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LEARNING DAOs & BUILDING LIBERAL ARTS FOR CRYPTO

Or Why web3 needs broader academic scope, stat

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OUTLINE

HERE’S WHAT WE’RE GETTING UP TO

My Background ⏺

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Learning DAOs ⏺

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Why CCS ⏺

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Discussion / Q & A ⏺

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An Invitation ⏺

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BACKGROUND

Student > TEACHER > LURKER > DAO CONTRIBUTOR

History

  • broad scope liberal arts education
  • 10+ years teaching language & philosophy
  • down web3 rabbit hole

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Projects

  • CCS
    • building liberal arts for crypto
  • Plastic Labs
    • building hyperstructure for learning

Party Horse #559 (I’m from Kentucky…)

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A THEORY OF LEARNING DAOs

What they are now & what they could become

[Web3 Education Typology

  • edu about crypto
  • edu with crypto]

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[DAO Ontology

  • distributed ownership
  • distributed agency]

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  • Numerous
    • orders of magnitude more of them
  • Diverse
    • any collective enterprise w/ any parameters
  • Permissionless
    • self-organizing, easy to spin-up
  • Focused
    • well defined mission, vision, & approach
  • Modular
    • participatory & fluid autonomous nodes
  • Interoperable
    • a rich ecology of communities
  • Regenerative
    • addressing systemic issues in edu
  • Enhanced
    • low-friction, -latency, -cost, -mediation

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BRIEF HISTORY OF CCS

CRYPTO, CULTURE, & SOCIETY -- A DAO FOR THE LIBERAL ARTS

The Past:

  • founded in 2021 via Mirror crowdfund
    • a learning DAO to solve the “educational trilemma”

The Future:

  • sustainable institution reestablishing the liberal arts as the foundation for a better web
  • permissionless, modular community
  • home to researchers, educators, & learners receiving real resources & support

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The Present:

  • full-stack, periodic initiative hosting learning experiences for members
    • technologists, creators, community builders, educators, & lifelong learners

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CCS AS AN ETHICAL ENDEAVOR?

Learning from the web’s previous iterations

Web1 & Web2 Vibes

  • excitement around similar idealistic potential
  • degenerates into monopsonic cartel
  • from exploiting labor to exploiting identity
  • political, epistemic, & psychological crises
  • …finally earnest inquiry at scale

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Coordination Requires Depth

  • we must be different
  • investigate the human research questions, the:
    • philosophical
    • anthropological
    • historical
    • artistic
    • & more

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BREAK

Discussion / q & A

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SEMESTER I

  • Li Jin — On the changing nature of labor, and work on the internet
  • Gaby Goldberg — The Nature of Exclusivity in Crypto
  • Ameer "Sirsu" Carter - On-Chain Social Capital
  • Packy McCormick — The Great Online Game
  • Reggie James - Extending our cultural reference points
  • Jackson Dame - Web3 Identity and Inclusivity
  • Briana Hokanson (Bhoka) - Art Meets Crypto
  • Jarrod Dicker & Denis Nazarov- The Future Media Stack
  • Morgan Beller - Funding Crypto Culture
  • Will Papper — Loot and Protocol-Market Fit
  • Sam Williams — A World with Decentralized Storage
  • Nicola Greco - Cryptography and moral dilemmas: security vs freedom
  • Simon de la Rouviere - Narratives and Storytelling in Blockchain Economies
  • Lady PheOnix - NFT Landscape

SEMESTER II

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JOIN US

The “UnSemester” kicks off next week

And we’re giving free access & DAO membership to anyone at Ed3

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