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# HAUS Party LIVE! Notes S3Ep5 (9/30/21)

Join us for 🎉 Haus Party Live 🎉 every Thursday at 2pm EST on the [DAOhaus Discord](https://discord.gg/daohaus)

## Notes From the [Livestream](https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1094741535) 🎉

[YouTube Link](https://youtu.be/xHtQvn0YYUw)

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**Topics**

- Travis Wyche aka Travis the Beard
- [https://medium.com/@traviswyche](https://medium.com/@traviswyche)

**Hosts & Guests**

- Felipe Duarte, dekanbro, Vanilladelphia.eth, vengist
- Travis Wyche aka Travis the Beard

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🌱 Welcome to our metaphorical garden! 🌱

## Introduction

- Travis has been given the "the Beard" moniker
- Travis is joining from an Earth Ship
    - A "self-imposed residency to get some dirt under fingernails" and "figure out how to live in a more sustainable way"
- Recently spoke at MCON
- MolochDAO member are is one of 2.5 contributors to *The REally Boring Guild* which is the ops Guild for MolochDAO
    - Going through a "cultural renaissance"
- Falling into the web3 rabbit hole each day

## Updates (DAOhaus Universe)

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## Death Guild

- Has received a MolochDAO grant for a project called *Death Guild*
    - *Death Guild* is a series of dialogues and debates (in the style of ancient philosophical dialogues)
    - Possible call for contributors!
- Before being on any Discord servers, was being onboarded by Stellar Magnet — this allowed time and space for grappling with some of the problematic aspects of governance and treasury management
- Took next step to contribute to MolochDAO via helping articulate the Grants Pipeline and Membrership policies into the docs
- Began contributing as a writer and researcher
- Left a PhD program to jump into DAOs — looking from a philosophical history lens and noticed that there are questions not being asked and perspectrives not represented in the space
- Began research project to address these perspectives
- UX/UI researcher looking from outside the tech sphere
- Proposal for Death Guild "begins and ends with ruminations on the core topics...of DAOs"
    - Governance modalities — open source archive for exploring modalities
        - What does it mean for people to coordinate? What does this look like for scaling?
    - Treasury management — as an "anarcho punk" dislikes thinking about money, but this is a good opprotunity to shift toward thinking in terms of *resource management*
        - Can we think in terms of UBi and redistribution of wealth to create element of collaboration between disparate groups
        - Economic and environmental sustainability
    - Privacy — fulcrum with a balance between individual sovereingty and anonymity
        - Change identity at will
        - Not feeling the need to be anon is a privilege, and this is a problematic idea that deserves a deep dive unto itself

### As a resource and money manager who dislikes money, is this an ideal place to be?

- Travis isn't a treasury, resource, or money manager. Not framing in this way
    - Identifying in this space as a *Scribe* to use Raid Guild terminology
    - Crafting the lore and mythology crafting and the articulation of the philosophies that drive the space
- Aligned with non-tech and non-DAO communities and making sure that active contributors are recognized for the values they bring
    - They less easy to quantify and create metrics, the more exciting to put positive focus on "cultural, community value generators"
- Role is to try to find locations for inserting value generation
- Still figuring out a lot of tokenomic mechanisms
- Can move away from potential hoarding nature of human beings and the "materialistic and fetishistic" relationship to money
    - DAOs facilitate the opening of the aquafirs to allow the value to flow and remain dynamic and circulate
    - Create a "collective water tower of resources and open the faucet together"
- *gm* is cute but underwhelming — we are at a level of "tribe formation" that feels like the times of IRC in the early days of the Internet
- Maybe we should have never left the early Internet
    - Some of the initial goals of the early Internet and what folks were trying to build is an open space to share information globally and it turned into a data harvesting system driven by big-data advertising
- Early Internet meant as a coordination tool that was turned into a tool of control by those with power
    - MCON talk poised to ask the questions "What is it we are organizing for?" "What is it that we are optimizing for?"
        - Folks asking what is meant by this
    - Making sure that we're not repeating the mistakes of the past (early Internet is a more recent example, but this pattern has played out throughout human history)
    - Banners of humanism and altruism and egalitarianism and this then becomes a weapon used against others as a method of suppression
    - Since MCON, lots of conversation about how the DAO ecosystem is becoming increasingly fractalized and there is talk about the "emergence of communities" as organisms
        - This may be a harmful metaphor for DAOs — DAOs aren't literally natural, these are systematic and mechanistic systems
    - Human progress optimizes for efficiency and efficiency is fragile and anti-natural — it removes redundancies — natural systems have redundancies that create anti-fragility
    - This *should* be the type of system we design, but claiming that our current system is at this state, it may be disingenuie
        - Are we not asking acute enough questions?
        - Are we not probing deeply enough?
    - Cells collaborate for the greater good of the organism, not the greater good of the cell itself but we're not there yet
        - What is the system that is being optimized for? We antropomorphize the world — we have superimposed our own values and structures in other parts of the world
        - Due to Cartesianism we tend to think that this is all *for us* — but we're "meatsack water balloons"
            - Human delusion is to think that we're individuated as a species instead of being in service in our gut bacteria
            - When this expands outward and scales, we're taking all the world's resources and putting into industrial processes
                - Is this repeating colonialism?
                - Is there a question of agency in all of this?
    - Octavia Butler — writing a series about [Earthseed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthseed)
    - It's interesting to think through these questions
    - Everything is layered protocols programmatically and robotically running their own style of existence
        - When it works less, there is an adaptation mechanic that triggers
    - Nothingness → somethingness
- Requires a form of "existential agility" to move and adapt
- If we *choose* to see the whole world through Game Theory and as a mechanistically informed optics — if we choose to accept that we're in a game that is "rivalrous and competitive" — if we choose to look through this lens this is the primary delusion
    - Learned to understand this as a "problem of imagination" — problem of coordination more than a game and social coordination — not reducable to economic and political coordination
        - eye-hand coordination — how to act with integrity and dignity
        - Resolve and remove primary delusion that we are rivalrous
    - Get to point where we're not designing games for each other
    - Borges, Calvino, Baurdillard
        - Discord is an example of a *simulation*
        - We'll never escape the library itself — we create "fortresses of alienation"
    - The largest, most meta design problem of all — there is no one better suited to handle this design problem than the folks in the DAO ecosystem and community
    - "Lost all hope for true precision of langauge and only enjoy it for its poetic possibilities"
    - Felipe chose the poet route over the philosopher route
        - Philosopher burdened with building tight ship with wet towels, poet can take off clothes and swim
        - Ungrateful toil to use language with precision
            - Understand coding — it is language that holds water
    - Language is more utilitarian — operating system of consciousness
        - We're more complex than computers, so let's not reduce it
        - Language is the "primitive emergent technology of consciousness" and without language we wouldn't be able to "track and archive" our thoughts and couldn't learn and disperse information
    - Language keeps us entrenched within our delusion but gives us hope to escape our delusions
        - Admit the fault of the things we love the most
    - Magic is used as a term too — "magic of coordination" — acuity of minds at the code and infrastructure level that are a parallel to magic
    - Language is magic — we are concocting and summoning to the present — impose a layer on reality that is imaginative
        - Absolutely fundamental
    - Inability to create properly with one another to communicate what we know — "telepathy is the full blockchain version of conversation"
        - Blockchain can help build trust due to transparency — if we were telepathic we'd not ened to communicate. We'd coordinate *or not*
- Experimenting with single serving coordination mechanisms ike FlashDAOs or BurnerDAOs
    - At end of show you'll be in a DAO, and can claim funds or stay in the DAO
    - This is an experiment!
- Comes down to public trust — having telepathy and transparency has been something to be able to learn through DAOs and trustless mechanisms
- True privilege is to live in a state of generosity and be *radically generous — these are the infinite gardens we're trying to create*
- MolochDAO Renaissance — creating opportunities for new folks to come in
    - Integrating aspects of the MetaCartel ecosystem — if we want to go far, we *have* to go together, and to do that we need to slow down
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## Resources

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