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Joel Miller

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PhD student asking "what would economics look like if people had friends?" at UIC, Microsoft Research, and Gitcoin. 0.1X engineer

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#Crowdfunding algorithms often assume people act alone. But what if fairness depends on our connections? 🤝This paper explores a new approach called Connection-Oriented Quadratic Funding, which gives more weight to community ties and shared purpose - arxiv.org/abs/2509.18343

EAAMO_ORG's tweet image. #Crowdfunding algorithms often assume people act alone. But what if fairness depends on our connections? 🤝This paper explores a new approach called Connection-Oriented Quadratic Funding, which gives more weight to community ties and shared purpose - arxiv.org/abs/2509.18343

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The "Post-Naive Internet Era" via @mozilla

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Grants Summit - 2025 x.com/i/broadcasts/1…


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We've got an incredibly packed agenda tomorrow. Here's our programming for Day 1 of the 2025 Grants Summit organized by the Grant Innovation Lab (GIL) at @metagov_project with support from @OctantApp @StellarOrg @Scroll_ZKP and @DAOstar_One - Designing Grants That Grow With…

metagov_project's tweet image. We've got an incredibly packed agenda tomorrow.

Here's our programming for Day 1 of the 2025 Grants Summit organized by the Grant Innovation Lab (GIL) at @metagov_project with support from @OctantApp @StellarOrg @Scroll_ZKP  and @DAOstar_One 

- Designing Grants That Grow With…

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Introducing our next speaker: Joel Miller @CS_Synthesist is a PhD Researcher at University of Illinois, Chicago. Miller is studying mechanism design and the social sciences, focusing on the ways communities realize their shared human values through algorithms. Recently, he led…

metagov_project's tweet image. Introducing our next speaker: Joel Miller @CS_Synthesist is a PhD Researcher at University of Illinois, Chicago.

Miller is studying mechanism design and the social sciences, focusing on the ways communities realize their shared human values through algorithms. Recently, he led…

Very excited for this

Don't miss my first ever live debate with @curtis_yarvin, cited by @JDVance and @elonmusk as one of their primary intellectual influences, on whether the US should be ruled by a CEO dictator: opentodebate.org/debate/should-…



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Volcano report 👍🏻


Cats of Iceland

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Got around to uploading another episode of my podcast! open.spotify.com/episode/6argHR…


Remembering when I got into @NeurIPSConf but then accidentally set up my poster behind the food stand lmao

CS_Synthesist's tweet image. Remembering when I got into @NeurIPSConf but then accidentally set up my poster behind the food stand lmao

Excellent talk from @wardy_ben about web3 replicating old problems of financialized capital. "Decentralized" -> "Actually, 5 people control all the capital" ... oof!

CS_Synthesist's tweet image. Excellent talk from @wardy_ben about web3 replicating old problems of financialized capital. "Decentralized" -> "Actually, 5 people control all the capital" ... oof!

I am beyond excited to share my new Podcast! Sponsored by a group of plurality researchers via the @arbitrum foundation, Throw Away Your Phone takes a down-to-earth look at technology's effect on collective action. Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/5CXFIG…

CS_Synthesist's tweet image. I am beyond excited to share my new Podcast! Sponsored by a group of plurality researchers via the @arbitrum foundation, Throw Away Your Phone takes a down-to-earth look at technology's effect on collective action.  Listen here: 
open.spotify.com/episode/5CXFIG…

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In "Build Network Societies, Not Network States," authors @divyasiddarth, @glenweyl, and @SlaughterAM warn that Balaji Srinivasan's ideas in "The Network State" are much closer to the mainstream than most political observers realize: "Srinivasan has crystalized a strand of…

combinationsmag.com

Build Network Societies, Not Network States

Balaji Srinivasan's vision of Network States has influenced Vice President-elect J.D. Vance and the "New Right" movement. However, he fails to grasp that networks are more a worldview than a techno...


Very interesting discussion on the @CombinationsMag page rn x.com/i/broadcasts/1…


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