All Models Are Wrong

This week I sat with Dr. Joel Z Garrod, a sociologist based in Canada and author of a recently published article, "On the property of blockchains: comments on an emerging literature." The paper focuses on blockchain and property relations in connection to global property relations and the evolution of capitalism. 

I really enjoyed the article because it really succinctly brings up the point that most current analyses of blockchain don't go deep enough and don’t seem to ask the right questions because they focus too much on what "could be" and not what is currently happening in the space. This leads to a lot of wrong conclusions, particularly from people who I’d probably agree with for the most part on other things. In his paper, Dr. Garrod takes a more materialistic approach when analyzing blockchain and it's potential to either be co-opted by neoliberalism or create something completely different.

During the interview we spoke about utopian capitalism, whether blockchain is a neoliberal project, and the history of contracts. The interview itself went pretty long so I've split it into two parts. You can expect part two to be published next week. 

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This week I interviewed Daniel Kronovet (@kronosapiens) at Colony, “An Operating System for Organizations”. The Colony Network is a suite of smart contracts, running on Ethereum. It provides a general purpose framework for the essential functions organizations require, such as ownership, structure, authority, and financial management. Along the way, we talk about organizations and society as systems of information processing, the relationships of models to reality, and some classic (and modern) political economic thought.

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Mentioned Articles in the Episode

AI is an Ideology (Jaron Lanier and Glen Weyl) -> www.wired.com/story/opinion-ai-i…-not-a-technology/

Designing Freedom (Stafford Beer) -> monoskop.org/images/e/e3/Beer_S…igning_Freedom.pdf

The Use of Knowledge in Society (Friedrich Hayek)  -> www.econlib.org/library/Essays/hykKnw.html

Reputation Systems: Promise and Peril (Daniel Kronovet) -> kronosapiens.github.io/blog/2018/06/…se-peril.html

The Great Transformation (Karl Polanyi) -> en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_T…sformation_(book)

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This week I spoke with Paula Berman (@_paulaberman), researcher at the Democracy Earth Foundation (@DemocracyEarth) which is a tech non-profit that aims to create platforms for decentralized and incorruptible online governance. Their projects have largely been based on Ethereum.

In the interview we discuss the identity problem for decentralized platforms like blockchain, the advantages of quadratic voting as opposed to current systems, and why the Left should care about all these things.

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This week I spoke with Dardan Isufi (@DardanIsufi), COO of the Eva Coop (@Eva_coop) which is a cooperative ride-sharing application based on blockchain started in Montreal and expanding to other cities. We discuss taking on Uber while trying to build a democratic and non-exploitative alternative like Eva.

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What I’ve done is taken some of the audio left over from the interview I did with Ben Arc or also  known as BTCSocialist on Twitter released a couple weeks ago and mashed it together since some of the good stuff wasn’t able to make into the interview. I hope you enjoy the extra content and if you want full access then consider becoming a patron on Patreon.

Some of the things we spoke about include:

• Secret lefties in the hacker community
• Fake right wing anarchists
• Post-capitalist blockchain projects trying to reinvent the wheel when there's socialism
• Right wing philosophers' obsessions with eugenics and skull size

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 A couple of weeks ago I had the opportunity to speak with Ben Arc (@BTCSocialist), one of the first openly leftist guy in bitcoin and significant contributor to the bitcoin FOSS space. In this episode we discuss what it was like for him to be one of the only people loudly represent the Left, and, his bitcoin-IoT projects. You can find his github for all of his projects here: https://github.com/arcbtc

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If you haven’t seen it, I’ve also republished another article on Medium titled, Won’t the State just Destroy the Blockchain?that you can check out or share with your other Lefty or even Libertarian friends.

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A short introduction to the TBS Podcast where I will be doing interviews and expanding on the concepts I explore on my site integrating blockchain and the Left.

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First article on Medium -> medium.com/@idmsbftmod/cocaine…ralism-da7b9968c4f9

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