{"title": "ZuVillage Georgia", "logoImg": "bafkreihi7zcgr7rpktsqzhwb5ht3t77nb63ojewkwwpdnw6xwbrcs2zfti", "website": "https://Bit.ly/zugeorgia", "bannerImg": "bafkreigl6hjodunql6ygjm7dhkxbvfzmnzg7zbt2tes5kmr3jpbm5mhrki", "createdAt": 1720444469649, "credentials": {}, "description": "\n# Transnational Techno-Optimist Cypherpunk Network Initiative\n\nWe are coming together to lay the foundations for a transnational techno-optimist cypherpunk network.\n\n## Potential Future Direction of Zuzalu\n\n\"What is the future direction of Zuzalu?\" was the central question at Zuzalu 2023. Later that year, as Zuzalu was called a \"new culture,\" we began to consider a more specific, yet still open question: \"What would be the most magnificent use case for a new culture, originating out of Zuzalu?\"\n\nFor six weeks, we are running a techno-societal experiment inspired by Zuzalu – this event concept itself is our attempt to answer both of these questions. Our goals are to:\n- Provide better circumstances for intellectual cross-pollination and rational discourse.\n- Decrease the dependency on trust in centralized authorities in our community.\n- Collaboratively work on tools, concepts, and a potential game plan for the future of Zuzalu.\n\n## Neutral Stance and Guiding Principles\n\nAs experiment initiators, we take a neutral stance wherever possible and intentionally avoid any terminology of \"core organizer\" to prevent arbitrary hierarchy from clouding the experiment. However, we are not neutral on a handful of key aspects: \n- Cypherpunk and defensive acceleration as philosophical guiding principles.\n- The importance of protecting and enhancing individual cognitive sovereignty as a prerequisite for all else on a community level.\n\nThese principles inform the technology we are using and building to operate our ZuVillage and the unconference design of the programming itself.\n\n## Mitigating Group Pitfalls\n\nWe contend that group pitfalls are inevitable in a project like this, yet can be mitigated through:\n- Careful filtering of applicants.\n- Individual education on cognitive biases and methods of rationality for all attendees.\n- A culture of critique for all presentations and discussions.\n\nThe ZuVillager application asks potential participants to think critically about the core topics of our experiment: individual sovereignty, defensive acceleration of technology, and cypherpunk philosophy, along with an example of a belief that has been updated within the last 1-2 years. We do not search for specific answers to any of our questions, but rather that an applicant puts in an effort to think and express their thoughts – a reflection of how they are likely to engage as a ZuVillager. Despite feedback that some applicants may not go through the effort to fill out a long application, we consider effort a key filtering mechanism and would rather optimize for quality than quantity.\n\n## Shared Intellectual Foundation\n\nTo equip ZuVillagers with a shared intellectual foundation, our pre-programming for the weeks leading up to the start of the experiment and our entire first week are focused on:\n- Rationality.\n- Metarationality.\n- Cognitive sovereignty.\n- Collective sense making.\n\nWe will also incorporate gears-level discussions into all subsequent programming and seek to establish truth seeking as a prerequisite expectation for scientific and technological discussions. We will encourage long-form written discussion on our ZK-gated discussion forum before, during, and after our experiment.\n\n## Embracing Early Technologies\n\nA community that values privacy, decentralization, and open source software is willing to overcome the friction of using early technologies that align with our values. A long-term crypto city experiment enables a unique critical mass of willing and technically-adept users to prove functional possibilities of emerging technologies, and our experiment is designed for this purpose. We are working closely with the Zuzalu.city software infrastructure project to provide use cases and accelerate development through hackathons and building together during our ZuVillage.\n\n## Providing Infrastructure\n\nOur focus is on providing the physical and digital infrastructure necessary for the experiment to flourish, and our experimental goal is for data to be gained for the community, for projects, and for individuals that can be carried on for future iterations.\n\n## Central Questions\n\nCentral questions to collectively elaborate answers for about ZuVillage Georgia may be:\n\n- \"How can we build a digital infrastructure to integrate the cognitive and digital sovereignty of individuals, with collective intentions towards autonomy?\"\n- \"How can we scale into a decentralized network of seamlessly interoperable communities?\"\n- \"Which maps and tools are available or buildable for that, and what are their implications on different use-cases?\"\n\nThis is the direction we aim to let the experiment unfold.", "logoImgData": {}, "bannerImgData": {}, "projectTwitter": "zuvillage"}