Alex Wittenberg

There are a few key points in which DAOs should have specific laws that pertain to this new governance structure:

In Season Two, we’re doubling down on what we do best: rapid experimentation, creation, and curation for social tokenized communities and their members. Some contributors have considered this vision a mix between a “web3 Rolling Stone” and a “web3 MSCHF.” Our core focus will be to empower web3 explorers to create at the frontier of tokenized... See more

The idea of silence as a commons, as Illich described it here, suggests to a me shared space into which you and I might enter and have just as much of a chance of being heard as anyone else. Technologies that augment the human voice empower those who possess them at the expense of those who do not, setting off the escalatory dynamics that... See more

I believe that following the full transition to Proof-of-Stake, most long-term financial investors will become stakers to maximize their total return and capture the yield available to stakers. Not doing so would be akin to owning a stock that pays a dividend and actively opting out from receiving the dividend! 

For example, FWB is tokenized. Membership is limited to tokenholders above a certain threshold. Events are token-gated. Content is token-gated. Life in FWB revolves around the token.

You are giving people a fundamentally different understanding of who you are, how you think, and how you became "you," from the very beginning. The more people who know things about you (to whatever degree you feel comfortable sharing), the more opportunities will come your way. The more people will say, "Wow, I didn't know you did that type or... See more

**Note:** AI as religion - something beyond humans’ comprehension that we’re putting faith in“If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn’t.” This statement makes intuitive sense, but, more importantly, we can point to a concrete example in support of it: the microscopic roundworm C. elegans.... See more

The idea of a decentralized organization takes the same concept of an organization, and decentralizes it. Instead of a hierarchical structure managed by a set of humans interacting in person and controlling property via the legal system, a decentralized organization involves a set of humans interacting with each other according to a protocol... See more

Philosophers have been worrying about distraction at least since the time of the ancient Greeks, who saw it less as a matter of external interruptions and more as a question of character—a systematic inner failure to use one’s time on what one claimed to value the most. Their reason for treating distraction so seriously was straightforward, and... See more