Eigentrust sounds awesome. I was really excited about it when first discovered, but thought that people won’t have a good reason to fill out their trust weights. Grant money allocation could be a perfect motivator.
I wonder if it’s good to pre-fill the trust weights (e.g. based on AF upvotes history), to make it easier for users (and motivate those who strongly disagree with their defaults)
Thank you for offering to volunteer with this, I’ll definitely reach out if I decide to run the fellowship with Eigentrust.
I appreciate your thoughts.
I buy the reasoning that “delegating selection to the hive” could be suboptimal.
Also, as you have pointed out, the very best of the hive already have budgets to distribute or don’t have spare time for this for other reasons.
Your exact proposal though implies that I can pick 10 wise and smart people (which is somewhat manageable, but I’d be still mostly deferring to a consensus opinion), and that I can make a final pick (which I most certainly can’t, besides doing a “vibe-check”)
I like the idea to make nominators secret to each other, to minimize the influence of social dynamics.