Aza Raskin

So can you explain how it works in more detail and then give us an example of what it looks like in practice?

Right.

She's saying you don't just have to show the most extreme view of the most extreme person and amplify that to everyone.

In fact, you can look across different groups that often disagree, different tribes, find the statements that both of them agree on, center those so that you can start creating bridges between unlikely groups to find, as she calls it, the uncommon ground.

And we explored this topic more deeply and how it could be applied to the U.S.

in an episode with Divya Siddharth in 2024.

The title of that episode is The Tech We Need for 21st Century Democracy.

And there's one of my favorite examples of a solution in our episode Mind the Perception Gap with Dan Vallone.

And there we describe what the perception gap is, which is the difference between how I view your tribe and your own tribe views itself.

i.e.

how rightly or wrongly are we seeing the other side, whatever that other side is.

And we talk about a solution that sidesteps all content moderation for figuring out how to heal the divides in society by minimizing the perception gap.

So check both of those out and we'll have links in our show notes.

And I just really wanted to leave people with one more thing when we think about, okay, yeah, but on what planet are we actually going to get humane principles implemented?

Like that kind of feeling.

Tristan and I were recently giving a Q&A in Boston at the end of the AI doc.

And there was somebody in the audience who stood up and she said, hey, I'm a coach for one of the major AI company CEOs.

And when I sit down with him, he says, but what am I going to do about it?

I'm just one person at just one company.

And of course, from where we sit, you're like, dude, there's a lot you can do about it.