Connor McCormick

Negation Game

Introduction to the Negation Game | post by Connor

Welcome everyone to the Negation Game community. We’re so happy to have you here. Our mission with the Negation Game is to build the obvious choice of governance for adversarial and financialized contexts. That means places where you would normally use representative democracy, or a committee, or a popular vote, we’re building the Negation Game to be used instead. The key design goal of the Negation Game is that people who are better at changing their mind should have more influence than peopl...

Carroll Mechanisms

This post will explore a novel mechanism we call “epistocracy,” a natural successor to futarchy, which facilitates autonomous consensus on the legitimacy of competing propositional statements for use in group decision making. We will study the space of proposed mechanisms which incentivize the discovery of the mutual relevance of a pair of claims in an epistocracy market; we call these Carroll mechanisms. Beginning with an initial set of relevant constraints and objectives, we will employ gam...

Fall 2025 AI Forecasting Benchmark Tournament

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The Impact of The Negation Game on Sowellian Governance

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