Most of the communities that had open-ended collaboration defaulted to sharing public information.
- Most of the communities that had open-ended collaboration defaulted to sharing public information.
- It wasn't just optimizing for making it so people could choose to help others with their own actions, it was defaulting it so that users created that indirect value as a bonus even if they didn't intend it.
- Napster automatically shared your files with others.
- People are OK with indirect benefit for others from their actions, but don't typically take proactive actions[gt][gu][gv][gw] to make that happen.
- A kind of reverse trolley problem.
- Defaults matter.
- This is a summary of the key insight in Dan Bricklin's The Cornucopia of the Commons: How to get volunteer labor.