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# HPL Topics/Themes/Guests for Season 5
*Transcribed from a convo between TW and Felipe, Friday May 6, 2022*

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  <summary>Taxonomy/typology of DAOs</summary>
  
- "DAO" is not a throughly defined word/concept
- Is a taxonomy of DAO types useful? How do we persue these catagories? Is it doomed to be perpetually outdated?
- How do we justify efforts poured into creating taxonomies of DAOs?
- Bring in prior work:
    - Vassine (?): editor of Blockchain Journal
    - Kei Kreutler
    - DAOstar One
    - MetaGov
    - Gov Base: Michael Zargon (?)
- Are DAOs in themselves revolutionary? Doesn't make much sense if divorce of specific use cases. The DAO structure itself is agnostic/neutral. The impact emerges from the application.
- Standardization as an attempt at predictable modularity.
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  <summary>"What the DAO?"</summary>
  
- Ongoing critical updates on our collective perception of DAOs
    - *What* the DAO, *how* the DAO, *why* the DAO
    - Invite guests to chime in, but not present their own work. Each gets a brief intro, but the whole episode is not dedicated to existing research.
    - Moves directly into the second order conversation. Straight to elaboration.
    - We will make it clear that we are crafting a social space, not prepping a soapbox.
    - Strategy: make a list of potential guests, invite them all, but perform no followup. Let the guest pool weed itself out organically.
    - Create a backlog of guests for the Rangers Events board
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  <summary>Governance Stragies</summary>
  
- Many nest topics:
    - Token voting
    - Trad voting
    - 1 person 1 vote
    - Delegation
    - Trusted signers
    - All the minutae of how the decision gets made and what happens when the decision gets made
- Education component, but also a comedic/gossipy component relaying things that happen in DAOs
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  <summary>"Communities" (do they even exist?) and how they relate to their founders</summary>
  
- Felipe's theory: there is no such thing as a community, just *human kind.* We use narrative fantasies to underscore being/becoming, identity/relationship, etc., to accelerate familiarity so we can have coordinated action between groups of non-aversarial collaborators.
- What are the pitfalls of Molochian corruption in this community narrative?
- Who has the capacity and incentive to create these narratives?
- A common DAO narrative: the followers challenge the founders on their origin narrative. How does the community respond in these circumstances?
- Is there a universal sense of community?
- Or is community an infinitely divisible compartmentalization? Based on scale, geographical location, or any number of other reasons. How does this inflect upon our taxonomy of communities?
- Why is it easier for people to see the infinite fracturation of divisions than the hidden unison of an every unfolding fractal?
- How might we explore the ontological tension on the threshold of community? Is it a trillion grains of sand or a single beach? How do we measure the shoreline? Where is the precise point where the land meets the sea?
- Is the distinction between the one and the many arbitrary in this conversation?
- What are the components/dimensions of time in the formation, growth, and management of social gradients? ie: What happens over time?
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  <summary>Language is the knife (meta topics)</summary>
  
- Language creates the divisions that we are all always scrambling to ameliorate.
- Semantic naming structures of DAOs
- Meme-driven development that privleges the visual over the complex conceptual
- Challenges of perception from the perspective of the DAOist.
- The DAO as as act of collective fiction!
- How do we form the mental models (internally) that are projected out onto the substrate of our constructions? And vice versa: How do the DAO models inflect back upon our habits of mind and patterns of behavior? How do DAOs and DAO concepts form, in-form, and re-form each other?
- Guest: Tracheoptyrx to discuss his siphonophore DAO model
- How far will we take this? Biomimicry, opticocentrism (humans are a visually biased species that see geometric figures in space), rationality as a calculative logic, etc.
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  <summary>The progression of the narrative of Ethereum (meta topics)</summary>
  
- Explore the influence of people speaking on Ethereum's behalf
- Relates back to lorecraft.
    - How the story of Ethereum is as powerful as the actual infrastructure/technology.
    - So then it's marketing. Is this perverse or sincere marketing? Truly for the betterment of "the world" or for the gain of the few?
    - Track the procession of punk: cyber > cypher > solar > lunar > mass adoption?
    - How do we reconcial the delusion of this manifest destiny solarpunk vision with the realities of the cultural volatility of crypto?
- How has the narrative shifted across epochs? 2017, 2019, to the present.
    - Influence from Vitalik, spin out to other outlets (Bankless) to end up saying very little.
- The low-fidelity optimistic narrative works against our existential plight.
- Adrenal communication: speaking directly to the limbic system of the audience. Playing into desires, fears, raw emotional states.
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  <summary>How does the virtual architecture of the DAO space interface with the visceral/material infrastructure of the meatspace?</summary>
  
- Bring on guests from various projects to critically discussing (without schilling)
    - CabinDAO
    - The DAOist embassy (obviously)
    - FWC a.k.a. DAO Palace
    - MetaCartel IRL meetups: MCON, MetaCamp, etc.
    - groundw3rk's DAOcamp
    - Others?
- Hundreds of years of forming IRL collectives, co-operatives, etc. What do we think is so different or revolutionary about this new formations?
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  <summary>Sustainability/regeneration in relation to cultural curation/diversity</summary>
  
- Futuring/defuturing: potential pathways that we are stepping into, trying to very intentionally craft certain directions, while simultaneously closing down other potential futures. 
- This is fundamentally an exclusionary tactic.
- How do we reconcile ideas of inclusion and diversity with the exlcusionary utopian idea of going *somewhere specifically* and that means *not everyone can come*?
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## Season 5 Schedule (Provisional)

#### June 2
- Season kick-off
- Recap of season 4. Setup season 5 

#### June 9
- Taxonomies/typologies of DAOs

#### June 16
- What the DAO?

#### June 23
- Flyby of governance strategies in DAOs

#### June 30
- Do communities exist?

#### July 7
- Language is the knife that cuts deepest

#### July 14
- **DAOhaus IRL event on location?**

#### July 21
- Update on the narrative of DAOs

#### July 28
- Update on teh narrative of Ethereum

#### August 4
- Meetspaces and Multiverses: Part 1

#### August 11
- Meetspaces and Multiverses: Part 2

#### August 18
- What is sustainability and regeneration in DAOs?

#### August 25
- TBD

#### September 1
- TBD (Season 5 recap?)

#### September 8
- **MCON 2 special! Haus Party Live IRL at the DAOhaus House in Denver**

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Notes:

- Soul Bound Tokens, KYC, Proof of Humanity
- Rights, natural politics, freedoms to act/speak,