Analytic

SYNERGY. A cyber-human market solves two scaling problems of a planetary collective at once. It routes attention without a coordinator: a market "provides incentives for people to get involved if and only if they can be useful", so nobody has to assign millions of participants to problems. And it pays for calibrated abstention: when each participant runs a stable of bots, owners want bots that "know their own limits and participate only when they have a reasonable chance of being successful." An agent that stays out where it is unreliable is a property oversight needs, and here it is rewarded rather than imposed.

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