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to propose tools, social practices and collective data custody arrangements that allowed them to “collectively bargain” with their data for cooperation with government and private actors supported by the PDIS-supported program of “data coalitions” to address civic problems.

When knowledge is unbundled from human labor and becomes accessible as capital, it gains three essential traits. It becomes rentable, as you can access it without long-term commitments. It becomes recombinable, since different forms of expertise can be recombined without the overhead of coordinating across siloed teams. And it becomes scalable:

Create ownership in everything. Revenue shares in projects. Equity in micro-companies. Stakes in outcomes. The Old Game keeps you permanently renting everything: houses, cars, software, entertainment. The New Game makes you an owner of something real, however small.

The impact of AI on how work is coordinated becomes clearer when we examine algorithmically managed markets. These markets centralize market-making and job assignment using algorithmic coordination.

And finally, an obvious consequence of all four is accelerating inequality between those who do and do not own capital, who are and are not able to get to front of the queue for artificial finance, and who do and do not make malinvestments in their own human capital on false price signals.

a natural way to fund public/supermodular goods without relying excessively on the limited knowledge of administrators is for such an administrator, philanthropist, or public authority to match contributions by distributed individuals.

Hoffman and Yeh argued that the fundamental reason to invest in massive scale at money-losing speeds was to reduce “the risk of competition.” As they put it, “Your goal is not to beat the competition. Your goal is to break free of competition entirely.” The best means to do that was to “achieve a critical mass that confers a lasting competitive