Variant: “EA funds should do small-scale experiments with mechanisms like quadratic voting and prediction markets, that have some story for capturing crowd wisdom while avoiding both low-info voting and single points of failure. Then do blinded evaluation of grants to see which procedure looks best after X years.”
Variant: “EA funds should do small-scale experiments with mechanisms like quadratic voting and prediction markets, that have some story for capturing crowd wisdom while avoiding both low-info voting and single points of failure. Then do blinded evaluation of grants to see which procedure looks best after X years.”
I support experimenting with voting mechanisms, and strongly oppose putting prediction markets in there.