My opening talk for Metafest, on The Death of Machiavelli, cooperative coordination, and the meta-crisis.

There’s a teaser on the Twitter link and I’ll post the YouTube to the full talk directly in a comment below.

My opening talk for Metafest, on The Death of Machiavelli, cooperative coordination, and the meta-crisis.

There’s a teaser on the Twitter link and I’ll post the YouTube to the full talk directly in a comment below.

https://x.com/metafam/status/1703490173231669449?s=46&t=S6AZGrUrwjRCumQhbovS0Q

Technologist, entrepreneur, investor & intransigent coffee fiend.
-> Founder funDAOmental & Prismatik.
-> Emerging tech, web3 & cooperative coordination.

Here’s the link to the full talk:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtFAdd63yCg

Writer, senior editor, music journalist, labor/commons advocate, GenX eldergoth, Zorbsplainer. Cohost of /slowcore-hq. https://tinyurl.com/Black-Stone-Wordsmith

Thank you! I’m glad that resonated, I think they are a profoundly important set of points; what is advantageous eventually wins, and what determines advantage is structure and dynamics, so that also helps guide us to where the real work is.

Thanks for this! I found your 3-months'-salary example and this framing helpful:

“If you’re in a system that forces you to give up your own safety to be benevolent... you’re disadvantaged. Which means zero-sum actors in those systems end up with all the power and control, and the cycle perpetuates itself.”