Bottom Up Building: Pathways towards a Decentralized Society

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Argues that decentralization requires mechanisms that surface consensus across difference, proposing soulbound tokens plus correlation discounts and quadratic voting / funding as the primitive to amplify diverse, de‑correlated voices. Demonstrates Pol.is as a deliberation tool with 118 participants, 78 statements and ~3,800 votes that cluster into opinion bubbles (e.g., groups of ~44/26/39) and shows more consensus than divisiveness. The Pol.is prototype has Wi‑Fi hiccups but reliably surfaces common ground and produces actionable clusters for follow‑up votes.

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1. 0:00Decentralized digital infrastructure
2. 10:38Decentralization principles
3. 21:54Neutrality in digital systems
4. 47:12Neutrality and infrastructure
5. 1:05:50Pluralistic insights and limits
6. 1:17:48Q&A