Cassandra Shi

…t acknowledging boundaries and working together to govern at multiple levels. (Ostrom calls this a “polycentric” approach.)

My big takeaway from the patterns Ostrom identified is that sustainably managing the commons requires a high degree of context among participants. Most failure outcomes can be traced back to context collapse. This is true whether you’re an open source project or someone with a large Twitter following.

By way of the previous example, it seems that under the current TCR protocol, it is the TCRs that address objective properties that will inevitably fail to produce the appropriate incentives for continued verification. The only initial opportunity to economically profit from the existing TCR design is to successfully…