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    1. François Chollet‏Verified account @fchollet 13 Aug 2018

      People confuse decentralization as a governance goal, and decentralized computing as an implementation choice. You can use decentralized protocols to build highly centralized power structures, and inversely you can use centralized tools to build orgs where power is distributed

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    2. François Chollet‏Verified account @fchollet 13 Aug 2018

      Another common misconception is that open source projects are examples of successful distributed governance. Most successful OSS projects are organized like companies, with decision-making concentrated in a few people

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    3. François Chollet‏Verified account @fchollet 13 Aug 2018

      One more misconception: that decentralized governance is inherently better. It's a complicated problem (see cybernetics) and there are no easy answers for large orgs. For small orgs, central power works best in practice (i.e. modern management best practices work well)

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    4. François Chollet‏Verified account @fchollet 13 Aug 2018

      Pushing for decentralization in governance is an ideological stance; it should be considered as such, and not blindly accepted until a first-principles analysis of whether it would be a good idea in the situation at hand

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      François Chollet‏Verified account @fchollet 13 Aug 2018

      (It sounds insane to want to replace the Fed, which is accountable and has a clear stabilizing role in the economy, with highly-centralized unaccountable power structures built on top of excruciatingly inefficient distributed-consensus computing infrastructure.)

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        1. Peter Ellis‏ @almostconverge 13 Aug 2018
          Replying to @fchollet

          With centralised decision systems human decisions can dominate, with decentralised ones you have to rely on machine decisions. And I don't know if it's a good idea to do so in an area that is all about agents (both human and machine) trying to game the system.

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        1. Quentin Hardy‏Verified account @qhardy 13 Aug 2018
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          ...Largely peopled with individuals who believe the world's optimal state is achieved through nonstop self-interest.

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        1. Angela Jiang‏ @angjiang 13 Aug 2018
          Replying to @fchollet

          Much of the confusion stems from not defining the layer/scale of the thing in question. Like saying the length of something without specifying the unit

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        2. solsista‏ @sebnem 13 Aug 2018
          Replying to @fchollet

          So you were talking #blockchain...:) It's not about replacing the Fed, but about reimagening what data-driven decentralized (consensus-based) algorithms might b better suited for an adaptive economy than "quantitative easing". What are you afraid of? A financial crisis like 2008?

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        3. Nautilus‏ @nauutilus 13 Aug 2018
          Replying to @sebnem @fchollet

          QE is a fancy way to say "print money". "Blockchain" mechanisms was invented for a very specific task: replace FED. No one want to see reimagined fancy names or algorithm for defining inflation.

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        2. Robert E. P. Levy (rplevy@gmail.com)‏ @rplevy 13 Aug 2018
          Replying to @fchollet

          You had me until the pro-Fed comment. Now I'm fully radicalized in favor of decentralization.

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        3. Federico Ferreres‏ @fferreres 14 Aug 2018
          Replying to @rplevy @fchollet

          Except...it’s not decentralized

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