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- When building a technology, consider: [does this centralize or decentralize power?](https://geohot.github.io/blog/jekyll/update/2021/01/18/technology-without-industry.html)
- Many decentralized protocols are trying to build next generation common digital infrastructure.
- Unfortunately,[nearly every crypto project realized that they could capture value (make a lot of money) with innovative tokenomics that looked a lot like Ponzis, or at least borderline securities fraud](https://andrewconner.com/common-digital-infrastructure/).
- Credible neutrality is the principle that a system or protocol should be demonstrably fair and impartial to all participants, with no hidden biases or privileged interests.
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- Credible neutrality is the principle that a system or protocol should be demonstrably fair and impartial to all participants (open source and publicly verifiable execution), with no hidden biases or privileged interests.

## Types of Decentralization

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- CRDTs
- WASM. Specially Pyodide.
- Distributed / decentralized data storage systems.
- Homomorphic Encryption
- Multi-party computation (MPC), fully homomorphic encryption (FHE), trusted execution environments (TEEs), ...
- Prolly/Merkle Trees
- Differential/Timely Dataflow
- Zero-Knowledge Proofs
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- Not all actions are equal. Some actions just validate your identify (arguing with someone online) and others don't seem right but make large differences (negotiating farm animals welfare).
- We usually vote to whoever gives us simple (and probably wrong) solutions.
- Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others — Winston Churchill [_probably quoting someone else_](https://richardlangworth.com/worst-form-of-government). To reach more people, arguments and topics need to be simplified to the maximum, losing trade-offs and nuance.
- Some other criticisms are; average voters are not sophisticated, because each voter only has a small chance of affecting the outcome, few voters put high-quality thought into their decisions, and you often get either low participation (making the system easy to attack) or de-facto centralization because everyone just defaults to trusting and copying the views of some influencer.
- Democracy is not there to create optimal outcomes, it's there to prevent really really bad outcomes.
- Any social structure decays over time, including political systems, nonprofits, religions, ... This is a social problem, that needs social solutions.
- Groups that form around a goal can work better or worse, depending on how well the goal can be verified by the group. If you're forming a group based on [what percentage of your income are you willing to devote to altruism](https://www.effectivealtruism.org/), that's a really easy thing to monitor.
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