Replacing existing state institutions (or functional aspects of them) with digitally native systems will almost certainly have many benefits. That’s not really what I’m getting at here. I’m saying that it makes sense find better ways to govern and coordinate in general. The process of designing a software system with the general goal of focusing coordination could produce novel ways of doing that and/or it could leverage good ideas we already have around successful collaboration structures, focusing collective intelligence, etc. If there exists a subversive path in which we build such a system, for instance, to run a charitable organization and that process is successful enough to influence how other things are governed, then that is a win. My primary point is embarrassingly unfocused: getting better at coordination, given impending risks, is important and it might be good to start building experiments toward that goal.
Decentralized systems are attractive in that borders (of many varieties) inhibit coordination. I have some worry around the idea of using a crypto ecosystem as the basis for a something of this type. Whether the reasons are good or bad, the perception of cryptocurrency is divisive. I also worry that financial aspects around running a DAO could provide barriers to entry or could pervert incentives. I’m not really deep in that world so maybe my worries are overblown.
Replacing existing state institutions (or functional aspects of them) with digitally native systems will almost certainly have many benefits. That’s not really what I’m getting at here. I’m saying that it makes sense find better ways to govern and coordinate in general. The process of designing a software system with the general goal of focusing coordination could produce novel ways of doing that and/or it could leverage good ideas we already have around successful collaboration structures, focusing collective intelligence, etc. If there exists a subversive path in which we build such a system, for instance, to run a charitable organization and that process is successful enough to influence how other things are governed, then that is a win. My primary point is embarrassingly unfocused: getting better at coordination, given impending risks, is important and it might be good to start building experiments toward that goal.
Decentralized systems are attractive in that borders (of many varieties) inhibit coordination. I have some worry around the idea of using a crypto ecosystem as the basis for a something of this type. Whether the reasons are good or bad, the perception of cryptocurrency is divisive. I also worry that financial aspects around running a DAO could provide barriers to entry or could pervert incentives. I’m not really deep in that world so maybe my worries are overblown.