HAUS Party LIVE! Notes: Season 4 Episode 4 (2/10/2022)

--- ###### tags: `Haus Party Live` --- # HAUS Party LIVE! Notes: Season 4 Episode 4 (2/10/2022) ## Synopsis Welcome to 🎉 Haus Party Live 🎉 every Thursday at 2pm EST on the [DAOhaus Discord](https://discord.gg/daohaus) **Topics** - "When cultures clash" **Hosts & Guests** - Felipe, dekanbro, Vanilladelphia.eth, vengist - Audience guests --- 🌱 Welcome to our *careful, uncensored* garden! 🌱 ## DAOhaus Manifesto - (Manifesto read by TravisWyche) - Process for working on the *Manifesto*: - Incredible to think about DAOs writing documents that provide "a sense of identity and cohesion" -- this type of documentation is the "mortar that binds the bricks of the community together" - Undying dedication to making sure that the community comes first, before profits - Month long async/sync conversation about the principles that guide the vision - Define ourselves by *not* focusing on the individual and instead focusing on the greater good - Iteration on e2t's *Vision and Values* workshop and led to a democratic process reflecting the democratic intent - How to organize the *chorus of voices* so that it's not a single person speaking for many? Integrate the collective voice into it - Folks honing in on the syntax and intentionality of word choices to ensure we're defending the core value we believe in - Goal for the Manifesto to become a living document -- crucial to DAO culture and onboarding and the vibe - "Should not be etched in stone" -- determine the process for making changes and updates based on what is happening in the community ### Process - Jord took initiative to put together a document with ideas for the community to respond to and started conversations - This led to a series of workshops where folks shared ideas - Added Discord threads with prompts with goal of encouraging conversation in a collaborative way - Community process -- important for all communities to go through a similar process - Folks were passionate about this process and was nice to see how much everyone cared about it - DAOhaus has its own culture and ethos and it hasn't been shared with the rest of the world yet - Emotional, powerful, and impactful that we both *can* and *do* align on the values outlined - Need to "force our imagination" to see DAOhaus as a global platform - *How do we legitimately build policy from intent?* - How do we evaluate process of decision making when folks have transgressed the values? - Difference between *politics* and *governance* that was mentioned last week ## When Cultures Clash - Talking as a team about what happens when worldviews clash within the metaverse, and how do our organized communities react and form policies around this - *Not referencing any specific cases in this conversation* - Conflicted feelings about social media censorship, such as Trump losing his Twitter, even if it is warranted - Troubling in that the company is able to revoke access based on disagreement - Decision made by a few people - Doesn't seem to be a way to win -- if you censor it, then you're a censor. But if you make it completely open there will always be voices that are saying potentially dangerous or inflammatory things - In a decentralized environment, community could fork since it's often a 50/50 disagreement and it's often heated - Forks that are more censorship resistant? - If a group of people are censoring -> code is open source, they can do their own thing ### Echo Chambers and Bad Actors - Are people making echo chambers by avoiding conflicting viewpoints? - Something like Twitter is a "waterfall of garbage" where you can pull out someone's "gold ring they threw down the chute" - Taken aback by how quickly conversation went to censorship instead of focusing on the bad actors - It's not the tools that are the problem -- what about the core issue of the bad actors? - There are people in society that are perpetuating harm through the language they use - There are people who are fine with being on side of oppression and are fine with justifying the oppression being done in name of a "greater good" or collective vision - Ignorant Oppressor and Cynical Oppressor - Malignant, cynical oppressor uses shared narratives of success to manipulate folks into creating legitimacy around their larger strategies - How do we communicate with the ignorant and the intentionally malignant? ### Game Theory, Power, and Schelling Points - How does economic calculus play into this situation? - Cancel culture: From game theory point, historically enfranchised powers that are so unaware of how settled in power they are they become beligerant when experiencing a sudden questioning of their power - Whereas folks that are disenfranchised are experiencing this lack of power and oppression daily - Framed this way, is cancel culture wrong? - There can be positive sum games, but this is difficult - Why is it that politics seems to melt away in crypto culture? - Creating space for new narratives and focus on a new "source of truth" so there is a tendency toward cooperation - Creativing alternative power structures and building alternative to what exists - DAOs and coordination mechanisms has provided effective frame to view issues that have been emerging in the web3 community - Core value of decentralization really means *decentralization of power* and if we think of it like this, it becomes easier to get to the point where we can think about relationships to power - Having power beyond basic human power is a responsibility and a privilege - Power over other people, especially in a narrative or DAO context, is thought of as power being delegated to you whether explicitly or implicitly - If they don't agree with how you're using it, it is their right to revoke it - Can start to create better structures and define games that allow individuals to exercise their individual power and remove power from folks they've delegated to - There was lots of dissent as a result of these recent decisions. **What does this dissent look like?** - Frustrating to see how often people need to qualify their experiences based on identity - Don't want to have to lead in on opinions with declaration of identity - Difficult to deal with unintentionally becoming an oppressor even if actions are rooted in allyship - Polarization embedded in discussion tends to move folks into feeling as if they're oppressors even if not intentional - Having to explain and preface with these things is troubling - We're focusing on coordination, so we want to make sure that folks feel safe to coordinate with each other - Won't be a productive outcome if folks don't feel safe with each other - How do the ideas translate into action? - "When ideas are communicated they become actions and communication has power, for good and certainly also for bad, even if the intent is the other way." - Folks have believes to share their believes and opinions but don't have the right to be insulated from the impact from sharing them, especially when in a position of outsized power ## Conflict Resolution Strategies - How to teach *calling in* rather than *calling out* and how this relates to current focus on cancel culture? - Calling in done with love and respect, and pointing out the focus on the fact that still talking with another human - Extending invitation as active form of love, activated listening to help whoever you're speaking to and help them realize if they're saying things that are harmful - Invitational extention is an action - Inevitable tension between identity and relationship - Engaging in practice of *checking* can help shift dynamic from affirming identity to relationship possibilities - Need to wield power with awareness, and there is a certain sense of "awareness debt" - Want people to disagree *and* productively collaborate - Human nature and coordination problems in human relationships - DAOs and coordination tools are a "synthetic means" to dealing with our relationships - Position of privilege to dismiss identity - We should be coordinating to "move beyond layer zero" and beyond the emotionally driven layer - When and how can we focus on this scale of coordination without stripping away someone else's identity - How do different tech platforms bring out different aspects of ourselves?