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Includes working prototypes. https://democracyinmusic.com/guide https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5995a4ed46c3c47a269b1b31/a7b00e43-1e51-4311-97f5-ca24ba25025c/Screenshot+2026-01-05+at+09.00.25.png Sam Vance-Law // Homotopia - Leveraging Blockchain in a New Era of Antitrust The current pace and direction of technological innovation have challenged both antitrust law and enforcement. In this paper from the DRC and Flashbots, we take examples from the mortgage industry and United States v. Google to argue that blockchain can help avoid the dilemma of choosing between potential monopolies and ex post enforcement. https://stanford-jblp.pubpub.org/pub/blockchain-antitrust/release/1 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5995a4ed46c3c47a269b1b31/9a53cbc8-f7d2-476e-ae73-8ac2c7ff4920/4b7b1356110b9fa6b8be34e53cb744a1b73f6759-1200x675+%281%29.png Sam Vance-Law // Homotopia - How UNGA 80 Could Shift Power in the Data Economy In this piece, we discuss proven methods for providing a people-first counterweight to tech behemoths when it comes to the generation and use of data. https://www.techpolicy.press/how-unga-80-could-shift-power-in-the-data-economy/ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5995a4ed46c3c47a269b1b31/40c780d0-0d3a-4be4-ab4f-aac683c8baa9/Screenshot+2025-07-09+at+15.22.32.png Sam Vance-Law // Homotopia - How Can Data Cooperatives Help Build a Fair Data Economy? Full Report In this report, we explore how cooperatives can help address one of the most pressing challenges of the digital era: a fair data economy. How can we return value to the people, communities, and organizations that generate data? And how can we ensure individuals have a voice, a choice, and a stake in their digital lives? https://www.projectliberty.io/news/data-coops-as-alternative-to-centralized-digital-economy/ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5995a4ed46c3c47a269b1b31/43d4a92f-ee88-49fa-9fa4-aa453438ab32/Screenshot+2025-01-27+at+10.04.35.png Sam Vance-Law // Homotopia - How Can Data Cooperatives Help Build a Fair Data Economy? Preliminary Report In an era where data shapes every aspect of our digital lives, the question of who holds power over this vital resource has profound societal implications. Data ownership and governance inequalities must be addressed to ensure individuals and communities have a voice, choice, and stake in the rapidly evolving digital economy. https://www.projectliberty.io/news/how-can-data-cooperatives-help-build-a-fair-data-economy/ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5995a4ed46c3c47a269b1b31/86b69cd7-0e60-4ad5-be4b-9515d0dd9ce8/IMG_4007.jpeg Sam Vance-Law // Homotopia - AI and Democracy’s Digital Identity Crisis AI poses immediate problems in verifying digital identity. In this paper, we analyze current identity attestations and systems, caution against the predominance of centralized approaches to identity attestation, and provide general and U.S.-specific policy recommendations. https://stanford-jblp.pubpub.org/pub/ai-democracy-digital-identity/release/1 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5995a4ed46c3c47a269b1b31/1dd401fa-802f-440e-80c0-69462ba1a4c6/Screenshot+2024-02-19+at+12.06.37.png Sam Vance-Law // Homotopia - Toward Equitable Ownership and Governance in the Digital Public Sphere This paper examines how Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs) could enable co-ops to become competitive in the digital world. Addressing the shortcomings of current systems of ownership and governance, we lay out an argument for a more equitably owned Internet and provide policy recommendations aimed specifically at the U.S. government. https://www.belfercenter.org/publication/toward-equitable-ownership-and-governance-digital-public-sphere https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5995a4ed46c3c47a269b1b31/95237a17-f9b7-4e7c-ab3c-eee1c1f4ffaa/TF_Data+Panel+Selects_LoRes_41.jpg Sam Vance-Law // Homotopia - Make it stand out © Matthew Gilbertson https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5995a4ed46c3c47a269b1b31/6ebb1fe3-59a1-409c-987c-803445219432/SVL+NDW+final.jpg Sam Vance-Law // Homotopia https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5995a4ed46c3c47a269b1b31/8fb41eba-e54f-4f62-8f31-3d904b0af5c9/165_SVL_ACoggin_LOWRES_8199.jpg Sam Vance-Law // Homotopia - Democracy in Music How could you create music that was equitably owned and governed as part of the process of its composition? How could you make that music scalable to the tens of thousands, or millions? What would it mean for a project to last generations, or hundreds of years? What would it mean for people to own their cultural history? A few ideas, here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5995a4ed46c3c47a269b1b31/c749e6a2-24f2-41a9-b3df-1b7a5a1f1171/213_SVL_ACoggin_LOWRES_8678.jpg Sam Vance-Law // Homotopia - Status Games A draft of a paper I am working on that examines how status operates in the online world, how numerically quantifying value has adverse consequences, and how new iterations of social media sites solve for/fail to solve for these issues. Working title, “Status Games: Social Media and the Gamification of Value,” available here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5995a4ed46c3c47a269b1b31/226ea6d7-2a8a-4203-b9bd-341b8171305f/187_SVL_ACoggin_LOWRES_8325.jpg Sam Vance-Law // Homotopia - Decentralized Power: Improving Antitrust Outcomes with Blockchain This is a draft of a paper that examines the ways in which antitrust law and permissionless blockchain can be mutually beneficial. I am one of three authors on this paper, so it is not all my own work, but it demonstrates the breadth of the work I am doing with others. Available here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5995a4ed46c3c47a269b1b31/0beebbe2-f65d-4606-b96c-91941f324a1b/Plurality.png Sam Vance-Law // Homotopia - Plurality: The Future of Collaborative Technology and Democracy This constantly changing and growing collaborative project, led by Glen Weyl and Audrey Tang, former Minister of Digital Affairs of Taiwan, is an attempt to envision a future of plurality in governance and technology. I am one of the editors. https://www.plurality.net/ https://github.com/pluralitybook/plurality https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5995a4ed46c3c47a269b1b31/49f837b9-b8bb-470d-9641-952ae4079676/democracy-in-music-hero.png Sam Vance-Law // Homotopia - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5995a4ed46c3c47a269b1b31/2eef475a-3fc1-4ac4-964d-23c40e314cbc/Piano+Screenshot.png Sam Vance-Law // Homotopia - Piano 30,000 people sit at a piano. Each plays a note. The output is the statistical result of every choice. The simplest model is pure democratic averaging applied to pitch. Chords allow you to create harmony from proportional representation. Play here https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5995a4ed46c3c47a269b1b31/ac7b2ccf-1d55-4e2c-bcdd-fc6131727291/Miro+Screenshot.png Sam Vance-Law // Homotopia - Miro A shared canvas where each touch becomes a vote. Overlapping choices form peaks in a 3D landscape. The topography is sonified becoming sound. Inspired by Miró's Bleu II. Play here https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5995a4ed46c3c47a269b1b31/26dd41a3-9021-42c4-86dc-ec801d3043ac/Mean+Mode+Screenshot.png Sam Vance-Law // Homotopia - Mean Mode From discrete notes to a continuous frequency space. Thousands of votes cluster into a visible distribution. Switch between mean, mode, and chord to hear how the same votes produce different music depending on the aggregation method. Play here https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5995a4ed46c3c47a269b1b31/7ea59522-3161-44c0-84f2-73468ed4f794/Assembly+Screenshot.png Sam Vance-Law // Homotopia - Assembly Five layers of pre-composed musical blocks. Participants spend voice credits to vote on which blocks to play. Concentrating votes costs quadratically more, so the output reflects not just majority preference but intensity of feeling. Play here https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5995a4ed46c3c47a269b1b31/ecab4d0c-5eaa-4230-abc9-04a01fe7c227/Parliament+Screenshot.png Sam Vance-Law // Homotopia - Parliament Vote for one of seven parties alongside 300 simulated citizens. Toggle between first past the post, proportional representation, and coalition. The votes stay the same. The system changes. Play here https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5995a4ed46c3c47a269b1b31/3018aa4a-0ad3-47ad-97ec-d5cfd7394ed9/Choreography+Screenshot.png Sam Vance-Law // Homotopia - Choreography Democracy as physical representation in space. Cameras track dancers' movements and transcribe them into sound in real time. Dancers become co-composers in works that are new every single time. Play here https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5995a4ed46c3c47a269b1b31/4245d3b1-e13f-47f8-bb05-422f8a4abf41/Epoch+Screenshot.png Sam Vance-Law // Homotopia - Epoch A composition that accumulates over days, months, generations. 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