The World Isn't Broken, Our Coordination Is - Future IQ
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Coordination Failure mental-model
Agreement is not execution. A shared problem persists when responsibility is scattered across actors and no one holds the authority, resources, and accountability needed to resolve it.
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Collective Action Problem mental-model
A collective action problem arises when each person protects themselves against others’ expected defection, making the group worse off even though mutual cooperation would benefit everyone.
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Race to the Bottom mechanism
When advantage depends on outperforming others, one person’s escalation pressures everyone else to match it. The original advantage disappears, but the higher cost becomes the new baseline.
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Multi-sided Coordination Problem mechanism
Some failures persist because several groups must change together. Each side may support the new outcome yet rationally refuse to move while the others remain uncertain.
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Goodhart's Law mental-model
Goodhart's Law begins when a measurement stops being a window onto reality and becomes the object of reward. Once the score carries consequences, people reshape their behavior around the proxy, making it progressively less trustworthy.
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Coordination Lock-in mechanism
Systems lock into bad equilibria when moving to a better alternative is costly unless others move too. The obstacle is not ignorance of the alternative but the risk borne by whoever switches first.
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Schelling point mechanism
A Schelling point is a conspicuous shared default that enables coordination before negotiation. Its advantage is not inherent superiority but mutual expectation: each person can predict that others will notice the same option.
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