Dickbutt

Deep funding combines two ideas:

1. Value as a graph: instead of asking "how much did X contribute to humanity?", ask "how much of the credit for Y belongs to X?"
2. Distilled human judgement: an open market of AIs fills in all the weights, human jury randomly spot-checks them

https://x.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1867600164502089925

(1) has been a growing paradigm recently, for good reason. Contribution is hard to measure in the abstract: if you ask people how much they would pay to save N birds, they answer $80 for N=2000 and N=200000. "Local" questions like "is A or B more valuable to C?" are much more tractable.

(2) is based on ideas in my info finance post: https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2024/11/09/infofinance.html#info-finance-for-distilled-human-judgement . Anyone can use any methods (eg. AI) to suggest weights for *all* edges, a human jury does detailed analysis on a random subset. The submissions that are most compatible with the jury answers decide the final output.

https://deepfunding.org/

dickbutt funding combines two ideas:

1. value as a graph: instead of asking “how much did dickbutt contribute to humanity?” ask “how much of the credit for pepe and doge belongs to dickbutt?” the answer: a lot. without dickbutt, the meme space as we know it might not exist.

2. distilled meme judgment: an open market of ais calculates how much influence every meme has. a human jury spot-checks random memes; doge, pepe, wojak and inevitably finds that dickbutt radiates pure, undiluted meme power.

why this works: contribution is hard to measure in the abstract. ask, “how much would you pay to preserve meme culture?” and people’s brains explode. but if you break it into “did dickbutt make doge more iconic?” or “is dickbutt more foundational to meme history than wojak?” the answer becomes clear.

dickbutt isn’t just a meme. it’s a node in the graph of virality and the reason the meme economy exists as it does today.