Sublime

Quadratic liquid democracy: As noted above, a natural way to avoid the power concentrations that liquid democracy can give rise to is the use of degressive proportionality. RadicalxChange, a non-profit advancing ⿻, has implemented a related system for its internal decision-making.

matching funds should be proportioned to the square of the sum of square roots of individual contributions, giving greater weight to a large number of small contributors than to a few large ones.[449] Recently designs have stretched beyond traditional individualistic designs to account for ⿻ group interests and affiliations.[450]

Let us start by introducing a variable, r(t), which denotes the accumulation of the net quantity of y(t) over time t. For example, if y(t) stands for wages, then r(t) becomes monetary wealth, but we should think of r(t) more generally as resources that can be grown in time and used in turn (“reinvested”) to generate more y(