I appreciate your critique of popular news-as-entertainment and ad-sale-vehicles.
In my view, the PBS Newshour does a decent alternative job of calmly telling true stories. Would be curious to hear your view about that particular program.
What you say about the general failure of the U.S. Gov't Founders' System to be adequate to the complexities and scale of today seems Right On.
I'll continue reading your posts, Mr. Guy, with interest. (Am somewhere in the middle of reading through A Boring Utopia.) Your ideas strike me as: Brilliant.
Ended up reading the whole thing in one sitting last night which resulted in staying up much later than I usually do. No regrets really. I enjoyed the story, and I was hooked probably by the first or maybe second chapter. I've no idea how such a system as the Forum could come to be and function as intended, but I like the idea of it. I'm one of those who left social media a while back because, after years of using it, I concluded that it is a net negative on my life and others' lives. It's also a playground for dark tetrad types.
The characters I most identify with are the Martians. The first paragraph of Chapter 12 echoes my sentiments exactly. I still vote, but who I vote for is mostly from determining which side is the least crazy, least condescending, and least full of excrement in each election cycle. That is chronically difficult for me to determine, and I get how anyone could come to a different decision than me. So, I don’t take a person’s voting choices particularly personal. I’m registered as independent, but I’ve registered as Republican, Democrat and Libertarian. If people ask who I vote for, I say I’m undecided. If they push the issue, I tell them it’s none of their business.
As much I like the Algorithmic Republic idea you’ve written about, I’ve no idea how to move it forward. It seems likely to me that I will end up entertaining this idea lavishly before quietly showing it the door for that reason. That’s not what I want to happen.
Thanks for reading it! This makes you one out of thousands. My idea is that it should start with news. We have signal already that Community Notes works. Build that out so your community follows you around the internet. Then, slowly but surely, you could something like decentralized PACs. That would be my rough roadmap.
Going to jump into this. Wonder if I'll find any references (pro/con) to Urbit, who's company and founders have done some deep thinking and hands-on working in related areas.
I guess I had a lot of the same ideas as that guy but had not read him at the time. I’ve read some things since then and it’s very bifurcated where I totally agree or totally disagree.
I appreciate your critique of popular news-as-entertainment and ad-sale-vehicles.
In my view, the PBS Newshour does a decent alternative job of calmly telling true stories. Would be curious to hear your view about that particular program.
What you say about the general failure of the U.S. Gov't Founders' System to be adequate to the complexities and scale of today seems Right On.
I'll continue reading your posts, Mr. Guy, with interest. (Am somewhere in the middle of reading through A Boring Utopia.) Your ideas strike me as: Brilliant.
Ended up reading the whole thing in one sitting last night which resulted in staying up much later than I usually do. No regrets really. I enjoyed the story, and I was hooked probably by the first or maybe second chapter. I've no idea how such a system as the Forum could come to be and function as intended, but I like the idea of it. I'm one of those who left social media a while back because, after years of using it, I concluded that it is a net negative on my life and others' lives. It's also a playground for dark tetrad types.
The characters I most identify with are the Martians. The first paragraph of Chapter 12 echoes my sentiments exactly. I still vote, but who I vote for is mostly from determining which side is the least crazy, least condescending, and least full of excrement in each election cycle. That is chronically difficult for me to determine, and I get how anyone could come to a different decision than me. So, I don’t take a person’s voting choices particularly personal. I’m registered as independent, but I’ve registered as Republican, Democrat and Libertarian. If people ask who I vote for, I say I’m undecided. If they push the issue, I tell them it’s none of their business.
As much I like the Algorithmic Republic idea you’ve written about, I’ve no idea how to move it forward. It seems likely to me that I will end up entertaining this idea lavishly before quietly showing it the door for that reason. That’s not what I want to happen.
Thanks for reading it! This makes you one out of thousands. My idea is that it should start with news. We have signal already that Community Notes works. Build that out so your community follows you around the internet. Then, slowly but surely, you could something like decentralized PACs. That would be my rough roadmap.
Going to jump into this. Wonder if I'll find any references (pro/con) to Urbit, who's company and founders have done some deep thinking and hands-on working in related areas.
Here we gooooooo......
I guess I had a lot of the same ideas as that guy but had not read him at the time. I’ve read some things since then and it’s very bifurcated where I totally agree or totally disagree.
I’ll need to divide this into several reading sittings, but I’ll take you up on your interesting challenge. 👍
Don’t be afraid to be brutally honest