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It allows the community to **quantify their collective conviction** in ideas, and puts arguments to the test by allowing participants to question them from multiple angles, and by **focusing attention on the most important ideas**. \n\n## How does it work?\n\nOne thing that makes the Negation Game different from existing sense-making platforms is that **the discussion takes place in a graph** structure instead of in a linear or threaded form.\n![image](https://hackmd.io/_uploads/SykAXT8xkl.png)\n\nThe main benefit of this format is that all **arguments are consolidated** and the collective conviction in each of them is quantified, which allows it to **inform the decision in a game-theoretically sound way**. Another important one is that, instead of eliciting a binary YES/NO answer from the community, the rationale behind every disagreement is mapped out, and all **the nuances of the discussion are exposed**.\n\n\nThe main innovation in the Negation Game that allows for this is called **Epistemic Leverage**: It gives additional influence to participants when declare how they could be wrong, or how they could change their mind. This is the principle underlying good Science: **a theory is only scientific if it's falsifiable**. \n\nBy stating \u201cthis would change my mind\u201d, DAO members also help map out experiments to run, questions to answer, data to collect, and obstacles to avoid. This approach encourages **productive dissent** by highlighting actionable next steps that **move the conversation forward**.\n\n## What's the current state of the project?\n\nWe're currently running the first prototype of the Negation Game at negationgame.com. This version was built on top of the [Farcaster protocol](https://www.farcaster.xyz/), and although it helps map out the discussion, it still does not implement the mechanism of Epistemic Leverage.\n\nWe're building **the next version** of it right now, which will bring about several improvements based on our learnings from running the prototype. Aside from offering a mobile-first **improved UX**, we'll incorporate **AI features** to help enrich the discussion and to evaluate the results.\n\n![image](https://hackmd.io/_uploads/SkdOaT8eyg.png)\n\n\n## What's on the roadmap?\n\nTo begin with, we'll soon be announcing some **early-stage experiments with DAOs**. We want to put the system to the test, starting out in low-stakes environments, and then iterating under **progressively more adversarial contexts** as we make the game rules more robust.\n\nIn the longer term, our ambition is to develop it into a **full-fledged governance system**, which we'll call **Epistocracy**.\n\nIf we're successful, we've not only created a better governance layer for DAOs, but also a **new kind of capital allocation mechanism**: one that enables **investing in ideas** and profitably funding of exploratory science at scale.\n\n\n## Who are you?\n\n- Connor McCormick [Twitter(\ud835\udd4f)](https://twitter.com/connormcmk)/[Farcaster](https://warpcast.com/nor)\n- Volky [Twitter(\ud835\udd4f)](https://twitter.com/volkyeth)/[Farcaster](https://warpcast.com/volky.eth)\n\n## I want to contribute\n\nIf you're interested in participating in upcoming experiments or potentially running your own, please get in touch with Connor on Twitter (https://twitter.com/connormcmk) or Warpcast (https://warpcast.com/nor)", "lastUpdated": 0, "projectGithub": "network-goods-institute", "projectTwitter": "NegationGame"}, "recipient": "0x6a024f521f83906671e1a23a8B6c560be7e980F4"}}