PANews reported on December 14 that Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin published an article on the X platform saying that Deep Funding combines the concepts of “value graph” and “refined human judgment”, including:

1. Value Map: Don’t ask “How much has X contributed to humanity?” Ask “How much of Y’s contribution belongs to X?”

2. Refining human judgment: The open market for AI will fill in all weights, and human juries will conduct random checks.

The first idea (value graphs) has become a popular paradigm in recent years, and for good reasons. Measuring contribution in the abstract is very difficult: if you ask people how much they are willing to spend to save N birds, they will answer $80 for N=2000 and $80 for N=200000. More "local" questions like "which is more valuable to C, A or B?" are easier to handle. The second idea (refining human judgment) is based on some ideas from my info finance article: Condensing Human Judgment in Info Finance. Anyone can use any method (such as AI) to suggest weights for all graph edges, and a human jury will perform a detailed analysis of randomly sampled edges. The submission that is most compatible with the jury's answer determines the final output. "