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Prediction Markets Are Built on the Principle of Adverserial Engagement Transcript: Speaker 2 There the first is what you're describing is precisely the reason why i am a bit of a skeptic of prediction markets not to say that they don't have a role but i don't think that they are nearly The solution that many believe they are and it's because they set us up in an adversarial relationship with regards to determining the truth it's not at all the say i don't think incentives Have a role or that it isn't worth a listening information for me i believe in all those things but the notion that the way that we should do it is betting against each other so that we want Everyone else to be as wrong as possible so we can be right and we want to get like one big payoff for like the person who's most right and anything that can be like too easily analogized To some sort of like dick measuring contest is not something that like excites me as a mechanism for like coming to good social outcomes and i think that prediction markets have an important Element of that

Glen Weyl & Cris Moore on Plurality, Governance, and Decentralized Society

COMPLEXITY: Physics of Life

Layers of Information Continually Accumulate *Within* Objects Over Time Summary: Information can be shared between objects as evidence of a common history, indicating that objects are deeply rooted in time. As the biosphere has evolved, it has increased the layers of information processing and abstraction, resulting in the generation of objects that are deeper in time. Consequently, some features of these objects appear less physical and more abstract. Each individual accumulates information over time, making parts of them brand new and parts billions of years old. Transcript: Speaker 1 And so information we talked about has a sort of interesting property that seems very abstract. And it seems to be that information can move between objects, like we're speaking the same language, but when you can share information between objects like you and I speaking, what That is is evidence of a common history. These things that we call information and abstractions, I think, are just evidence that these objects are actually deep in time. So things look more abstract, the deeper and timely are. And it's one of the reasons I think that as the biosphere has evolved over time, it's increased the layers of information processing and abstraction that it's built. But really what it is is you're generating these objects that are deeper and deeper in time. And so some of their features look less and less physical because they're not physical now, they're physical in the structure that's extended in time. Speaker 2 You have a lovely line in one of your papers where you say that each of us are our own age, but in many ways, we're thousands and thousands of years old because we have accumulated all that Information instead of genes to be who we are today. Speaker 1 That's right. So parts of you are brand new. And parts of us are all brand new from this conversation because we've exchanged information and generated new structures. Parts of us are billions of years old.

Big Ideas — Time

Simplifying Complexity

Animal Law is Extremely Complex From a Regulatory Perspective Summary: Animal law is a massively broad practice area with different regulatory frameworks for each species. This results in a large amount of legislation to navigate. Furthermore, society's treatment of animals opens up various legal options, such as prosecution, challenging the government, and civil claims. Animal law is difficult and mentally stimulating due to witnessing horrific cruelty. There is a misconception about what animal law actually looks like in practice. Transcript: Speaker 1 The reality is it could not be more grueling like for every, for all reasons. So, so one, it's a massively broad practice area. You know, every, you know, every industry will have like a different regulatory framework. That's just not something that happens with humans. So if you think about it, a rat, for example, will have a different legal framework if that rats get companion rat, if that rat is deemed a pest. They're different regulatory frameworks for one species, you know, and that times, however many species, however many species, that's a lot of legislation. Not only that, due to the way, you know, society treats animals, you know, it's products, there's entertainment, you know, test methods. Due to that, you know, there's different legal kind of options available. So, you know, there's, there's prosecution, there's challenges against the government, there's civil claims because animals are deemed property under the law. So just because the way society treats animals, you've also opened up this kind of array of legal avenues to pursue. So it's massively broad. Not only that, of course, you're witnessing horrific cruelty and incredibly mentally, you know, stimulating, I suppose, but just it's difficult. It's a strenuous area. So I think that there's a, you know, misconception with what animal law actually looks like in practice.

Edie Bowles on Utilising the Law to Support the Protection of Animals

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