Better coordination would help fix various market failures.

Mechanisms

• Dominant assurance contracts
• Direct democracy

Platforms

Relevant features:

• Ability to enforce commitments
• Ability to filter who counts as a person who can join a campaign

Existing platforms:

• Actuator
• Collaction: Unlock based on the number of participants
• Cryptounlocked: Unlock based on the amount of money raised
• Free State Project: US-Americans sharing the libertarian political view coordinating to move to the same state, so together they can have a greater impact on local politics
• Indiegogo
• KickStarter
• Spartacus

Discontinued platforms:

• PledgeBank
• Thunderclap: to share a Facebook post at the same time
• We the People: letter sent to the White House after a number of petitions are made

Other organizations

• Radical Think Tank
• RadicalXChange

Problems

Problems that have are at least partly a coordination problem:

• Improving science

See also

• Global coordination
• Moral economics

External links

• Equilibria Book, section Molochs Toolbox (starting around “Even in my world, Simplicio”).
• Meditations on Moloch
• Kickstarter for Coordinated Action sequence
• Thinking About a Technical Solution to Coordination Problems
• https://www.facebook.com/yudkowsky/posts/10153677569324228
• https://www.facebook.com/groups/307795212983019/permalink/408119462950593/
• https://www.facebook.com/groups/effective.altruists/permalink/968357583220599/
• [Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action (Canto Classics)]
• Groupon, Kickstarter, Pledgebank: when does conditional commitment work?
• Coordination tag on EA Forum