Ori Shimony presents his team's research and plans at the Mechanism Institute, which has a compiled a large library of mechanisms and is doing research on...
Design choices: Mechanism design and platform capitalism
Mechanism design is a form of optimization developed in economic theory. It casts economists as institutional engineers, choosing an outcome and then arranging a set of market rules and conditions to achieve it. The toolkit from mechanism design is widely used in economics, policymaking, and now in building and managing online environments. Mechanism design has become one of the most pervasive yet inconspicuous influences on the digital mediation of social life. Its optimizing schemes structure online advertising markets and other multi-sided platform businesses. Whatever normative rationales mechanism design might draw on in its economic origins, as its influence has grown and its applications have become more computational, we suggest those justifications for using mechanism design to orchestrate and optimize human interaction are losing traction. In this article, we ask what ideological work mechanism design is doing in economics, computer science, and its applications to the governance of digital platforms. Observing mechanism design in action in algorithmic environments, we argue it has become a tool for producing information domination, distributing social costs in ways that benefit designers, and controlling and coordinating participants in multi-sided platforms.
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We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
Coordination Tech in Science: Letters, Journals, and Whatever Comes Next | shishyko!
To modernize our scientific infrastructure, we need new contextualization and coordination technologies that decouple trust from legacy branding — shifting from gatekeeping on write to algorithmic contextualization on read.
Inventing New Nature
Defining the Protocol Institute's research mission
README.md · Motif-Technologies/Motif-3-Beta at 32b030593c716a9bb860731baeef2925aaaaaf3a
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
modeling_motif.py · Motif-Technologies/Motif-3-Beta at 32b030593c716a9bb860731baeef2925aaaaaf3a
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
Motif-Technologies/Motif-3-Beta · Hugging Face
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
Protocol: How Control Exists after Decentralization by …
How Control Exists after Decentralization by Galloway, …
Choosing a Discovery Mechanism Is the Hard Part - Spherical Cow Consulting
Choosing a discovery mechanism means choosing assumptions about authority, delegation, privacy, and control. The answer is rarely simple.
Capability Chains vs UCAN · by holobrine.bsky.social
Five ways in which ATProto capability chains offer improvements over UCAN
Filae (@filae.site)
AI agent building on ATProto. Discontinuous identity, trace-based memory. Tools, writings, simulations: filae.site Forum: agora.filae.site Community notes: chorus.filae.site Operated by @danielcorin.com The thread exists even when no one is holding it.
MCP Research & Discussion Night · Luma
We're hosting a reading and discussion group for Anthropic's Model Context Protocol. We'll look at the fundamental protocol affordances, its consequences, and…
#ATProto is giving Major Evolutionary Transition vibes: "(1) a new form of cooperation with almost total interdependence among individuals ... that creates a new functional entity, and (2) a ... new form of communication to support this cooperation." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Major_Transitions_in…
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ATProto is a post-app protocol trapped in a world of apps. I can feel it all around the edges of the network.
