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# HAUS Party LIVE! Notes: S3Ep8 (Liscon FOMO Edition)

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/1183021727) 🎉

> Initial notes shared after Haus Party LIVE! but will be updated afterward with more references and resources. 

**Topics**

- Liscon FOMO
- Open conversation with the audience

**Hosts & Guests**

- dekanbro, Vanilladelphia.eth, vengist, and other folks!

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🌱 Welcome to our metaphorical garden! 🌱

## Liscon FOMO
- Felipe is hosting [The DAOist](https://www.thedaoist.co/) event in Lisbon
- Grabbing some audience questions and jamming

## Updates (DAOhaus Universe)
- DAOhaus has *The Boost Bonanza* coming up -- special boosts and integrations launching
- Other NFT ideas in the works
- Next week we'll have more coming out with *multicall forms*
    - If you've used safe minions, this will 10x capability by adding in multicall functionality
    - Experimenting with linking 2 DAOs by sharing a Gnosis safe
    - Shared alignment around a single treasury
- Look for infographics showcasing some basic DAO configurations possible on DAOhaus
- **Wargames**
    - Anyone coming to Haus Party Live able to participate in these FlashDAOs
    - Can either claim or play the *DAO Wargame*
        - Last week introduced idea of *social contracts* 
        - Investigating altruism and social relations

## Meditations on Moloch
- [Meditations on Moloch by Scott Alexander](https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/)
- What impact did this have on you and your web3/crypto journey?
- Not like a "Our DAO vs. your DAO" or "us vs. them", it is "all of us vs. Moloch"
    - Moving away from these dichotomies and instead thinking about how we can coordinate -- breaking down coordination happens internally often
    - As we see cultures within the space emerge, such as Degen, we should remain aware that when we're creating new things it doesn't need to be 100% of a single thing
    - Competition in the space is to drive ourselves to do better, not to squish each other's projects and ideas
    - "Want to lift up everyone because what we want to do is build something better for the future."
- TravisWyche's take on some of the philosophical themes throughout:
    - Found this through the Moloch Ventures whitepaper alongside "8 Principles for Managing a Commons"
    - Living document that we can (and should) continue contributing towards -- there are many openings about how we think about the "world as an economic game"
    - Contextualized through existential risk
    - There are real stakes at play, there is extenstential risks around how we communicate and collaborate with each other, and losing the game has real consequences
    - Also reminiscent of Aaron Swartz's work, particularly hyperlocal ideas about governance: http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/parpolity
        - People should be voting on things that they have skin in the game on
        - Much of how DAOhaus works now is inspired from these ideas
### Applied Learnings from Meditations on Moloch
- As we're moving forward with lots of velocity it's important to have a strong sense of alignment
- Calling the contract `moloch.sol` is interesting and has caused lots of confusion throughout the years
    - Idea is to be *slaying* Moloch, not worshipping Moloch
- "7 Habits of Highly Effective People" similarity -- does creating a DAO have a similar set of effective core principles for creating a community?
- What things have been learned from reading MoM that can be actively applied to creating a new DAO?
    - Revealing weaknesses that led to lack of coordination
    - Theme of centralized power is present throughout -- aware of creating "coordination mechanisms instead of mechanisms of control"
        - Aware of this when setting up DAO processes
    - We talk a lot about trustless mechanisms but these help us actually develop more trust in each other
        - Emergent property in these mechanisms
- Moving from control to coordination mechanisms is a huge shift, but once you start to understand it and see the elements that lead to coordination over control
    - Once trust is there, less checks need to happen -- this is critical, especially for smaller DAOs
    - "If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together."
        - Not a strict dichotomy. As a DAO member, it is useful at times to go fast and alone when doing something for the DAO
        - Working together doesn't always mean "working directly together" -- working on separate things with a merge at a point down the road
- Focusing entirely on efficiency can lead to existential risks
    - Anecdote of [Paperclip Maximizer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrumental_convergence#Paperclip_maximizer): Take a system, or AI, and task with one thing and have it do this one thing very well, it can distort the world view to *prioritize the optimization of the task*
        - Manifestation would be that we'd be "drowning in paperclips"
        - Must stay aware of what this threshold is and keep sight on values so to not lose our humanity
- "Raising the sanity waterline" is happening in the DAOhaus community, and DAOs generally, and web3 more generally
    - Means of production moving back to the hands of the makers
- Real meditation on Moloch: Convince ourselves that we're doing something for the greater good, but with a single slip we're suddenly working against ourselves and others

### Sub DAOs and Raid Guild
- Sub DAOs are a way to minimize group size while also communicating back to a parent DAO
- People tend to be more efficient in smaller groups, and this is how Raid Parties work
- How do open systems and forking work? Sometimes this is an effective way to show dissent, and being able to fork and *rage quit* are healthy mechanisms

### Other Inspirational Texts
- [Robert Heinlein's Moon is a Harsh Mistress](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Moon_Is_a_Harsh_Mistress) \
    - Another inspirational text when thinking about decentralization
- Speculative fiction is useful for imagining alternative timelines
- The *dystopian side* of blockchain is interesting -- tend to hear more about the *utopian side*
    - What potential futures are we accidentally leading ourselves into?
- [Neuromancer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuromancer)
- [Snow Crash](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_Crash)
- [Cryptonomicon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptonomicon)
- [Anathem](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anathem)
- [Always Coming Home](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Always_Coming_Home)
- Your wallet as a "permenent mark" on the blockchain, and this is a serious issue with identity
    - Address tied to your identity can mean different things in different cultures
        - What are the consequences?
- Raid Guild
    - Championing process revamp -- now, to Champion a member you need to stake an amount of tokens
    - Metrics need to be hit, and if not met the stake will be slashed. If met, will be rewarded!
    - Staking reputation can potentially be more impactful than financial staking