Thread by @LarrotizPablo

I used to work at YouTube doing virtual reality. There I met some amazing people, including @debfx. He showed me a demo for a light field VR rendering project that he was working on.

For those that do not know, a light field is a mathematical description of a volume of light

It is understanding every ray of light in a scene

Why is this so powerful?

Light is the medium of our consciousness. It is what connects us to each other and the universe

By creating a perfect light field you can create a perfect (or near perfect) re-image or meta-image of our own world in virtual reality

This technology at first fascinated me, so many possibilities, but then it frightened me.

It frightened me because I saw a world where we are disconnected from nature through our devices and technology

And this leap to VR will accelerate that

We are opening up a new world beyond our wildest imaginations with virtual realities

The first time I tried Googles internal demo I felt like I was actually there

Like my limbic system just accepted it was real

We are moving towards a brave new world with this technology

A world where you will have everything your mind desires and everything you could ever dream of

Heaven on earth

Yet, there is no good without evil

There are two futures ahead of us — one that is controlled by a small group of people that give us the world and can take it from us whenever

And a world where people have individual property and rights

The constitution being purchased by @ConstitutionDAO started as a joke

But it became clear very quickly that this joke held so much symbolic weight behind it

Rising political tensions will have something to precipitate on, using a token for governance to potentially edit one of the most fundamental and important pieces of political writing ever

Benjamin Franklin is a personal hero of mine. Yes, he owned slaves

Yet, he freed them by the end of his life and he started activism to try to free all slaves

This was very radical for his times

Most people of privilege today thinks that they would not own slaves if they lived in those times, but the truth is they likely would

Most people think they would speak up in Nazi Germany, but the truth is most people wouldn’t.

Most people think they would speak up if our fundamental liberties as free people were being infringed upon

But most people are not

Please, stand with me in saying that the constitution of the United States is an important historical artifact and should not be modified, especially in a symbolic moment of it “entering the metaverse”

We are at the crossroads of two worlds ahead of us

The powerful, the ones with most the capital would prefer a centralized world where they are the owners, and “you will own nothing and be happy”

I do not believe in that world. I believe in a world of private ownership, of transparent power structures, decentralized keys of power, economic inclusion and freedom of speech and organization

Please stand with me and show your support. This may seem like small potatoes now, but these DAOs will be the ownership structures of the future, and the first mover sets a precedent for how others will act.

Let’s set a good precedent with @ConstitutionDAO by preserving history.

History is often written by the winners and heavily editorialized.

The blockchain is a source of truth and transparency — and most of all it is a ledger that cannot be changed once a block is created

Let’s make this first block of the symbolic representation of the constitution be true to its current writing

And let’s convert many of its current writing into smart contracts

Once those laws are on the blockchain they are immutable, they will exist forever

That doesn’t mean that people must follow those laws forever, they can make their own rules and follow those — ultimately you can construct your own incentives

This is why smart contracts are so powerful — and with great power comes great responsibility

Let’s be good stewards of decentralized technology, and show the world that this future is in *their* hands

Not in someone else’s

Thank you for reading, I really appreciate you if you took the time to read my story and understand it

These themes are very opaque because the technologies are very complicated

I want do my part to shine a light on where we could be heading and why this moment is so important

I’d also like to thank my family and loved ones for supporting me through a very emotional and difficult time

Being a core contributor @ConstitutionDAO and seeing all these things from the inside really took a toll on my emotions, but I’m doing better

❤️++

It’s important to clarify that digital property won’t just exist in the VR world, it will extend into our physical world as well

Let me explain

I used to work at Waymo and I got a peak into what the future of robotics will look like.

There is a similar theme where at first I was fascinated, and then I was worried

For those that don’t know, Waymo is Google’s autonomous vehicle project

They have cars loaded with sensors that can map and navigate their surroundings — often better than a human

Why was I worried? Because the technology is so powerful, it has the potential to replace all human drivers — and replace them with robots

And these robots would all follow the same rules, better than any human, centralized control

The first moved in the autonomous vehicle space will get a massive network effect advantage — whoever unlocks the secret of general autonomy first wins

And they will likely own all the taxis

Not only will they replace taxis though, but long-haul truck drivers, package delivery, warehouse logistics, everything that requires something to move from point A to point B

And it will do it without complaint, and without pushback — it will execute orders like no employee ever could

Yet… what happens if they cancel a rider? Say, because they are not up to date on the latest health regulations

In just a few lines of code and update to a database, now you cannot access this whole network of real life digital-property

With a press of a button they can take away… everything, because in the future it will all be connected. The internet of things.

So don’t think that digital property rights don’t matter if you don’t buy the latest Apple AR glasses, or Facebook Metaverse Glasses

It will affect your ability to do basic things in the real world as well

Your only option at that point would be to live out in the country away from everyone — excluded from society

So what’s the cure? Again, digital property rights. Digital property you cannot confiscate. Real ownership

The issue though, is that each of these robots will be incredibly expensive, so one person owning it will be totally prohibitive

So, we’ll have to learn how to share

Yet this won’t be sharing in the sense that no one owns it, it’s sharing in the sense that multiple people own it and govern it together.

Does this sound familiar to you? It should

This is digital ownership rights using decentralized technology — here it is again, offering a solution.

This potential rewriting of the constitution in the “metaverse” to set a precedent for collectively governed digital assets is huge

And it’s huge not only for jpegs and silly stuff that looks like a pump and dump scheme — it’s huge for deciding what kind of shared ownership do we want

Top down

Bottom up

Top down, unfortunately, is indistinguishable from communism. It is enforced sharing, and if you step out of line they will take everything from you.

Bottom up collectives coming together over shared values and interdependence, working together in a decentralized and autonomous way — this is what I stand for

It goes all the way back to the money supply and it being controlled in private hands, versus what the founding fathers had proposed initially: no centralized banks

The founding fathers declared independence from the centralized British empire and their centralized banking system — no where in the constitution does it say there will be a federal reserve

The federal reserve is a private institution. With roots going back to the European banks funding both sides of wars between the British and the French. Profiting over political divides

We are seeing a similar threat today. History doesn’t repeat, but it rhymes. Not many people can see into the opaque technologies of virtual reality, autonomous robotics, and smart contracts — I’m trying to elucidate what I can for you

If you have made it this far then you clearly care about this stuff. Feel free to get into contact, we need all the support we can get to fight the good fight

I appreciate you all, thank you if you made it this far. ❤️++

Now I’ve outlined the problem pretty well, but what’s the solution?

Enter the Green Bay Packers

The Green Bay Packers have a very unusual governance structure. Why is one of the biggest football teams in such a small town?

The Green Bay Packers set up a shared ownership governance structure where the citizens of Green Bay could govern what happens to the team

Governance rights are non-transferable, so they stay inside of families, and are only transferred in the event of death

Therefore the rights don’t necessarily have economic value in that you can sell them on the market, but they give you the ability to vote on key decisions like: Who is the general manager? Will the team relocate?

On top of this, no one person can have more than 4% of the total vote, so it’s decentralized

This offers a real-life solution to shared digital-property governance

It is decentralized, it is not a security (not transferable), but it gives you the right to govern a piece of a collectively owned thing

And owning it can give you benefits, like free tickets or reduced drink and food prices

.@ConstitutionDAO should take this proposal seriously, and see if they can do something like this. Their precedent is incredibly important.

Not only that, but we can formalize the constitution’s current frameworks using smart contracts right now — in particular the rules around how to edit it

We can formalize the rules for editing the constitution and put them on the blockchain as closely to the original interpretation as possible.

It will likely need some guidance by people on the Supreme Court

We can work *with* the existing government to make it even more trust-less and decentralized. This would be a huge step forward in improving how our government works — more efficient, transparent, auditable, and inclusive

Ok… going to take a break now. This is a big tweet storm, I’ve said most of what I want, but there might be another wave. We’ll see