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159 - Exploring Cluster Mapping with Joel Miller & Umar Khan
Oct 23, 2023
Joel Miller, researcher and PhD candidate, and Umar Khan, data scientist, discuss cluster mapping in mechanism design and its implementation in Gitcoin grants. They explore civil resistance, algorithmic alignment, quadratic funding, and the importance of values in technology.
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- Cluster mapping is an effective mechanism for deterring civil attacks and allocating funds to projects with diverse support across social distance.
- Quadratic funding, including cluster mapping, serves as a transparent and neutral mechanism for allocating funding based on community preferences, empowering individuals to have a direct impact on public goods funding and challenging the notion of algorithms as detached from human values.
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Cluster Mapping: A Mechanism for Civil Inclusion Resistance
Cluster mapping is a new mechanism for civil inclusion resistance in the world of quadratic funding. It aims to address the problem of civil attacks and collusion by measuring the social distance between contributors. The algorithm clusters people based on their donation profiles, with the majority of contributors being unique and having no clusters. This demonstrates the effectiveness of cluster mapping in deterring civil attacks. Moreover, cluster mapping rewards projects with diverse support across social distance, allocating funds to those that have backing from different communities. The integration of cluster mapping into Gitcoin's grants round 18 has provided valuable data on its effectiveness in practice. The future of cluster mapping and collusion resistance lies in further improvement and integration with other identity vectors, such as donation data.
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