Twitter_Bridging_algorithm_and_implementation
users submit short responses to a prompt. But rather than amplifying or responding to one another's comments, they simply vote these up or down. These votes are then clustered to highlight patterns of common attitudes which form what one might call user perspectives.
Audrey Tang • ⿻ 數位 Plurality: The Future of Collaborative Technology and Democracy
We believe that thoughtful, unemotional disagreement by independent thinkers can be converted into believability-weighted decision making that is smarter and more effective than the sum of its parts. Because the power of a group is so much greater than the power of an individual, I believe these work principles are even more important than the life
... See moreRay Dalio • Principles: Life and Work
So armed with this understanding, how do we design a mechanism in which participants of a network can stake tokens to each other to signal a person’s value to the network? At a high-level, we can think of this behavior as a natural evolution of “following” someone. But now, the action of “following” is no longer binary; it’s a gradient. If you thin... See more
Kiran Cherukuri • Internet Cities & The Social Uniswap
The statements each group tended to vote uniquely on, as well as statements that enjoyed consensus among all the groups, are shown to everyone. The assertions getting consensus across all groups, or within specific groups, float to the top and are seen more often—just like content on Facebook, but with visibility into what percentage of others agre
... See moreTim O'Reilly • Wtf?
Decentralized networks require a consensus mechanism that can protect against a Sybil attack (where one attacker pretends to have many different accounts and outvotes everyone else)