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🧵Another mind-bending week with "Let's Talk About DAOs" 🚀

We dove deep into the philosophical underpinnings of what we're actually building. Asking questions like "what is truth?" and exploring the ethics of incentives brought up even more ❓

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🧵Another mind-bending week with "Let's Talk About DAOs" 🚀

We dove deep into the philosophical underpinnings of what we're actually building. Asking questions like "what is truth?" and exploring the ethics of incentives brought up even more ❓

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Autistic man interested Indian spiritual traditions, lived in an ashram for 5 years, and used to coach and race bikes. Work at Octant, play at GravityDAO

🎭 Truth in Communication 

Deep dive into how all communication is abstraction. Every word we speak is incomplete.

This puts an ethical burden on us to be intentional with our influence - especially when we're "manipulating" (influencing) others through governance. 

⚖️ The Manipulation Spectrum

From pure self-interest to helping others see what's in their best interest - all human interaction involves influence.

The question isn't whether we influence, but whether we do it transparently and ethically.

💰 Beyond Economic Thinking

Wild observation: we have thousands of crypto tokens but haven't evolved our understanding of what wealth actually means beyond dollars.

What if DAOs explored the different forms of wealth instead of just tokenizing everything? 

🔍 The Autonomy Question 

If something is truly decentralized AND autonomous, would it even organize at all? 

The very term "DAO" might be a paradox. We're still figuring out what decentralized, autonomous, and organization even mean to us.

🎯 The Central Paradox

We're all building "decentralized" communities... while relying on centralized platforms like Twitter and Discord. 

The irony isn't lost on us. We literally have a term "Crypto Twitter" (CT) for gathering on a platform run by... well, you know. 

🧠 Paradoxes as Learning Tools

@durgadas.eth dropped some wisdom about how paradoxes aren't bugs in human experience: they're features. They exist to teach us lessons and drive evolution over cosmic timescales.

The goal isn't to avoid them, but to resolve them and grow.