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Classes of Group Problems by Solvability

In ensuring software platforms address user needs more than they exploit users, there are problems that are related to the need to decentralize identities, processes (implemented in software platforms), and data. These problems are thus deeply related to web 3.0 and its goals to provide pervasive centralization. The decentralization of identity, processes, and data is also deeply related with General Collective Intelligence, but this relationship is not easy to see. Any process through which problems related to decentralized identity, processes, or data are solved has some degree of centralization whenever any activity in it’s entire life-cycle (research, development, deployment, sales, service, administration, etc.) is centralized. An activity is centralized when choices outside of the interests, policies, or other constraints of a centralized decision-maker cannot reliably be selected. A Collective Intelligence (CI) is a centralized solution in that it might improve decision-making in some narrow areas in which goals have already been decided by centralized decision-makers. However, a General Collective Intelligence or GCI (a hypothetical collective intelligence with general problem-solving ability) might improve decision-making in all areas in general. Being fully decentralized this includes providing groups with decentralized processes through which they might potentially execute any activity in the entire life cycle of any problem-solving process. This includes decentralized processes for deciding for themselves which goals to target.

There are classes of problems that it is believed cannot reliably be solved today due to misalignment between outcomes that are optimal for the group and outcomes that are optimal for the individual or subset of individuals choosing the solution when decision-making is performed in a centralized way. This centralized decision-making, and these resulting problems can occur in any process along the entire life-cycle of web technology from research, design, development, sales, or delivery, to administration and maintenance, or retirement at the end of that life-cycle. Many web technologies, particularly blockchain or web 3.0, are decentralized in some aspects, but lack decentralization in others such as in administration of the development process. Table 1: Some of the holes in decision-making (problems that cannot reliably be solved and solutions that cannot reliably be discovered) without General Collective Intelligence.