75 // Collective intelligence with Conor White-Sullivan

02/03/2023 53 min
75 // Collective intelligence with Conor White-Sullivan

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Better tools and techniques for collective intelligence could be a path to building a more democratic society. Conor is the founder of Roam, and he joins Adam and Mark to discuss his motivations for working on a tool for collective intelligence, why knowledge doesn’t always equal articulated thoughts, and a vision for how to program your own mind.

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Conor White-Sullivan
Roam Research
Bret Victor
Andy Matuschak on roman numerals vs arabic numerals
Logo, BASIC
agent-based economics simulations
Choose Your Own Adventure
“The problems that exist in the world today cannot be solved by the level of thinking that created them”
The Wealth of Networks
Institutions and Organizations
non-rivalrous goods, public goods
3D printing organs, open-source medicine
The Centralized Internet Is Inevitable
map-territory conflict
micronations
critical thinking
“I, Pencil”
Limits to Legibility
Localocracy
A Syntopicon
Reinventing Discovery