🔮 Crypto economy; collective intelligence vs. markets; Uber waste, cats, synthetic art ++ #374

Hi, I’m Azeem Azhar. I convene Exponential View to help us understand how our societies and political economy will change under the force of rapidly accelerating technologies.

This week on the podcast

Can collective intelligence beat the market? Azeem gets together with Richard Craib, founder and CEO of Numerai, to discuss how the $70 million fund uses collective intelligence to perform well, despite the turmoil in the markets.

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Listen to the conversation here.

Dept of the near future

🔮 Uses of crypto
Matt Prewitt of the RadicalXchange foundation sums up some important ideas of how alternative currencies could support local communities, and reinforce those economies. First they might capture “locally-meaningful information in prices”. This would, in turn, “facilitate more local transactions, as opposed to global ones.” To ensure support of local participants rather than a global average, he even recommends “exit taxes”. Thought provoking ideas.

Another useful analysis from Lyn Alden underp…