Thread · 5 tweets · 9 May 2022

I thought this was good: aeon.co/essays/the-tra…

In general, reading Ostrom or around is something I have found very rewarding. A good book length intro is bookshop.org/books/the-unco…

My favourite from Ostrom herself is bookshop.org/books/understa…. Then there's a lot of great academic work.

But yes, fundamentally you only get a tragedy if the agents are made to be in a prisoners' dilemma. But that's rarely the case unless it's created! It's a characteristic of online mechanism design to falsely create PDs that don't need to exist. Google are experts.

I forgot: full disclosure is that I want to make an advertising commons, and also use that elsewhere on the web.