New Institutions The Age of Em: Work, Love, and Life when Robots Rule the Earth
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Robin Hanson
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scholars have long been puzzled to see surprisingly little use of pay-for-performance, as when a lawyer is paid a fraction of a lawsuit’s winnings.
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Note:PAGARE AL RISULTATO
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Scholars are also puzzled to see that, when such performance rewards are used, they are only rarely corrected for outside influences over which the person has little control, such as in correcting the strike price of CEO stock options
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Note:ROZZEZZA DEI CONTRATTI
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lack of pay for performance is a puzzling lack of published track records for professionals, and customer disinterest in such records.
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Note:TRACK RECORD FANTASMA
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clients do not see lawyer win-loss records,
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Instead of track records, customers prefer to rely on personal impressions, referrals from friends,
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Note:PRESTIGIO
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bundle health and life insurance to make our doctors feel more concern
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Note:DOTTORI E ASSICURAZIONI
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Parents and teachers might work harder if they owned a share of their childrens’ future income.
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Note:LE AZIONI DELLO STUDENTE
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services could be usefully priced, with such prices varying more with context. For example, theaters, restaurants, and parking lots could have prices that vary more with internal location
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Note:PREZZO E CONTESTO
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projects that offer diffuse value to large diverse groups might instead be funded via “dominant assurance contracts,” wherein donations are conditional on funding targets being met (Tabarrok 1998
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Note:DAC
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vote selling where each buyer’s price of votes goes as the square of the number of votes purchased in each election (Lalley and Weyl 2014
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Note:VOTI IN VENDITA
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income taxes might vary more with parameters that predict an ability to earn income, such as body height and beauty do today (Mankiw and Weinzierl 2010).
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Note:TASSARE ALTEZZA E BELLEZZA
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transferable citizenships might let better citizens self-select into societies.
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Note:CITTADINANZA
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By randomly choosing a small jury of voters who will then decide an election, one might greatly increase the incentives of the voters who have been chosen to become informed (Levy 1989
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Note:SISTEMI ELETTORALI
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robust systems of secure anonymous decentralized transactions may be built on the recent innovation of block-chain
Note:BLOCKCHAIN... TRANSAZIONI MINIME E ANONIME
Note:BLOCKCHAIN... TRANSAZIONI MINIME E ANONIME
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Such systems could support digital currencies, token systems, safe wallets, registration, identity, decentralized file storage, multi-signature escrow, consensus via rewarding those who best guess a consensus, financial derivatives including insurance and bets,
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Note:SMART CONTRACT
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two more types of promising new institutions: combinatorial auctions and prediction markets.
PREDICTION MARKET
PREDICTION MARKET