Plurality

• Plurality is a political philosophy and framework that seeks to create mechanisms for large-scale cooperation while preserving diversity and autonomy.
  • Plurality stands between Technocracy and Libertarianism, offering a third way that emphasizes connections between individuals and groups.
  • Plurality recognizes that there is no single model that can explain the world perfectly, and we should use a combination of different models instead.
• Key ideas of Plurality:
  • Identity should be intersectional and social, using the entire set of a person's actions and interactions to determine trustworthiness.
  • Governance mechanisms should count uncorrelated signals additively but correlated signals with diminishing returns.
  • Organizations should allow different degrees of membership, not just true-or-false.
  • Local currencies and property rights can coexist with global mechanisms for cooperation.
• Plurality technologies include:
  • Polis for large-scale conversations that identify consensus across different viewpoints.
  • Community Notes that surface content rated highly by people who disagree on other topics.
  • Message Checker and other user-facing tools that protect users while preserving autonomy.
  • Quadratic funding and other mechanisms that subsidize collaboration between different groups.
• Plurality is compatible with:
  • Exponential technological growth, by designing property rights that force rising tides to lift all boats.
  • Valuing excellence and expertise, through mechanisms like prediction markets with per-person subsidies.
  • Local experimentation in social media, blockchain ecosystems, and local government.