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Dr John Izzo

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
295 total appearances

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Accidental Gods
Seeing Round Corners: Upgrading Democracy with Suzette Masters and Dr John Izzo

And yet we have the Wellbeing Alliance that Suzette mentioned.

Accidental Gods
Seeing Round Corners: Upgrading Democracy with Suzette Masters and Dr John Izzo

I was reading something earlier this morning in Bogota where they have care blocks for mothers or people who are caring either for the young people or the old people can go to these care blocks and they can have a massage or they can do a yoga class or they can just relax or they can learn something, they can finish their education, somebody else looks after their kids or their parents for a while.

Accidental Gods
Seeing Round Corners: Upgrading Democracy with Suzette Masters and Dr John Izzo

that seems so obvious.

Accidental Gods
Seeing Round Corners: Upgrading Democracy with Suzette Masters and Dr John Izzo

And the fact that it hasn't happened is, it seems like such a blind spot.

Accidental Gods
Seeing Round Corners: Upgrading Democracy with Suzette Masters and Dr John Izzo

And yet now it's happening in Bogota and maybe it can begin to spread.

Accidental Gods
Seeing Round Corners: Upgrading Democracy with Suzette Masters and Dr John Izzo

So John, what kinds of ideas, if we were to sit down and brainstorm,

Accidental Gods
Seeing Round Corners: Upgrading Democracy with Suzette Masters and Dr John Izzo

Of the ideas that are, the things that Suzette was saying, they seemed to be fringe, but we want them to be mainstream.

Accidental Gods
Seeing Round Corners: Upgrading Democracy with Suzette Masters and Dr John Izzo

And we want people to lift them up and spread them forward so that we can generate a future that is worth leaving to everybody's grandchildren.

Accidental Gods
Seeing Round Corners: Upgrading Democracy with Suzette Masters and Dr John Izzo

What ideas have you seen that are flicking into life at the edges that you would like to amplify?

Accidental Gods
Seeing Round Corners: Upgrading Democracy with Suzette Masters and Dr John Izzo

Yes, I want to ask you about tech.

Accidental Gods
Seeing Round Corners: Upgrading Democracy with Suzette Masters and Dr John Izzo

So let's go there.

Accidental Gods
Seeing Round Corners: Upgrading Democracy with Suzette Masters and Dr John Izzo

But yes, piggyback first.

Accidental Gods
Seeing Round Corners: Upgrading Democracy with Suzette Masters and Dr John Izzo

You know, exactly.

Accidental Gods
Seeing Round Corners: Upgrading Democracy with Suzette Masters and Dr John Izzo

Okay, John, I want to stay with Suzette for a short while on this because the tech seems to be, we're living in a tech world, unless Eliezer Yukowsky is right.

Accidental Gods
Seeing Round Corners: Upgrading Democracy with Suzette Masters and Dr John Izzo

I don't know if you've read, if anybody builds it, everybody dies.

Accidental Gods
Seeing Round Corners: Upgrading Democracy with Suzette Masters and Dr John Izzo

Yeah, okay.

Accidental Gods
Seeing Round Corners: Upgrading Democracy with Suzette Masters and Dr John Izzo

So let's assume at the moment, because tech is a pretty broad phrase, we can use AI to winnow through an awful lot of opinions and produce ideas of what the consensus probably was.

Accidental Gods
Seeing Round Corners: Upgrading Democracy with Suzette Masters and Dr John Izzo

We can also use tech to help facilitate things like citizens assemblies, to help the human facilitators to not be

Accidental Gods
Seeing Round Corners: Upgrading Democracy with Suzette Masters and Dr John Izzo

biased in ways they don't recognize.

Accidental Gods
Seeing Round Corners: Upgrading Democracy with Suzette Masters and Dr John Izzo

We can make tech neutral, theoretically.