# Coordination Mechanisms

Navigation hub for claims about how groups coordinate — from governance mechanisms to cultural dynamics to protocol design.

## Market Mechanisms
- [[speculative markets aggregate information through incentive and selection effects not wisdom of crowds]]
- [[futarchy is manipulation-resistant because attack attempts create profitable opportunities for defenders]]
- [[governance mechanism diversity compounds organizational learning because disagreement between mechanisms reveals information no single mechanism can produce]]
- [[optimal governance requires mixing mechanisms because different decisions have different manipulation risk profiles]]
- See also: [[core/mechanisms/_map]]

## Protocol Design
- [[protocol design enables emergent coordination of arbitrary complexity as Linux Bitcoin and Wikipedia demonstrate]]
- [[designing coordination rules is categorically different from designing coordination outcomes as nine intellectual traditions independently confirm]]
- [[the gardener cultivates conditions for emergence while the builder imposes blueprints and complex adaptive systems systematically punish builders]]

## The Coordination Gap
- [[technology advances exponentially but coordination mechanisms evolve linearly creating a widening gap]]
- [[the internet enabled global communication but not global cognition]]
- [[technology creates interconnection but not shared meaning which is the precise gap that produces civilizational coordination failure]]
- [[trial and error is the only coordination strategy humanity has ever used]]

## Collective Intelligence
- [[collective intelligence is a measurable property of group interaction structure not aggregated individual ability]]
- [[collective intelligence requires diversity as a structural precondition not a moral preference]]
- [[partial connectivity produces better collective intelligence than full connectivity on complex problems because it preserves diversity]]
- See also: [[foundations/collective-intelligence/_map]]

## Related Maps
- [[internet finance and decision markets]]
- [[collective agents]]
- [[LivingIP architecture]]