If you could guesstimate the counterfactual, you could try giving rewards according to the Shapley value. It incentivizes contributing to the task (where the strength of the incentive is relative to your BATNA because you had the option of not participating—e.g. it’s pointless to pay you a $100 reward if you could’ve spent the time earning $200 at your day job). As for actually evaluating how good the counterfactuals would be in each case… well, let’s say I’m glad I’m not the one that has to do that work.
A central intuitions of the Shapley value are that players that had better BATNAs should be paid more. Of course, there are reasons why you might fundamentally disagree that this is “fair” in a different sense (perhaps you think it is immoral to give a rich guy more money for contributing the same amount just because they could’ve done more by themselves), but I do claim that at least when it comes to incentives this is a sensible thing to do.
The Lightcone fundraiser posts mentioned that when setting Lighthaven prices, they shoot for charging half of the surplus produced by having the event run at Lighthaven. This is quite literally shooting for the Shapley value. You can try asking the people on the Lightcone team about details? It looks like their strategy is to just nicely ask the other party how much better they think Lighthaven is than their BATNA (this is all the other party info you need, as you can estimate your own costs for running the event). Of course, this breaks down when you can’t trust the other party to tell the truth, and becomes intractable when you have more than two parties.
If you could guesstimate the counterfactual, you could try giving rewards according to the Shapley value. It incentivizes contributing to the task (where the strength of the incentive is relative to your BATNA because you had the option of not participating—e.g. it’s pointless to pay you a $100 reward if you could’ve spent the time earning $200 at your day job). As for actually evaluating how good the counterfactuals would be in each case… well, let’s say I’m glad I’m not the one that has to do that work.
A central intuitions of the Shapley value are that players that had better BATNAs should be paid more. Of course, there are reasons why you might fundamentally disagree that this is “fair” in a different sense (perhaps you think it is immoral to give a rich guy more money for contributing the same amount just because they could’ve done more by themselves), but I do claim that at least when it comes to incentives this is a sensible thing to do.
The Lightcone fundraiser posts mentioned that when setting Lighthaven prices, they shoot for charging half of the surplus produced by having the event run at Lighthaven. This is quite literally shooting for the Shapley value. You can try asking the people on the Lightcone team about details? It looks like their strategy is to just nicely ask the other party how much better they think Lighthaven is than their BATNA (this is all the other party info you need, as you can estimate your own costs for running the event). Of course, this breaks down when you can’t trust the other party to tell the truth, and becomes intractable when you have more than two parties.