When cooking, I wanted to listen to an early episode of "晚风说" (a podcast), but I found that almost all platforms have taken it down (except for the last two or three episodes that I can't define). The official website cannot be accessed, Telegram is logged out, and the public account is empty. I wonder how Jade is doing now, and I hope she gets what she wants.
But that's not the focus of this article. I want to talk about a sentence I like in the program introduction:
"It has been said that the greatest ideas in history are generated and recorded through dialogue."
Dialogue and conversation are actually the same thing.
Conversation is often misunderstood as a waste of time.
Both expression and absorption are considered less advanced and serious compared to writing and reading. Indeed, the word "conversation" doesn't seem to have much to do with seriousness and efficiency. Apart from personal preferences, the inability to accumulate valuable assets/capital in most conversations is probably the most crucial reason. Most conversations occur between two or at most a few people, and even if they are valuable, they cannot be heard or seen by more people.
But I don't think this is a problem with conversation itself.
The dissemination of ideas by many ancient philosophers was in the form of dialogues. Confucius was like this, Cicero was like this, and Plato was like this. Just like the sentence mentioned in the introduction of "晚风说" mentioned above, I believe that dialogue is the most advanced form of generating ideas. Compared to writing, dialogue may not be as refined, and compared to reading, it may not be as systematic. However, it is precisely the immediacy of back-and-forth interaction in dialogue, and even the urgency of interrupting each other when the conversation becomes lively, that make dialogue more likely to spark inspiration.
Compared to solitary thinking, dialogue combines the advantages of collaboration, and collisions make interesting ideas easier to generate. Dialogue alternates between input and output, and the most rudimentary and original inspirations are immediately polished through feedback. Is there any more efficient way than this?
Dialogue itself is a form of human social interaction, and social interaction is what humans, as a species unable to read each other's minds, need.
Maybe we can talk about social interaction another day.
Speaking of which, I suddenly thought of some unrelated things. Recently, AI and GPTs have been very popular. I saw someone talking about creating a community for AI to have conversations as avatars, and I jokingly said, "If it's AI, is there still a need for conversation?" After exchanging data and performing rapid calculations, results can be obtained, so why do we need conversation? Or someone else said that DAOs managed by humans are not feasible, and all rules should be handed over to smart contracts for judgment. If that day comes, I don't know what the purpose of DAOs will be.
Originally, I just wanted to send out a tweet, but I ended up writing too much, so I'll just post it as an article. I always find it difficult to start writing, so I won't do any polishing and just throw it out there.
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Feel free to have a conversation with me about the above content! You can find me on Twitter @0xAdazz, or on the dDAO Discord community initiated by me. dDAO is a community that aims to explore progressive decentralized governance. The community is difficult and gradually becoming deserted, but occasionally, it still bursts with exciting conversations. I continue to focus on topics related to communities, social interactions, DAOs, web3, and I am also exploring the possibilities of web3 social-oriented products. At the same time, I "fantasize" about redefining social interactions in the context of the internet. If you are also interested in these topics, feel free to communicate. You can also leave comments below the article.
By the way, let me advertise: The web3 social-oriented project dAgora, in which I am involved, is accepting donations in the Gitcoin beta round. We also welcome your support.
Compared to popular projects that imply the expectation of airdrops or projects that are good at operations, we appear to be too low-key. I always feel that at this stage, it is better to spend time thinking and creating rather than promoting. Whether there are donations or not, we still need to do what we want to do. This round of donations will last for half a month. It seems that this is the first time I have mentioned this in a public forum. I haven't even tweeted about it before. Now, I'll struggle a bit hhh
🔥🔥🔥 Deadline: May 9, only 3 days left.
👉👉👉 Donate to the Gitcoin grants for web3 social round: dAgora
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Addendum: I forgot to mention that the dAgora project previously won first place in a hackathon organized by arpage, and recently, it also won third place in a hackathon by customizing a tool for the zuzalu community. Zuzalu is an offline experimental community initiated by core contributors to the Ethereum community, and the hackathon judges include representatives from the Ethereum Foundation, Optimist, and the zuzalu team.