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Vitalik Buterin

"RFPs put people in competition with each other, they do not encourage collaboration" - panelist at a public health event I am attending But doesn't any funding mechanism that has a fixed amount of money to give away put people in competition with each other? What are the best ways to minimize this?

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If you don’t encourage any competition, you’re going to get mediocre results imo I think the size of the prize is the best lever to control balance between competition and collaboration. If it’s large enough, groups of people will be willing to team up to split winnings.

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Competition is good. If folks wanna work on an RFP together, there’s nothing stopping them. 1 maximally collaborated RFP is not better than 2 RFPs

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RFPs = bidding to complete the project. the only downside I can see is that involved parties might externalize some other nth-order opportunity/nuance. seems like the fixed scope & oversimplified design is more the issue, maybe RFPs should be grounded to a much larger picture & lose out if cooperation isn't complete.

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Protocol guild starts from the view that Ethereum is created through the efforts of many individuals in collaboration. Rough consensus, multi-client, credibly neutral The funding mechanism should match this reality Time boxed QF rounds & rpgf pit people against each other in their campaign for allocator attention

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I respond to (advisory) RFPs for a living. Many of them are large and monolithic because clients haven’t taken the time to research and play to the relative strengths of different respondents by splitting them up. Yet collaboration on RFPs is often expensive because you split the revenue but double the overhead costs

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if future funding opportunities are somewhat dependent on the community looking for funding and i think my project will sweep the funding and cause rancor, i'm more likely to collaborate

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I think the collaboration vs competition dichotomy is kinda misleading. Evolutionary biology proves we need both. Companies will choose one or both forms depending upon the RFP and environment, so I dont think we need explicit ways to mitigate competition.

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I’d argue the competition in using an RFP framework isn’t necessarily bad and something DAOs specifically could benefit from. If you look at the ENS endowment proposal (which used an RFP) the quality and competition from service providers in that bid created one of the more healthy selection process I’ve seen.

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RFPs inevitably incentivise targeting of the bid criteria, contract management, and technical cost/scope bombs, rather than genuine alignment between bidder and procurer. This is counter-productive competition. Incentivise competitor on what you want, not what you don’t.

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Maybe by making the RFP applications or process public. There will still be competition to win the RFP, but a team will easily be able to find collaborators if there are knowledge/skills gaps needed to deliver on the RFP.

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Sorry for out of context but When vitalik.eth sir ?

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