If you have questions like:
“How is this not just X but worse?”
“What problem does it solve?”
“What value does it create?”
“How can you justify the emissions?”
“Isn’t this just privileged play?”
I’m the wrong person to ask. I’ve done my tours of duty on such debates.
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There's now an ongoing thread about the Web3 efforts that are booting up. Planning to prioritize DAO exploration in coming weeks.
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The Yak Collective now has a proper Web3 initiative going. We don't know whether or not we'll end up as a strict DAO, but we'll definitely be exploring Web3 mechanisms a lot in 2022.
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People seem to be confused about the politics of Web3 so I made this helpful compass meme
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The post linked above got me thinking, with its heuristic of following “smart, good-judgment, knowledgeable” people, who appear to be divided on Web3. Makes me realize I *don’t * take my cues from such people. They’re basically a crapshoot around tech booms.
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People who seem to have uncanny instincts are rarely particularly smart or knowledgeable. And they don’t tend to have good judgment in traditional ways either.
What they do have is an ability to avoid both of Clarke’s “failures of prophecy” — lack of imagination, lack of nerve.
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You need mediocre smarts and mediocre knowledge as table stakes, but beyond that everything is a function of imagination and nerve. Bayesian modes of good judgment, which Wil gestures at, are like QA to limit errors, but irrelevant to seeing the imaginative+gutsy options early.
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Tagged the wrong person above. The author of the post is
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Quite possibly the difference between people who are hostile vs favorably disposed to Web3 is whether or not they think traditional orgs work fine or need improvement. Frustration with traditional organizational pathologies is not universal.
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I think you'd be hard-pressed to find people who *aren't* frustrated with traditional orgs. Most just think it can't be changed and shit orgs are a fact of life.
Most people outside web3 aren't even aware it has org implications. They still think it's about magic internet money.
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I disagree. Most are heavily invested in traditional org forms. They’re just not incumbent forms. So you have 1920s vintage loser anarchists and communists mad about 1920s vintage winner capitalists. They just want *their* trad form to win. The new thing is a new competitor.
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most people don't think about the political dimensions of organizations or whether particular org structures conform to ideological constraints
most people have shitty bosses and poorly-structured work, but think bosses and poorly-structured work are just the way it is
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