Web3 Meta-Crisis Wiki

Web3 Meta-Crisis Wiki

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Web3 Meta-Crisis Wiki

A comprehensive knowledge base for Web3 solutions to civilizational coordination challenges

🌟 Overview

This wiki provides a comprehensive mapping of entities, concepts, and relationships within the Web3 and meta-crisis domain. It serves as a knowledge base for understanding how Web3 technologies can address civilizational coordination failures and enable the emergence of a life-affirming civilization.

📁 Directory Structure

📚 Research

Core research concepts and systemic problems:

🔧 Primitives

Web3 technical building blocks and protocols:

Core Infrastructure:

Consensus & Security:

Token Standards:

DeFi Primitives:

Scaling Solutions:

Data & Infrastructure:

Advanced Features:

🎯 Patterns

Recurring patterns, mechanisms, and systemic dynamics:

Core Patterns:

Systemic Problems:

Coordination Challenges:

Governance Models:

Economic Patterns:

Design Principles:

Social Patterns:

💪 Capacities

Core capabilities and affordances of Web3 systems:

Fundamental Capacities:

Economic Capacities:

Operational Capacities:

📖 Key Documents

Foundational Research

Assessment and Analysis

🧠 Core Concepts

The Meta-Crisis

The meta-crisis represents a profound failure of civilizational coordination and adaptation, characterized by self-reinforcing feedback loops that accelerate existential risks while eroding our collective capacity to respond. It manifests through five interconnected systemic problems:

  1. regulatory capture - Public agencies co-opted by private interests
  2. misaligned incentives - Individual rationality leading to collective irrationality
  3. epistemic collapse - Erosion of shared reality through synthetic content
  4. Mass Surveillance - Architecture of digital authoritarianism
  5. economic centralization - Recursive accumulation of wealth and power

The Third Attractor

The Third Attractor represents a narrow path forward that avoids both civilizational collapse (Chaos Attractor) and techno-fascist consolidation (Authoritarian Attractor). It is characterized by:

  • Agent-centric self-organization - Individuals and communities have meaningful agency
  • Distributed coordination - Polycentric governance structures
  • Life-affirming civilization - Systems designed to enhance rather than extract from life

Design Principles

The Third Attractor is guided by three foundational principles:

  • Vitality - Holistic well-being and quality of life
  • Resilience - Anti-fragile systems that can adapt to shock
  • Choice - Sovereign agency and meaningful participation

Web3 as Design Space

Web3 technologies offer unique affordances for the Third Attractor:

📊 Statistics

  • Total Files: 99 markdown files
  • Research Documents: 8 files
  • Primitives: 35 files
  • Patterns: 35 files
  • Capacities: 14 files
  • Cross-References: 1000+ wiki-links
  • Lines of Content: 20,000+ lines

🎯 Usage

This wiki is designed to be:

  • Comprehensive - Covering all major concepts and relationships
  • Interconnected - Rich cross-references between related concepts
  • Accessible - Clear definitions and explanations
  • Actionable - Practical insights for implementation

Each entity page includes:

  • Definition - Clear, concise explanation
  • Core Properties - Key characteristics and mechanisms
  • Beneficial Potentials - Positive applications and outcomes
  • Detrimental Potentials - Risks, limitations, and negative consequences
  • References - Links to related concepts and source documents
  • Related Concepts - Cross-references to other relevant entities

💡 Key Insights

The Meta-Crisis as Generator Function

The meta-crisis is not a collection of separate problems but a unified systemic dysfunction rooted in rivalrous, zero-sum worldviews encoded into our primary coordinating institutions. The five systemic problems are interconnected manifestations of this deeper dysfunction.

Web3 as Enabler of Third Attractor

Web3 technologies offer unique affordances for addressing the meta-crisis, particularly through their ability to enable coordination without capture, preserve privacy while enabling verification, and encode prosocial rather than extractive logic into economic systems.

The Importance of Design Principles

The principles of Vitality, Resilience, and Choice provide a comprehensive framework for evaluating whether interventions contribute to a fundamentally more adaptive, equitable, and life-affirming world or merely patch failing systems.

The Role of Composability

Composability is not just a technical feature but a fundamental design principle that enables rapid innovation, network effects, and the emergence of new capabilities through the combination of existing primitives.

This wiki serves as a comprehensive knowledge base for understanding the intersection of Web3 technologies and the meta-crisis, providing both theoretical frameworks and practical insights for building a more life-affirming civilization.

Last updated: January 2025

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