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   "text": "More disclosure does not always mean better governance, because the information provided may be hard to assess and evaluate.",
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   "text": "Contractual incompleteness can be lowered through dynamic processes within the rulemaking process, because dynamic elements improve the availability, timeliness, and quality of information via the feedback process.",
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   "text": "Interaction and exchange of emerging information between public and private rulemakers creates a feedback process that increases the availability, timeliness, and quality of information available to the public rulemaker.",
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   "text": "Feedback processes associated with governmental contracts lower contractual incompleteness, because they raise the availability, timeliness, and quality of information while lowering the cost of contracting.",
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   "text": "No guarantee exists in a decentralized system that the randomly generated information filtering in at the edges is accurate, as on Amazon and the internet generally where there is no real attempt to clean the data.",
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   "text": "Future decentralized infrastructure products, such as a decentralized verification engine, need to be built to address the inaccuracy of randomly generated information in decentralized systems.",
   "abstract": "These are exactly the type of shortcomings future decentralized infrastructure products, such as a decentralized verification engine, need to address.",
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   "text": "A robust decentralized oracle finds better information because averaging across a crowd is typically better for complex situations, being less subject to the prejudices of individuals who hold more limited information, so overestimates and underestimates offset each other.",
   "abstract": "A robust decentralized oracle would find better information. The wisdom of the crowd can be employed to discover the truth. Averaging information is typically better for any complex situation, since they're less subject to the prejudices of the individual, who has more limited information.",
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