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(((E. Glen Weyl/衛谷倫))) ⿻ 🇺🇸/🇩🇪/🇹🇼 @glenweyl.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Alignment is a two-sided problem. Enormous effort goes into making AI capable and aligning it with our values. Almost none into preparing our institutions to absorb it. Even a perfectly aligned system fails in a society that isn't ready for it. www.noemamag.com/what-humanit...

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NOEMA | Noema Magazine

Noema is longform journalism exploring fresh ideas. We publish essays, reporting, interviews, videos and art on the overlapping realms of philosophy, governance, geopolitics, economics, technology and...

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Noema Magazine @noemamag.com · 21/07/2026

“Even a perfectly aligned [AI] system will underdeliver on its potential or cause serious harm if it is deployed into democracies, economies & legal systems unprepared to receive it.” — @glenweyl.bsky.social, @jamesyoungevans.bsky.social & Chris White #ai #futureofwork #aieconomy

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What Humanity Needs To Flourish In The Next Decade | NOEMA

We are headed toward a world of productivity without prosperity, execution without verification and capacity without constraint. But this outcome is not inevitable.

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Data Science Institute @dsi-uchicago.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

How can AI companies properly compensate content creators for training data? Raul Castro Fernandez and @glenweyl.bsky.social published an op-ed in @hbr.org exploring how to create a sustainable market that benefits creators, AI companies, and the public 🔗 hbr.org/2026/06/how-...

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Gary Rawnsley @garydrawnsley.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Delighted to pick up my copy of Plurality: The Future of Collaborative Technology & Democracy by @audreyt.org & @glenweyl.bsky.social. I have written about Audrey Tang’s work in strengthening #Taiwan’s democratic resilience & her contribution to Taiwan’s soft power, so excited to learn more

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Madeleine Daepp @mdaepp.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Nothing is more important in shaping the future of tech than the builders themselves---so it's fascinating to see the unexpected electoral success of Japan's Team Mirai, a party of software engineers who are using AI-powered transparency and deliberation tools www.nytimes.com/2026/02/22/w...

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The A.I. Evangelists on a Mission to Shake Up Japan

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The Future of Free Speech @futurefreespeech.org · 12/01/2026

@glenweyl.bsky.social explains why Taiwan’s system works at our #FreeSpeechSummit2025. Watch his full talk on YouTube:

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How Taiwan Tackled Misinformation without Censorship | ft. Glen Weyl

YouTube video by The Future of Free Speech

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The Future of Free Speech @futurefreespeech.org · 12/01/2026

The most commonly proposed solutions to social media misinformation and polarization are often a cure worse than the disease. At #FreeSpeechSummit2025, @glenweyl.bsky.social discusses a better way to address these issues.

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The Future of Free Speech @futurefreespeech.org · 09/01/2026

Do community notes work? They are a step in the right direction — away from top-down moderation — but @glenweyl.bsky.social explains how they can be improved at #FreeSpeechSummit2025. 🔗 Watch the full conversation: www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIELV-14III

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Stephen Reid @stephenreid.net · 04/01/2026

Plurality ⿻ is the topic of the latest chapter of Technological Metamodernism by me and Hilma Church-Turing cc @audreyt.org @glenweyl.bsky.social @ntnsndr.in @radxchange.bsky.social @pluralityinstitute.bsky.social technologicalmetamodernism.substack.com/p/plurality

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Plurality ⿻

Chapter 6, part 2 of Technological Metamodernism

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The Data Science Institute at Columbia University @datascicolumbia.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

💡 Microsoft Research’s @glenweyl.bsky.social is giving a lecture at @datascicolumbia.bsky.social on Dec 1: How to be the Superintelligence You’ve Been Waiting For Don’t miss it! Register: www.eventbrite.com/e/lecture-gl... @columbiauniversity.bsky.social

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(((E. Glen Weyl/衛谷倫))) ⿻ 🇺🇸/🇩🇪/🇹🇼 @glenweyl.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Delighted to be part of this key project to empower user agency, open source and prosocial ranking into social feeds. Thank you to @noupside.bsky.social and @jonathanstray.bsky.social for their leadership!

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paulaberman.bsky.social @paulaberman.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

When pressed by @glenweyl.bsky.social on how free and fair elections would function under his “accountable monarchy” (where dissent is eliminated), Curtis Yarvin admits that his view of "free and fair" is similar to Putin’s elections.

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Elle Griffin @elysian.press · 09/09/2025

I especially love Singapore's regular think tanks that inspire youth to reimagine governance. I once wrote about one of the ideas that resulted: A "wikiocracy." www.elysian.press/p/what-if-go...

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What if government worked like Wikipedia?

Wikiocracy as the next phase of democracy.

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(((E. Glen Weyl/衛谷倫))) ⿻ 🇺🇸/🇩🇪/🇹🇼 @glenweyl.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

One thing I love about this piece by @ellegriffin.bsky.social is that she gets that even the best cases of dictatorships are really just ways of implementing smarter democracy...shortcuts there, sometimes for better, sometimes for worse, but ultimately democracy is the good outcome.

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Elle Griffin @elysian.press · 09/09/2025

The solution isn't to abolish democracy, it's to innovate it. @glenweyl.bsky.social thinks democracy could become incredibly organized and efficient if we catch it up to the times with: Quadratic voting Quadratic budgeting Participatory democracy And yes, automation!

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Jonathan Stray @jonathanstray.com · 04/09/2025

So we're building a modern algorithmic feed for BlueSky (opt-in, of course). We want it to make you better informed about politics, minus the rage. Particularly to help you understand what folks on the other side think ESPECIALLY when you don't agree with them. Is that a thing people here want?

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RadicalxChange Foundation @radxchange.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Tune in tomorrow night! At issue is the US, but the world will be watching: we know of "plural" watch parties on at least 4 continents. Join the open discussion during and after the debate at contextengine.xyz/demo/rxc

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toki-gd.bsky.social @toki-gd.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Trying to be more consistent — just published a quick video on @audreyt.org @glenweyl.bsky.social Jacob Mchangama paper in the Noema magazine www.noemamag.com/building-a-p... www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9Nl... (If you have any feedback - please bring it on😊)

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Audrey Tang, Glen Weyl and Jacob Mchangama in Noema

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Plurality Institute @pluralityinstitute.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Should the U.S. be ruled by a CEO dictator? Curtis Yarvin and Glen Weyl will debate this Sept 4. Join via livestream or in person in NYC. @glenweyl.bsky.social opentodebate.org/debate/shoul...

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Should the U.S. Be Ruled by a CEO Dictator?

Live NYC Debate Thursday, September 4, 2025 | Venue: Racket NYC Doors open at 6:00 PM | Debate starts at 7:00 PM Buy Tickets HERE | Register for the livestream HERE What if the U.S. abandoned democrat...

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Butterfly Blues @choving.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

The livestream is free. I just registered. Very much looking forward to this. IMHO, these are the two leading thinkers in the world when it comes to what comes after the neoliberal democratic disorder as far as rule by CEO... or something better and much more democratic.

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(((E. Glen Weyl/衛谷倫))) ⿻ 🇺🇸/🇩🇪/🇹🇼 @glenweyl.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Interesting paper that @noupside.bsky.social brought to my attention. I'd interpret the conclusion on bridging a bit differently. This suggests bridging works, but that doing it globally reduces diversity...yes! That's why we need pluralistic bridging: www.noemamag.com/building-a-p...

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Building A Prosocial Media Ecosystem | NOEMA

There’s never been a better time to make social media what it always should have been: a tool to strengthen rather than strip-mine the social fabric.

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(((E. Glen Weyl/衛谷倫))) ⿻ 🇺🇸/🇩🇪/🇹🇼 @glenweyl.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

It will be an honor to finally engage someone who I have long held out as one of the leading intellectual influences on our time. Curtis Yarvin's mistaken ideas cannot be defeated with outrage alone; they must be answered with logic and fact. opentodebate.org/debate/shoul....

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Should the U.S. Be Ruled by a CEO Dictator?

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The Future of Free Speech @futurefreespeech.org · 17/07/2025

@glenweyl.bsky.social — Founder, Plural Technology at Microsoft and tech liberty initiatives.

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(((E. Glen Weyl/衛谷倫))) ⿻ 🇺🇸/🇩🇪/🇹🇼 @glenweyl.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Ok so this is going to be a VERY nerdy thread, but this is an important foundational point on mechanism design that I still haven't seen anyone articulate after years of expressing it privately to people, and I don't have the time to write a paper on, so let me

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(((E. Glen Weyl/衛谷倫))) ⿻ 🇺🇸/🇩🇪/🇹🇼 @glenweyl.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

I often say that the two most hopeless states are utopia and dystopia, as there is no improving from either. If you're a hope monger like me, you have to instead aspire to a world constantly aware of its incapacities and limitations and delighted by the opportunity to

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Philipp Markolin @philippmarkolin.eurosky.social · 26/06/2025

In case you have not seen, I can highly recommend reading @glenweyl.bsky.social, @audreyt.org et al`s book: Plurality Free access to chapters, asynchronous reading possible; and just brimming with hopeful ideas to free the future. A vision of fragmentation that is not bitter. www.plurality.net

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Plurality: The Future of Collaborative Technology and Democracy

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(((E. Glen Weyl/衛谷倫))) ⿻ 🇺🇸/🇩🇪/🇹🇼 @glenweyl.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Thank you to the brilliant Clare Morell for this critical, practical, accessible and grounded guide to how to protect our kids from the ravages of social media. We need more voices like this!

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RadicalxChange Foundation @radxchange.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

We won a Telly!!! May the whole world learn the story of @audreyt.org 🖖

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RadicalxChange Foundation @radxchange.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Congratulations to Cynthia Wade, Honor Society Films, @audreyt.org, @glenweyl.bsky.social and the rest of the team!

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Yuting Jiang 江雨婷 @yutingjiang.com · 12/05/2025

Pol.is x LLM - we did it! Join this conversation on Agora: Is there a place for extremism in Europe: agoracitizen.network/feed/convers...

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Agora Citizen Network

Where citizens converge to exchange and debate ideas.

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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Interesting article for Bluesky folks who care about prosocial media to read -- how to better uprank bridging content to bring communities together and increase user agency -- by @glenweyl.bsky.social @audreyt.org @mchangama.bsky.social www.noemamag.com/building-a-p...

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Building A Prosocial Media Ecosystem | NOEMA

There’s never been a better time to make social media what it always should have been: a tool to strengthen rather than strip-mine the social fabric.

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New_ Public @newpublic.org · 06/05/2025

Prosocial media strategies transformed Taiwan into one of the most civically engaged and least socially polarized places in the world. Read the full essay and breakdown by Glen Weyl @glenweyl.bsky.social Audrey Tang @audreyt.org and Jacob Mchangama @mchangama.bsky.social

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Building A Prosocial Media Ecosystem | NOEMA

There’s never been a better time to make social media what it always should have been: a tool to strengthen rather than strip-mine the social fabric.

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The Neoreactionary @neoreactionary.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Harvard Square Debate ft Danielle Allen and Curtis Yarvin

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Noema Magazine @noemamag.com · 01/05/2025

“Today is the most realistic moment since social media was born in the mid-2000s to make it the tool it always should have been — for it to strengthen rather than strip-mine the social fabric.” — @glenweyl.bsky.social , @audreyt.org & @mchangama.bsky.social #socialmedia #socialmediaregulation

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Building A Prosocial Media Ecosystem | NOEMA

There’s never been a better time to make social media what it always should have been: a tool to strengthen rather than strip-mine the social fabric.

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(((E. Glen Weyl/衛谷倫))) ⿻ 🇺🇸/🇩🇪/🇹🇼 @glenweyl.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

No more appropriate day than Easter for us to lose the world's greatest leader. I mourning of one of my greatest inspirations and heroes. Descanse en paz, Papa Fracisco.

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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Also proud to have been a signatory. The time to organize and speak up is here. Many of the signatories are high-profile Rs and elected officials, including some from the 1st Trump administration. The NYT covers here: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/19/u...

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Former Trump Staff Members Liken His Actions to Those of ‘Royal Despot’

In an open letter, prominent Republicans criticized President Trump for using his power to punish two former administration officials who criticized him.

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(((E. Glen Weyl/衛谷倫))) ⿻ 🇺🇸/🇩🇪/🇹🇼 @glenweyl.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

It seems we are getting very close to the point where we will either lose the constitution or interrupt the violation of Supreme Court orders physically. Any perspective from experts on this on the best manner to do the latter?

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(((E. Glen Weyl/衛谷倫))) ⿻ 🇺🇸/🇩🇪/🇹🇼 @glenweyl.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

In this challenging time, I believe the memory of Yitzhak Rabin can be a blessing to us all. He famously said he would fight terrorism as if there were no peace process and pursue peace as if there were no terrorism. I hope "the Cathedral" can respond similarly to the present moment:

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Project Liberty @projectliberty.io · 04/04/2025

👏To Project Liberty Institute Fellow @audreyt.org and our friend @glenweyl.bsky.social for their new paper on "Prosocial Media." 🗞️Read Tharin Pillay's coverage in TIME: time.com/7258238/soci... #socialmedia

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Social Media Fails Many Users. Experts Have an Idea to Fix It

In a new paper, digital activist Audrey Tang and others emphasize the need for context and community over clicks.

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cb ⿻ @lovevolv.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

in contrast to #singularity ie "losing the race of humanity" #plurality is "entirely horizontal, a lateral diffusion" - @audreyt.org @ #thegreatsimplification youtu.be/aXgne-9F7uU?... @radxchange.bsky.social @glenweyl.bsky.social

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How Pro-Social Technology Is Saving Democracy from ‘Big Tech’ with Audrey Tang | TGS 169

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⿻ Audrey Tang 唐鳳 @audreyt.org · 22/03/2025

Democracy isn’t something you have, it's something you practice — daily. 🔄 @jasmine.bsky.social beautifully captures Taiwan’s civic heartbeat and why active participation matters now more than ever. 🌻 jasmi.news/p/taiwan-2025

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garbage in, garbage out

notes on Taiwan, the US, and civic culture

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Lawfare @lawfaremedia.org · 14/03/2025

On Lawfare Daily, @noupside.bsky.social spoke to @glenweyl.bsky.social, @mchangama.bsky.social, and @iyerland.bsky.social about design vs moderation in social media, designing a prosocial media for the future and the potential for an online world without Caesars. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/lawf...

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