Civilization failures occur when the system gets stuck in a state where obvious improvements exist but can't be implemented. This chapter from the book Inadequate Equilibria categorize the causes of civilization failures into three buckets: 1. Coordination failures. We can't magically coordinate everyone to be carbon-neutral for example. 2. Decision-makers...
The post describes a tool that allows communities to own a decentralised media publication (a shared Twitter account in this case). In contrast to other shared media publications like subreddits, LessWrong or Hacker News, this tool sorts content using Prediction Markets. Any community member can bet on the number of...
Civilization failures occur when the system gets stuck in a state where obvious improvements exist but can't be implemented.
This chapter from the book Inadequate Equilibria categorize the causes of civilization failures into three buckets:
However, all of the above problems stem from a single cause: people don't share the same exact genes.
Clonal Ants, who do have the same genes, have no problems with coordination, skin-in-the-game or passing the relevant information to the decision-makers.... (read 266 more words →)
The post describes a tool that allows communities to own a decentralised media publication (a shared Twitter account in this case). In contrast to other shared media publications like subreddits, LessWrong or Hacker News, this tool sorts content using Prediction Markets. Any community member can bet on the number of likes each content would have if published on Twitter. The estimated number of likes is used to sort the content.
Members of the community are rewarded according to their contribution. They can contribute by submitting content that gets published and by betting accurately on the markets and being good at knowing which content will perform well on Twitter. The tokens received represent ownership... (read more)