What's Dangerous About Long Term Thinking?

Glen Weyl is Microsoft’s Office of the Chief Technology Officer Political Economist and Social Technologist (OCTOPEST), where he advises Microsoft’s senior leaders on macroeconomics, geopolitics and the future of technology. Glen also co-authored Radical Markets: Uprooting Capitalism and Democracy for a Just Society; a book about "Revolutionary ideas on how to use markets to bring about fairness and prosperity for all".

In our conversation, we discuss —

• Quadratic voting and funding
• The new political divides of the 21st century
• What the history of personal computing teaches us about the possibility of shaping technological progress
• Glen's impression of rationalism, effective altruism and longtermism
• Why and how longtermism should be more generative of new ideas
• Underrated thinkers relevant for today