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Deliberative Consensus Protocols


Introduction: Scalable Group Decision-Making A deliberative consensus protocol is a process that online groups can use to make decisions. It’s designed to produce good decisions that are fair and manifest the collective intelligence of the group.

It uses a deliberative process to discover what an unbiased(e.g. representative) sample of the group would honestly believe after they have considered all the most informative – or convincing – comments made by other users. First, to address the problem of dishonesty and coordinated manipulation, a deliberative consensus protocol can use game-theoretical mechanisms such as the Bayesian truth serum. For example, the dilemmas in designing fair democratic voting mechanisms addressed by social choice theory still exist when there are conflicting goals and preferences.

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