{"signature": "0xe1e8e70b1e25277b4cf29e697852c45cc9279a05925fe25d73966e08d5d41ad116a6f5b51def6a0361390b845c444836575d6d8408235e91ff5f915a7cdd3d9c1b", "application": {"round": "0xc6bc0ed0bf4675cbf14d1140dcef5415d4e6b0ae", "answers": [{"type": "email", "hidden": true, "question": "Email Address", "questionId": 0, "encryptedAnswer": {"ciphertext": "wEazWJj3AtggrP5Q862/2bj0LAQP9z0mIx+uforvlEgAJ5pPdBxzaW7RoUufsOBv", "encryptedSymmetricKey": "a47e726f6f5c2886870f55055e9c0655988fac66ead8618e8263d1b3a2c692a12e0ee72011902c8ed2f02cc3199e741157b89dfce98f2c5032a6bb349149b29978e371ec946e1a34de895da2de02e7d120f20136972ddea9f431308c5a608b81f61113c2f984bff134157ece81f1891836170022ed188ccc8b967bd2bad84c300000000000000020600895cd3c77d9b5887644e8fff2a02cc2f6ef2732230dbc5ecfe13ba81b82dafff7370c125bce66a1c00f549fd7b684"}}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "None", "hidden": false, "question": "Funding Sources", "questionId": 1}, {"type": "number", "answer": "2", "hidden": false, "question": "Team Size", "questionId": 2}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "socraticbot", "hidden": false, "question": "Github handle (your project GitHub)", "questionId": 3}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "hxatk", "hidden": true, "question": "Telegram handle (of zuzalu representative)", "questionId": 4}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "The original project is 14 months old, but with team difficulties described below, the new Socratic.Bot project is 3 months old.", "hidden": false, "question": "How old (in Months) is the project?  ", "questionId": 5}, {"type": "paragraph", "hidden": false, "question": "Is there anything else you'd like to share about your project, previous work, or other affiliations? Is there anything else you'd like to add that may help determine project eligibility?", "questionId": 6}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "Veronica Schrenk https://warpcast.com/vrn, Sophia Willows https://sophiabits.com/", "hidden": false, "question": "What are the names and social links of your team members?", "questionId": 7}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "Yes, Veronica was a full-time resident at both Zuzalu and ZuConnect.", "hidden": false, "question": "Was at least one core team member at Zuzalu or ZuConnect for at least two weeks? If so, who and at which ones? ", "questionId": 8}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "A collective consists of individuals.\n\nCollective decision-making is built on individual sense-making.\n\nProblem: Without the individual ability to question one’s own sense and thought, ambitions towards collective sense-making become dysfunctional.\n\nSolution: Socratic.Bot provides a tool to build awareness of one's own beliefs, to update them towards a truth-seeking direction and to communicate them in a clear structure.\n\nMain functions:\n\nProactively aiding individual Zuzaluan minds:\n -to untangle their thoughts and emotions by reflection\n -to identify their beliefs and biases by socratic questioning\n -to update, balance and integrate their mental models\n -to build their arguments based on relevance and consistency\n -to refine their articulation towards precision and nuance\n -to overall increase their quality of reasoning and judgement\n\nBy that, over time sustainably improve:\n -their ability to think clearly and recognize patterns\n -their potential for intellectual cross-pollination\n -their defense against groupthink and propaganda\n -their understanding of the bigger picture of a discussion\n -their ability to understand each other’s framings and intentions\n -their ability to identify shared intentions towards collective action\n -their overall ability to identify their own agency, curiosity and doubt\n\n\nResulting in value for the Zuzalu Ecosystem by: \n-aiding to the overall quality of the discourse\n -building a collective intelligence on individual cognitive qualities\n -increasing the depth and nuance of collective sense-making processes\n -decreasing the dependency on voting for collective decision-making processes\n -protecting our culture against anti-intellectual tendencies like populism or collectivism\n -increasing the accessibility of our communication culture to new talent\n -expanding the interoperability of our communities onto the cultural dimension\n -increasing the individual’s ability to self-select by informed consent\n -overall, aid to Zuzalu’s potential by raising quality along growth in numbers\n\nZuzalu is an ambitious project in human coordination for technological and societal development. Individual cognitive sovereignty is a prerequisite for functional collective sense-making and decision-making; individuals have to be able to think for themselves before coordinating on a group-level, otherwise people are led into groupthink. Socratic.Bot is not just a passive AI assistant, but rather a proactive, socratic interviewer that prompts humans to think critically, question their assumptions, and refine their arguments for functional human to human discussion and coordination.\n\nDuring ZuConnect, we tested utilizing Socratic.Bot during a Zuzalu governance discussion, where individuals could first examine and reine their arguments individually before discussing as a group. Our first Zuzalu-native integration is with Zuzagora, as a tool for users to prepare their arguments while creating a discussion post for the long-form Zuzalu discussion forum. This improves the individual argumentative experience while participating in Zuzalu discussions and helps raise the quality of the overall discussion.\n\nOur future modules, integrated directly into Zuzalu.city Community Spaces, will further help individuals in the Zuzalu ecosystem engage in discussions effectively and improve their critical thinking capabilities as our movement grows.", "hidden": false, "question": "How does your project create value for the Zuzalu ecosystem? ", "questionId": 9}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "When we competed in the ZuConnect Hackathon, we were awarded 1st place for the AI track, winning $1000 which was given to the main developer at the time. While we participated in the previous Gitcoin funding round, the funds were stolen by the previous co-founder and not used for the Zuzalu integration (described in next question). Early development was funded by the previous co-founder’s company, Stoooges Education. In early 2024, we received a $200,000 investment to pursue our open source critical thinking tutor and governance coordination tool for Zuzalu integration, which the previous co-founder also rerouted to other purposes, and is unavailable for the Socratic.Bot team. We currently have zero funding and are bootstrapping our project on personal costs.", "hidden": false, "question": "Have you received any other funding for this project? If so, how much and from what sources?", "questionId": 10}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "We participated in the previous Zuzalu Gitcoin round under the name Paideia AI and were awarded 1.872 ETH. However, the previous co-founder kept these funds for himself while changing the direction of the project to be NOT open source, NOT web3-compatible, and NO actual Zuzalu integration. The previous co-founder illegally froze us out of the project, removing access to over a year’s worth of research and intellectual property. Despite months of attempting an amicable separation, the previous co-founder ignored and delayed communications, illegally deleted evidence, and chose to keep the stolen funds after explicitly agreeing in writing that we would continue the original open source Zuzalu-native project for which those funds were meant. As such, we have no access to the previous funds and are bootstrapping the project without any external funding.", "hidden": false, "question": "Did you participate in a previous Zuzalu Gitcoin round? If so, how did you use those funds?", "questionId": 11}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "6 Months Budget:\n–\tBootstrapped Costs Reimbursement: $3500\n–\tInfrastructure and hosting: $5000\n–\tLLM costs: $1500\n–\tResearch and Development: $5000\n–\tOpen Source Contributor Compensation: $5000\n\nWe will use the funds from this round to reimburse the costs from bootstrapping and restarting the project with few resources, finalize the initial Zuzagora/Agora integration, migrate to Ceramic for data interoperability with Zuzalu.city and its integrated projects, recruit and compensate open source contributors, research and develop web3 AI pathways to remove our dependencies on centralized web2 LLMs and servers.", "hidden": false, "question": "What is your project budget? And if your project is accepted, how will you use the funds from this round? ", "questionId": 12}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "While we do not yet have any blockchain-facing technology, we are in the process of migrating to Ceramic’s decentralized data network and will finish by the end of this month. We are also researching decentralized AI solutions such as Unibase for long-term compatibility with Ethereum – and Zuzalu – ecosystem standards.", "hidden": false, "question": "Is your blockchain-facing tech maximally compatible with Ethereum and common Ethereum ecosystem standards(https://ethereum.org/en/developers/docs/standards/)? If so, how? ", "questionId": 13}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "All code is open source.", "hidden": false, "question": "Is your project open source? If any code is a closed source, why? ", "questionId": 14}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "Yes, I agree.", "hidden": false, "question": "Do you agree by January 1st, 2025 to declare how the funds were used via Zuzagora or its successor? ", "questionId": 15}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "1)\tWe are launching our Zuzagora/Agora.city integration this week 2)\tWe will finalize our migration to Ceramic for data interoperability by the end of July 3)\tWe will trial modules for Zuzalu.city Community spaces during ZuVillage Georgia 4)\tWe will integrate ZuPass and ScrollPass logins for the Socratic.Bot website by the end of August 5)\tWe will explore and implement decentralized AI tools and open source LLM alternatives, and aim to switch away from OpenAI models within the next 6 months ", "hidden": false, "question": "How could your project interoperate with other Zuzalu projects? 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