How does Respect facilitate consensus? Following a respectful consensus game, the Optimism Fractal Sages Council approves it’s first proposal and we explore the roots of fractal cooperation 📜🍄

Date: February 5th, 2024

Show Notes

• Show Notes
• Timestamps
• Optimism Discourse
• Tweets
• Related Posts
• OF 13: Council Formation
• OF 12: Optimistic Polling
• OF 11: Collaborative Growth
• Introducing the Respect Game

Timestamps

0:00 Welcome

0:23 Overview of the Respect Game and Optimism Fractal's progress

1:47 Dan shares link introductory post on Farcaster. Mentions planning session that follows Optimism Fractal event every Monday

4:39 Dan announced the formation of the Optimism Fractal Sages Council, concluding a 12 week bootstrap stage where Optimystics were making decisions. Now there is a consensus process where respected members can make decisions. Dan shares a Discord post explaining the Sages Council and consensus process, using Snapshot for proposals and polls. Dan demonstrates on screen on making a proposal on Snapshot and talks about opportunities to use the new consensus process.

6:16 Zaal asks a question about where to find the Sages Council link, Dan provides guidance on finding it in Discord and Optimism fractal.com/details

6:58 Breakout room starts

7:24 Zaal shares contributions , spoke with Dan on using Respect game in his dao project, excited to incorporate aspect of coming together in his community, trying to create distribution mechanism for his group

10:30 Vlad shares his contributions over the past week, optimystics talks about fractally and fractal governance process. Will share link to fractally white paper by Dan Larimar. Talks about daos and assets, respect token

17:08 Dan comments on Vlad’s contribution

18:34 Dan shares screen and what he has done recently to help Optimism fractal including meeting with Zaal and doing Optimism Fractal promotions. Worked on snap shot, put together poll through snap shot. Worked on mission statement. Responding to Peth and metagame, gave analysis, put together article. Optimystics meetings, idea of optimystic fellowships to help incentivize participants

25:35 Rosmari shares screen with her contributions, including promoting events and responding to a mission request about creating Optimism videos. Published optimism fractal and Eden fractal videos. Worked in collaboration with Dan for mission request. Plans to campaign before deadline for mission request. Eden fractal participation

31:02 Dan provides context on mission requests in Optimism. Level 6-Vlad, Level 5-Zaal, Level 4-Dan, level 3-Rosmari

40:18 The group returns to the main room

45:41 Dan concludes Respect game, begins planning session

46:02 Dan shares his screen and gives an overview of the planning session intention, occurring after each Respect Game. He gives direction on making proposal on Snapshot.

51:33 Tadas recaps the incorrect address submission issue from last week, and proposes using the consensus process to correct it

53:12 Dan shares screen on Tadas proposal

57:03 Dan announces this first proposal was approved

58:09 Dan explains how voting is done, explains automating Snapshot voting to only allow council members

1:02:09 Tadas clarifies when the newly elected council's term starts and ends

1:03:41 Vlad thinks this may be overly complex for now, just use top six. proposes moving to his other topic, Dan suggests discussing the address submission a bit more first

1:04:15 Hodlon raises interesting points about soft versus hard consensus

1:05:04 Tadas clarifies details of the council election process

1:06:21 Hodlon comments he appreciates the work getting basic framework together

1:07:04 Dan thanks Hodlon, gives brief summary of what he and Tadas did. Dan demonstrates making a proposal on Snapshot

1:09:03 Dan seeks clarification on when the council term starts and ends. Quorum is set to 2/3 of register council. Tadas confirms it starts and ends with the Respect Game meetings each week

1:13:33 Vlad thinks it’s great to make consensus for community. Council are people that are trusted the most. He proposes discussing rewarding public goods creators on Optimism

1:15:12 Tadas responds to Vlad, argues the purpose is growing Optimism, not specifically rewarding creators

1:15:40 Vlad and Tadas get into discussion on awarding and/or rewarding contributor's by distributing respect

1:19:01 Hodlon comments about liquidity pool

1:21:00 Tadas argues for keeping Respect non-transferrable. There are other ways to reward optimism fractal contributors without a liquid token

1:21:44 Dan provides context by demonstrating the original Fractal whitepaper, which proposed liquid Respect tokens. Dan agrees with Tadas on a non transferable token. He explains how Optimism Fractal diverged from this

1:26:04 Tadas wants to propose this is a big topic

1:26:36 Dan shares the fractally white paper

1:27:25 Abraham and Hodlon share perspectives on focusing more on human interaction than financial rewards

1:29:11 Dan summarizes and suggests making proposals for future discussion topics on Snapshot

1:31:31 Go Optimism Fractal!

Optimism Discourse

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