# kaal:claim:3808867-019

**Claim.** Unlike their centralized predecessors, decentralized technologies enable, for the first time in history, improved incentive designs that help overcome the insufficiencies in the voting outcomes of representative democracies.

**Type.** mechanism  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- decentralized voting pools that increase, deepen, and proliferate

**Source quote.**

> Unlike their centralized predecessors, decentralized technologies, for the first time in history, enable improved incentive designs that help overcome the insufficiencies in voting outcomes of representative democracies.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *How Decentralized Systems Can Upgrade AI* (2021), III. Technological Microdemocracy, page 11

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, How Decentralized Systems Can Upgrade AI (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3808867

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**Topics.** decentralization, risk-and-incentives, governance-design

**Keywords.** decentralized-technology, incentive-design, voting, microdemocracy

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