- Plurality is a political philosophy and framework that seeks to create mechanisms for large-scale cooperation while preserving diversity and autonomy.
- Plurality stands between [[Governance|Technocracy]] and [[Decentralized Autonomous Organizations|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|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.