d20 Governance: an experimental governance environment

Hello and welcome. This is Active Inference org stream 6.1. It's January 22, 2024. And we're here with the D20 governance team and project. So I will let them all introduce themselves. This should be a very fun and interactive session. So thank you all for joining and looking forward to your presentation and the discussion. Cool. Yeah. Thank you, Daniel. So I'm Seth Hostin, and I am a community lead at the Meta Governance Project and one of the developers and researchers with the D20 governance project. I'm here with Basil and Janita. And I'll let them introduce themselves now, maybe Hazel and then Janita. Hi, thank you for coming to the live stream. My name is Hazel. I'm affiliated. I'm kind of in a medical community environment atmosphere. I am political theorist. I'm a researcher with D20. Before I pass to Janita, I also want to highlight another of our team member who isn't here. Vel is her birthday. Happy birthday, Vel. Hi, I'm Janita. I'm a software developer. I have been involved in the DAO ecosystem working on some projects around DAOs in the past. And this project is my main sort of interaction with the MetaGov community. But I'm generally pretty interested in all the work that they're doing. And I'm a researcher in governance, et cetera. Cool. So with that, we're planning to do a presentation today. And then the presentation will also have some interactive demos for people who are joining us in the stream. And yeah, so with that, we'll get started. I should also say before we get started that I want to thank Daniel for inviting us to come and speak at this. I've known Daniel for as long as I've been doing the community lead work at MetaGov. And I've had a lot of really interesting discussions with him about cognitive security, stigma G, and governance in general. So I'm less familiar with the kind of resources happening at the Active Inference Institute. So really glad that Daniel and their community was interested in having us come and join so that we can present our work and learn from the insights of this group of researchers. So with that, let's go ahead and get into the presentation. Great. So before starting, there is this Discord link. And actually, it's not in my clipboard. So I'm going to generate a new invite. And then I'll share it in our chat during Zoom. And then Daniel can share it in any, like, whatever way is applicable. And then, yeah, so this is going to be a link to our Discord server, where the bot for this project is hosted. It's the D20 Governance server. And we're going to do some demos today. And so if you want to participate, this is the place to join for that. If you want to join, come in and say hi. And yeah. So with that, I'm going to pass it over to Hazel, who's going to give us a bit of an overview for today's presentation. Yeah. So the flow of this presentation today will be some demonstration of the functionalities we built, sprinkled with some conceptual thinking. So we're going to start with giving you guys a background on where this, how this project came to be. And we will introduce our first functionality. That's D20 Agro, where we're going to be interacting. And we will demo the culture modules and talk a little bit about community rule, which is where and how this would inspire this project. And we'll talk about two more functionalities. That's value, group voice, actually three more and continuous input. And then we'll end with a Q&A and discussion. So moving on to the next slide, a really brief overview of this project is D20 is a Discord bot that allows communities to play governance games in an AI large language model mediated environment. So groups of people can come together to embark on a governance, what we call governance quest and experience a diversity of governance structures, decision making processes, power distributions and cultural dynamics. So we're building the Discord bot, D20 aims to help lay the collective decision making foundations necessary for online…