Oddbean

I like the way you think, and it sounds like you've had some substantial experiences. I kind if feel like many of the tools from those ecosystems, like NFTs and DAOs are solutions in search of a problem. They have no clear use cases yet. The proposed use cases rest on invalid assumptions about the ways that we govern our social systems. I'd be interested to hear more about your perspective.

There is information asymmetry, some are better informed, others less. Many collectives have intentional information silos, so those in power can stay in power. Others use radical transparency, which is better, but then everyone has a different skill sets and Dunning-Kruger types start wasting everybody else's time. You don't need democracy and everyone to vote on everything. There are ways to make decentralized yet focused and efficient dev teams, but those are never implemented because from a guy who gets funding and is his own boss, you turn into an equal and judged by others. Peer review is hated by the ego, everybody tries to avoid it. If there is any voting, my number one priority would be complete anonymity, not even commit-reveal schemes.

definitely, anonymity in voting is essential, so it needs to be figured out how we can create such anonymous votes. Even in much simpler applications polls are very useful and could easily be integrated into NOSTR. I think thed be particularly interesting for the interoperability of the protocol. Curious you mention Peer review because I'm in academia now and actually think it would be a really cool use case for nostr: to set up a peer review system. A required feature would be "reputation", and I think this is something we haven't quite cracked yet. But please correct me if I'm wrong.