Jordan Braunstein
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Jordan Braunstein is a recurring person in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 3 times across 3 issues between February 10, 2024 and September 23, 2024. The archive places it in contexts such as “Jordan Braunstein and Tetra Jones, $34,000 to work on assurance contracts”; “Project lead Jordan Braunstein will be in NYC from 5/29 to 6/15”; “ACX Grantees Jordan Braunstein and TetraSpace are working on an assurance contract platform”. It most often appears alongside Manifund, Survival and Flourishing Fund, 1DaySooner.
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- Category: People
- Mention count: 3
- Issue count: 3
- First seen: February 10, 2024
- Last seen: September 23, 2024
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- Manifund (2 shared issues)
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- Survival and Flourishing Fund (2 shared issues)
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- 1DaySooner (1 shared issues)
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- 23andme (1 shared issues)
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- ACX (1 shared issues)
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- ACX (1 shared issues)
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- ACX Book Review (1 shared issues)
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- ACX Grants (1 shared issues)
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- ACX Grants (1 shared issues)
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- African School of Economics (1 shared issues)
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- Alaska (1 shared issues)
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- Alex (1 shared issues)
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Jordan Braunstein and Tetra Jones, $34,000 to work on assurance contracts. These are the general case of what Kickstarter does - coordinate people who all agree to do something if enough other people agree to make it worth their while. They want to branch out from Kickstarter’s funding-focused model into different forms of contract - for example, compacts for political action (eg Free State Project), dominant assurance contracts that incentivize people to overcome transaction costs, and “contigently anonymous” contracts where people can hide their identity until a certain threshold gets reached. Jordan and Tetra applied separately to start their own platforms, but have agreed to to work together on spartacus.app; you can contact them here if you want to help or participate in testing. I’m aware that another site, EnsureDone, is already trying something similar4. I’m funding Spartacus as a backup, but I like Ensure too and they should feel free to contact me if I can help in any way.
1: ACX grantee Spartacus is an app for assurance contracts, ie solving collective action problems, ie Kickstarter for everything. If you would go to a protest march if and only if there are 10,000 other people there, you can mark your interest on the app and get notified if it reaches its goal. The team wants to announce that they'll be unveiling their MVP during NYC TechWeek at the event listed here; anyone in the area is welcome to attend. Project lead Jordan Braunstein will be in NYC from 5/29 to 6/15 and is interested in meeting anyone interested in "collaboration, partnerships, use cases, red teaming, and additional funding sources". Email him at jordan@spartacus.app.
1: ACX Grantees Jordan Braunstein and TetraSpace are working on an assurance contract platform to solve coordination problems called Spartacus.app. They’ve asked me to announce: