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

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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:

• tax evasion is a grand challenge
• self-owned nature 2.0 with real DAO and tree ownership (drawback: many people don't understand the difference between art-installation-fake and real Cayman island DAO and official forest land registration record)
• DAO - future of the firm
  • The robot economy
  • Automated economy, programmable economy
  • Full frontal megalomaniac: fourth industrial revolution
• negative side effects of grand challenges: digitisation, the end of work, and robotisation
  • loss of societal cohesion
  • super wicked problems
• Alternative to extractive capitalism. non-profit, direct democracy, public infrastructure DAO (EPA-approved).
  • automated market regulations
  • Externalities: Prices Do Not Capture All Costs
  • late-stage capitalism
  • The theory of institutional design
  • build the actual future, disrupt capitalism
  • organising principle for economic activity in general
  • withstand the global financial system, legal challenges, vandalism, hacking attempts, survive, and even thrive
  • Sisko: capitalism-based market competes with self-regulating market
  • Showcase alternatives to wealth extraction are possible
  • Requirements: United Nations - Report of the Secretary-General - Roadmap for Digital Cooperation
    • The Digital Public Goods Alliance is a multi-stakeholder initiative with a mission to accelerate the attainment of the sustainable development goals in low- and middle-income countries by facilitating the discovery, development, use of, and investment in digital public goods
    • Financial Inclusion DPGs - Digital Public Infrastructures
    • attempt at an open source financial institution for low-income countries
  • create the first self-regulated marketplace
    • possible practical experiment for thesis
    • pre-bitcoin idea of thesis advisor: internet bandwidth as a currency
    • automated bandwidth API
• DAO + cultural heritage preservation
  • Cultural Heritage and the Future of DAOs - DAO or Never
  • cultural objects and cultures
  • UNESCO: Concept of Digital Heritage
  • EU: Digital cultural heritage
  • Internet Archive Projects

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

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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. 

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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.

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

Possible end deliverable of thesis:

• Neccesarilly working code (Tribler lab)
• Code requirements through multi-actor analysis, interviewing, or literature review (TBM)
• Application effects: interviewing (TBM)
• Market regulation modelling for a set price with system dynamics (TBM)
  For the next meeting:
• Literature review results
• Another model including system strength (Secrets, acquisition, decisiveness)
  Preparation master thesis's central topic is: accelerating the decentralized capitalism transition, topics for review:
• Permissionless innovation
• Decentralized bounty payout
• A privacy-first data wallet for the European Blockchain Services Infrastructure
• Decentralized modeling and decentralized thinking
• Decentralized disruption, innovation

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• You successfully navigated the GoNoGo thesis moment
• Tribler-lab approved thesis format: 1 page frontmatter + 2-column article
• Great start of your thesis direction brainstorm. Its actually something we as Computer Science lack: linking self-organisation with the end of civilisation and democracy 🍺
• Great insight: society needs to decentralise or face existential collapse. 💣 💥 💣
• Self-organising system are essential for this to evolve. We need to move beyond central governing international institutes. For instance, we never will have unanimous global consensus on de-growth, if that would be a requirement for a grand challenge
• proper megalomaniac: 'system of societal systems model'
• TikTok or banks growing too big to fail leads to: regulation (not in this version of your model)
• We need permissionless innovation, see details
• Resilience of society against unknown black swan events. sub-prime lending, Fukushima, Corona, etc.
• Related work. Even engineerings of distributed systems underestimate the power of random organisation. "randomness plays an important role in creating order in many self-organizing systems".
• No space for disruptive innovation? Only choice is revolution and standard setting?
  • de-facto standard setting of technology which re-distributes power
  • Will never become a standard, it just needs to exist, work, and become popular
  • Would Bitcoin be approved by European Central Bank or Hollywood give OK to cheap Bittorrent dissemination?
• You model has a path from DAO, to reduced authority dependence, leading to freedom, resulting in happiness, and competition between decentralised parties.
• So your thesis is about saving the world {non-clickbait version: strengthen democracy with ...} 😲
• Next sprint: make 2 more distinct versions of this impressive model/opinion. Part-time brainstorm on remainder of 30 ECTS which have not even started.
• Related work: self-organisation and evolution of human civilisation with increasing complexity

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• Not all courses finished to begin master thesis (manly due to dyslectic)
• New planning: wrap up courses in Q4. Start thesis in summer/Q1.
• For your thesis direction
  • this is a full-time incremental sprint process
  • For 6 months, we do not know where it will end: true science.
  • Pioneering means handling uncertainty
  • This means true science is in direct conflict with thesis prep courses: you can't plan ahead for 6 months. But having a rough roadmap and rough process outline is obviously a great idea 💡
    • Week 6: first version of "Problem Description" chapter
    • Week 12: experimental work ongoing, document all figures and target results
    • Week 17: all experimental results finished
    • Week 20: full thesis report
  • Thus: thesis prep outcome is good preparation, but after a few sprint guaranteed to deviate.
• EPA grounded thesis direction
  • your model gives a nice EPA-level system view of fragile systems, stability, and evolution
  • Social benefit: stable equilibrium
  • Roadmap for a decentralised, fair, and democratic society under winner-takes-everything rules of the digital world
  • Thus identify requirements to go beyond Big Tech, Big Banks, Big Telecom, and Hollywood monopolies.
    • collective money with a billion people
    • DAO with self-evolution, see the first AI dAPP - self-evolving AI-DAO #5987
    • etc
  • prototyping something on this roadmap
  • Legal-truth building without permission versus thesis into wild-west of permissionless digital-only entertainment (Tiktok/Youtube/Telegram). Bootstrap problem: nobody knows us, nobody uses us. "Greta-factor"
    • @sisko444 : "but we are too nuanced"
    • republication notion of freedom from arbitrary oppression
• UPDATE: added related work on DAO
  • legal DAO FAQ of US Wyoming laws: https://sos.wyo.gov/Business/Docs/DAOs_FAQs.pdf
  • DAO is a shared bank account example (DAO with 16 ha of undeveloped land in Wyoming): https://www.ted.com/talks/scott_fitsimones_could_a_dao_build_the_next_great_city
  • Great example would be to plot the slowing down of CityDAO activities (e.g. less podcasts) https://podcast.citydao.io/
  • DAO should be considered an unincorporated association akin to a general partnership The court rejected the argument of certain defendants that BZRX token holders only possess “limited governance rights relating to a narrow set of parameters of the protocol.” According to the court, a partnership can still exist when individual partners only control a part of the enterprise.
  • In layman's terms, that means you just have to find one person involved in the DAO, and sue them, and then you get to collect the full judgement from that person (alone), and it's now their problem to get cooperation from the other partners for the liability., Hacker News discussion

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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.

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• no global digital governance
• problem and cure and mixed (central == fragile)
  • "Systems have a tendency to centralise."
  • "Too-big-to-fail scenarios are a great source of damage to modern society."
  • "Catastrophic failure is getting more likely due to climate change making centralized systems more risky."
  • "Blockchain technology offers tools for decentralisation. ". Keep decentralisation for the solution chapter
  • First a deeper analysis: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/aug/14/lina-khan-big-tech-ftc-antitrust
• First do centralisation more deeply "megatrend"
  • Trends in Industrial Market Concentration, 1947 to 1970
  • Concentration in the steel industry
  • https://www.eetimes.com/the-concentration-of-semiconductor-market-share/
  • https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2021/08/which-car-companies-will-go-bankrupt-first.html
  • Search market concentration. Who will bet against Google?
  • Consumer electronics manufacturing in Europe
• Government needs to fix the global economy
  • natural outcome of capitalistic markets, big, better, efficient, and profits
  • Cut them in pieces! one solution.
    • Rejoinder—Natural monopoly and the Bell system: Response to Charnes, Cooper and Sueyoshi
    • The Breakup of the Bell System: A Case Study in Cultural Transformation
  • decentralisation is going against capitalism itself 😨 😲 😨
  • decentralisation means system change: post-capitalism
  • Market Failure, Government Failure, Leadership and Public Policy
  • (Dutch) De overheid laat zich op het gebied van cybersecurity te veel leiden door incidenten en mist echte visie op wat goed beleid is.
• Thesis direction
  • critical societal infrastructure - digital - money, identity, trust, markets, data, and AI.
  • survey is a low bid for an Kotlin coder
  • Dream from CS side: radical experiment in democracy and digital governance
  • "investment gold, GoldEuro, and governance of a gold-backed coin"
  • MusicDAO governance?
  • Radical Reddit Experiment?

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.

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Dictating Dr. Johan Pouwelse @synctext :

Thesis proposal session

Smaller scoping

• Focus on things that can be implemented in android in allocated 20 weeks
• Experiment which we can learn from and observe and see many people voting and participating democratically because its cool
• Allighnment with current thinking is decentralized redit tweakers post or twitter alternative
• Keep it small one app with integrated bitcoin buying through ideal
• No overengineering, only PHD has possibly the skills to make "the implementation of", minimal implementation.

Ideas

• Colectively decide to buy a tor end node or mastodon node
• Sponsored decentralized twitter pull request
• Or donate to UN or FSF
• Decentralized reddit option, user revolt
• Who is the new boss of decentralized redit
• Tweakers decentrale voting
• Constitution dao
• Together sronger buying power governance
• TBM dream politica versus the music dao infrastuctuur 1% beter maken

Suggestion

• Maybe dive into music dao, real music, really leaderless, forming groups
• Propose apps for thesis each with a gui desighn picture

Wrap-up

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

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Disclaimer: expert opinion brainstorm

• One possible direction is the tax office: how to deal with taxing cryto currencies or dealing with the thread of sepperate closed economies?
  Sisko: Maybe a Cost Benefit Analysis on a government provided digital identity? Or a show of its criticallity to the digital climate?
• EU law needs to define decentralization, is not done yet, it is not covered in any legal documents but it is the case in practice

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

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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. 🔴

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:

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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.

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Written project proposal for kick-off:

Project_proposal (2).pdf

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

• Court evidence
  • https://www.bigtechontrial.com/p/google-is-clearly-buying-its-way
• Laywers with competition law
  • Example The Antitrust Duty to Deal in the Age of Big Tech
  • Current head of the US FTC is firmly against Big Tech monopolies
  • She wrote this famous article: Amazon’s Antitrust Paradox
• Economists with platform capitalism
  • Example: Google, Facebook, Amazon, eBay: Is the Internet driving competition or market monopolization?
• Nerds with Web3 lingo
  • example: Web3: Harnessing the Web's Natural Monopolies

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

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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.