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Audrey Tang

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Audrey Tang

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Audrey Tang is a recurring person in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between January 29, 2021 and February 12, 2025. The archive places it in contexts such as “Taiwan… was led in part by Audrey Tang”; “I think this is building off research by people like Audrey Tang that “citizens’ assemblies”“. It most often appears alongside @slatestarcodex, A Proposal For Importing Society’s Values, AEAweb.

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  • Category: People
  • Mention count: 2
  • Issue count: 2
  • First seen: January 29, 2021
  • Last seen: February 12, 2025

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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.

Weyl Contra Me On Technocracy
January 29, 2021 · Original source
4. Furthermore, the positive examples of technocracy @slatestarcodex refers to are...surprising. Two examples. To call school desegregation a technocratic invention papers over decades of community activism for desegregation. Perhaps even more dramatically looking at the coronavirus as an example of the success of technocracy runs against pretty much any reasonable reading of the international data. Danielle Allen and I have a piece coming out on this (we were both deeply involved in developing a response plan here https://ethics.harvard.edu/Covid-Roadmap that significantly influenced now-President Biden's response), but perhaps the sharpest point here is that the country, Taiwan, which performed best in the virus was led in part by Audrey Tang who moved back to Taiwan after being immersed in and repulsed by the rationalist movement in Silicon Valley - see e.g. https://www.wired.com/story/how-taiwans-unlikely-digital-minister-hacked-the-pandemic/) and dedicated herself to doing things differently in Taiwan (see her amazing poetic job description here:
Inline links: https://ethics.harvard.edu/Covid-Roadmap, https://www.wired.com/story/how-taiwans-unlikely-digital-minister-hacked-the-pandemic/
4. Furthermore, the positive examples of technocracy @slatestarcodex refers to are...surprising. Two examples. To call school desegregation a technocratic invention papers over decades of community activism for desegregation. Perhaps even more dramatically looking at the coronavirus as an example of the success of technocracy runs against pretty much any reasonable reading of the international data. Danielle Allen and I have a piece coming out on this (we were both deeply involved in developing a response plan here https://ethics.harvard.edu/Covid-Roadmap that significantly influenced now-President Biden's response), but perhaps the sharpest point here is that the country, Taiwan, which performed best in the virus was led in part by Audrey Tang who moved back to Taiwan after being immersed in and repulsed by the rationalist movement in Silicon Valley - see e.g. https://www.wired.com/story/how-taiwans-unlikely-digital-minister-hacked-the-pandemic/) and dedicated herself to doing things differently in Taiwan (see her amazing poetic job description here: #OSOSNZ prayer. Thank you all fabulous people! ","username":"audreyt","name":"Audrey Tang 唐鳳","profile_image_url":"","date":"Tue Aug 23 05:15:43 +0000 2016","photos":[{"img_url":"https://pbs.substack.com/media/CqhRh_tVMAQ5rtQ.jpg","link_url":"https://t.co/d3kBl8gLy8"}],"quoted_tweet":{},"reply_count":0,"retweet_count":810,"like_count":3095,"impression_count":0,"expanded_url":{},"video_url":null,"belowTheFold":true}" data-component-name="Twitter2ToDOM">
Inline links: https://ethics.harvard.edu/Covid-Roadmap, https://www.wired.com/story/how-taiwans-unlikely-digital-minister-hacked-the-pandemic/
Deliberative Alignment, And The Spec
February 12, 2025 · Original source
I think this is building off research by people like Audrey Tang that “citizens’ assemblies” like this can go surprisingly well compared to what you might expect from the average citizen given (eg) social media.
Inline links: Audrey Tang