The Feedback Loop Episode 1: Decentralized Societies with Glen Weyl
How to build a decentralized society? What role can soulbound tokens play?
We sat down for an in-depth interview with one of the sharpest minds and most influential voices in Web 3, Decentralized Social Identity Expert Glen Weyl of Microsoft Research, to discuss a diversity of pressing issues in the web3 space from quadratic funding to soul-based tokens and everything in between.
In this episode, host Mona Hamdy and Glen Weyl dive into the depths of ‘quadratic voting’, a collective decision-making procedure designed to allow fine-grained expression of how strongly a population feels about an issue and ‘quadratic funding’, a method of radically and democratically dispersing resources.
Over the course of this episode Weyl shares, in great detail, his vision of a decentralized society and the integral role soulbound tokens might have to play in it. Weyl presented his arguments for a different kind of decentralized society—one built upon cooperation across pluralism and diversity, taking us down a quadratic rabbit hole of sorts.
He offers us his unique insight on how to avoid a dystopian hyper-financialized future by emphasizing the dangers of an AI-controlled web3 and what he believes could make it more accessible for our future generations.
This episode of #TheFeedbackLoop is available for video streaming on YouTube and across all the major audio streaming platforms, which you can listen to here.
About the guest:
Weyl co-developed quadratic funding, a way of democratically allocating funds, and quadratic voting, a collective decision-making process intended to allow fine-grained expression of how strongly voters feel about an issue. Author of the book Radical Markets: Uprooting Capitalism and Democracy for a Just Society with co-author Eric Posner, economist Eric Glen Weyl also does research at Microsoft Research New England. Weyl attended Princeton University, where he was chosen as the class valedictorian for 2007. Weyl worked for Microsoft Research as an economist and researcher after working for three years as a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows and another three years as an assistant professor at the University of Chicago. Additionally, he is a Yale University instructor.