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AutoDem is a governance engine for new democratic institutions, designed for maximal representation, decision speed, simplicity, trustworthiness, and scalability through the use of user defined parameters and psychographic AI.
Sources
- Cambridge Analytics CEO On Data & Psychographics (11:00)
- Cambridge Analytica Whistleblower Interview (13:03)
- Cambridge Analytica Undercover Investigation (
- China’s Surveillance and Social Credit System (12:55)
- Harvesting Data For Religious Radicalism (1:32:06)
Rationale
It appears that social technologies have only aided in the rise of authoritarianism by lowering the barriers to surveillance and targeted propaganda efforts since the early 2010s, and has likewise damaged the global democratic substrate by helping systematically undermine peoples’ trust in institutions.
Democracy needs an upgrade. New democracy has to be:
- Fast: Takes little time to decide on a proposal
- Representative: Represents a inference of their voting preferences
- Verifiably fair: Open source code
so anyone can feel safe using the system of governance without fear of being compromised
- Convenient: o it’s the fewest steps possible for a family with kids
- Scalable: Support a democracy of ten or a billion people
- Flexible:
manage the widest set of political values and ideas
- Reward: Reward people for contributing to governance through a periodic token airdrop.
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Developer friendly: Fight data with data
Features
- AI assistant: OpenAI GPT-4o answers questions you have about anything and everything
- Local storage: Store and share private information about yourself
- Public/private: Make your params public or private for the world to see and copy
- Airdrops:
Methodology
The idea is that anyone can put a proposal in and the democratic engine will produce an outcome in seconds using
First, the leader of the group defines a set of Ethereum wallets as cohort members through a metric (e.g. tokenholders) or a whitelist.
Next, each member is sent a message via XMTP to access AutoDem to input information about themselves to contribute to cohort governance.
Each member is placed into a category based on their level of engagement:
- Ghost: Non-active Ethereum wallet, no associated social media accounts (e.g. Farcaster, Twitter, Lens), no params set.
- Shadow: Partially active Ethereum wallet, no associated social media accounts, no params set.
- Lurker: Partially active Ethereum wallet, one inactive social media account,
no params set.
- Member: Partially active Ethereum wallet, active social media presence,
no params set.
- Citizen:
Active Ethereum wallet, active social media account, one to three
params set.
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Activist: Active Ethereum wallet, active social media account, comprehensive
params set.
We have two channels of governance activity. First, our AI builds a personal psychographic profile to predict how they may vote on a proposal based on their social media and Ethereum wallet activity. Second, we provide the user with the chance to set mathematical descriptive parameters on the kinds of proposals they want to reject.
Each engagement level increases their airdrop rate.
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Ghost:
- Shadow:
- Lurker:
- Member:
- Citizen:
- Activist:
Flows
Press power button > power on + power on sfx > press power button > power off + power off sfx
Press and hold voice activation button > record on sfx + voice is recorded for as long as button is held > button released > voice is sent to servers > servers return an answer > answer is played via speakers or bluetooth headphones if connected
Volume up button > volume up sfx + volume increases 10% until max
Volume down button > volume down sfx + volume decreases 10% until silent
Swipe left/right on touch capacitive pad > swap between apps
Double press the button >