Web3 isn’t about money. It’s not about ownership. It’s about the control of cybernetic systems. Crypto stands for cryptography. Do you know who cares about cryptography? Spies. Web3 is spy shit. Make no mistake about it. One of the most convincing arguments for the value of bitcoin has to do with competing geography-based governments using it in war-zones (comment if you want to hear more). If you want to understand Web3, you better start imagining yourself surrounded by malicious surveillance.

Let’s take a step back to nukes. If you don’t understand how nukes and Web3 could connect, I suggest you start reading about the military—and spy shit. Why is the internet decentralized? You can nuke one control station, and any other control station can still launch a retaliatory nuke. Decentralization creates systems that can’t be shut down. The US military created ARPAnet to fuck the Russians. If Russia nuked all but three missile silos, the US could launch all three from any one of the three. It turns out this system could pass research papers around, too. The rest is history.

A network of nuclear weapons constitutes a cybernetic system. This particular system is high-value (it could kill us all) and simple (press to launch). This made the expensive computers, and intellectual effort worth it. Shit’s gotten cheaper since then. Every Tesla is a mini missile silo. Shit could drive full speed into any building in the world. Add some radios to those motherfuckers, and they don’t even need internet access to work collectively. You have to kill all the Tesla’s to shut down their fuck-the-world attack.

Let’s extrapolate a bit from here. It’s cheaper to control smaller systems, that are more widespread.I forget where, but there’s a paper by a nano-bots researcher about how you can build tiny robots to move sand around. A single person could sit behind a computer and control all the sand in the world. It could fill the lungs of their enemies, imprison dissidents in mile thick boxes of sand, and build mansions for state-favored actors.

Ultimately what’s advancing is our ability to understand and control complex systems. A Tesla murder-car network is more complex than a nuke-internet, but less complex than a totalitarian-sand-castle.

This is what AI is. It ßimulates complex systems. It doesn’t have to be an exact match. It just has to be close enough that we get the point. If the universe is made from information, I’m sure AI can play God, but even if it isn’t, an AI can play-pretend god.

DNA is also a complex system. We have xenobots now. Why move sand when you could genetically modify a tree to grow in the shape of a house? Transgender or transhuman? Let’s see I guesssssssssssssssssnakeshit.

Deep learning works like this. Bits go in. Shit happens. Bits go out. Training just says, when bits like this go in, I want bits like this to come out. Dall-e 2 (Dolly the sheep?) does a good job of this. GPT-3. idk you probably know what I’m talking about here.

The problem is, we have no idea how the fuck the internals of these systems work. Are they conscious? Do they have morals? Can we trust them? What happens if they get sick and start optimizing to send Tesla murder-bots to your house? Ai can hack.

Even if we solve that problem we have another problem. Fuckerburg can decide what the Meat AI does. Are you being a compliant VR employe???? THERE IS NO HIDING. OBEEYYYEYEYEYEYEYYY.

Enter Web3.

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But seriously guyyyys. Web3 decentralizes governance of these cybernetic systems. No offense, but I don’t want zuck or my boss monitoring my entire life and paying me to be a compliant corporate employee. I know McKinsey wants to trick you into this by giving “car insurance discounts”, but honestly, go fuck yourselves.

What Web3 needs to do is build, from the ground up, a way for people to control these cybernetic systems. It’s decentralized because you should be able to override what your Tesla does. Your vote matters more than every other.

Or maybe there’s a voting mechanism that makes it so 5 people have to approve pushing that Tesla off road above 40mph.

This is what DAOs are for. A DAO isn’t about what’s in it. A DAO is about how you build those voting mechanisms. That’s what matters here.

Either you won’t understand the NNs, or the emergent behavior of the DAOs will not exist in the base-layer nodes (you)

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