Curatorial Governance

As web3 rightfully peels back the curtain on the processes and systems that control our digital universe, curatorial governance feels like a topic that will shape the next decade of digital life. Curatorial governance refers to the formalized set of processes, rules, and principles that are used to assign different amounts of value to different cul... See more

When analyzing the wisdom of the crowd, it’s easy to forget that opinions are not independent, and that social media is very driven by first mover opinions and “influencers”.

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The intent of this piece is not to deride public opinion; the goal of this piece is instead to figure out the pros and cons of each of the typical four sources of information (public opinion, experts, personal networks, intuition) one uses to make decisions, in order to create repeatable processes of organizing information that combine the best of ... See more

This concept of the staking of limited resources as a measure of how strongly beliefs are held and likely to come true is why prediction markets like sports books or Metaculus are often seen as the best sources of truth for the future.

Instead of using aggregated engagement data on consumers’ revealed preferences, it's actually more valuable to disaggregate “the crowd” into specific communities and clusters, and to pick cultural objects that spike in particular communities or are at the intersection of two to three communities, rather than the objects that are broadly liked.

The hope is that one day blockchain-based social media and community tools can create a portable resume or data set that will allow one to take one’s curiosity and obsession data from platform to platform; for now though, creating holistic cross-platform portraits of experts is key. Allowing active discourse participants / future experts to share t... See more

However, this greater time spent thinking also causes experts to be more rigid and dogmatic in their thinking. This combined with the ivory tower that experts can sometimes live in can result in them completely overlooking important, left-field new ideas.

“The curator is someone who insists on value, and who makes it, whether or not it actually exists,” says David Balzer, author of Curationism: How Curating Took Over the Art World and Everything Else.

When determining whether a cultural object has value, is it best to trust: