Andy Hall

@andyhall

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Frodo stored the ring on chain

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Everything you ever wanted to know about AIRDROPS, packaged just for you... Thanks @eddy @darenmatsuoka @andyhall for coming on the show.

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What can you do when experts can’t be trusted? Draw lots. This episode examines the ancient practice of “sortition,” which delegates decision-making power to random members of the public. Sometimes called “government by lottery,” sortition was used in ancient Athenian democracy to elect public officials. Now it’s undergoing a revival as tech companies (like Meta) and AI startups (like OpenAI and Anthropic) use the method to shape their policies. Our guests today are Bailey Flanigan, a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard who is joining MIT as an assistant professor next year, and who has helped develop selection algorithms for sortition that are in use today; and @andyhall, Stanford University poli sci professor, advisor to Meta, and consultant to a16z crypto research. w/ @hackr 🎙️ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjG2qhAAz0Y

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https://seahorse-app-2zhqa.ondigitalocean.app/rwo

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The @a16zcrypto winter reading+etc. list just dropped! Here's my picks, including books by Forte, Shimada, and Clarke; plus puzzles, magic, and an immersive Windows 95 art experience from @sgt-sl8termelon. (And don't forget @nftbark and I have a book coming out in January, as does @cdixon.eth 😉📙🟧)

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New post from @elizaoak & @andyhall, using OP drop #2 as a case study for research on incentives/rewards impact on governance participation 🤯 https://gov.optimism.io/t/did-op-airdrop-2-increase-governance-engagement/7270

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The bonfire is raging. Another apt one not on his list is: Jews Don’t Count https://a.co/d/6n3JkDq

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2024 is shaping up to be an interesting year for mobile app stores. https://daringfireball.net/linked/2023/12/11/epic-wins-vs-google

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Designing decentralized and democratically oriented governance systems -- which are vital to the evolution of web3 -- is hard. Here, @andyhall answers founders’ most frequently asked questions (and the question he thinks they ought to be asking). https://a16zcrypto.com/posts/article/governance-faq/

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Love this. Longer run, would love to have competing middleware options that auto-curate parts of the feed and can be titrated towards or away from "current things"

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Ahh that's super interesting. Yes, I like that. Hadn't thought of that. I'd thought about some other community-level things you could do, like encourage people who don't want the reward to forego or donate it.

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Nice! It would be awesome to see a project try it out so we can learn from the experiment. Can you say more on the rewards with settling price < X? Not totally sure I grok yet

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Would love to hear suggestions on ways to mitigate the problem of uninformed participation, and any other comments on this work! Big thanks to Tim Roughgarden and Tim Sullivan for comments and suggestions on this piece. (end)

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There is a natural concern that simply rewarding participation could lead to bad incentives, with people or bots voting just to reap rewards. Our next post will explore this issue.

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Also, if a project tested this out, the resulting data would give a measure of every respondent’s cost of voting, and whether and how they voted. This could help researchers assess whether the costs of voting deter participants who would have different governance preferences.

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Lots of mathematical details are available in the write-up.

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We lay out a direct revelation mechanism that makes it rational for voters to honestly report how much they would need to be rewarded in order to vote. This lets projects pay rewards efficiently—paying only as much as required to secure the level of participation they desire.

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web3 governance and democracy both grapple with getting people to vote. For @a16zcrypto, Ethan BdM and I explore how projects could reward people for participating in a way that would be hard in the physical world but is easier with blockchain… https://a16zcrypto.com/paying-people-to-participate-in-governance/

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