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Impact = Profit is a bad meme (and mechanism)
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Posted on: Feb. 15, 2024, 7:39 p.m.
Content: Recently ran into the Impact = Profit meme, and I have come to believe that it’s not a good mechanism for determining how much to fund a public good. image 1200 × 520 67 . 1 KB Here’s a brief writeup of the problems I see with Impact = Profit, as well as a suggestion of a promising alternative: Impact = Funding image 1236 × 834 44 . 4 KB Coda | Everything evolves, the evolution of documents. – 12 Jan 24 Why You Don't Want Impact = Profit 14 If you’d like to join the discussion on twitter you can find it here: twitter.com Connor McCormick 10 @connormcmk Finished a writeup on why the Optimism retrofunding meme Impact = Profit should be Impact = Funding instead Read here: coda.io/@connor/impact… 7 : 12 PM - 15 Feb 2024 1
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Impact = Profit is a bad meme (and mechanism)
by connor - No Role
Posted on: Feb. 15, 2024, 2:39 p.m.
Content: Recently ran into the Impact = Profit meme, and I have come to believe that it’s not a good mechanism for determining how much to fund a public good.
image 1200 × 520 67 . 1 KB
Here’s a brief writeup of the problems I see with Impact = Profit, as well as a suggestion of a promising alternative: Impact = Funding
image 1236 × 834 44 . 4 KB
Coda | Everything evolves, the evolution of documents. – 12 Jan 24
Why You Don't Want Impact = Profit 19
If you’d like to join the discussion on twitter you can find it here:
twitter.com
Connor McCormick 13
@connormcmk
Finished a writeup on why the Optimism retrofunding meme Impact = Profit should be Impact = Funding instead
Read here: coda.io/@connor/impact…
7 : 12 PM - 15 Feb 2024
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Impact = Profit is a bad meme (and mechanism)
by connor - No Role
Posted on: Feb. 15, 2024, 2:39 p.m.
Content: Recently ran into the Impact = Profit meme, and I have come to believe that it’s not a good mechanism for determining how much to fund a public good.
image 1200 × 520 67 . 1 KB
Here’s a brief writeup of the problems I see with Impact = Profit, as well as a suggestion of a promising alternative: Impact = Funding
image 1236 × 834 44 . 4 KB
Coda | Everything evolves, the evolution of documents. – 12 Jan 24
Why You Don't Want Impact = Profit
If you’d like to join the discussion on twitter you can find it here:
twitter.com
Connor McCormick
@connormcmk
Finished a writeup on why the Optimism retrofunding meme Impact = Profit should be Impact = Funding instead
Read here: coda.io/@connor/impact…
7 : 12 PM - 15 Feb 2024
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Grants for Building RetroPGF tools
by connor - No Role
Posted on: Aug. 10, 2023, 10:32 p.m.
Content: @Jonas thanks so much for the response! RE these opportunities: Receive RetroPGF for it Great to know that’s an option. I suppose this is measured on impact, which means a research stage project might not receive much in the way of retrofunding? Fulfil an RFP Cool to know. I’m hopeful we’ll get to move away from voting as a mechanism due not only to Arrow’s Theorem but just more generally since it’s a bad UX for dao members and so tends to atrophy towards plutocracy. So this probably doesn’t apply to me personally but hopefully someone else finds it useful. Mission Proposals Yeah! Probably exactly fits under Collective Governance image 1548 × 668 83 . 6 KB Does that entail adding an Issue to the Github? \https://github.com/ethereum-optimism/ecosystem-contributions/labels/Tag% 3 A% 20 Governance Jonas: Interested to hear more about your experiment! Sure! Here’s what I’m most excited about: no voting on props (neither voting nor props!) no time windowed funding rounds, it can happen any time no need for special badgeholders, anyone can impact evaluate This might seem like it throws out everything that we’re used to in governance. Not only does it get rid of these things, but it also adds other nice properties: it’s sybil proof built in limits on plutocracy automatic initiative review — some initiatives don’t even have to be checked to be funded initiatives can be partially approved by only part of the community communities can easily and collaboratively extend initiatives you can query exactly what you can improve to get support from other community members all of this takes place in a twitter like feed (which makes it fun and lightweight) We’re just now starting the building phase, with an emphasis on making something real that we can learn from. I have an intro video about some of the underlying math if that’s interesting. Whitepaper to come.
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Grants for Building RetroPGF tools
by connor - No Role
Posted on: Aug. 10, 2023, 6:32 p.m.
Content: @Jonas thanks so much for the response!
RE these opportunities:
Receive RetroPGF for it
Great to know that’s an option. I suppose this is measured on impact, which means a research stage project might not receive much in the way of retrofunding?
Fulfil an RFP
Cool to know. I’m hopeful we’ll get to move away from voting as a mechanism due not only to Arrow’s Theorem but just more generally since it’s a bad UX for dao members and so tends to atrophy towards plutocracy. So this probably doesn’t apply to me personally but hopefully someone else finds it useful.
Mission Proposals
Yeah! Probably exactly fits under Collective Governance
image 1548 × 668 83 . 6 KB
Does that entail adding an Issue to the Github? \https://github.com/ethereum-optimism/ecosystem-contributions/labels/Tag% 3 A% 20 Governance
Jonas:
Interested to hear more about your experiment!
Sure! Here’s what I’m most excited about:
no voting on props (neither voting nor props!)
no time windowed funding rounds, it can happen any time
no need for special badgeholders, anyone can impact evaluate
This might seem like it throws out everything that we’re used to in governance. Not only does it get rid of these things, but it also adds other nice properties:
it’s sybil proof
built in limits on plutocracy
automatic initiative review — some initiatives don’t even have to be checked to be funded
initiatives can be partially approved by only part of the community
communities can easily and collaboratively extend initiatives
you can query exactly what you can improve to get support from other community members
all of this takes place in a twitter like feed (which makes it fun and lightweight)
We’re just now starting the building phase, with an emphasis on making something real that we can learn from. I have an intro video about some of the underlying math if that’s interesting. Whitepaper to come.
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Grants for Building RetroPGF tools
by connor - No Role
Posted on: Aug. 7, 2023, 4:57 p.m.
Content: Hello Optimists! I’m very excited about the RetroPGF experiment that Optimism has been running, and I’m a frequent lurker in the forums and retrospectives on each round. My interest is more than curiosity, I’ve been thinking about and working on retroactive funding mechanisms for ~ 8 years now, and I’m reaching the place where I’m ready to start putting ideas into practice. If it’s possible, I’d love to implement these ideas and learn with you! The mechanism set itself is more than I can fit here. But, broadly you can think of it as a twitter-like discussion feed, which uses mathematic ideas from the field of artificial intelligence to enable collective intelligence. One of the cool properties of the system is that it rewards Badge Holders for surfacing surprising information, which makes for smarter and more sustainable review process. I know I’m new here, so if you’d like to learn more about me, here’s a recent Greenpill podcast 3 talking about mechanisms for funding public goods (specifically, whether Hyperstructures are a viable approach) it seems some people liked that, or you could read this recent piece on the promise of retrofunding (Why I Want You to Steal from Me) 2 . It would be easy for me to get to work if there is some sort of funding for building RetroPGF and governance tools for Optimism. I’ve seen the Optimism Grants Council, but I’d first want to: A) Present myself before the community and gauge interest (hello) B) Understand whether and where this fits in the funding interests of the ecosystem. E.g. could this be an Experiments grant? Grateful for your feedback and direction!
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Grants for Building RetroPGF tools
by connor - No Role
Posted on: Aug. 7, 2023, 12:57 p.m.
Content: Hello Optimists!
I’m very excited about the RetroPGF experiment that Optimism has been running, and I’m a frequent lurker in the forums and retrospectives on each round.
My interest is more than curiosity, I’ve been thinking about and working on retroactive funding mechanisms for ~ 8 years now, and I’m reaching the place where I’m ready to start putting ideas into practice.
If it’s possible, I’d love to implement these ideas and learn with you!
The mechanism set itself is more than I can fit here. But, broadly you can think of it as a twitter-like discussion feed, which uses mathematic ideas from the field of artificial intelligence to enable collective intelligence. One of the cool properties of the system is that it rewards Badge Holders for surfacing surprising information, which makes for smarter and more sustainable review process.
I know I’m new here, so if you’d like to learn more about me, here’s a recent Greenpill podcast 4 talking about mechanisms for funding public goods (specifically, whether Hyperstructures are a viable approach) it seems some people liked that, or you could read this recent piece on the promise of retrofunding (Why I Want You to Steal from Me) 2 .
It would be easy for me to get to work if there is some sort of funding for building RetroPGF and governance tools for Optimism. I’ve seen the Optimism Grants Council, but I’d first want to:
A) Present myself before the community and gauge interest (hello)
B) Understand whether and where this fits in the funding interests of the ecosystem. E.g. could this be an Experiments grant?
Grateful for your feedback and direction!
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Grants for Building RetroPGF tools
by connor - No Role
Posted on: Aug. 7, 2023, 12:57 p.m.
Content: Hello Optimists!
I’m very excited about the RetroPGF experiment that Optimism has been running, and I’m a frequent lurker in the forums and retrospectives on each round.
My interest is more than curiosity, I’ve been thinking about and working on retroactive funding mechanisms for ~ 8 years now, and I’m reaching the place where I’m ready to start putting ideas into practice.
If it’s possible, I’d love to implement these ideas and learn with you!
The mechanism set itself is more than I can fit here. But, broadly you can think of it as a twitter-like discussion feed, which uses mathematic ideas from the field of artificial intelligence to enable collective intelligence. One of the cool properties of the system is that it rewards Badge Holders for surfacing surprising information, which makes for smarter and more sustainable review process.
I know I’m new here, so if you’d like to learn more about me, here’s a recent Greenpill podcast talking about mechanisms for funding public goods (specifically, whether Hyperstructures are a viable approach) it seems some people liked that, or you could read this recent piece on the promise of retrofunding (Why I Want You to Steal from Me).
It would be easy for me to get to work if there is some sort of funding for building RetroPGF and governance tools for Optimism. I’ve seen the Optimism Grants Council, but I’d first want to:
A) Present myself before the community and gauge interest (hello)
B) Understand whether and where this fits in the funding interests of the ecosystem. E.g. could this be an Experiments grant?
Grateful for your feedback and direction!
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