Imagine an NBA game where players imagine they're playing for the same team, but only see their own points. That's how ideological movements work on social media today: only individual profiles, no team dashboards.

DAOs change this. Number go up means movement goes up.
DAOs are also a potential resolution to the long-running argument over whether corporations only have a fiduciary duty to their shareholders — or if they should be run by the "community", which in practice usually means the state.

But what if it didn't?
A third way between (a) a small group of possibly societally-disaligned shareholders and (b) de facto nationalization by a dirigiste state is (c) many DAO coinholders with governance rights related to their skin-in-the-game.
Investment is a component of governance, but it probably won't be purely capital-gated. Web-of-trust will also play a role. @VitalikButerin's recent post is good on this topic.
vitalik.ca/general/2021/0…

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20 Sep
Expect more calls to break up from across the political spectrum. Here's one:
Here's another, from a different ideological position:
This article from 2018 predicts the use of interstate compacts...
archive.is/Dh3fW Image
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20 Sep
One of the more interesting kinds of US parochialism is the refusal to accept that other cultures detest wokeness — and recognize it as the next iteration of American imperialism.

Here's Macron himself from last October:
wsj.com/articles/emman… Image
@DanielLarison is antiwar, so he should understand why this is a meme — and why the global pushback against Woke America will only grow from here on out. Image
Others across the political spectrum have also noticed this is old wine in new bottles.

Here's John Gray by way of @tylercowen: "Wokery is the successor ideology of neo-conservatism, a singularly American world-view." bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…
Read 5 tweets
18 Sep
Meanwhile, Iran has just been admitted as a full member of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, a sort of China-centric version of NATO and the EU.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai_…
"The SCO is probably the biggest international organization that you’ve never heard of, and that’s likely because the West is being expressly excluded. However, the SCO is increasingly influential and is set to only become more well-known in the West." speri.dept.shef.ac.uk/2017/09/03/the…
The oddest thing about SCO is the membership list, as many others have observed. India is in there, alongside Pakistan, in a "security" alliance, and admitted on the same day. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai_…
Read 4 tweets
18 Sep
Why did France take the dramatic step of recalling its ambassadors to the US and Australia?

One thesis is that Macron has wanted to break free of American wokeness for a while. And this gives him the diplomatic casus belli to do so.
Remember when media corporations reported[1] the beheading of Samuel Paty as a "police shooting", if they reported it at all?

France remembers[2].
[1] archive.is/fiXH3
[2] archive.is/pFw0G
Germany also isn't happy with the US for threatening sanctions over their pipeline deal with Russia, then backing down, then doing some sanctions after all in a symbolic-but-annoying way. It shows petulance rather than strength.

And Germany and France are the core of the EU.
Read 7 tweets
17 Sep
The AUKUS alliance resulted in losing support from France, America's oldest ally.
The future of the world may be a decentralized West and a centralized East.
Western nations are scattering like pinballs while ostensibly uniting vs China.

- UK now moves independently of the EU
- France is now mad at Australia and the US
- New Zealand actively refuses to join AUKUS
- NATO + EU absent

Meanwhile, Asia observes quizzically.
Read 8 tweets
17 Sep
Odd aspects of the new AUKUS submarine deal

- India and Japan from the Quad excluded
- Canada and New Zealand from Five Eyes not included
- France snubbed by Australia
- NATO not in the picture
- UK not what it once was in Asia
- Yet joint address by US, UK, AU heads of state?
The US is in several different alliances now (AUKUS, Quad, Five Eyes, NATO) with overlapping members.

Even though NATO is the "North Atlantic Treaty Organization" it put troops into Afghanistan and has a position on China. iiss.org/blogs/analysis…
Point: you'd expect an anti-China alliance announced with big fanfare to rope in as many Asian countries as possible.

At a minimum, extending the Quad to South Korea and the Philippines (both of which are arguably US- aligned) into a NATO Asia, or something like that.
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