MetaView Episode #19 - Jordan Hall on Gameb & Incentive Landscapes

Jordan saw himself pulled into the technology milieu early on and lived a life as an archetypical west coast tech entrepreneur until seeing through the facade & carving another path, of digging into misaligned incentives & existential risks in the world at large. Years later, we see him as one of the originators of the GameB meme.

In this episode, Jordan explains to Peth that we are in the middle of a changing system, from an old parasitical system that needs to die. But this is good because it’s the chance for us to redesign every institution, all human infrastructure, and navigate the transition to something new.

Some of the topics:

GameA & Game
Crypto space
One sentence on the Moloch problem
Incentive landscapes
The ecology and evolution of crypto
Signals that tell you when a system is dying

The meme of GameB has two notions. Firstly, the notion of the game. The human world is constructed by humans, and we are making choices in the game of life. We need to realize that we can make different choices and change the game's rules.

The second notion is the movement from A to B. How do we go from Game A to Game B? What’s the right direction to take?

Sure is that every living thing & human-made system has a finite life span. Every system will eventually get parasites, so we have to gracefully put it to rest and make space for the birth of a new system. How do we know the time has come? "If it's shitheads everywhere then you know it's the end of the cycle."

Resources:

Jordan Hall
Jordan Hall’s YouTube
Game B
Meditations on Moloch
The Tainter problem - Joseph Tainter
Rococo architecture

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