TechFlow news, on December 14, Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin introduced two core principles of the Deep Funding mechanism on X:
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Value Graph: Shifting from the traditional "how much did X contribute to humanity" to assessing "how much of Y's outcome can be attributed to X," making value judgments more actionable.
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Refining Human Judgment: Using an open AI market to fill in all weight data, followed by random audits and verification conducted by a human review panel.
The first idea (Value Graph) has gradually become a popular paradigm in recent years—and for good reason. Abstractly measuring contributions is difficult; for example, people might value saving 2,000 birds the same as saving 200,000 birds at $80. However, asking localized questions like "Is A’s contribution to C greater than B’s?" tends to yield more accurate answers.
The second idea (Refining Human Judgment) builds on concepts Vitalik previously proposed in his writings on information finance. Anyone can use any method (e.g., AI) to suggest weights for all edges. A human review panel then conducts in-depth analysis on a randomly selected subset. The final output will be determined by submissions that best align with the panel’s findings.
