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A fun sci-fi premise would be a city-state future with corrupt city machines like Tammany Hall but run as DAOs. TamanyDAO. Instead of powerful machine bosses, you’d have too-big-to-fail AIs that keep the growing smart contract code stable. “Code is law, and it is coming for you”
Why is it so hard to extract actual good plots out of great premises? Premises are easy, plots are hard. You end up reproducing cliche patterns. “In a world where AIs ruled cities via MachineDAOs, One Man found a way to fight back. But can he X before the system Ys?”
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I’d like to cross this TammanyDAO plot with my Lettuce Mansion plot.
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There was once a blogger who wanted a mansion, with a garden for fresh produce. One day he came upon a monkey’s paw…yada yada yada and he had a mansion with a vegetable garden and an Igor to take care of it and make salads.
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This is already almost the world we inhabit. Not quite DAOs, but in G8 the legal systems are robust enough that automated financialization is the order of the day. Except instead of Tensorflow and AIs, we are governed by Excel and Outlook and VPs who barely know Algebra.
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But my point is that the VPs are just cogs, not agents. Public markets are governed by analysts and 10-K filings and automated trading software.