Oly Sourbut
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first heard Jan 2026
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And one of the kind of high stakes coordination questions, I think, is how can larger communities and societies
coordinate to better navigate a confusing and risky future with technology and and a lot of this might um it won't necessarily fully come down to but it might really benefit from being able to connect the right people together and i can 100 imagine ways for ai systems to do that in a much better way than we are able to today already the internet kind of enables this um
through just web search like if i google something maybe i find a blog post that someone wrote and that's really useful and then i'm connected with that person a little bit but it is crude and it's lossy and it's accidental and so on so this is kind of networking and connecting
Another really important aspect of coordination is surfacing group wisdom and group will.
There are processes like polling historically, focus grouping, these kinds of things where people get together and try to kind of, and even just having a team meeting, this is kind of attempting to surface a kind of group wisdom.
I think this struggles to scale.
So there's a professor, Jim Fishkin, I think, perhaps he's at Stanford.
I'm not sure.
He has a deliberative democracy group.
And they point to this trilemma where it's difficult to achieve at once all of...
nuanced quality discourse and a kind of political equality and broad participation.
You can imagine getting two of those at once.
You can imagine getting an expert group together.
You can imagine doing a poll.
It's widespread, but it's very much not nuanced and so on.
And are there ways that we can kind of get more of all three of those things in larger groups?
I 100% think there are already actually interesting tools that some of FLF's fellows have created and are going on to kind of continue to create there.
I think there's a lot of potential there for incorporating AI to improve how we elicit the group wisdom and the group will of larger groups.
This is a really interesting thing.
Another aspect of coordination is how do we even reach negotiated agreement, especially in cases where there are misaligned priorities as well as some aligned incentives.
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