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Building a Better Society through Writing and Community Management – What’s the Right Balance? A Conversation with Glen Weyl

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Join economist, social technologist and RadicalXChange founder Glen Weyl and Interintellect co-hosts Alaka Halder and Wes Chow for this special members-only salon! Glen Weyl is a rare force in academia, public discourse, and movement building. One of the world’s foremost political economists, he co-invented groundbreaking systems such as quadratic voting to help societies make better…

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In the Pines: from Lead Belly to Kurt Cobain, listening to an American Appalachian folk song through history

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In this salon, Interintellect Wes Chow tracks the evolution of folk music by listening to the many versions of the classic folk song In The Pines.  In 1993, MTV Unplugged brought Kurt Cobain and Nirvana up for a plugged in unplugged performance. At the conclusion of the set, the producers urged Cobain on for an encore…

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$15.00

Where Is My Flying Car? – SuperSalon with J. Storrs Hall on Technological Progress and Futurism

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In this SuperSalon, scientist and futurist writer J. Storrs Hall, Ph.D. joins Interintellect hosts Alaka Halder and Wes Chow to discuss the Stripe Press edition of Where Is My Flying Car?  “It’s one of the best and most interesting books on technology in some time.” - Tyler Cowen Hall starts with an exploration of the…

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$20.00

Web3 and Plurality: Digital Democracy with Glen Weyl

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Web3 leans on Albert Hirschman’s political framing of “exit”: the belief that ultimate freedom to port a person’s life data from one service to another leads to competitive platforms that maximize that person’s benefit. What if, instead, Web3 were to emphasize another of Hirschman’s concepts, “voice”? A pluralistic version of Web3 imagines a network of…

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$25.00