Abundant Systems

High-quality access to information : social technologies that help people form high-quality opinions about important topics in an adversarial environment. I personally am bullish on prediction markets and Community Notes; you may have a different take on the solutions, but the point is that this topic is important.

Vitalik Buterin • Against Choosing Your Political Allegiances Based on Who Is "Pro-Crypto"

We need ways to filter, validate, and value large amounts of information. Traditionally, this has been limited to the wealthy in the form of “experts”

At large scales, average anything goes to zero.

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Future • Trust Economies - The Future of Social Networks

Damn, that’s a big truth.

Over time, plenitude is a process in which more and more goods and services are provided to more and more people, as technologies advance and costs come down to grant new free ‘indulgences’ every year.

noemamag.com • Will AI Bring Plentitude or Further Imperil the Planet? | NOEMA

I love this idea

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Ted Gioia • Where Did TikTok Come From?

Evolution toward abundance

Competition is an outdated concept. Instead of trying to ensure you win, try to help everyone win. There's plenty to go around. Refusing to share is just holding you back.

The new economy isn't zero-sum. It's time to realize that and start approaching things differently.

Leo Guinan • The Build In Public Manifesto

abundance at the core

Your financial reality can shift dramatically in a short period of time and often due to things outside of your control.

Designing Your Own Infinite Game In The Creator Economy - Boundless

Does this have to be true?

it's important we don't rush.

Divya Siddarth • Building Capacity for Exit to Community

Things need to evolve on the timelines that information is returned.

The chief challenge, as Lee sees it, is how to make AI smarter without just throwing more data and computing power at it. His hope rests on the iterative tweaking of algorithms that improve the performance of AI at a “geometric pace.”

noemamag.com • Will AI Bring Plentitude or Further Imperil the Planet? | NOEMA

This is the goal of subminds

We can't change the world by focusing only on dismantling, we have to really build up the alternative and show that it can work in a different way, and radicalize people, not through convincing them of the rightness of an ideology, but through their lived experience of true participation, of the collective power of livelihood in a non-capitalist pa... See more

Divya Siddarth • Building Capacity for Exit to Community

Better systems win. Don’t need to destroy existing systems, build better ones and the others will die in time.