I do think, on the margin, that experimenting with new mechanism design is pretty important. Whether to stick with a given mechanism depends a lot on whether that’s a mechanism I expect to really scale up.
The Lightcone team has used quadratic voting internally on occasion (i.e. for deciding which topics to discuss during a team retreat). But I’m not sure this was all that much better than a really simple averaging. I don’t know which domains really benefit from quadratic voting.
For comparison – I’ve also considered building something like Liquid Democracy into the LW Review, where you can delegate your vote to someone else.
I do think, on the margin, that experimenting with new mechanism design is pretty important. Whether to stick with a given mechanism depends a lot on whether that’s a mechanism I expect to really scale up.
The Lightcone team has used quadratic voting internally on occasion (i.e. for deciding which topics to discuss during a team retreat). But I’m not sure this was all that much better than a really simple averaging. I don’t know which domains really benefit from quadratic voting.
For comparison – I’ve also considered building something like Liquid Democracy into the LW Review, where you can delegate your vote to someone else.