attendees
Notes
catch up
- published a “master plan”
- playing with obsidian canvases thinking through logical flows, mind maps, etc @gregsearch
- read some papers, made some notes on dework
- some ideation and notes and “musings”
- need to put things in obsidian! @philiplinden
- Made notes from Meeting - 2023-08-15
- Added pdfs to Reading List items
- “evangelizing”
today
- NASA NextSTEP-2 BAA opp is gone and DARPA one is here – even if we don’t actually apply, these help us structure our deliverables and organize our research
- DePrize overview from @pmoncada
- tries to make economic incentive to work fast and productively, while still retaining decentralized ethos. also hopes to sustain moondao long term
- lunar comms is a great candidate for deprize, so is lunar settlement, isru etc
- This could also be the start of having crypto outpace govt grants, especially for historically underfunded areas.
- Lunar comms is poised to be a guinea pig for the first deprize while the structure is being refined
- Adapt existing, proven mechanisms (that have integrity and lessons baked in) to crypto
- Failed/losing projects – can they live on chain to support later work?
- with up front funding (half now, half winner) the research is still rewarded
- do funders still retain a stake in the submissions they voted for?
- The “credibly neutral judge” could (should) be a smart contract or program that determines the winner based on pass/fail criteria
- Whether the judge is a committee of humans or a program depends on the prize
- darpa-like to catalyze capabilities — nebulous, not easily quantifiable or boiled down to pass/fail criteria
- nasa-like to meet mission requirements — easily converted to pass/fail criteria
- @greg Lots of new people, new ideas, new systems, etc… how do we bridge the gap?
What are our deliverables?
- A report, some artifact that displays command of the subject matter
- submit to proposals?
- or pitch the ideas to people that are better positioned to execute?
- Something compatible with DePrize
What is MoonDAO’s contribution to the field?
- Feels like the research papers are way deeper…
- What can moondao bring to the industry, especially things that govt doesn’t do well?
- Be a hub for connecting ideas and people?
- DeSci overlay journals
- Obsidian docs for ideas
- What can we do uniquely to bring something new?
- short term we could basically be a quick startup wtih web3 flavor
- we’d miss out on more impactful things if we were taking our time
How to leverage industry players
what role do we play
- it’s a feature not a bug to come up with the open questions and find the problems
- the audience for us that we could help is the layperson or industry person, not the research community
- take the complexity and the issues and translate it to be easier to understood by the decision makers.
- don’t invent, innovate/integrate and translate it to be understood by all
Actions
- @philiplinden get interested parties (us, Ramon, Ahmad, Ramon’s phd student from cornell, jacob from open lunar, chris rabotin) in the same room to talk about LunA-10 - A Framework for Optimized, Integrated Lunar Infrastructure
- When we connect, they don’t have to “join the team” – not everyone needs to be in everything
- The core value is to bring these professional people into the MoonDAO orbit
- @gregsearch boil down the main concepts/problems into an elevator pitch?