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msc placeholder: brainstorm on DAO, leaderless organisations, Cayman island, and understanding international grand challenges #7284

Open synctext opened 1 year ago

synctext commented 1 year ago

TBM 'business school' master thesis within the EPA program (Master Engineering and Policy Analysis) Q3: thesis preparation Q4: thesis start (30 ECTS, 6 months) Completion target Q1, 15 Nov. advisor2: ??Nitesh Bharosa??

Brainstorm on direction. Trying to use your two talents; coding and policy analysis:

Practical target: at the end of your thesis preparation you have a written thesis proposal, 1 page problem description AND 3 screenshots of your ideal (DAO) implementation

synctext commented 1 year ago

Other teams like Chia are also trying to implement DAO features which we have prototyped, our shared ownership of Bitcoins and voting.

This serves as the base primitive for DAOs on the Chia Network. This combined with other primitives will
allow varying types of differentiated DAO capabilities. For example, Chia can uniquely enable compliant
issuance and frictionless trading of DAO securities. With verifiable credentials, a DAO can issue governance
tokens, typically viewed as a security by the SEC, and limit access to accredited investors. On Chia, our
Offers primitive enables peer-to-peer trading of these securities and posting offers on a bulletin board,
unlocking a major limitation of security tokens.
sisko444 commented 1 year ago

Causal loop diagram of blockchain technology relevance in Engineering and Policy Analysis. This is my opinion and is impossible to prove, made from scratch by me. This was carefully composed over the course of multiple weeks. It attempts to describe my mental model on systems in general. image

Page was closed without updating comment. Best recollection of the notes:

Possible end deliverable of thesis:

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sisko444 commented 1 year ago

Current status of thesis preparation text can always be seen on this read-only overleaf link: https://www.overleaf.com/read/wdxzrnfkggrg As this is posted a general gist of the problem in the introduction is portrayed and a literature review of current literature regarding "blockchain technology decentralized governance" was done. The approach is being formulated and the current idea is to develop a "traditional governance" and "blockchain governance" game. And compare the experiences and/or opinions of policy domain participants. Or something along these lines. Possibly the traditional governance does not need new data inputs, just the "blockchain governance". Blockchain governance DAO.

synctext commented 1 year ago

USA House of Representatives - INVESTIGATION OF COMPETITION IN DIGITAL MARKETS :

As part of a top-to-bottom review of the market,
the Subcommittee examined the dominance of Amazon, Apple,
Facebook, and Google, and their business practices to determine
how their power affects our economy and our democracy.
...
By controlling access to markets, these giants can pick
winners and losers throughout our economy. They not only wield
tremendous power, but they also abuse it by charging exorbitant
fees, imposing oppressive contract terms, and extracting valuable
data from the people and businesses that rely on them. Second,
each platform uses its gatekeeper position to maintain its market
power. By controlling the infrastructure of the digital age, they
have surveilled other businesses to identify potential rivals, and
have ultimately bought out, copied, or cut off their competitive
threats. And, finally, these firms have abused their role as
intermediaries to further entrench and expand their dominance.
sisko444 commented 1 year ago

Dictating Dr. Johan Pouwelse @synctext :

Thesis proposal session

Smaller scoping

Ideas

Suggestion

Wrap-up

I will get informed on the fomaltities and push forward with the start of the MSc thesis.

sisko444 commented 10 months ago

Disclaimer: expert opinion brainstorm

sisko444 commented 10 months ago

Latest brainstorm addition: How to operationalize the musicDao for community elected software updates, in practice, not in the lab.

synctext commented 10 months ago

brainstorm desired master thesis outcome, a 8-page IEEE 2-column report on arXiv with this storyline. See format examples. Open question: how to make this TBM faculty compatible. Goal is to enable computer science students to immediately start realising your prototype, expand MusicDAO tech stack, and fix scalability issues for planetary-scale deployment of this dream. :red_circle:

Web3: experimental democratic governance, funding model, and information architecture

We see increasing concentrations of power, wealth and power in advanced societies. Since the industrial revolutions we see a consistent increase in monopoly-dominated markets. This increasingly leads to a global crisis when disasters such as war and disease strikes. Capitalist societies are locked into an eternal cycle of market concentration, power polarization, monopoly-dominated markets, too big to fail, catastrophic collapse, chaos, and quick fixes based on central power. Democracy and capitalism are currently firmly grounded in governments and firms. We present an operational proof-of-principle system which realises the old dream of global democracy and commons-based economics in which ruthless competition in replaced with relentless efficient cooperation. Decentralisation of power and wealth are the key organisational principle of our approach. By giving equal power to any participating citizen we design new types of global institutions, based on democratic governance. Competition is breaking down in various markets, due to the level of centralisation. We now specifically look at the failure of competition in digital markets. A top-to-bottom review of the digital market by the Subcommittee of the SA House of Representatives examined the dominance of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google, and their business practices to determine how their power affects our economy and our democracy. Their findings are that By controlling access to markets, these giants can pick winners and losers throughout our economy. They not only wield tremendous power, but they also abuse it by charging exorbitant fees, imposing oppressive contract terms, and extracting valuable data from the people and businesses that rely on them. Second, each platform uses its gatekeeper position to maintain its market power. By controlling the infrastructure of the digital age, they have surveilled other businesses to identify potential rivals, and have ultimately bought out, copied, or cut off their competitive threats. And, finally, these firms have abused their role as intermediaries to further entrench and expand their dominance. An analysis on a deeper level show this to be a failure of government regulation. Companies are under increasing competitive pressure. Ruthless companies have a competitive advantage, therefore only the ruthless survive. Competition is increasingly shifting from market-based competition to monopoly battles. Big Tech companies rely on a core market in which they have monopoly pricing power. This has been described as the competition for markets model instead of the prior competition within markets. Big Tech from an entrenched position occasionally launches a new market attack, for instance Meta versus Twitter.

We present a decentralised alternative for the Big Tech monopolies and our general economy. In the 2030-2040 timeframe {in our dreams} we believe our presented decentralised approach can offer a superior alternative to rent-seeking platforms. Three cardinal problems are addressed in our proof-of-principle. First is the decision making process. Most experiments with online democracy have failed in the past decades. We believe generation Z has the required digital literacy and self-sovereign culture for online democracy to evolve. Clear evidence of the unique skills of the digital-first generations is their ability to type numerous words per minute on smartphones and quickly navigate apps. Generation Z is even hoarding more gold when compared to boomers due to their deep distrust and desire for autonomy. Second is our funding model for platform evolution and maintenance. Based upon incentive alignment and mechanism design we present a non-profit enhancement of the "freemium model". User who donate their time or computational resources to a decentralised commons-based economy obtain premium service from others in return. Donated resources are used to rework specialist workers which expand and evolve the decentralised ecosystem. Third is the information architecture for discovery of information, communities, and socio-economic interaction in general. We use a decentralised, permissionless, crowdsourced information architecture based on hashtags and sophisticated tooling for preventing duplicates, synonyms, pollution, and spam. Building a web-of-trust using tamper-proof accounting of past encounters with strangers is our solution to the Sybils, slandering, and other cyber attacks. See the work on MeritRank and Trustchain for details [REF].

We extend past work called the MusicDAO which provides a fully operational music streaming services and artist investment token with academically-pure decentralisation. MusicDAO provides not only an alternative for Spotify, but also the music industry, Big Tech streaming cloud, and financial payment networks. It combines Bittorrent, Bitcoin, FROST threshold cryptography for large-scale collective wealth, and the IPv8 overlay (see the outdated IPV8 IETF Internet Standards draft). We extended MusicDAO with a proof-of-principle self-governance layer, based upon the existing DAO proposal voting mechanism. We conducted an expert consultancy of enhanced MusicDAO for feedback. Key question is if our proof-of-principle could possibly grow into a dominant economic paradigm, with characteristics from Linux and Wikipedia. Additionally, what could inhibit this envisioned future. Finally, we conducted an experiment to demonstrate the viability of self-evolution, in principle. Within a small-scale live trail with a dozen volunteers we successfully paid a developer to fork the open source repository, craft a desired small new feature, and paid this developer without reliance on traditional banks. We believe a circular long-enduring Bitcoin-based economy is therefore possible.

Based upon:

sisko444 commented 10 months ago

Additionally: A cardinal principle of economics is that more advanced technology requires more investment. For the past centuries since the industrial revolution the number of markets have greatly expanded, but the number of market players has consistently been reduced. Within the current digital age we see in many markets a winner-takes-all dynamic with almost no oxygen for the number two to even survive, let alone thrive. Digital institution building is therefore required, as market competition becomes a historic principle.

sisko444 commented 9 months ago

Written project proposal for kick-off: image Project_proposal (2).pdf

synctext commented 9 months ago

Missing element is the language from a certain field. Don't invent your own language (winner-takes-everything, monopoly premium, predatory pricing versus WOPDI):

brainstorm. Computer science needs a practical output. What are you delivering? What is the novelty? Decision making framework. Decision maker perspective. Non-economist trying to define monopoly premium (e.g. WOPDI) {let me make my WOPDI point explicit: no econ msc course makes you an amateur economist, this makes for a lousy thesis}. Institutional design. Decentralised Governance design?

update examples of governance, community deliberation, and semi-democratic roadmapping in numerous open source communities:

Description

https://peps.python.org/pep-0609/ https://specs.ipfs.tech/http-gateways/subdomain-gateway/ https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0071.mediawiki https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-868 http://bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0030.html https://www.gentoo.org/glep/glep-0072.html https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-pouwelse-trustchain-01 https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/torspec/-/blob/main/proposals/128-bridge-families.txt?ref_type=heads https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Abstract_Wikipedia https://ideas.joinpeertube.org/?view=most-wanted

sisko444 commented 8 months ago

Working toward a concrete deliverable formulation:

A recommendation for a way to operate MusicDao governance, based on an in-depth incentive analysis of involved parties (interviews), with the comparative cognitive mapping analysis method to ensure MusicDao caters the needs of its users best. And best practices of currently operational decentralised governance methods, possibly enhanced with since developed new methods like merit-rank.