Yeah this is largely what I meant when saying “I’ve updated towards ‘things like somewhat better markets.’” I have been reading Vitalik Buterin and agree that crypto is a pretty interesting testing ground for new coordination schemes. (another motivating example was microcovid.org, which helped streamline covid negotiation for large numbers of people)
Part of my goal of the sequence is to orient a bit on “how rationalists/EAs/longtermists might deliberately experiment with coordination schemes internally as they scale”, with part of the hope being that this enables them to perform better.
I think smaller-scale strategies are still important because (at current margins) many groups I know are small enough that scalable-mechanisms usually aren’t (immediately) the bottleneck.
Yeah this is largely what I meant when saying “I’ve updated towards ‘things like somewhat better markets.’” I have been reading Vitalik Buterin and agree that crypto is a pretty interesting testing ground for new coordination schemes. (another motivating example was microcovid.org, which helped streamline covid negotiation for large numbers of people)
Part of my goal of the sequence is to orient a bit on “how rationalists/EAs/longtermists might deliberately experiment with coordination schemes internally as they scale”, with part of the hope being that this enables them to perform better.
I think smaller-scale strategies are still important because (at current margins) many groups I know are small enough that scalable-mechanisms usually aren’t (immediately) the bottleneck.