Samo Burja, founder of Bismarck Analysis, dives into the Consilience Project, which aims to enhance public sensemaking and address cultural challenges. He discusses how digital media has transformed information flow, leading to memetic noise and the rise of populism, exemplified by Trump. Samo explores the importance of long-form dialogue for complex ideas, critiques societal norms impacting collective choices, and emphasizes innovative approaches to narrative construction. The conversation also touches on carbon accounting as a tool for societal coherence.
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Rebuilding The Epistemic Commons
The Consilience Project aims to rebuild social theory and discourse to fix broken public sensemaking.
It intentionally focuses on creating shareable epistemic tools rather than chasing media scoops or credit.
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Exponential Tech Outruns Social Institutions
Exponential technology amplifies negative externalities that older social institutions cannot handle.
Our political and social stacks remain outdated and are destabilized by participatory internet culture.
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Participation Raised The Cost Of Being Wrong
Internet participation transformed everyone from passive consumers to invested contributors, increasing identity stakes in ideas.
That shift makes low-quality or viral false narratives much harder to correct socially.
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Samo Burja joins Jim to talk about the Consilience Project: a project that aims to create positive cultural change in unique ways...
Samo Burja joins Jim to talk about the Consilience Project: a project that aims to create positive cultural change in unique ways. They cover its founding goals & approaches, big tech's ability to amplify negative externalities, the rise of Trump, memetic noise & virality, how digital cultures change, types of articles, sense-making, meaning-making, choice-making & social norms, de-energizing society & carbon accounting, unique ways the Consilience team collaborates & operates, new/upcoming articles, and much more.
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Samo Burja is the founder and President of Bismarck Analysis, a consulting firm that specializes in institutional analysis for clients in North America and Europe. Bismarck uses the foundational sociological research that Samo and his team have conducted over the past decade to deliver unique insights to clients about institutional design and strategy. Samo’s studies focus on the social and material technologies that provide the foundation for healthy human societies, with an eye to engineering and restoring the structures that produce functional institutions. He has authored articles and papers on his findings. His manuscript, Great Founder Theory, is available online. He is also a Research Fellow at the Long Now Foundation and Senior Research Fellow in Political Science at the Foresight Institute. Samo has spoken about his findings at the World Economic Forum at Davos, Y Combinator’s YC 120 conference, the Reboot American Innovation conference in Washington, D.C., and elsewhere. He spends most of his time in California and his native Slovenia.
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