The Rationalist - Society of Problem Solvers Podcast

Citizens are so focused on what we don’t agree on, but this one thing - focusing on passing laws that fight corruption and increase transparency and independant oversight - would be a place where we can and should unify. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit joshketry.substack.com

A Thought Experiment: Designing New Countries Let’s - for fun - imagine building a brand-new country from scratch. Or maybe not just one, but a handful of different ones, each exploring a different philosophy of how humans could live together. What would they look like? How would they behave? What values would they be built on? If we were free of the rampant corruption, historical baggage, and acc...

The biggest problem that humanity faces today is simple: All of the important systems we use to run society have become corrupted by powerful colluding people and institutions. There is no way to fix this corruption by using our existing systems - such as government or voting. We cannot use corrupt systems to fix corrupt systems, so the only solution is to build something new. Humanity needs a new...

Also in PRINT:Are you new to the concept of decentralization? No problem! Decentralization 101 analogy: An easy way to understand how decentralization works in corrupting systems is imagine that you were going into the desert. You have a 55 gallon drum for water. Imagine something happened to that drum - it got a hole poked in it or somebody poisoned it or something else bad happened to the water....

Our group labels are a big problem, and they are being used to manipulate us. Humans are so caught up in our group labels that we don't realize the effect it is having on our society. Group labels divide us, and make society-wide group problem solving very difficult. Problems should be solved one at a time by ideas, not by adherence to labels. Our allegiance should be to the solution, and the solu...

This is an audio version of our previous article for those who like to listen while they drive, work, or fight our corrupt systems. TRANSCRIPT: The biggest problem our world faces today is that our main operating systems for humanity have become corrupted. Government, academia, the media, medicine, food, and even science have all become centralized, and thus corrupted. Most of the world spends a l...

We form into swarms! This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit joshketry.substack.com

Thanks for listening! This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit joshketry.substack.com

Josh Ketry, one of our writers, explains: These are our 2 choices. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit joshketry.substack.com

In this episode we introduce the idea of running systems of people using a newly enhanced form of epistemology known as collective "swarm" intelligence. We also explain how the principles in Tim Urban's book "What's Our Problem?" teach us how to make what he calls "genies" (but we just call groups of high trust problem solvers). We begin to uncover how physicist David Deutsch and Karl Popper's the...

Josh explains in the video. Thanks for listening! To learn how to fix that corruption read more HERE ! This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit joshketry.substack.com