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   "text": "Across all the alternative polling methods explored in the literature, changes both help and hurt: new approaches solve old problems while creating new opportunities for manipulation, a pattern the authors identify with increasing the attack surface.",
   "abstract": "In all the methods dis- cussed the answer has always been that changes both help and hurt. New approaches solve old problems, but they create new opportunities for manipulation.",
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   "text": "An optimally incentivized democratic decision-making tool would make separation movements in open source less likely, because voters who know the process rewards truth-seeking are more likely to accept an adverse outcome; emerging decentralization technology makes such a tool theoretically feasible.",
   "abstract": "Perhaps if the open source movement had an optimally incentivized democratic decision-making tool, such separation of interests and development would become less likely.",
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