Democracy could be incredibly efficient

Podcast: The Elysian DispatchEpisode: Democracy could be incredibly efficientPub date: 2025-10-14Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationI spoke with Glen Weyl, founder of RadicalXChange, author of Plurality and Radical Markets, and the lead of Microsoft’s Special Projects division where he founded the Plural Technology Collaboratory.Weyl talks a lot about how we can innovate democracy, not just throw it all out in favor of autocracy. In this Guest Lecture, we talk about his recent debate with Curtis Yarvin, whether corporations are autocracies or democracies, whether countries like Singapore are more or less democratic than the US, and how we can use technological advancements and borrow from models around the world to create something much better than representative democracy. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.elysian.press/subscribeThe podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Elle Griffin, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.