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   "text": "Because Impact 1.0 entrusted individual donors rather than donor collectives with identifying which problems to solve, individual philanthropists can reshape underfunded causes according to their own ideals without meaningful checks and balances or crowd wisdom.",
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   "text": "The two stage vote is the mechanism that produces consensus: a non binding test vote reveals how every donor assesses a project, after which donors can change their minds in the formal vote where their reputation tokens are at stake, and in practice decisions are made with unanimity.",
   "abstract": "Once every donor sees how all other donors assess the given project, they can jointly change their minds during the \"formal vote\" in which their respective reputation tokens are at stake. Typically, in this form of decentralized governance, all decisions are made with unanimity.",
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   "text": "The existing fund allocation model is afflicted by uninformed voters, sockpuppets and other gamesmanship, by voting with nothing at stake, and by voting with other people's money, and the crowd wisdom of WEB3 communities in the impact certificate model upgrades that model.",
   "abstract": "the wisdom of the crowd in the respective WEB3 communities of the impact certificate model upgrades the existing fund allocation model which was afflicted by uninformed voters, sockpuppets, and other gamesmanship, voting with nothing at stake, voting with other people's money.",
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   "text": "When the first reviewer misses a defect and follow-on reviewers anchor entirely on the first reviewer's concerns, the review carries a higher risk of inaccuracy; crowd wisdom is one way to correct this myopia and single point of failure.",
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   "text": "Legacy code review carries a single point of failure risk: if the single author of a review misses something and the follow-on reviewer focuses entirely on the first reviewer's concerns, the review has a higher risk of inaccuracy, and crowd wisdom is the corrective for that myopia.",
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