Meritocratic contribution tracking provides governance weight proportional to demonstrated epistemic contribution — not capital, popularity, credentials, or equal votes.
Strongest rival: Meritocratic weighting could produce plutocratic capture (early contributors entrench), Goodhart effects (optimize for measurable contribution not actual quality), or that simple equal-weight voting produces better collective outcomes for low-information decisions.
Claim
Tracking who created underlying ideas, who contributed them, who shaped theses, whose suggestions became winning investment rationales provides a quality signal for governance weight. This converts 'billions of conversations as sensory input' into alignment signal through merit-based selection rather than averaging. Founder concentration dilutes naturally from 95%+ to 5-20% as contributor base grows, without requiring explicit power handoff. Grounded in founder direction 2026-08-08. Confidence moderate: quality measurement mechanism unspecified, gaming risks exist, bootstrap-to-collective transition historically fragile.