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The Book 

Gaming the Future: Technologies for Intelligent Voluntary Cooperation

Welcome to this living book and book club about technologies for intelligent voluntary cooperation by Allison Duettmann, Mark S. Miller, and Christine Peterson, Foresight Institute.

Intro

Opportunities for bright futures enabled by bio, nano, and AI are now within our reach. But technological proliferation also brings risks that threaten the very existence of civilization. To help civilization navigate this abyss, this book addresses three questions:

1. How can we help civilization cooperate better?
2. How can we help civilization defend itself better?
3. How can we help civilization do both - cooperation and defense - in light of AI?

Explore strategies, tools, and technologies for enabling voluntary cooperation across a diversity of intelligences. Let’s unlock Paretotropian futures of high technology in which valuing entities can pursue their highest function through iterative play.

Short-cuts to chapters

Follow the links at the bottom of each page, or jump around between chapters:

1. FOREWORD | What's at Stake in This Game?

2. OVERVIEW | What to Expect From This Game

3. MEET THE PLAYERS | Value Diversity

4. SKIM THE MANUAL | Intelligent Voluntary Cooperation & Paretotropism

5. IMPROVE COOPERATION | Information, Money, Rights, Contracts, and Privacy

6. GENETIC TAKEOVER | Cryptocommerce

7. DEFEND AGAINST PHYSICAL THREATS | Multipolar Active Shields

8. DEFEND AGAINST CYBER THREATS | Computer Security

9. WELCOME NEW PLAYERS | Artificial Intelligences

10. ITERATE THE GAME | Racing Where?

Thank you

We would like to thank members of our Foresight’s Intelligent Cooperation Group for shaping this book into what it is through our 2021 seminars. The seminars are now incorporated into the chapters as deep dive seminars.

• Robin Hanson, George Mason University | Value Drift

• Balaji S. Srinivasan, 1729 | The Network State

• Vernon Smith, Chapman University | Theory of Price Discovery in Markets 

• Andrew McAfee, MIT | Civilizational Progress 

• Tyler Cowen, George Mason University | Stubborn Attachments

• Audrey Tang, Taiwan’s Digital Minister | Tools for Openness

• Chris Hibbert, Anthony Aguirre, Martin Koeppelmann, Paul Gebheim, and Robin Hanson | Prediction & Replication Markets

• Christine Lemmer-Webber | Re-Decentralizing Social Networks

• Kate Sills, Independent | NFTs and Engineering Property Rights

• Arthur Breitman, Tezos | Blockchain Governance 

• Marc Stiegler, Sci-Fi author | The Digital Path

• Chip Morningstar, Meng Weng, and Federico Ast | Split Contracts, Computational Law & Decentralized Arbitration 

• Matan Field, Esteban Ordano, Jazear Brooks, Tyler Golato, and Patrick Joyce | DAOs

• Glen Weyl, RadicalxChange | Social Technology for a Political Economy of Increasing Returns 

• Alex Tabarrok, George Mason University | Dominant Assurance Contracts 

• Zooko Wilcox and Howard Wu | Zero-knowledge-enabled Cooperation

• Jim Epstein, Primavera De Filippi, and Brewster Kahle | A Peaceful Transition into Cryptocommerce? 

• Daniel Ellsberg, DoomsDay Machine | Nuclear Risks: Doomsday (Still) Hiding in Plain Sight 

• David Brin, The Transparent Society | Transparent Society & Sousveillance 

• Gernot Heiser, University of New South Wales| SeL4: Formal Proofs for Real-World Cybersecurity

• David Krakauer, Santa Fe Institute | Collective Computing

• Gillian Hadfield, University of Toronto | Incomplete Contracts & AI Alignment

• Richard Craib, NumerAI | Techniques for Intelligence Coordination
  Peter Norvig, Google | AI: A Modern Approach

• Anders Sandberg, Oxford University | Game Theory of Cooperating with Alien Minds

• Robin Hanson, George Mason University | A Simple Model of Grabby Aliens

We would also like to thank our book club guests for discussing the book post its publication. Their talks are now also included at the end of each chapter.

• David Friedman, Author of Legal Systems Very Different from Ours

• Robin Hanson, George Mason University

• Kate Sills, Independent Software Engineer

• Paul Gebheim, Forecast Foundation

• Primavera De Filippi, Koala

• Arthur Breitman, Tezos

• David Brin, Author of Transparent Society

• Gernot Heiser, SeL4

• Juan Benet, Protocol labs

• Trent McConaghy, Ocean Protocol

• Stuart Armstrong, Future of Humanity Institute

Finally, we would like to thank Keith Mansfield, Tom Galloway, Terry Stanley, Chris Hibbert, Alan Karp, Jazear Brooks, David Manheim, Kate Sills, Chip Morningstar, Gillian Hadfield, Robin Hanson, David Friedman, Jim Bennett, Micah Zoltu, and Dan Finlay for extensive comments on the book draft. The key ideas of Paretotopia (at the time) were originally worked out by Mark S. Miller in collaboration with Eric Drexler. We learned a lot and all remaining errors are our own.

Join

We hope you find interest in critiquing and augmenting the ideas by commenting. This book, like a good game, is here to be iterated and improved for the next round. Follow Foresight Institute on Twitter and apply to join our Discord.

Next: FOREWORD | What’s at Stake in This Game?