From 90447a6eeb332b6e732278f0ee46b958265109b5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: peth-yursick <55857222+peth-yursick@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2020 18:07:33 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Update wtf-is-metagame.mdx --- docs/handbook/wtf-is-metagame.mdx | 20 ++++++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/handbook/wtf-is-metagame.mdx b/docs/handbook/wtf-is-metagame.mdx index 3ffa2eea..d2499eb2 100644 --- a/docs/handbook/wtf-is-metagame.mdx +++ b/docs/handbook/wtf-is-metagame.mdx @@ -1,5 +1,9 @@ -# WTF is MetaGame +--- +title: 🤨 WTF is MetaGame? +--- +# WTF is MetaGame +![](https://i.imgur.com/k8vWoa8.png) ## A Crown Jewel of Meme Driven Development ETH is money, Ethereum is a State, dApps are public utilities; we are global citizens. @@ -12,7 +16,7 @@ We are here because we believe there is an opportunity to do things better, and > _**“Metagame**, or **game about the game**, is any approach to a game that transcends or operates outside of the prescribed rules of the game, uses external factors to affect the game, or goes beyond the supposed limits or environment set by the game.”_ ## A Virtual Schelling Point - +![](https://i.imgur.com/N7eJluF.png) Before trying to define the specifics of what we are to do; we need a place for this community of like-minded people to gather, share knowledge & get empowered. We have a lot of places where we share information & connect with each other; Twitter, Reddit & Telegram are some of them - but the information flowing through these channels is just that. Flowing. @@ -23,7 +27,7 @@ We have a lot of places where we share information & connect with each other; Tw We figured that if we wanted to build a knowledge base that people go to, use & keep up to date; we need to make it extremely social. ## A Decentralized Factory - +![](https://i.imgur.com/pDo1FjF.png) More than another social platform and another wiki, we need a place to coordinate around putting this knowledge & motivation into good use. A place to build & compose all of these pieces of the “world after web3” lego set. Over the coming months, we’ll be reaching out to all kinds of past hackathon participants and already established projects creating these building blocks. @@ -38,7 +42,7 @@ Yet more than another factory, we need to nurture a web of life, lest we’ll be Sure, we need to build all this cool new technology that will enable us to navigate and coordinate more effectively, but the goal isn’t the technology itself. It is the empowerment of the people that want to do good & doing good. Rather than having an economic system revolving around profit maximization, we need to build an economy around maximizing for our well-being & regenerating the biological systems we done fucked up. - +![](https://cdn.substack.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F579aee41-9083-41da-9cb6-17a4ac8afb27_1315x1196.png) # Why? The society has for too long been narrowly focused on profit & GDP as main metrics of micro & macro success. This has had severe adverse effects on… Pretty much everything else. @@ -55,7 +59,7 @@ In short: - Governmental services grow inefficient because they are given a monopoly & aren't required to be transparent. - Community owned enterprises have to be financially efficient, but tend to keep in mind that it's not about extracting as much profit as possible but about solving a problem as effectively as possible. - +![](https://cdn.substack.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_lossy/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F748ab91a-70e1-4697-9a1f-0649f635f24f_468x236.gif) ## Why Now? We call them DAOs around here, but these types of organizations are nothing new really. They’ve been running in parallel with centralized industrial economies since forever, they just weren’t effectively scalable above the Dunbar's number and being able to build them with almost complete strangers from the internet was out of the question. @@ -74,7 +78,7 @@ Most of what we need is already enabled by _Ethereum_ working with _AragonDAO_ & > > _Game Warping stacks as a new layer atop an uncooperative game to make cooperation the Rational choice.” - **Virgil Griffith**_ We’re living in times of unprecedented leverage given to us by information technologies. It has **never** been easier to affect the world. Rather than sacrificing ourselves in bloody revolutions, we’re able to revolutionize the world from the comfort of our living rooms. - +![](https://i.imgur.com/BsIOufs.png) ## So, WHAT THE FUCK IS IT THEN?! > **MetaGame is an idea we can build a new world, a layer atop of the old one. @@ -84,7 +88,7 @@ We define it a “massive online coordination game”. You can think of it as a With time, we hope enough people will step up and either integrate existing or help build the rest of tools & services we need for running socioeconomic systems that don’t centralize power and destroy us in the long run. In the long run, we aim at upgrading the world’s socioeconomic infrastructure. From the world ran by inefficient bureaucracies & too-efficient corporations into a world governed by decentralized autonomous organizations that care about their ecosystems and are financially sustainable. - +![](https://cdn.substack.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fce458e96-8337-443d-8a3e-874c63fef86b_1200x630.png) ## Overall It is clear the economic system built around entities simply maximizing self-interest is sub-optimal for the planet & the beings that inhabit it. Luckily, it is also clear that human beings are motivated by much more than just profit. @@ -96,7 +100,7 @@ It’s been a long time since we were last brave enough to try & rethink the mod You know who _we_ are, but who are _you_? - +![](https://cdn.substack.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0fbc4fff-d05a-406d-897e-84d308039adc_1272x715.png) ## OK ok, what am I to do? It really depends on you, you can start with something as simple as sharing this post with whatever community you’re a member of 🤷‍♂️