No Kings: How Do You Make Good Decisions Efficiently in a Flat Organization?

Re:No Kings: How Do You Make Good Decisions Efficiently in a... by ip26 on Tuesday June 11, 2019 @04:47PM (#20159384)

You really should read the essay. One of the takeaways for me was that it is easier to concentrate power in a "structureless" group because it is simply taken. Structure is expressly one way to control & limit the concentration of power.

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Re:No Kings: How Do You Make Good Decisions Efficiently in a... by EGreg on Tuesday June 11, 2019 @06:40PM (#20160158)

I agree. I am just saying that structure can be a computer program that makes it costly to collude and organize for long periods of time, and somehow penalizes any gains that the colluders would get to make collusion not pay.

Consider upvoting comments on HN for example. That there is a microcosm of what we are talkung about. We want each vote to be an honest signal, to detect and punish voting rings. But how? There is a computer program in charge ultimately of various things including banning some accounts.

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