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Coordination Stories

This is a repo that will be collecting on short stories about coordination failure. Which we then hope to publish as a beautfully designed printbook at ETHDenver 2023.

Hopes for these stories:

  • This will be a handbook of coordination failures (Moloch) that increases the resolution of the problem in general.
  • We want to build a pluriverse of stories.
    • A diversity of stories from hyperlocal to global (gloabl north to global south, digital and physical).
    • Spanning public goods, tragedy of the commons, multipolar traps… but we should avoid generalization and emphasize real world example of Moloch manifestations
    • Stories about MOLOCH / coordination failure, but not in the camp of the weird/esoteric/off-putting, eg child sacrifice.
  • Limited to 1 page or 3 paragraphs, to be accompanied by an image by Octavian (greenpill book designer).

Next Steps

  1. Launch Githuib repo for the project
  2. Add a couple of stories ourselves
  3. See who shows up and/or invite contributors

Request for stories

  • Cancer
  • OverFishing (the story from MoM)
  • Nuclear proliferation
  • Climate change
  • Air conditioning at Burning Man
  • Food waste / shortage and world hunger
  • Tragedy of the commons
  • Military expenditure (similar to 3)
  • Prisoners dillema
  • Carbon emissions
  • airconditioning at burning man
  • Kids fighting over toys - sibling rivalries
  • Religions
  • The Egg
  • The cobra effect
  • Blind Men & The Elephant
  • Bucky fuller world game
  • nicky case’s web game on Trust

Progenators of Moloch

  • Miscommunication
  • Misaligned incentives
  • Lack of organization/coordination.
  • Coordination Failures are Hyperobjects - an object that is so big/coimplex/unvisible that you cant grasp it, many things you can perceive are just footprints.

Remedies to moloch

  • There is no remedy to moloch. It's an infinite game with infinite final bosses.
  • Communication
  • Gratitude
  • Ego death
  • Gnon: god of earth, Eula: god of art/spirituality
  • designing better Schelling points
  • Winwin, as hyperobject of noncompromise, eg, that which cares for the whole, must include and transcend Moloch, and thus is not opposed to it, but rather welcomes/trains on the dataset of Moloch’s playbook, and deploys psychotech at scale to turn expressions of Moloch toward Winwin Increase
  • Game-warping with smart contracts
    • Dominance Assurance Contracts
    • Quadratic Funding
    • Retroactive public goods funding
    • Deposit burns / conditional payouts