Elizabeth just won a @macfound Fellowship this year. macfound.org/fellows/1028/ In her video, Elizabeth talks about how she likes to bring in history to inform her philosophy 👇
(6/8) "History is illuminating b/c where we are today is a product of ideas we've inherited from the past.
When you dig back to the idea's origins, it helps illuminate why we have habits of thought which might not be well adjusted to current experience."
1/ Coming up from a deep dive on the DeFi 2.0 rabbit hole. My learnings:
I. Where Are We Now?
II. NFTs, DAOs, and DeFi Are A Feedback Loop
III. Crypto Is A "Nuclear Reactor" For Money and Memes
IV. What's Going On In DeFi 2.0?
V. Other Trends
2/The premise is funny—Humanity, Capitalism, and Post-Capitalism are in relationship therapy.
Their problem:
-Humanity has outgrown Capitalism
-But Humanity doesn't know what Post-Capitalism looks like
They focus on 4 pillars of post-cap through dialogue, VR, and illustrations.
3/ The four pillars of post-capitalism:
BENTOISM: Zooming out to care about each other and the planet
GENEROSITY: Many of us have enough and can give back
COHERENT PLURALISM: Looking at issues from every angle
NETWORKISM: The rise of internet-enabled decentralized networks
1a/ First, Kobbi Nissim on "Predicate Signaling Out". (PSO)
AFAIU, it is a technical definition of privacy that formalizes the legal requirements of GDPR. (Asks the question—when could an adversary "signal out" a single person/row from a database?)
1b/ I didn't really understand the math of PSO, but some other learnings:
-Differential privacy (DP) and k-anonymity are defined mathematically. Contextual Integrity and Robot Lawyers are defined with formal logic.
-Nissim tried to create a math def of FERPA. It ended up ~= DP.
A great reminder that DEX arbitrage is just the tip of the iceberg—only .1% of total volume. See @BitwiseInvest report for example of CEX. (95% of reported volume is fake!)
Starting with @neha@socrates1024's overview of the "why" for this event:
- Catalyzing a new interdisciplinary academic field to increase signal-to-noise.
- Experimenting with peer review, and how it should interoperate with IRC, forums, Twitter.