Criticisms of the DGF project

This page collects arguments against the goals and the implementation of the DAO Governance Framework project and their responses.

Nothing is perfect
Law of Unintended Consequences
Chesterton's Fence
Financialization is bad It degrades the fundamental human impulse to help without expectation of reward. Under this system, everything is tied to a measured value, then accounted for and rewarded according to whatever system is currently in place, even though that system is necessarily flawed.

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Blockchain tech is bad
- Environment
  - PoW uses the amount of energy of Czechoslovakia and it's entirely wasted except for the minor benefit of decentralized consensus
  - Redundancy of decentralized systems is order of magnitude less efficient than centralized databases, independent of PoW
P2P tech is for criminals
- File sharing is theft: e.g., music and movies
- Bitcoin is only useful for money laundering, drug sales on the internet, sex trafficking

SGF Criticisms

Greater communication between scientists can lead to bad outcomes. Science needs independent validations of a theory to prevent bias. So a platform where they can communicate immediately, without careful consideration beforehand can ultimately harm science. Kevin Zollman, e.g., in discussing the social epistemology of science argues that before a scientist's colleagues' results are validated, the scientist being aware of their claims is likely to prejudice the scientist. Related is how scientific results have a statistical problem, that many measurements historical record converge to the most accurate current result from a biased direction (e.g., because the scientists are probably self-censoring themselves, and not reporting results that are too far at variance with the other results).