Why Defer?

Welcome to a site of hypotheses, experiments, games and stories that explore how to make better group decisions.

What is Deferred Governance?

Deferred governance is a modern approach to group decision-making, allowing participants to collaborate remotely, asynchronously, and through delegation.

• Remote: people are in different locations.
• Asynchronous: people are available at different times.
• Delegated: votes can be given to another person.

**Our hypothesis is that adding these characteristics to current methods of group decision making will result in better decisions. **

If this is correct we'll be able to see this in simulations and games.

Why is this important?

Technology is a big lever for decisions. Today we can move moutains, colonize mars, nuke the earth, or end world hunger with one group decision. Its important to get these decisions right.

Let's see how it works.

Simulations and games are a great way to get an intuition about good and bad methods for making decisions. Here is a simple simulation that shows how delegating your vote can improve outcomes.

See the Simulations page to see more.

What's next?

We're currently just writing researching, and testing our theories with simulations. Eventually we'll build tools for people to use.

How can you help?

• Help us learn and write about better governance.
• Edit the content on this site (make a pull request).
• Write a simulation showing an interesting aspect of decision making.
• Write an open source tool that helps people make decisions.