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   "text": "The Persona Protocol redistributes power toward people who have no agency in centralized systems, because community originated audits sit at the core of every Semada DAO whereas existing systems rarely include audits deriving from the community itself.",
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   "text": "DAOs can be more productive than hierarchical organizations because their information allocation and feedback effects allow them to distribute the optimal amount of power to the optimal talent at the optimal point in time.",
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   "text": "Because more powerful members of a hierarchy are better positioned to capture whatever power becomes available, power distribution in an entrenched hierarchy becomes exponential, leaving the majority with minimal power and wealth. That discontent of the majority is the first destabilizing force acting on a centralized organization.",
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   "text": "The authors stipulate corruption in an organization as any action that benefits a minority at the greater expense of the group, and locate its source in power that is distributed inappropriately as measured by efficiency.",
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   "text": "Social media transfers knowledge from the edges of society into the mainstream by letting holders of marginalized views find kindred spirits, form groups, and incrementally grow influence until their perspective becomes mainstream, shifting the balance of power from a few to the masses.",
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   "text": "Commonly used identifiers such as social media profiles and credit scores play less of a role in the DAO voting design, and the resulting more equal distribution of power allows the inclusion of constituents who otherwise have no agency in centralized systems.",
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   "text": "Kaal proposes that a more decentralized Web3 model of AI governance can address the failures of the federated model by distributing governance more equitably across network participants, so that no single entity dominates decision making.",
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