Embassy Experiment Proposals

Information symmetry problems

Communication begets coordination.

1. Prisoner’s Dilemma: solved through communication
   1. Transparency
      1. Connection: Transparency as an All Win Scenario
         1. Connection as non-fungible
      2. Serendipity as connection in time: Serendipity Engineering
         1. Spontaneous coordination
      3. Triangulation: Social Transparency and Collective Triangulation
      4. Co-regulation: Sleepawake Immersive Structure and Dynamics
   2. Safe, Private Connection
      1. Deep, private, consensual connection: Conspirio
         1. Alienation: Shared but divided struggles
         2. Common knowledge: what everyone knows everyone knows
         3. Preference matching
         4. Group-wide connection
            1. Compromise vs Alignment
            2. Dependency Graphs for Sensemaking + Conflict Resolution and Joint Non-Cares as Slack
            3. Alignment Voting
2. Cycle detection
   1. Barter cycles: Embassy Intervention — Potluck Barter Cycles
   2. Supply lock-in:
      1. Debt cycles: https://www.mdpi.com/1911-8074/14/9/452
      2. House swaps
      3. Partner break ups
3. Group coordination
   1. Spontaneous coordination

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Legibility-control loops

Self-surveillance + automation begets social enforcement, social enforcement begets legible

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Bottom-up objectivity through programmatic cryptography

Objectivity through cryptographically signed + tamper-resistant + censorship-resistant digital footprints of reality

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Dunbar Tech

• Communal tech
• Interop / unified
  • Single pane of glass
    • Messaging
    • Events
    • Social media
    • Archiving
    • Identity / Key Management
• Local

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