is the Harry and Norman Chandler Professor of Communication at Stanford University. He is the author of three books: The Democratic Surround: Multimedia and American Liberalism from World War II to the Psychedelic Sixties (University of Chicago Press, 2013); From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism (University of Chicago Press, 2006); and Echoes of Combat: The Vietnam War in American Memory (Anchor/Doubleday, 1996; 2nd ed., University of Minnesota Press, 2001). Before coming to Stanford, Fred taught Communication at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government and MIT’s Sloan School of M...
2021-01-051h 12RadicalxChange ReplayedQuadratic Funding: Past, Present & Future | Kevin OwockiQuadratic Funding powers Gitcoin Grants, an application that has become a "Significant Pillar of the Ethereum Ecosystem," according to Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin. Learn about the why, the how, and the what behind Gitcoin Grants and Gitcoin's plans to take Quadratic Funding mainstream, with a QF application that will help local downtowns recover from COVID-related economic distress. Kevin Owocki is the founder of Gitcoin.co -- a blockchain-based network for growing open-source software with incentivization mechanics. He has a BS in Computer Science, ten years of engineering leadership experience in startups and Open Source Software, a...
2020-12-2746 min
Interdependence GuestsRadical Markets, pluralistic tech and transitioning to Socialism with Glen Weyl (RadicalxChange)In this episode we speak to Glen Weyl, author, economist and Principal Research at Microsoft Research. His ideas inspired the formation of the Radical X Change Foundation, who are holding a conference this weekend from June 19-21 I would recommend you check out.
If you are interested in following the conference, in which we are speaking alongside Audrey Tang, Digital Minister or Taiwan, Vitalik Buterin of Ethereum and others, head over to http://radicalxchange.org/ (RadicalxChange.org) for more information. The interactive tickets are sold out, however I believe that the whole thing will be streamed live.
In this very...
2020-12-241h 26RadicalxChange ReplayedRevenge Capitalism | Max Haiven Interviewed by Marc GarrettRevenge Capitalism: The Ghosts of Empire, the Demons of Capital, & the Settling of Unpayable Debts, 2020, is Max Haiven's most recent publication to date. Capitalism is in a profound state of crisis. Beyond the mere dispassionate cruelty of 'ordinary' structural violence, it appears today as a global system bent on reckless economic revenge. Its expression is found in mass incarceration, climate chaos, unpayable debt, pharmaceutical violence, and the relentless degradation of common life. In Revenge Capitalism, Max Haiven argues that this economic vengeance helps us explain the culture and politics of revenge we see in society more broadly. Moving from...
2020-12-191h 07RadicalxChange ReplayedInnovation in Community Focused Ownership | Mathew Dryhurst and Joeri Torfs in Conversation With John SuricoRadically rethinking property rights has always been a core part of RadicalxChange’s mission. Outdated models of owning versus renting land or holding stock in a company have created many societal problems. In this panel, we will hear from several entrepreneurs and innovative thinkers building new kinds of communities. Common to all panelists is a desire to unlock new types of human prosperity by moving past outdated models of ownership. SPEAKERS Mathew Dryhurst is an artist and researcher based in Berlin Germany. His research focuses on technical and ethical protocols. He makes music and c...
2020-12-1242 min
The Delphi PodcastGlen Weyl: New Economic Ideas For Unprecedented TimesChain Reaction Host Jose Maria Macedo hosts Glen Weyl, economist and Principal Researcher at Microsoft. Glen Weyl famously wrote Radical Markets, one of the most original and creative economic treatises of our time. One of the book’s most vocal fans was Vitalik himself, and Vitalik and Glen have since collaborated on multiple initiatives, including the original Quadratic Funding paper which later spawned Gitcoin. Glen has also founded a social movement called RadicalxChange Foundation which seeks to implement his ideas.
In this conversation, Glen explores his novel economic ideas and how they can be used to create new social...
2020-12-1155 minRadicalxChange ReplayedPost-Religiosity: An Inter-Faith Discussion | Shoukei Matsumoto in Conversation With Amichai Lau LavieShoukei Matsumoto will take us into his essential teachings on Buddhism and how he uses "cleaning" to address dissatisfaction. He will engage with Rabbi Amichai on these ideas and the concept of post-religiosity. SPEAKERSShoukei Matsumoto is a Buddhist Monk in Komyoji Temple. Born in 1979 in Japan, he graduated with a B.A. degree in Literature from the University of Tokyo. After graduation, he joined the Komyoji temple and initiated new projects such as the Temple Café Project. In 2008, the association was awarded the "Shoriki Matsutaro Prize" by a foundation for education. He co...
2020-12-0439 minRadicalxChange ReplayedNo Normal | Keller Easterling in Conversation with Shumi BoseCOVID-19 is an x-ray of racial injustice, inequality, and ineffectual government as well as a rehearsal for climate catastrophe. It exposes a modern mind that maintains the myth of solutions, newness, freedom, and universals. That mind gives authority to new digital technologies, econometrics, and law, to segregate and eliminate problems. COVID graphically models the productive entanglement between problems as well as forms for re-tuning and redesigning those entanglements. Interplay itself is the form—protocols of interplay that resist solutions or modular methodologies. Unfolding over time and indeterminate in order to be practical, they generate lumpy mixtures of different kinds of...
2020-11-2834 minRadicalxChange ReplayedRadicalxChange 2.0 | E. Glen WeylRadical Markets was only a first step in radically improving social technology. But it propagated the central mistakes of assuming an atomized individual identity. By formalizing human identity's fundamentally social nature, truer to the richness of our diversely shared lives, Glen Weyl sketches how we can build better institutions to create systems for facilitating cooperation across difference. SPEAKERE. Glen Weyl is a political economist and social technologist whose work focuses on harnessing computers and markets to create a radically equal and cooperative society. He is the Founder and Chairman of the RadicalxChange F...
2020-11-2038 minRadicalxChange ReplayedValuing Domestic Work in (Post) COVID-19 Times | Carlotta Gradin, Maïmonatou Mar and Shani OrgadThe Covid-19 has thrown into sharp relief, just how vital the work of ‘key workers’ or ‘essential workers’ is for our lives and survival. Among those workers are domestic workers, who are disproportionately female migrants and women of color. These workers, who have long been underpaid, overworked, and under-resourced, have suddenly become visible and seen as essential. What narratives about domestic workers have circulated during the Covid-19 pandemic? What can we learn from them to maintain and foster the visibility, recognition, and valuation of domestic workers after the pandemic? How can we change the narrative about domestic work to support...
2020-11-1341 minRadicalxChange ReplayedDemocracy and Media | Fred Turner in Conversation With Matt PrewittIn the 1930s, many worried that the new medium of radio--with its ability to deliver the voices of autocrats to millions of listeners--had fueled the rise of fascism in Europe. Responding to this worry, US intellectuals during World War II sought to invent new media experiences that would inoculate audiences against fascism by encouraging the development of democratic and participatory values. These efforts were shockingly influential. They shaped everything from mid-century U.S. propaganda, to the aesthetics of the 1960s counterculture, to the ideas that structured the early internet. Yet, the notion of democracy baked into these media experiences...
2020-11-1040 minRadicalxChange ReplayedThe Future of the Corporation | Colin Mayer, Michelle Meagher and Nathan Schneider in Conversation With Jennifer MoroneThis history of the corporation is a meandering and expanding one but one thing that is common among them, more often than not, is that the profit motive overshadows the potential negative impacts they have on society and the place we all call home. While today’s landscape of corporate structure has broadened to include more mission driven, or worker owned structures, there remain mechanisms in place and questions left unasked that keep the corporation fundamentally flawed. In this session we will hear from leading experts who are asking those questions and are developing mechanisms that can radically move th...
2020-10-3142 minRadicalxChange ReplayedWhat Is the Proper Place of Technocracy in Democracy? | Margaret Levi Interviewed by Avital BalwitGlen Weyl wrote, "While technical knowledge, appropriately communicated and distilled, has potentially great benefits in opening social imagination, it can only achieve this potential if it understands itself as part of a broader democratic conversation." My talk will lay out what kinds of technical knowledge have these benefits and under what conditions. It will provide some historical context going back to the Technocracy Movement, which arose at the beginning of the twentieth century. Most importantly, I will elaborate what is required to ensure that democracies can take advantage of the best scientific and expert knowledge without undermining democratic decision-making...
2020-10-1943 minRadicalxChange ReplayedIdentity Politics as Elite Capture | Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò Interviewed by Emmanuel MidyThe culture wars are reascendant. Prof. Taiwo argues that the wealthy and powerful will take every opportunity to co-opt activist energies for their own ends. How does one build collectives in the midst of this. SPEAKERS Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University. He completed his PhD at University of California, Los Angeles. Before that, he completed BAs in Philosophy and Political Science at Indiana University. Emmanuel Midy is the Community Lead of RadicalxChange Foundation. He is a writer and consultant on the int...
2020-10-1230 minRadicalxChange ReplayedData Dignity | Jaron Lanier Interviewed by Avital BalwitData Dignity is a realignment of the economics of the internet that will improve the outlook for people as algorithms and robots get better, while at the same time making those technologies work better. The basic idea is paying people more often for the value they create in the online world. Right now consumers typically barter their efforts and data online in exchange for services, but the advertising model which finances this arrangement has motivated poor quality results and has not been robust during an economic downturn. Instead, we propose to pay people in more situations, in order to...
2020-10-0342 minRadicalxChange ReplayedRenewing the Civil Rights Movements Now | Imam Omar Suleiman in Conversation With Maïmonatou MarAs the political polarization divides the US population, the once ideas of social progress turned again into securitarian attempts to protect the borders, the job market, the national identity, therefore reviving the White Supremacy mindset. The acceptance of violence, racism and social injustice nurtured the institutionalization of the fears depleting the State engagement to dignity. George Floyd's death crystallized the wrath of the minorities seeking for a systemic change with the unprecedented massive support of the majority. As a Muslim clerical and human rights activist, Imam Dr Omar Suleiman will share his perspectives on the renewal of the new...
2020-09-3035 minRadicalxChange ReplayedThe COVID-19 Crisis of Legitimacy | E. Glen Weyl Interviewed by Emmanuel MidyCOVID-19 has dramatically shown the failure of political institutions in the West to facilitate rapid and responsive consensus in the face of crisis, leading to millions of avoidable deaths and unprecedented economic calamity. As these political systems increasingly lose legitimacy and dissent moves to the streets, we must resist the natural turn the towards technocratic authoritarianism of the largest country that responded successfully. Despite the limited success of some authoritarian regimes, the digitally-enabled radical participatory democracies of countries like Taiwan and Estonia have shown us a far more effective and appealing path, one that can unite us across traditional...
2020-09-2041 minRadicalxChange ReplayedQuadratic Funding in Ethereum | Vitalik Buterin Interviewed by Pia ManciniThe Ethereum ecosystem has been an excellent initial testbed for quadratic funding, through the Gitcoin Grants project, which has directed over a million dollars of funding to Ethereum projects over five rounds in 2019 and 2020. It has effectively demonstrated the basic effectiveness of the quadratic funding mechanism; it has funded projects that are genuine public goods, and often projects that previous funding mechanisms missed. At the same time, the tests have shown some of the more subtle non-economic properties of the mechanism: how it affects people's feeling of being part of a community, how it helps the community learn more...
2020-09-1340 minRadicalxChange ReplayedWhy Can't We Just Do What's Right? | Diana Rodríguez Franco, Elena Landau, and Michelle Rempel GarnerPolitical polarization isn't a new phenomenon. Our institutions have a propensity to define political movements and actors on a spectrum, rather than evaluating them for whether their policy positions are the best for the people they represent. Join a dialogue on lived experiences fighting against the inclination to defer to polarizing policy solutions. Panelists will discuss the following, along with providing their experiences and insights on forming a new political centre inside and outside of our political systems. SPEAKERSDiana Rodríguez Franco is the Secretary for Women for the city of Bogotá (Col...
2020-09-0451 min
Zima RedFanny Lakoubay - The Crypto Art Movement - Zima Red ep 32My guest today is Fanny Lakoubay
She is the COO of CADAF - Contemporary & Digital Art Fair, and a curator at the MoCDA: Museum of Contemporary Digital Art. She has involvement with Radical Exchange and ETHlocal.
Before going full crypto she worked at the intersection of art and tech for 10 years and also at the legendary art auction house Christies. Luckily for us, she caught the bug and has been in crypto ever since.
Fanny has the unique experience and perspective to realize that we are at an incredible moment in art history...
2020-09-011h 09RadicalxChange ReplayedJuneteenth and the Future of Democracy | Danielle Allen Interviewed by E. Glen WeylWhen news of the Emancipation Proclamation reached Texas, months after its declaration, the U.S. activated re-constitution simultaneously along political, economic, and social dimensions. But achievement of social organization resting simultaneously on principles of freedom and equality would be long in coming, and the tempo of progress various along each of those three dimensions. Ultimately the social constitution of racial supremacy has been the hardest to displace and has woven its knotty, tenacious tentacles through political and economic dimensions as well. The time has come for a full liberation across all three domains and for justice by means of...
2020-08-2951 minRadicalxChange ReplayedTo Be or Not to Be Hacked | Audrey Tang and Yuval Noah Harari in Conversation With Puja OhlhaverSPEAKERS Audrey Tang is Taiwan's digital minister in charge of social innovation and board member of RadicalxChange Foundation. Yuval Noah Harari is a historian, philosopher, and the bestselling author of Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow, and 21 Lessons for the 21st Century. MODERATOR Puja Ohlhaver is inventor and founder of ClearPath Surgical. She holds a law degree from Stanford Law School and previously worked as an investment management attorney.
2020-08-221h 18
ChannelInterdependence 7 : Glen Weyl (RadicalxChange)In this episode we speak to Glen Weyl, author, economist and Principal Research at Microsoft Research. His ideas inspired the formation of the Radical X Change Foundation, who are holding a conference this weekend from June 19-21 I would recommend you check out.If you are interested in following the conference, in which we are speaking alongside Audrey Tang, Digital Minister or Taiwan, Vitalik Buterin of Ethereum and others, head over to RadicalxChange.org for more information. The interactive tickets are sold out, however I believe that the whole thing will be streamed live.In...
2020-06-171h 26
Rebuild271: Monads Are Not Required for My Job (Audrey Tang)Audrey Tang joins me to talk about COVID-19, her career path, digital minister's job, forking the government, Sci-Fi and so on.
Transcript of this episode is available at rebuild.fm/271
Show Notes
Coronavirus: How map hacks and buttocks helped Taiwan fight Covid-19
New Zealand is lifting almost all its coronavirus restrictions, after no active Covid-19 cases reported
mask.pdis
Exposure Notifications: Helping fight COVID-19 - Google
WHO can help? Taiwan
Audrey's new avatar
Fix language selector label for zh-TW (体 -> 體) by audreyt · tokyo-metropolitan-gov/covid19
零時政府 g0v.tw
CC0 - Creative Commons
RadicalxChange
What Happens Next? COVID-1...
2020-06-101h 23
InterdependenceInterdependence 7 : Glen Weyl (RadicalxChange)In this episode we speak to Glen Weyl, author, economist and Principal Research at Microsoft Research. His ideas inspired the formation of the RadicalxChange Foundation, who recently held a conference in which we were speaking alongside Audrey Tang, Digital Minister of Taiwan, Vitalik Buterin of Ethereum and others. Head over to RadicalxChange.org and look out for the deep list of archived talks.In this very candid discussion with Glen we cover his recent work on COVID-19, his recently published essay “AI is an ideology, not a technology” co-authored with Jaron Lanier, his belief in the urgent need...
2020-06-0847 min
Musing Mind PodcastGlen Weyl: The Myth of Individualism, Radical Markets, New SocietiesMy guest today is Glen Weyl: co-author of Radical Markets, founder of the RadicalxChange movement, Ph.D. in economics from Princeton, and in his spare time, works as Microsoft’s Chief Technology Political Economist and Social Technologist (OCTOPEST).
In our conversation, we explore:
How social technologies and economic institutions shape our physical, mental, and social lives
The myth of individualism
How does RadicalxChange compare & contrast with Piketty’s progressive taxation approach?
How to design markets beyond neoliberalism, as mechanisms for complexity
UBI, the role of art and arti...
2020-03-101h 28
ANOMALYMatt Prewitt on Radical MarketsMatt Prewitt (@m_t_prewitt) joins Erik Torenberg (@eriktorenberg) to discuss RadicalxChange, the future of nation states and corporations, data privacy, and improving democracy.
2020-02-0956 min
InclusionismShow #38 Inclusionism with IL State Rep. Lamont Robinson and Nathan Chen of RadicalxChangeJFK sat down with Nathan Chen and Rep. Lamont Robinson to talk about democratic voting structures. Nathan Chen is building Free Agency, where startup and tech talent are represented. He is also an organizer for RadicalxChange NYC. Previously, he helped manage the portfolio of startups at ConsenSys .Lamont J. Robinson Jr. is an American insurance agent, educator, and politician who is a Democratic member of the Illinois House of Representatives for the 5th district. The Chicago-based district includes all or parts of the Near North Side, Chicago Loop, Near South Side, Douglas, Grand Boulevard, and Greater Grand Crossing, the venture...
2020-01-2356 min
PretopiaSocial Tech that Can’t Be Evil - Glen WeylGlen Weyl (@GlenWeyl on Twitter) uses ideas from political economy to develop social technology for widely-shared prosperity and social cooperation. These ideas have inspired a social movement, RadicalxChange, that convenes activists artists, entrepreneurs and researchers using market mechanisms to create a richer and more equal society. (Bio excerpt taken from: http://glenweyl.com/biography/)
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2019-11-2446 min
Palladium PodcastPalladium Podcast 15: Glen Weyl On Radical Solutions To Property And VotingWelcome to the fifteenth episode of the Palladium Podcast, where we explore the future of governance and society. This week, Jonah Bennett, Wolf Tivy, and Ash Milton interview Glen Weyl, founder and board member of RadicalxChange and Senior Principal Researcher at Microsoft, about his book Radical Markets, where he introduces new ways of re-imagining property ownership and voting.
2019-08-131h 48
Computing UpTechnologies more true: Glen Weyl is recomputing democracyGlen Weyl joins Michael and Dave to talk about democracy, mechanism design, quadratic finance, blockchain, and the RadicalXChange. [Image courtesy of Gley Weyl]
2019-07-2748 min
Future HistoriesS01E06 - Jaya Klara Brekke on the Political in BlockchainWhich conceptions of the political are inscribed in blockchain technologies? What is cryptoeconomics? And what does it look like if we disassemble the blockchain truth machine?
Shownotes:
Jaya’s research homepage:
http://distributingchains.info/
Download Jaya’s Dissertation here:
Brekke, Jaya Klara. 2019. Disassembling the Trust Machine. Geography Department, Durham University:
http://distributingchains.info/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/DisassemblingTrustMachine_Brekke2019.pdf
Jaya’s general homepage:
http://www.jayapapaya.net/
Jaya on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/jayapapaya
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2019-07-1456 min
KryptoJanusz. No i już.Newsy - czyli co było i co będzie odc. 44Dzien dobry, a moze dobry wieczór - w cieply majowy wieczór, krótki przeglad tegoco sie wydarzylo w kryptoswiecie w minionym tygodniu:Link do Steemita: https://steemit.com/@marekzubacz**Biznes*** Atak na Binance - co się stało?* Cryptopia - a kto umarł, ten nie żyje.* ETF - nadal nie ma.* Bakkt, czyżby było już blisko?**Projekty i sprzet:*** Nowości od HTC i Samsunga* Rozłam w Tronie* Ethereum - zaawansowane prace nad PoSI poraz pierwszy u K...
2019-05-1626 minKryptoJanusz. No i już.Newsy - czyli co było i co będzie odc. 43Dzien dobry, a moze dobry wieczór - w ciepły majowy wieczór, krótki przeglad tegoco sie wydarzylo w kryptoswiecie w minionym tygodniu:Steemit KryptoJanusza: https://steemit.com/@marekzubacz**Biznes*** Bitfury i nowy fundusz wydobywczo inwestycyjny* Bakkt - najnowsze informacje* Facebook coin - spekulacji ciąg dalszy* Czy będzie Samsung Coin?**Projekty i sprzet:*** Kolejny etap w Ethereum* QUTUM i współpraca z Google* Ripple Liquidy Index na NASDAQ* Co wspólnego ma Stellar i Wirex?* Polak potrafi - czyli jak...
2019-05-0626 min
KryptoJanusz. No i już.Newsy - czyli co było i co będzie odc. 42Dzien dobry, a moze dobry wieczór - pod koniec tygodnia, krótki przeglad tegoco sie wydarzylo w kryptoswiecie w minionym tygodniu:Steemit KryptoJanusza: https://steemit.com/@marekzubacz**Biznes*** Nowy system na Binance Launch pad* Zdecentralizowana wymiana kryptowalut na giełdach już wkrótce* CoinBene i domniemany atak hackerski* Bithumb i nóż w plecy, czyli atak hackerski z wewnątrz firmy* KryptoPanda z liencją austriackiego organu nadzoru finansowego* Whisky klasy premium na blockchainie* Luis Vitton i Christian Dior na blockchainie* Tokenizacja palladium**Pr...
2019-04-0929 min
UnchainedHow Blockchains Can Help Create Little Democracies EverywhereGlen Weyl, a political economist and social technologist, the coauthor of Radical Markets and a principal researcher at Microsoft, and Santiago Siri, the founder of Democracy Earth, discuss how blockchains can be used to create borderless democracies that can reach any citizen on earth and can be used not just by nation-states but in all kinds of communities such as the workplace, church or a social network like Facebook. We cover concepts such as quadratic finance and quadratic voting, and look at how forcing voters to have a budget for their votes changes voting behavior. We also dive into...
2019-02-261h 13
Policy PunchlineUprooting Capitalism and Democracy for a Just Society: Interview with Glen WeylProf. Glen Weyl from Princeton University discusses ideas in his new book "Radical Markets: Uprooting Capitalism and Democracy for a Just Society." The book was just listed in “The Economist’s books of the year” among many other praises. In this interview, Prof. Weyl explains how his vision could be a unique solution to many of our problems today, the role of blockchain technology in social change, and the future of Liberalism among other topics.
Prof. Weyl is now a Principal Researcher at Microsoft and the founder of the RadicalxChange movement. He graduated from Princeton in 2007 as the valedictorian of his un...
2019-02-2228 min
The New Liberal PodcastRevolt of the Republic ft. Martin GurriColin sits down with Martin Gurri to talk about his new book, Revolt of the Public. Martin's book explains why we are in the political moment we are in, and offers clues on how to build a Neoliberal political movement in this day and age. This March 22-24 will be the Radicalxchange conference in Detroit Michigan. Founded by Glen Weyl who has been on the podcast before, this conference will be the kickstarting of a Radical Markets movement that seeks to reinvent Liberalism. We have a special offer for Neolib Podcast listeners who would like to attend...
2019-02-1259 min
80,000 Hours Podcast#52 - Glen Weyl on uprooting capitalism and democracy for a just societyPro-market economists love to wax rhapsodic about the capacity of markets to pull together the valuable local information spread across all of society about what people want and how to make it. But when it comes to politics and voting - which also aim to aggregate the preferences and knowledge found in millions of individuals - the enthusiasm for finding clever institutional designs often turns to skepticism. Today's guest, freewheeling economist Glen Weyl, won't have it, and is on a warpath to reform liberal democratic institutions in order to save them. Just last year he wr...
2019-02-082h 44