Finally: on a meta level, the amount of risk you’re willing to spend on trying new funding mechanisms with potential downsides should basically be proportional to the amount of risk you see in our society at the moment.
I think this is not quite right. It shouldn’t be about what we think about existing funding mechanisms, but what we think about the course we’re set to be on. I think that ~EA is doing quite a good job of reshaping the funding landscape especially for the highest-priority areas. I certainly think it could be doing better still, and I’m in favour of experiments I expect to see there, but I think that spinning up impact markets right now is more likely to crowd out later better-understood versions than to help them.
I think impact markets should be viewed in that experimental lens, for what it’s worth (it’s barely been tested outside of a few experiments on the Optimism blockchain). I’m not sure if we disagree much!
Curious to hear what experiments and better funding mechanisms you’re excited about~
I think this is not quite right. It shouldn’t be about what we think about existing funding mechanisms, but what we think about the course we’re set to be on. I think that ~EA is doing quite a good job of reshaping the funding landscape especially for the highest-priority areas. I certainly think it could be doing better still, and I’m in favour of experiments I expect to see there, but I think that spinning up impact markets right now is more likely to crowd out later better-understood versions than to help them.
I think impact markets should be viewed in that experimental lens, for what it’s worth (it’s barely been tested outside of a few experiments on the Optimism blockchain). I’m not sure if we disagree much!
Curious to hear what experiments and better funding mechanisms you’re excited about~