TE Consilience Library Manifesto

The T.E. Consilience Initiative is an 0mega-led project that intends to create a 3-phased, multidisciplinary library that synthesizes relevant knowledge for the integral development of cryptoeconomic systems. As shown in the image below, the 8 domains that the library will draw content from are:

• Industrial & Systems Engineering

• AI, Optimization & Control Theory

• Computer Science & Cryptography

• Psychology & Decision Science

• Political Science & Governance

• Philosophy, Law & Ethics

• Economics & Game Theory

• Operations Research & Management Science

Throughout these three phases, subject-matter experts (SMEs) and contributors will curate selection of resources as a journey with the subject that they are curating in our online library.

GOALS

1. To create a global repository of valuable multidisciplinary knowledge so as to foster an uniform understanding of topics critical to the token engineering discipline.

2. To pick the brains of the brightest minds of the web3 space, distill the knowledge that they deem most valuable for their peers, and share this wisdom through our library portal.

3. To curate content into a library product that, besides being free and open-source, can also serve as a future funding source for 0mega’s Working Group (WG) activities (i.e. through fundraise and NFT drops)

SUMMARY

The current funding proposal, if passed, will cover the funding needs for the first phase of the initiative, where SME contributors will curate book summaries from texts of their choice. In the second phase, we will open the library to public contributions. Also, we will reward quality contributions at that stage. If the library is liked by the community we will initiate phase three which will bring further development in UX such as dynamic NFT profiles.

DEEP DIVE

Phase 1

TE Consilience Library V1.0:

TE Consilience Library will be a crowdsourced, curated database of knowledge under the Venn diagram of disciplines related to crypto economic systems engineering. In the beginning of our library we will have ‘seed curations’ from subject matter experts that will collect 5 to 10 articles. Each curation will be about one panel of the crypto economics flower which presents the multidisciplinary characteristics of the crypto economics. We will request them to justify how their selection would enrich our understanding of the topic. Those initial curators are called “seed curators” because while we are developing the library (we examined our roadmap below), we wanted to create a library where any person can share the knowledge that they find valuable. We wanted to create a library that does not have a technocratic structure and will respect the value of different perspectives. As our long discussion in the 0mega working group suggests, we believe in the value of the wisdom of the crowd and the contextuality of perspective. For example, we argue that an environmental economist who just joined crypto space can bring new valuable perspectives with her novel understanding and journey of the subject. In this stage we will set our notion library structure, write our manifesto and our contributor’s guideline. Also, we will coordinate with curators and create “seed” curator’s writing collections.

Outcome of the first phase: We will have a library on Notion which has curations on the topics from crypto economics flower by subject matter experts.

Phase 2

After the seeding phase:

After the initial seed phase of 3 months we will open the library to public curations. Our librarians will check the content coming from outside contributors in terms of appropriateness of contributor 0mega guidelines and add curations into the library. At the end of each month we will reward some of those curations and increase their visibility. We wanted to have a library that is open to public curation because within 0mega working group we believe in the wisdom of crowds and the contextuality of perspectives and knowledge. In other words we believe each perspective has its unique value that can propel us forward.

If the library achieves significant success and is loved by the community, we plan to take one more step to create a more engaging library.

Outcome of the second phase: At the end of phase 2 we will have a library that has curations from subject matter experts and community contribution with a rewarding system for the high quality community contribution.

Phase 3

TE Consilience Library V2.0:

At this stage things are getting even more exciting ! In Library V2.0 we plan to incorporate Dynamic NFT Profiles to assign expertise badges and reputation points for visitors and curators. The reputation points will be used for “upvoting” selected curations of the library and guide open source publications in the wider space following advice and community feedback. The 0mega WG plans to initiate Phase 3 according to the community’s demand for further development in the library.

CONTEXT

In ‘Consilience: the Unity of Knowledge’, biologist E.O. Wilson suggests that different avenues of evidence could link together to create a common groundwork of explanation in the search for human wisdom. Wilber’s Integral theory on the other hand, tries to draw together an already existing number of separate paradigms into an interrelated network of approaches that are mutually enriching

Token engineering is an emerging discipline in the overlap between the social institution of engineering and web3 token ecosystems. As with any emerging technology, there is still a lot of uncertainty around the practice but it is already clear that these systems are deeply entangled with social and economic systems.

However, while cryptoeconomics is interdisciplinary by nature, it has so far predominantly been developed in the computer science community. The economic assumptions made and methods used in most existing protocols are rather limited compared with the existing body of relevant literature. There is still much room to incorporate methods from various economic disciplines.

Given all of the above, and after having conducted participatory research group discussions, examining the ethos of ethics in token engineering, as well as the shared vision and diversity of its communities, building a crowd-sourced curated library is relevant to the task at hand and to the whole TE community.

FAQs

How does this proposal benefit the community and/or the field of Token Engineering?

With the TE Consilience Library, the TE community will benefit from a helpful and handy interdisciplinary handbook. This also will incentivise newcomers and established experts to appreciate the interrelational fabric of the token engineering discipline, ultimately allowing some overlooked disciplines (such as ethics) in crypto economic systems to emerge. Through an holistic approach the library would help researchers and newcomers to understand complexities of crypto economics.

With the starting of the second phase the library will incorporate different perspectives about the multidisciplinary aspect of token engineering. This will enrich the library’s knowledge base with many different contextual perspectives, consequently it will create an excellent source for multidisciplinary research on cryptoeconomics.

Even though it’s still too early to say, a web3 project with these characteristics has got potential to galvanise adjacent “knowledge-based” communities in the space eager to join forces around a common objective (i.e. The Consilience Project 2, Game B, Linked Open Wisdom Commons, Emerge).

Team Information

Sebnem Rusitschka

Durgadas

Juan Carlos Bell

Mount Manu

Mert Ozd

Letty

Nic