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To do business, we need a system where reputation means something.", "citation": "Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Introduction to Decentralization (2021). 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Kaal, Historical Sketches of Centralization vs. Decentralization (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782193", "datePublished": "2021", "claim_type": "failure", "confidence": "argued", "is_failure_mode": true, "scope_conditions": [ "anonymous contracting", "no effect of the outcome on future business" ], "source_pdf_sha256": "74df9cc9a19a098bdacd0424a4174795f6e184f7a31c8ee7541195186701ebd2", "status": "current" }, { "@type": "Claim", "@id": "https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3782193-032", "identifier": "kaal:claim:3782193-032", "text": "Adding reputation to the contracting game converts it from a single-stage zero-sum game into a repeated positive-sum game in which the rest of the community becomes relevant, because reputation is a future-oriented commodity that pays off with the promise of future contracts.", "abstract": "By adding reputation to the game, it becomes a repeated game, and the rest of the community becomes relevant. Reputation is a future-oriented commodity, which pays off profits with the promise of future contracts. Now the game is a repeated game which is positive-sum.", "citation": "Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Historical Sketches of Centralization vs. Decentralization (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782193", "datePublished": "2021", "claim_type": "mechanism", "confidence": "argued", "is_failure_mode": false, "scope_conditions": [ "networks where reputation is observable and policed by the community" ], "source_pdf_sha256": "74df9cc9a19a098bdacd0424a4174795f6e184f7a31c8ee7541195186701ebd2", "status": "current" }, { "@type": "Claim", "@id": "https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3782193-033", "identifier": "kaal:claim:3782193-033", "text": "Reputation permits business with any member of a network regardless of personal acquaintance, but only if the network is closed and its size is limited by the ability to police reputation with the available information technology.", "abstract": "First, reputation allows business dealings with any member of the network, regard- less of personal acquaintance. This requires the network to be closed, however, with a size limited by the ability to police reputation using the information technology available.", "citation": "Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Historical Sketches of Centralization vs. Decentralization (2021). 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Kaal, Historical Sketches of Centralization vs. Decentralization (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782193", "datePublished": "2021", "claim_type": "mechanism", "confidence": "argued", "is_failure_mode": false, "scope_conditions": [ "networks that reward members with reputation rather than immediate cash" ], "source_pdf_sha256": "74df9cc9a19a098bdacd0424a4174795f6e184f7a31c8ee7541195186701ebd2", "status": "current" }, { "@type": "Claim", "@id": "https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3782198-037", "identifier": "kaal:claim:3782198-037", "text": "Anonymity should be balanced rather than absolute: a member's power to broadcast should be tied to a pseudonymous account carrying meaningful and valuable reputation that is lost when the broadcasting power is abused.", "abstract": "Therefore, anonymity should be balanced. Your power to broadcast your voice should be tempered by hav- ing that voice tied with a pseudonymous36 account with meaningful and valuable rep- utation. If you abuse your broadcasting power, then you should lose your reputation.", "citation": "Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Contemporary Decentralization (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782198", "datePublished": "2021", "claim_type": "design", "confidence": "argued", "is_failure_mode": false, "scope_conditions": [ "applies to decentralized networks that permit anonymous participation" ], "source_pdf_sha256": "e7e1378e3eed06cace6534e7792a7307d607d18bc6beb4ac45896476280728e4", "status": "current" }, { "@type": "Claim", "@id": "https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3782205-021", "identifier": "kaal:claim:3782205-021", "text": "Reputation rather than money is the proper motivator of good behavior in business and governance, because properly accounting for reputation switches incentives from short-term zero-sum thinking to long-term positive-sum behavior.", "abstract": "This is the proper goal, instead of money, for motivating good behavior in business and governance. Properly accounting for reputation switches the incentives from short-term zero-sum thinking to long-term positive-sum behavior.", "citation": "Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Eight Institutions for the Evolution of Decentralization (2021). 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Kaal, The Importance of Reputation for the Evolution of Decentralization (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782210", "datePublished": "2021", "claim_type": "mechanism", "confidence": "argued", "is_failure_mode": false, "scope_conditions": [ "parties expect continued participation in the network" ], "source_pdf_sha256": "9cc531ab239f6266c8aeddcc8e54f4c06029c44e825444bee137bbcc0c9d0a8e", "status": "current" }, { "@type": "Claim", "@id": "https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3782210-023", "identifier": "kaal:claim:3782210-023", "text": "Reputation dilates time: it slows immediate transfers of wealth so that past and future enter present decisions, with future-oriented incentives supplied by reputation-based salaries and past-oriented incentives supplied by the editability of reputation.", "abstract": "Reputation dilates time. It allows us to slow down immediate transfers of wealth, allowing us to consider the future and the past. Future-oriented incentives come from reputation-based salaries. Past-oriented incentives come from the editability of repu- tation.", "citation": "Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, The Importance of Reputation for the Evolution of Decentralization (2021). 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When customers can reliably compare reputation, they are able to harness the available tal- ent, instead of waiting for the most talented to become available.", "citation": "Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, The Importance of Reputation for the Evolution of Decentralization (2021). 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SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782210", "datePublished": "2021", "claim_type": "failure", "confidence": "argued", "is_failure_mode": true, "scope_conditions": [ "open systems", "anonymous counterparties", "code-is-law smart contract execution" ], "source_pdf_sha256": "9cc531ab239f6266c8aeddcc8e54f4c06029c44e825444bee137bbcc0c9d0a8e", "status": "current" }, { "@type": "Claim", "@id": "https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3782210-043", "identifier": "kaal:claim:3782210-043", "text": "Giving all people more power produces a liquid meritocracy in which leaders are continually rediscovered immediately where and when they are needed, and secure meaningful reputation gives that meritocracy momentum and history.", "abstract": "By giving all people more power, we create a system where leaders are continu- ally rediscovered immediately where and when they are needed—we create a liquid meritocracy.", "citation": "Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. 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SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782214", "datePublished": "2021", "claim_type": "mechanism", "confidence": "argued", "is_failure_mode": false, "scope_conditions": [ "the reputation system is formally linked to the organization's profits" ], "source_pdf_sha256": "ba892bb200c1455447c0014f5067a501a93ea9ec413c31942d95952eb3bdfd9d", "status": "current" }, { "@type": "Claim", "@id": "https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3782214-023", "identifier": "kaal:claim:3782214-023", "text": "A reputational system formally linked to profits makes members forward thinking and cooperative, counteracting the tendency of competition to separate them, and it also motivates members to self police their own past investments.", "abstract": "A reputational system that is formally linked to profits makes the members for- ward-thinking and cooperative, to combat the natural tendency of competition to sep- arate members. It also motivates members to self-police their past investments.", "citation": "Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralized Governance (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782214", "datePublished": "2021", "claim_type": "mechanism", "confidence": "argued", "is_failure_mode": false, "scope_conditions": [ "reputation is formally tied to the organization's profit stream" ], "source_pdf_sha256": "ba892bb200c1455447c0014f5067a501a93ea9ec413c31942d95952eb3bdfd9d", "status": "current" }, { "@type": "Claim", "@id": "https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3782214-024", "identifier": "kaal:claim:3782214-024", "text": "Reputation can be objectively valued by estimating the probability of future business deals, taking the expected value of that probability, and computing the present value of those deals, which is what makes reputation function as a promise of future rewards.", "abstract": "Reputation gives the promise of future rewards. Reputation can be objectively valued, by estimating the probability of future business deals, taking the expected value of that probability, and calculating the present value of those business deals.", "citation": "Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralized Governance (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782214", "datePublished": "2021", "claim_type": "mechanism", "confidence": "argued", "is_failure_mode": false, "scope_conditions": [ "reputation is tied to a stream of future business opportunities" ], "source_pdf_sha256": "ba892bb200c1455447c0014f5067a501a93ea9ec413c31942d95952eb3bdfd9d", "status": "current" }, { "@type": "Claim", "@id": "https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3782214-025", "identifier": "kaal:claim:3782214-025", "text": "No centralized platform such as Amazon or eBay has been able to create meaningful and secure online reputation, because central ownership and control prevent them from giving members the power and incentives needed to police their own reputation.", "abstract": "No centralized platform, such as Amazon or eBay, has been able to create mean- ingful and secure online reputation. Because they are centrally owned and controlled they cannot give members the power and incentives they need to police their own reputation,", "citation": "Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralized Governance (2021). 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Kaal, Decentralized Governance (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782214", "datePublished": "2021", "claim_type": "failure", "confidence": "argued", "is_failure_mode": true, "scope_conditions": [ "organizations destabilized by profit competition" ], "source_pdf_sha256": "ba892bb200c1455447c0014f5067a501a93ea9ec413c31942d95952eb3bdfd9d", "status": "current" }, { "@type": "Claim", "@id": "https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3782214-027", "identifier": "kaal:claim:3782214-027", "text": "The two sources of instability require different remedies and must not be swapped: dynamic rules are a mismatch for instability caused by the profit motive, and a reputational system is not an efficient method for attenuating instability caused by a group's diverse values.", "abstract": "Trying to institute dynamic rules to attenuate the instability due to a for-profit motive is a mismatch. Similarly instituting a reputational system is not an efficient method for attenuating the instability due to a group's diverse values.", "citation": "Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralized Governance (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782214", "datePublished": "2021", "claim_type": "failure", "confidence": "asserted", "is_failure_mode": true, "scope_conditions": [], "source_pdf_sha256": "ba892bb200c1455447c0014f5067a501a93ea9ec413c31942d95952eb3bdfd9d", "status": "current" }, { "@type": "Claim", "@id": "https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3782214-039", "identifier": "kaal:claim:3782214-039", "text": "Because major social media platforms are privately and centrally owned, their governance processes and reputation distribution algorithms are necessarily opaque, since their users' incentives are not aligned to police reputation against gaming.", "abstract": "Since Stack Overflow and Reddit and Facebook and Twitter and all the other successful social media sites are privately, centrally owned, their governance processes—their algorithms for distributing reputation—are necessarily opaque.", "citation": "Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralized Governance (2021). 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