4 papers
Fair Decisions through Plurality: Results from a Crowdfunding Platform
Joel Miller, E. Glen Weyl, Chris Kanich
We discuss an algorithmic intervention aimed at increasing equity and economic efficiency at a crowdfunding platform that gives cash subsidies to grantees. Through a blend of techn…
Community by Design
E. Glen Weyl, Luke Thorburn, Emillie de Keulenaar +3
Social media empower distributed content creation by algorithmically harnessing "the social fabric" (explicit and implicit signals of association) to serve this content. While this…
Prospecting a Possible Quadratic Wormhole Between Quantum Mechanics and Plurality
Michal Fabinger, Michael H. Freedman, E. Glen Weyl
We illustrate some formal symmetries between Quadratic Funding (Buterin et al., 2019), a mechanism for the (approximately optimal) determination of public good funding levels, and…
A Flexible Design for Funding Public Goods
Vitalik Buterin, Zoe Hitzig, E. Glen Weyl
We propose a design for philanthropic or publicly-funded seeding to allow (near) optimal provision of a decentralized, self-organizing ecosystem of public goods. The concept extend…