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   "text": "Proof of personhood projects such as Proof of Humanity and UBI DAO fail because they rest on web-of-trust theory, which has been proven not to work long-term given the sockpuppet attacks that are inevitable in that design.",
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   "text": "Microdemocracy combined with proper incentive design can reverse the decreasing voter participation that undermines representative democracies.",
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