Grateful to for introducing me to et al's "Optimal Kickstarter" which minimizes free-riding in provisioning public goods thru quadratic funding. Gorgeous optimality proof: mattsclancy.substack.com/p/optimal-kick
Notes from recent experiment: vitalik.ca/general/2020/0
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The paper explores a number of applications in depth and extends the mechanism in various ways, including e.g. negative contributions: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf
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This reminds me of snowdrift.coop which tries to solve the problem of funding public goods. Each dollar contributed unlocks more money from other contributors. wiki.snowdrift.coop/about/mechanism
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It seems to me that a challenge with these kind of approaches is the funding mechanism is itself a public good. Any challenges with philanthropy just get shifted from the project onto the mechanism.
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