Currents 048: Welf von Hören on Potential - a podcast by .

Jim has a wide-ranging talk with Welf von Hören, co-founder of the recently beta-launched Potential app...

Jim has a wide-ranging talk with Welf von Hören, co-founder of the recently beta-launched Potential app. (Listeners who download the app can use the invitation code"jimruttshow".) They discuss Potential's goal of upgrading the human capacity for omni-considerate choices, the co-evolutionary relationship between increasing individual capacity&improving institutions, the risk of creating"more efficient destroyers of the universe,"GameB's three-part model of sovereignty, online as the primary conditioning environment, asymmetry between the human mind&AI-driven platforms, bridging the intention-action gap, the decision to be a public-benefit for-profit corporation, aligning the value proposition with the user's best interests, how the app actually works, a more monastic digital environment, enabling communities of practice, facing the moral challenges of data collection, and much more.

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Welf von Hören is an applied philosopher, designer and entrepreneur. He’s the co-founder and CEO of Potential, a public benefit corporation dedicated to making technology that’s aligned with our best interest. He’s an expert for the intersection between Humane and Persuasive Technology.

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