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Kickstarter for Coordinated Action

Feb 21, 2019 by Raemon

In Inadequate Equilibria, the Visitor notes:

Coordination isn’t as simple as everyone jumping simultaneously every time one person shouts “Jump!” For coordinated action to be successful, you need to trust the institution that says what the action should be, and a majority of people have to trust that institution, and they have to know that other people trust the institution, so that everyone expects the coordinated action to occur at the critical time, so that it makes sense for them to act too.
That’s why we have policy prediction markets and… there doesn’t seem to be a word in your language for the timed-collective-action-threshold-conditional-commitment…hold on, this cultural translator isn’t making any sense. “Kickstarter”? You have the key concept, but you use it mainly for making video games?

Should there be a Kickstarter for Coordinated Action that isn't just for making video games? This series of questions and posts explores the details of that question.

4Is there an assurance-contract website in work?
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Yoav Ravid, stoat
7y
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11If a "Kickstarter for Inadequate Equlibria" was built, do you have a concrete inadequate equilibrium to fix?
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Raemon, Mati_Roy
7y
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0How could "Kickstarter for Inadequate Equilibria" be used for evil or turn out to be net-negative?
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Raemon, habryka
7y
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4Ideas for an action coordination website
Yoav Ravid
6y
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4Making a Crowdaction platform
B Jacobs
5y
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13Extracting Value from Inadequate Equilibria
[anonymous]5y
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