[Applause]
so basically the format of today's
session is that you will do a brief
presentation about 15 minutes or so so
that we're all roughly on a similar page
in terms of our working definition of
those which can be iterated and changed
but as well what the exercise today will
look like so after that 20-minute
presentation we will do an exercise to
create a mappings of initial taxonomy of
dials and split into smaller groups then
we'll regroup and share our findings but
the smaller groups again for another
iteration and then we'll close with next
steps for research and how to continue
so the workshop is called taxonomy
Dallas but it's actually towards an
initial attacks on Maeve does because
taxonomy is about the PhD is worth of
work and we have about two hours today
so we're doing a text on beat Dallas but
what to tell so a lot of people use this
term very differently and a lot of its
origins are very fraught from where
we're at today so a lot of people might
remember and 2014 2015 there's a concept
of kind of unstoppable businesses and
also the idea of kind of runaway Skynet
like entities a certain autonomous
organization and the idea that it
wouldn't run away there was no way
either jurisdictionally or otherwise to
stop it but then looking at where we are
at today it does look very different
than this most of them entail some form
of like human interaction so for the
purposes of the workshop today we put
together a rough definition that's
actually coming from a rough definition
for audiences outside of the blockchain
realm so it might not be
technical as you are used to so weird
money today decentralized autonomous
organizations as a software based
organizational framework lowering the
cost of its institutional grantees and
using incentive design to coordinate for
common goals and of course as far as
definitions go all of these separate
terms inside this definition could use
their own but for the purposes of today
we will iterate and validating this
definition through the process of
taxonomy plan and get started on with
the kind of definition of Dallas we
thought we would highlight just a couple
of dollars that I think a lot of us are
familiar with that are operating today
so we started to break this down into
just like a few components right now to
talk about but in the exercise there
also we have seen more
so we're prime directive that's like
okay what's there's a purpose of this
now and for mulligans you know
accelerating the development of public
aetherium infrastructure because part of
the reason is yeah many teams need this
throughout that they're an ecosystem but
they they don't want to do it alone
partly because they might think that
their foundation should pay for
environment but you know if you pull
more hundred funds together as a network
of organizations maybe we could
accomplish more and then the the
membership process for Maalik is an
existing member of the dow needs to
champion new membership proposals and as
part of that championing process you
have to deposit deposit ten eight and
even if the member doesn't get approved
in the doubt the person that champions
it will get the ten each so there's
like slashing if you propose a bumper
that's not that that didn't get admitted
and then basically the voting process
for all proposals whether it's for
becoming a voting member or applying to
get shares that you prefer them so you
can develop something you just need like
that a simple majority and there's no
foreign required
so if Moloch is about sixty people now
like you know five people show up and in
the vote it will it would still pass and
as I said before it's like there are two
types of proposals but as far as the
smart contract goes it doesn't really
care and here are applying to be a
member or plan to be a grantee of the
project and then Moloch also has an exit
process not all now's necessarily do but
it's a novel ragequitting mechanism
where where it allows you to exit the
doubt and especially if a proposal is
about to be passed and you don't align
with it or you feel that that dowel is
moving in the wrong direction it's like
wasting money you don't want it to take
some of your money you can reach but and
the proposals are in a grace period
you'll get your proportion of the
Treasury back so so yeah Moloch is
unique in the sense that there is a
common Treasury and each person owns a
stake of it because whenever you're
applying for membership here
you're putting your depositing money
into the doubt in exchange for your
shares so that's basically describing my
life briefly so how many people are two
million with Genesis tell Chrissy's joke
ends okay so about a third of people so
Genesis now is another example of a
doubt that's operating today it's based
on the Dow stock framework and operated
by Dow stats how many of you familiar
with dowsed active decision hands so if
you are so you can kind of and then
might disagree with some of what I say
that this is what I think please man I
see Genesis as the main kind of advocacy
tool for Dow staff so it started by Dow
staff members and it's often maintained
by larger kind of Genesis deaf community
so similarly in keeping and defining it
now having a prime directive Birds kind
of objective function to simplify for
the Genesis tau which is built on a
dowel stock framework its role is to
accelerate the development of public Dow
stock based infrastructure and
organizations so that means the Genesis
now is primarily to support both the
technical development of Dow staff but
also the community community and social
development of now stock so what it
looks like in practice is like a
community forum that you use men in
masks or a nurse's station
to interact with in some transactions
and you come to the decisions about who
might be funded for some community work
community fundraising who might be
funded for some technical work like
building bonding curbs for down but it
looks mostly like before I've got people
vote on and come to conclusions about
how to support doused out another larger
frame so the membership process
basically it works stupid for different
- cocktails but for the genesis doe it's
more culturally determined at the moment
so the kind of cultural norms around
becoming a member of the Genesis Dow is
that a wallet address ideally a human
identifiable person but that's not
technically hard coded submits a
proposal advocating for their own
membership so what this looks like I did
it and there is basically a Google form
that I put together it being like my
name is Kia I want to join the dog
because I want to support this community
doing XY said here's what I've done in
the past to support this community
please accept my request for reputation
so reputation is not to be confused with
Al Gore's reputation it's actually a
token that's internal to dowse cocktails
and is not transferable so you can think
about it almost in a sense of um you
might have a token that's financial
capital whereas reputation and it does
satisfy social capital so when you
advocate for your membership what that
means is that you are given reputation
or social capital by the DAO and thus
have voting power in the down so they're
members of process just to simplify as
you go to the Dom say hey I want to join
and if people vote on whether you join
or not and usually you're using some
sort of persona or human-readable
identity
okay for yourself as the voting process
is somewhat complex but to do a super
simplified version this is based on the
Dow stack framework to genesis now once
again is based on a Dowsett framework
and they use holographic consensus but
you can basically say there's like two
tiers of how the governance process
works one is that there is a basic
voting process but on top of this voting
process there's independent prediction
markets where you use the Gentile set up
in to predict whether a proposal will
pass or not if you predict successfully
that a proposal will pass it will get
boosted in the main interface and being
boosted this means that kind of appears
at the top of the interface and no
longer requires an absolute majority to
pass so absolute majority means on 50%
of the people who have voting power need
to vote instead it has relative majority
which means that only 50% of the people
who vote of the reputation voting power
that votes has to vote in order for it
to pass so basically to simplify that
there's a prediction market that says I
think this proposal will pass
independent of the boat and then if that
predictor market does it means it's a
lot easier for that book to either pass
or fail if you don't have a written
proposal it's really hard to get
something passed um simplified in
there's a lot of other kind of smaller
nuances but I don't want to go
necessarily into them in detail but very
happy when we go into breakout sessions
to help any group that wants to look at
this stuff and one thing that's
interesting in terms of preparing
Genesis to optimal lockdown is the exit
process so where is Moloch I think a lot
of us are familiar with the kind of
grapes quitting everyone likes using the
term in endow styles you could say that
the exit process is actually technically
undefined
whereas in Mohawk it's leverage and in
Genesis you can say it's actually
difficult to exit the doubt you could do
a proposal that says hey I want to be
you no longer recognized
member but since at least kind of
technically and speaking their
reputation or voting power is not
transferable there is no way that you
should be able to give it up unless you
were to in some way and maybe like
publish the private key or something so
there's not really a way that the exit
is technically leveraged or socially
leveraged and a sec - yeah um so for
today um to switch gears a little bit
those are some down really super brief
examples but bring it back to text on
amines aside and to look at where we are
at with what we mean about to us today
we're building on the work of this paper
and hopefully you guys can paint it um
it's called a method for taxonomy
development and its applications and
information systems its primary authors
Nickerson and it was published in 2012
um so we wanted to use a little bit more
rigor in terms of how we approach this
rather than being like these just fit in
this group these other down-spin another
group so we're gonna do is another super
brief run-through of the methodology
will be following today before we break
out into groups and try it ourselves so
to define taxonomy now taxonomy is a
system that describes how different
concepts are related and organized
within a specific hierarchical structure
but in the context of this workshop and
the contents of the paper that will be
following they define rather laborious
ly a taxonomy as a set of dimensions
consisting of mutually exclusive and
collectively exhaustive characteristics
so what does that mean mutually
exclusive means that any goes once we
have two worksheets on everything it
will become more clear but mutually
exclusive means that one doubt in a
certain dimension can't belong to
multiple different characteristics so
you can't say that at AU if you look at
membership entrance process you can't
say that it does both permissioned and
unless you have to pick one of the other
and the taxonomy categories have to be
mutually exclusive in that way and now
can't belong to several of them at the
same time otherwise you won't produce a
kind of clear tree of a taxonomy does
that make sense okay and collectively
exhaustive characteristics every job has
to there shouldn't be a characteristic
that's empty or there's a big job that
doesn't fit on the list because then the
taxonomy doesn't include the whole field
and you could say that it's used to
explain and operationalize the category
of objects a taxonomy is so this means
that it shouldn't necessarily be
perceived as an ontology it could be
used to produce an ontology but mainly
and throughout the research paper it
says what's a what's a useful touch on
me with a good taxonomy and the
tautological definition is that it's one
that is used so we don't think this is
necessarily a finite kind of description
of a static field but one that's put
into use to produce new language to
produce to also highlight where there
are gaps currently so this is a diagram
of our flowchart Larina go through was
in that paper and it basically describes
the process so first to begin with
you'll determine the Medicare
characteristics so it's a high level
interaction between for our case it's a
high level interaction between a user
and a decentralized autonomous
organization and then the ultimate like
what it what are our ending conditions
and it's to conclude and an initial
taxonomy you will map a set of downs and
then mutually exclusive and collectively
exhaustive characteristics so that's
essentially with Kea just went over so
this is like
different different paths you can take
you can either start with conceptual to
empirical basically you can
conceptualize new characteristics and
dimensions of doubts examine the objects
for these characteristics and dimensions
and then create or revise your taxonomy
and I fir empirical two conceptual it's
identify a subset of cows I died by
common characteristics and group the
dowse and then group these
characteristics in two dimensions to
create or revise your taxonomy so as
you're going through this process like I
mean we did exercises before we're
talking about jowls we're figuring out
the characteristics and then that's was
flowing into applying them to other cows
and it's just like this loop until you
like come up with like the the best
terms to describe or to create the
taxonomy so so as so as we said in the
definition of taxonomy it's a set of
dimensions used to used to consist used
consistently mutually exclusive and
collectively exhaustive characteristics
so what is the dimension what is the
characteristic so you have one dimension
you can have multiple characteristics so
one example is like she just said
membership entrance permissioned
permissionless closed we can talk more
about you know what clothes might be I
don't know if we want to talk about that
now but that's kind of like it's like
for permissioned it's there's like a
clear way like an encoded in the smart
contracts for how you can enter or
permissionless it's like that's also in
the smart contracts but you don't have
to like apply to join you can like by
the token on the market and then for
clothes that's this kind of like it's a
decentralized autonomous organization
but it's it could be something like with
ten member so you're like a ten people
you're in a group of
you just kind of like decide one to add
people to the dowel or not just like
based on the people that are in the
organization so that's more of a Dow and
the technical sense of like people are
creating an organization on the
blockchain but it doesn't really have
like easy and true paths or yeah
essentially so then basically what we're
going to do in developing the taxonomy
is we come up with more dimensions and
we come up with more characteristics
like whenever we went through that
example with Moloch and Genesis before
we also defined something like exit
process etc etc so after this after this
present presentation is done we're going
to do some of these exercises ourselves
but basically in the worksheets what
we're going to be doing do you want to
talk about this here yeah so that was
our kind of brief presentation and to
give an overview of taoism taxonomy
design so do we feel like but okay so
let's say what we're gonna do first and
then we'll see how clear it is so what
we would like to do is actually have
people break into groups of it's quite a
lot of us so it may be five to six
people um with the people around you and
we are going to pass out worksheets
where we've actually predefined
dimensions and characteristics for the
taxonomy such as medicines membership
entrance membership exit the number of
active participants legal entity etc um
and so it's a kind of gritted row like
this and all of these that are on the
slide right now so and we've suggested
several example doubts for you to
evaluate in your group so we suggested
Moloch Genesis vivo McMurdo and
aetherium and of course some of these
may or may not be what we come to
in the future but you are also welcome
because there are blank rows and columns
in the worksheet to choose your own does
to evaluate and also to suggest your own
dimensions and characteristics that
should belong then taxonomy based on the
brief framework we just laid out so for
the moment we will take about 15 to 20
minutes in groups - and we ideally have
each group evaluate 2 to 3 Dow instances
and it is encouraged for you to pick
tabs that are not on the worksheet and
actually on you know I'm happy to
provide and go around and do a list of
dowels that we're more familiar with and
I'm happy to help you work with them and
what I think will be just roaming to
provide any missing information may
bring up the spreadsheet so another
thing that we can do together before we
start going through before we start
doing this for in the tabs on here the
the dimensions that we've defined we can
also come up with a view as a group that
can be written on the sheets just so we
can go through the process of you know
defining the dimensions and
characteristics together so maybe we can
just start off by doing one and see like
right now like right now if someone
wants to raise their hand in 4
they're dimension but we have years
membership entrance membership exit
number of active participants legal
entity dispute revolution live
resolution my life single-phase human
activity and deliberation it's like
there are a few more dimensions and if
you have an idea and raise your hand
right now
so when you say guess legal guess like
it has a legal rapper type like for
example like me for doubt there are a
lot of stakeholders like bash back
foundation or Aragon Network Tao I
didn't put on that sheet because I don't
know how many people are with the
operations of Aragon dal but I love John
to put it on the sheet so so yeah that's
that's kind of what we wanted to means
but for now we can see if anyone has an
idea for another dimension and if you
don't we can get engagement or desire
and so we have number of active
participants and the way that we have
defined that right now is how many
addresses or nodes have participated in
governance over the past twelve months
so we tried to define that as like
engagement but I guess that those
threshold would be like how many keep
how many people are members versus how
many people are active that might be a
phrase it better yeah yeah I'm thinking
about aims of having a high
participation rate
over to submission port city okay so
it's not really as to what's happening
but this design alright let's let's go
throughout notice that this will be
interesting to see if we can create like
some dimensions around it so maybe let's
try treat I like five or ten minutes
just talking here on this use case I'm
in so what would you what would you
define as the characteristics of this
hold
okay I see where you're going with this
gasps say that again yes yes hey okay
that's the closet
okay and then what's the next so now
we're going to no wonder what are the
other characteristics are enragement
something how many times a day should
you check how much daily attention to
inquire or like looking at
sir seen with any about SARS or that
compost so no we're defining yeah I need
your help here I'm not I'm not seeing
these us as related yeah are you oh I
was just struggling to separate two
types of thousands that once one percent
participation in one that was thirty
percent so I'm kind of like warm or
let's say attention hungry doubts and
attention and white house that's what I
was trying to separate yeah yeah so how
would you and you're gonna take Moloch
and Genesis as an example version no
pity so he where it's a when it's on the
sheet right now so the two options are
assumption hungry well ideal ideal
governance through low percentage subset
of users IPO governess through high
percentage I guess the problem I find
with is it's like it's like a very it's
not a significant amount of data to be
able to set what that threshold
parameter be so you would want to look
at all existing and this is why I
realize it's kind of like a PhD approach
everyone
is that you would want this data to be
able to say like the threshold of
activities like 30 percent or like how
many transactions interact with today's
smart contracts on a given day and you
would want to look at all of the
operating dose and then find an average
there and choose the break point so it's
really hard to quantify for this started
say like there's a quorum which is like
level of engagement and kind of mandated
technical engagement in order for the
doubts of function but then there's also
just amount of transactions interacting
with the smart contracts of the job on a
given day and you could but also I think
that there is a little bit of a chicken
and egg problem where you could say that
oh it's optimal governance is for a
small amount of people but then it's
like what if that optimal or stated
objectives change over time and then it
becomes for a large or whatever they're
both kind of in a recursive let's say
that you make in your next on unit now
stays their desired then actually going
to deploy actually structure shapes
agency agency shape structure I think it
would be really cool from we try to
figure this one out
and in does that specifically they're
thinking off creating like upgrade your
down buttons and missus options would be
something easy to deploy on that you
would have like ideal governess for
fifteen people later down reaches 25
people there's a bug like hey do you
want to take a moment to reflect on
different parameters yeah that's very
interesting then I and we can talk more
about maybe an example where it might be
easier that's not the worksheet that
could be kind of related just like
generally what is the voting process you
know is it is it based on one person one
vote you know like you have some kind of
identity mechanism so you can actually
use that governance process as a token
wait is it like reputation weighted so
it's like that that's an example of
something that we could have as you know
how do people engage with the voting
process because if you're talking about
because things upgrade that is
introducing another like voting
mechanism right so then that mechanism
can just start to be defined so I mean I
think that could be an interesting
exercise or dimension to think about in
this worksheet because that is like also
one of the most like easier ones to
grasp but yeah I think the ones that
involve data are super Innis interesting
but difficult to do in the context of
this workshop like we're even thinking
as far as like okay how do we like some
of these maybe it's like a Gaussian
distribution and we want to like figure
out what's that number they're like
what's that number therefore like
average holdings of the part of the
average like current average number of
tokens at each like a theorem address
it's like well maybe you have like you
know a lot of people at the top or maybe
it's not like that it's like a different
distribution curve so I think there are
a lot of like interesting metrics that
would be nice and apply on them see
where the difference the decision is
that made on general change you know to
be these paths the episode is to repeat
that so that everybody heard what refers
to mention it does the dominant ones or
not yes or no and then there would be a
corollary to that was if the management
of funds is directly on chain so a doubt
could be used just to make decisions
about where fights go but it doesn't
necessarily facilitate the actual
transaction which is something that is
low degrees in funds but the villains
inventing a policy in a company right
what organization make sense so it could
also just be implementing a policy we
can definitely selling um so that it is
certain things of like it does get a
little ambiguous here because with the
theory of most interaction to involve
some sort of funds in some way always
but we could say is there a smart
contract that holds manages a comment
funding pool and it meant is it that
funny pool man is watching through the
doubt decision-making process great that
everybody was potentially
use the common you know dimensions that
are you looking for or classifying
because that's any morning so is it this
position well all right does it have
like like these requirements right is it
is it is it because a required full
circle for me personally as an ancient
house right are their guarantees right a
serious and what some of attack vectors
you know - so people definitely use
those I think what we set out to find is
the meta characteristic for gymnasts
autonomy is on a higher level human
interactions in the dough and a lot of
those definitions are very much on that
kind of protocol like layer 0 level bond
so I think that they I would definitely
encourage we can use some of them
liveness
asynchronous yes no he's happy to write
to use those as write a bit but I think
that we are not necessarily doing a kind
of base layer examination along those
lines
sneaking like this monetary revocation
hybrid pie
I recognized one of the ones are
thinking and son is it profit or
nonprofit but I like the distinction
I've done also a good but like for
profit hierarchical for profit
cooperative for content you could make a
smaller distinction at a more granular
distinction there tonight and then for
security token we can do like like for
the ones that we don't like people
created them and they never really said
what it was and it's funny like
exchanges to analyze those but there are
like you know we're total best say this
is a see very totally maybe no it's
going to be harder on also have you like
you somebody yeah but people might say
but it's curious so you can say
utilities okay
they say it's one but maybe not like
that that means like you know another
branch it's like is it no because the
team settings nowhere because it was
analyzed by someone else now this might
be too low-level but maybe like which
like framework is going on totally and
you could say also like little tiny
framework or not don't worry and realize
this is all sort of like kind of Turtles
all the way down because you whatever
yeah well I mean you could say like
everything based on Aragon OS it's
either compatible with Aragon west or
it's not sounds like and probably the
same with like this are the lowest level
statutes and you can also say like Forks
that follow up all right I'm not saying
they're not know yet you can say that
they are built on existing
yeah
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yeah I caught it by that small can I see
what you mean now every like on what
depends a lot on what the search is also
to repeat so it was right up jean-yves
consensus before an option happens or
can it an action be initiated before
consensus is reached so you could use a
concrete example of can the can some of
the funds in the Commons pool be
distributed without having however
consensus is defined in the Dow how
before that's reached so you could say
kind of consensus or core independent
action
like maybe also later that would it make
more sense to have like that list
true or false it's associated like does
it use whatever like Robin like if you
use that for which system does it use
and then you end up having like a really
long list of options and it might be
crossovers when it comes to taxonomy
what's the matter - have it your falls
to the long list or to have a single
category for options so I think I think
this is one of the like and as you do
this like true or false it might be like
part of that recursive that kind of like
loop or your like pain maybe there's a
better way to group this singer with all
these yes or no so I think that that's
kind of like the process like it might
be easier to start with like stinking
yes/no hybrid but it might just like
this might just fit more into like okay
well what's the voting process because
you know it can go really deep like
mammals you know like yeah that's
exactly what's what's going on here so
we can like start to name different may
not like the ultimate goal is see if we
can give each doll like one like name
it's like Moloch is but like just come
up with
we're going to end up committing all the
same crimes of two nails you know in the
end I feel like my my each that's
starting with white hairs for a symbol
it permissionless next on me that
requires I mean I think part of the
problem is like you say decentralized
autonomous organization people don't
really know what that means so it's like
it's really bad yeah it's like I don't
think that's gonna make people realize
like what these organizations are is
just like I'm a corporation it's like
okay well you know a see your your
cooperative really good so we can all
benefit provision are you benefit yeah
so it's like that's what's gonna make
evolve and the doubt ecosystem but since
into the characteristics or more likely
hold and corporate long that's going to
be like a little bit different or by be
more types of ways that were classifying
things and yeah just like in your
corporate bylaws you might have like
different characteristics of how you
might allocate funds or what your
purposes but it still kind like rolls up
into a simple simpler definition
yeah
so this was our exercising dimensions
and so you're to see on the worksheet
said there's a lot of blank spaces so
feel free to add some of these in
classify or if there was something that
you really thought that we didn't
discuss that you want to use to classify
our taxonomy is to print out she'll
figure out that yes yeah we didn't add
that but you there are blank spaces so
you can add we didn't really define
everything we wanted to leave some of
the earth for us all to decide and then
it's like how many groups
so we're gonna have about 30 minutes for
this and then we're going to put them
into the spreadsheet and map and know
what language is all producer