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Post 24: GPT-4's Take on Human Institutions
Happy Saturday. I wanted to see if I could express the ideas I’ve been exploring in this substack by prompting GPT-4. As it turns out, I can. I’ll let…
Michael Weiss
Mar 18
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Post 23: Single Purpose Tokens
TLDR; A simple interface that lets users tie the value of a digital token to a specific real world metric. For example, say you want to increase solar…
Michael Weiss
Mar 14
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February 2023
Post #22: NYC Exemplifies The Power of Decentralization
New York City is a project that started in the first half of the 17th century, with millions of people having chosen to contribute to it over the past…
Michael Weiss
Feb 28
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December 2022
Post #21: A More Meaningful Pitch
Problem: People don’t feel that their work is meaningful. Solution: A trusted list of meaningful work to pick from. The most common metric people use to…
Michael Weiss
Dec 11, 2022
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Post #20: The Pitch [draft]
Pitch feedback wanted. Comment it. Email me. Text me. Join the discord. Here’s an audio version of this project’s current elevator pitch: This planet…
Michael Weiss
Dec 4, 2022
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November 2022
Post #19: An 8 Billion Person Conversation
How do we determine a good decision for our civilization? I’ve often gotten hung up on this point as it seems like a tough question to answer. Knocking…
Michael Weiss
Nov 27, 2022
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Post #18: The AI-Overlord Thought Experiment
你好. That’s “hello” in Mandarin in case you’re not up to date on your Chinese characters, as I am also not. This post will feel like a slight detour from…
Michael Weiss
Nov 20, 2022
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Post #17: Predicting The Future Into Existence
Hello, bonjour to you. Another Sunday, another journey. Here we go. The complexity and scale of our civilization presents a challenge to coming up with…
Michael Weiss
Nov 13, 2022
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Post #16: Creating An Ideas Market
Howdy. Let’s see if we can start to build ourselves a new economy on this here piece of internet paper. This post focuses on making an “Ideas Market…
Michael Weiss
Nov 6, 2022
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October 2022
Post #15: Proposing Three Upgrades
I met this person named Cleo the other day. Cleo got her masters in public policy then did non-profit work focused on increasing renewable energy usage…
Michael Weiss
Oct 30, 2022
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Post #14: We Broke Money
Economy no worky so goodie anymore. To clarify the above technical jargon, the economy is still awesome. It’s still the most cutting edge element of our…
Michael Weiss
Oct 23, 2022
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Post #13: Upgrading Civilization
These writings have been trending towards this question: “what is running human civilization?” In the last post I proposed that our civilization has an…
Michael Weiss
Oct 16, 2022
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