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S Summer of Protocols Search ⌘ K The Unreasonable Sufficiency of Protocols Powered By GitBook The Unreasonable Sufficiency of Protocols DRAFT Version 0.99, March 6th, 2023 Venkatesh Rao, Tim Beiko, Danny Ryan, Josh Stark, Trent Van Epps, Bastian Aue Thanks to Hasu, Micah Zoltu, Matt Garnett, Vitalik Buterin, Ben Edgington, Alex Stokes, and Josh Davis for helpful discussions. Introduction Complex coordination problems have an air of doomed intractability about them. We speak in fatalistic terms of economics being a “dismal” science, of sociological phenomena being dominated by the “tragedy of the commons,” of organizations being hopelessly “captured,” and of complex problems being “wicked.” Even our simplest mental models of coordination and cooperation problems, such as the Prisoner’s Dilemma in game theory, are built around default expectations of obviously worse outcomes dominating obviously better ones, and worst-case behaviors driving systemic outcomes. Yet, in practice, we routine

The Unreasonable Sufficiency of Protocols | Summer of Protocols Summer of Protocols The Unreasonable Sufficiency of Protocols Powered by GitBook On this page For the complete documentation index, see llms.txt . This page is also available as Markdown . Venkatesh Rao, Tim Beiko, Danny Ryan, Josh Stark, Trent Van Epps, Bastian Aue Thanks to Hasu, Micah Zoltu, Matt Garnett, Vitalik Buterin, Ben Edgington, Alex Stokes, and Josh Davis for helpful discussions. Introduction Complex coordination problems have an air of doomed intractability about them. We speak in fatalistic terms of economics being a

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