Using Consensus Mechanisms as an approach to Alignment — LessWrong

Does the DAO need a mechanism that is decentralized, or is some centralization compatible with your incentives? There are excellent tools when you need incentives to be decentralized, and excellent tools when you can accept a more centralized approach. The answer for a well established DAO is likely to be different from a new one, as are the corres... See more

Griff and Kevin share over twenty different mechanisms for doing better collective intelligence. Why? Because when you can do better collective intelligence, you can do better collective resource allocation.

• Tithing


• Taxes


• Voting


• Markets


• Web-Based Mechanisms


• Quadratic Funding


• Conviction Voting


• Retroactive Public Goods Funding


• NFTs


• Network Goods


• Effective Altru

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The intersection of AI and DAOs - Agent-based modeling is an area of ai research - Similar to governance mapping (which approaches this problem from the realm of economics). - Look at all of the agents in a system and what their capacities and goals are - Use massive simulations to understand the ways that participants could act - Or teach them how... See more

Decentralized governance is at the heart of the ideological foundation of crypto: equal participation for all actors. The playbook of progressive decentralization is being followed by more decentralized finance (DeFi) projects. Users and tokenholders can now have more control over protocol parameters, treasury spending, and, in general, the industr... See more