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   "text": "There is an adverse selection problem in independent valuation: an administrator who actually had the knowledge and understanding of complex instruments required for the task would probably be incentivized to use that expertise in a more profitable setting instead.",
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   "text": "The delegation of technology policy to politicians advised by experts rested on public trust that has since eroded: consistent empirical evidence shows that trust in both government and experts has declined in recent years.",
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   "text": "Validation experts could evolve from humans into smart contracts, which would allow validation itself to become automated.",
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   "text": "Reputation tokens must have their power limited to their proper domain: for each different expertise there must be a separate type of non-interchangeable reputation token, so that a token carries power only within the DAO whose members hold that specific skill.",
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   "text": "One-person-one-vote governance fails on technical questions because half the members have less than average expertise yet equal power, which incentivizes experts to gain power by catering to less expert prejudices instead of pursuing the most effective decisions.",
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   "text": "Tracking and aggregating reputations across DAOs can build a more accurate picture of a person's expertise and experiential gaps than traditional educational institutions provide, which would quickly reveal meaningless certification and licensure programs as worthless.",
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   "text": "Without access to a network of core expertise, early stage investments in the digital asset industry are rarely successful.",
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   "text": "Community audits enable enhanced efficiency of coordination because voting associates, with their highly specialized philanthropic skillsets, are ideally positioned to identify other experts in philanthropy.",
   "abstract": "governance structure of the CHARITYxDAO enables enhanced efficiency of coordination because the VAs in the CHARITYxDAO, with their unique and highly specialized skillsets in the context of philanthropy, are ideally positioned to identify other experts in philanthropy.",
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