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tl:dr versioning democracy
why: need to enable rapid and large scale decentralized experimentation on governance / policy to achieve mutual understanding of what do most stake holders want, how to best achieve that, and run the experiments. in the context of communities for example... if a certain community has "bad" policy (cough... electoral college... cough...) then there will be bad outcomes and since people can vote with their feet these communities will either need to adapt / update policy via a orderly process or die out (in the long run) because members = strength and resources. The key is to enable communities to experiment and achieve best equilibrium quickly ... and the rest of us can learn what works / what doesn't.
how: updatable eth contract (V1...when deprecated points to V2 ... points to V3)
tl:dr lower cost / more trustable oracles via game theory (verification games)
why: blockchain needs oracles to scale (I think of oracles as the interface between the web2 world and web3 world / blockchains) ... but that reduces trustability and decentralization (we trust the smart contract which trusts the oracles but can / should we?).
how: reward + staking for API calls or computation... if you have a different result you get a penalty.
tl:dr how do I know your data is legit and beneficial for my goals without getting access first?
why: AI (well...deep learning mostly) eats data for breakfast. data is a valuable asset that after its decrypted becomes less "scarce" and may loose its entire value. But if not inspectable ... how does the demand side de-risk and determine the value?
how: this is more in an exploratory stage, but likely has to do with differential privacy and some application of game theory.
tl:dr content credibility... a potential solution to deep fakes and conspiracy theories...
why: (preface... even if we build this ppl who really need this may not use it... but... still worth a mental experiment...). There is asymmetrical risk right now for media... if you have a "strong reputation" and you make a mistake... it barely affects the brand... because the negative impact / consequences are more transient. But credibility and trust should be earned and lost with time and evidence and be widely visible. And all other players in the environment can be the judge.
how: each content source / creator is associated with an anonymous identity... the content earns credibility by being randomly judged by peers (so you are likely to get bias from a wider / balanced audience)... the judges are in turn peer rated on their rationale / data / analysis) for why they support / does not support a piece of content. in the long run you have a group of more reputable judges (whose vote could weigh slightly more, or slightly more in a specific community / domain of expertise... we might even call these "professional troll hunters") and content sources... and the judges / content sources could lose credibility if their quality / behavior changes. since now a strong credibility is an asset and is tracked there is a stronger incentive to protect credibility. this system can become quite "monopolistic" but the algorithm (likely a reinforcement learning type algo) / the smart contract can adapt control the level of concentration by adjusting how newer judges / content gets weighted / evaluated... (similar to how mining difficulty is adjusted for stability...)
tl:dr: accountable and effective philanthropy / micro-finance
why: there is money coming from the rich but they are terribly inefficiently used. wealth only gets more concentrated and charity donations are used as tax tools and are rathe ineffective at redistribution of wealth and wealth creation. we need to make the connection to impact more direct and visible. (If you know a certain org has spent 80 cents on the dollar on lattes for staff and only 20 cents to housing the homeless... I am guessing you will not invest or donate, if you are a wealth individual looking to do good and you know a certain impact fund has reduced childhood hunger by 20% per year in the last yr... you might put your money there.)
how: track social investor's $ and their impact... create a public or private dashboard... and also track investment professional's decisions but in the context of impact and also $ returns.
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I have experience in smart contracts, web, startups, finance, community building.
More experience in AI.
Would likely make more progress with help of:
- other builders (smart contract, distributed systems)
- token economics expert (game theory)
- marketers / growth pros / product pros
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