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###### tags: `GitcoinDAO Metaverse Coordinators Group`
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# What is the Metaverse? What is Metaverse Coordination? What defines this work stream?

- This metaverse is not a reference to *Snow Crash,* the company formally known as Facebook, or the Web3 Second Life experiments like Cryptovoxels, Decentraland, The Sandbox, etc. Let's not exclude these interfaces as arenas of consideration, but **we coopt this association as a [détournement](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A9tournement), to reclaim this image for our own purposes.**
- ***Metaverse* for our purposes identifies an *interface* between the virtual and physical**:
- Virtual and physical economies.
- Digital avatars and meat-space corporeal embodiments.
- A scrim, threshold, membrane, portal between worlds.
- Not just digital, not just physical, but all of the above.
- Cerebral [protoplasm](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protoplasm), [fascia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascia) surrounding our collective vision of hope, a return to the root of [aether](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aether_(classical_element)) as a [pneumatic](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pneuma) force for creative activity in the human organism inside and out
- ***Coordination* defines the building and stewarding of a bridge** between:
- These grandiose ideologies, always striving to increase the *definition* of our articulations (see note below).
- The mechanisms that will facillitate the *realization of our collective vision*.
- Focusing on the interface as the [covalent](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/valence#English) threshold (UI) between these visions and values.
- A war against **Moloch**:
- Moloch rises in language; *Moloch is language*
- Moloch rises in the interstice; a trickster and wielder of illusion/delusion/hallucination
- Moloch rises in human coordination failure; *Moloch is this failure*
- We need more than mere tools/weapons. **We must foster clarity of vision** to transcend the fearful superstitions that have plagued our civilization since the beginning of time. We require an understanding of all the topological layers of the Matrix/Metaverse/Reality Tunnel/Ontogenetic Model.
- Metaverse Coordinators might focus on **reflexive critique to combat Moloch from within and without simultaneously**.
- Keeping up to date with other work streams.
- Focusing on furthering the articulation of our shared values.
- Dedicated to broadcasting the ideas to new audiences (not yet entrenched within the familiar memes) in a tactful, nuanced manner.

### Identifying New Audiences
- **Beginning with the lowest lift**:
- LARPers, gamers, role players: building their own worlds.
- Media visionaries, artists, radical thinkers: actively deconstructing their own compartments/identities.
- Crypto noobs, the mechanically inclined hopeful, the seekers/wanderers/nomads in the wastelands of Web2: those looking for an *opening,* trying to adapt old specializations for greater purposes.
- Graduating to new audiences in a **slow and careful manner**.
- Eventually **infusing these ideas into the greater ecosystem for everyone's benefit**, but not too fast or too broadly!

### How to Identify the Value being Created in this Work Stream?
- How do we quantify subjective values?
- How to articulate metrics for experiences dependent upon personal engagement and idiosyncratic world-building?
- How to create an immersive world without becoming a tyrant of lore or mining the attention of the users? (To avoid Web2 trauma patterns)

### Notes on *Definition*
- We might practice an internal alignment towards ever increasing definition of our values, terms, and tools.
- I offer a conceptual tool for thinking about this.
- *Definition = Resolution + Fidelity + Velocity*
- The screen + the image on the screen + the latency for comprehending that what is being seen is an image on a screen (not just a blank screen or an immaterial image).
- Metaverse Coordinators strive to defy physics (as a set of definitions), to **break the laws of space-time.**
- Organizing a canonnical lore that continues to drive deeper into core philosophical concepts for understanding *why we are doing what we are doing*.
- Enlisting contributors that are courageous enough to plow *head-first* into an uncertain future without hesitation (towards an ethical reconsideration of YOLOing?)
- These two roles will work together to harness the power of these seemingly mutually exclusive or radically divergent propulstion, while focusing on the interface as a *perpetual motion machine* or *value generator*.
- Does this differ from the flywheel analogy? A generator can also be a motor.
 *A Chinese army 2-hand crank generator for field use. MC provide the crank and the hands to support the labors on the table surface.*

### Additional References
- [Rough Notes on Open-Source Lore Architecture](https://hackmd.io/@TravisWyche/rJnUDjE2t)
- [Notes on the Green Pill](https://hackmd.io/@TravisWyche/NotesOnTheGreenPill-12-10-21)
- [Notes on Gitcoin Moloch Comic Lore](https://hackmd.io/@TravisWyche/MolochComicNotes)
- [Notes on RaidGuild Lore](https://hackmd.io/@TravisWyche/NotesOnRaidGuildLore) (the subject of comic #3)
- [Notes on Metaverse Lore](https://hackmd.io/@TravisWyche/NotesOnMetaverseLore)