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How Democratic Coarse-Graining Filters Against Some of the Research That Matters Most
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How Democratic Coarse-Graining Filters Against Some of the Research That Matters Most

Daniel Van Zant

This article is part of a series of articles I am releasing as part of a research project with the Wolfram Institute. This project is intending to answer the question: How can DeSci DAO's better align incentives for funding important science research? Two pieces of the project that I will be referencing in this article are a historical analysis I did of 5 different transformative technologies from 1950 to now. I will also be referencing a number of largely anonymous interviews I did with many experts in DeSci, science funding, and beyond, that I did to help answer this research question. This is the first of six articles I will be releasing for the project so look out for more soon!

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