We’re living in pretopia, the final crossroads. Both utopia and dystopia are possible futures for humanity, but neither is inevitable. Technology will bring us there, but technologies are not inherently good or bad. Their value is determined by the humans who design and use them, and the decisions we make now as a species will set us on a path we may not be able to change. Pretopia.FM is an open platform for discussing the enormous opportunities and existential risks that come with living in ...
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DAOs that Can’t Be Evil - MetaCartel Ventures with Peter & Gabriel
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1:16:20Deep dive interview with @lex_node & @pet3rpan_ of @VENTURE_DAO & @Meta_Cartel--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/pretopia/message
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Nature that Can’t Be Owned - Ed Hesse & QJ Wang
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45:24Ed & QJ join Pretopia to tell us about Sovereign Nature DAO & Nature 2.0! ===================================== @snaturedao @edhesse79 @QJ_ECF on Twitter ===================================== Sovereign Nature Initiative (SNI) is an interactive community of visionaries - developers, scientists, artists, and investors - who join forces in the interes…
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Social Tech that Can’t Be Evil - Glen Weyl
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46:13Glen 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 excer…
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Social Networks that Can’t Be Evil - Slava Balasanov
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54:43Programmer and musician, founder of 4real Digital Inc. & Relevant.community - decentralized curation protocols based on human values - @team_slava on Twitter--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/pretopia/message
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Elad (@verbine) is a computer scientist & VC based in Berlin investing in early-stage algo-tech: ML, blockchain, zero knowledge. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/pretopia/message
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Luis Cuende (@licuende on Twitter) is a Spanish computer programmer, author, and blockchain entrepreneur. He is co-founder of Aragon and CEO of Aragon One. Career:In 2008 at age 12, Cuende started his first free software project, a Linux-based operating system. At just 15 years old, HackFwd named him “Best Underage European Programmer." At the age …
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Tokens that Can’t Be Evil - Michael Zargham
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1:16:17Block.Science Founder, PhD @Penn AI/Decision Engineer, Complex Systems Research. Tweets about math, engineering, humans and society. @mZargham on Twitter ######## You can support Pretopia by subscribing to Pzizz:Pzizz helps you quickly quiet your mind, fall asleep fast, stay asleep, and wake up refreshed.It uses beautiful “dreamscapes” — a mix of m…
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AI that Can’t Be Evil - Trent McConaghy
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1:18:14Trent McConaghy AI*blockchain. Founder @OceanProtocol - @trentmc0 on Twitter ########You can support Pretopia by subscribing to Pzizz:Pzizz helps you quickly quiet your mind, fall asleep fast, stay asleep, and wake up refreshed.It uses beautiful “dreamscapes” — a mix of music, voiceovers and sound effects designed using the latest clinical research…
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