⿻ 數位 Plurality

/plurality18

A community for sharing ideas related to the philosophy of Plurality https://www.plurality.net/

Trailer for the upcoming film about Audrey Tang + Taiwan + Plurality includes a @vitalik.eth cameo. 😀

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_AAhYk6I3M
Society when the biggest companies spend their mountains of cash on fusion energy and materials research instead of trying to lure everyone into their metaverse to show us more ads.
YIL (yesterday I learned) that community notes was inspired by Polis
“It’s coming up with mechanisms that show people that after all we think similarly as our neighbors on some very basic things”
Polis -> A social media where you can post & like other people's post but there's no reply or retweet buttons so there's no way to dunk on each other. The only way to get viral or visible is if you post a statement that's liked by people who are unlike you, so the more that you unify, the more visibility your ideas get
“Taiwan had a long history of working to think of democracy as a social technology, not as a 200 year tradition”
In Taiwan the current digital minister is an expert in zk 🤯

My American brain cannot comprehend
Would love to see Yuval Noah Harari team up with the Plurality authors. He’s focused on all the problems that they are codifying solutions to: epistemological crisis, survivability of democracy, global coordination, etc.
I actually enjoy listening to Vitalik discuss philosophy more, but from the meme's popularity, most people don't seem to feel the same 😂.

I've read /plurality, and Vitalik provides a detailed interpretation in this article. "Plurality" offers a fresh take, aiming to transcend the usual political divide by addressing real-world issues through technological and social innovation. It values social diversity and individual freedom while recognizing the need for coordination and collective action to achieve common goals.

The book highlights Plurality's applications, which are starting to materialize, like enhancing content management on social media, fostering collaboration in blockchain networks, improving transparency in local government, supporting public goods through quadratic funding, and developing decentralized governance in cyber communities...

There's still a long way to go, but I'm excited to see it gradually integrated into society, promoting technological advancement and social welfare.
It'd be cool if a Farcaster client tried this.

ex: give more weight to casts that received likes from accounts that have less overlap in who they're following

(from vitalik's latest blog post)
Last year, Auckland Transport (a notoriously inefficient local government body) commissioned a consider.it deliberative forum via local think tank Koi Tū: The Centre for Informed Futures. I was shocked - the idea of them employing a modern plural tool like this seemed unimaginable.

There's hope yet!

https://koitutransport.consider.it
I just started the /plurality channel while reading Vitalik’s review of the book.

Farcaster seems like the perfect place for a community to build on these ideas.