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

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?