Motivating context
- Running Manifold as a very open startup
- Public analytics
- Discourse on Discord
- Open source
- Open grant applications
- More radically
- Open decision-making?
- Open salaries? Equity?
And... this has been amazing!
Morally - there's no reason for it
Pragmatically - more and more of the world will be public
posit a world in which everything is public. What are the bad effects?
- Info is good; info *asymmetry* is bad
Worry: does this require infinitely wise people?
Inspired by
- Build in public movement
- Supabase
- Practices at Streamlit
- https://www.activism.net/cypherpunk/manifesto.html