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