we have now, at the commencement of the 21st century, begun a massive societal shift toward decentralization

But the most powerful models are also beginning to demonstrate complex capabilities, such as power-seeking or finding ways to actively deceive humans.

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hile others thought this biased people who were willingto “jump through hoops and self promote” (decentralion, 2019).

anywhere it is on the social channels established byblockchain developers for users

resulting in a “mode of governance that dispenses withprocesses of subjectification by operating directly on the environment of the individual actors,shaping their conduct by intervening in their surrounding milieux” (18).

Salary - need enough to survive, but since TEC is not a tax-funded institution, this is off the table

EC focuses too much on running the TEC (which was needed in the beginning to build it from the ground up) and not sufficiently on nurturing Token Engineering Commons - the public good, which is not only what is represented by ABC+CV and its operations.

To live what we value fully “Sustainable and Ethical Design for Token Ecosystems” we also need Token Engineering Resources for practitioners Learning Resources (and practice spaces) for learners and practitioners

So intrinsic motivation, “scratching a TE itch”, is the only economically viable incentive we can provide for TEs.

multi-scale.

Each investment strategy will include a range of possible operations based decision-making scenarios for individual Fund-Managers that will provide guidance on using their discretion. While not all decisions can be realistically presented to the community, each Fund-Manager will commit to act according to the intent of the approved strategy.

Hold fast to the goal of goodness.

Why do we need to think and act more systemically?

I would like to understand whether we are preparing to move away from “Commons as Public Goods” and into a strictly cashflow business as @akrtws and @trentmc0 seem to suggest.

What is the Public Good of Token Engineering?) (b) iteratively figure out how Commons-based peer production of TE knowledge can pay off for all stakeholders in token ecosystems (which is a huge vision, considering we aim also at TE Ethics all along).

short-term, this can be agreed upon rather quickly: proposals that get funding through TE Commons - and have revenues - share a portion of that or better yet buyback $TEC and build (e.g. distribute to builders/learners of TE knowledge) ;

f $TEC holders sell off now, I hope sufficient TE learners and experienced TEs buy the dip- which brings me to the next obvious issue of liquidity, imv more pressing than “coming up with emergency revenue plan” → which would be giving up on Commons.

On paper and strictly by the numbers, I agree with @trentmc0 in that cutting spending, nearly to or outright to zero, may be

In DAOs fund management process is executed by a special treasury committee. Treasury committee = multi-sigs with funds + decision-makers The Treasury committee commonly consists of several people. They do following actions:

You need to monitor everything, check out updates, think about hedging (if you invest in something volatile) or at least read Twitter all the time to know (1) possible risks arising in products you supplied treasury money (2) new yield opportunities on the market.

submit 2 grant requests for TEC general support

develop a treasury policy and strategy and begin earning yield

There is a narrative here that I think is extremely important to follow, and it raises much larger questions about our efforts in this space. If we use the TE Academy for example, who holds the rights to decide what level of participation the TE Academy has within the TEC economy? Who can enter into agreements? What incentives exist that maintain this alignment? This applies to all projects that we choose to fund.

I completely agree. However, I think that in the tokenized public goods space, it’s very difficult to actually “Earn” anything. We can produce Education as a public good for example, but that does not guarantee the ability to generate revenue because we don’t own the TE Academy or have rights to the revenue that is generated

There would be high volume on the ABC that would generate sufficient Common Pool funding. Need to have a Commons Pool sustainability strategy that takes into consideration the possibility of low volume trading of TEC.

We need to sell supporters the token! I mean, we need to come up with marketing campaigns and sell people and organisations the notion that better Token Engineering is a vital tool to change the world for the better.

The interplay between the interests of token holders (a) to sell when token price rises and (b) to buy as price drops to claim additional governance power over a growing treasury, creates a negative feedback loop that leverages speculative behavior into a continuous source of income for the project.

Money for the Commons,” noting agreement amongst scholars that such a currency for the commons needs to be anti-speculative, not scarce, and operated on a technological infrastructure that minimizes energy expenditure.

they conclude that blockchains must go beyond the expression of exchange value and be put in the service of use value production and circulation as well, which, “still, is where the commons begin” (2018: 6).

thermodynamic context,” attempting to understand the physical preconditions for the continuation of human societies (Turchin and Nefedov, 2009).

Therefore, project proposals will need to include a model on ROI. Average ROI must be >1.0 for the ecosystem to grow.

Then it hit me: lorecraft is a natural and adaptive intellectual response to the automation of vast swathes of managerial/leadership functions, and organizational processe