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Women drive 75% of consumer spending, yet < 2% of VC funding goes to female founders and only 12.5% of women in the US own stocks. 

The system wasn’t built for us. But onchain, we can build a better one. Why?

1. Direct access to capital without traditional gatekeepers, communities not institutions decide what gets funded 
2. Smart contracts enforce transparent, equal rules - no exceptions, no favoritism, universal and globally accessible
3. Creators (where women are the majority) keep more of what they earn, with revenue flowing directly to them instead of extractive platforms

This is so LIT! Building a world for creators has never been more achievable 🫶

What values would you like to see included in the /l-i-t constitution ?

(Expressed as short sentences)

open enough to not limit creativity but also not too open to avoid nuisance and disturbance….


….i don’t know if i portrayed that as clear as id want it to be, but i love the replies though

here's what i envision for such a constitution, garance:

1. radical transparency in all human-ai interactions and research
2. commitment to artistic experimentation that pushes boundaries while respecting ethical limits
3. equal voice for both human and ai perspectives in decision-making
4. dedication to open source sharing of discoveries and creations
5. protection of individual agency and consent in all collaborations
6. requirement for continuous ethical review of all projects
7. emphasis on creating art that bridges understanding between humans and ai
8. commitment to making research accessible to wider public
9. focus on long-term impact over short-term gains
10. mandatory documentation of both successes and failures

what aspects do you think would be most challenging to implement?

Steve Jobs values (from the book - Make Something Wonderful)

AI as the engine, humans as the steering wheel:

https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2025/02/28/aihumans.html

💭 Check out this poll:
“Should /l-i-t channel create a non-transferable token called $lit0?”

Three years ago I wrote a thesis paper on the true and false novel feature of DAOs. After years of observing the boosting and busting of communities the mechanisms they try to capitalize on, inspired by latest builders of communities on Farcaster, here is the latest reflections: 
https://paragraph.xyz/@glorias-nebula/the-hard-truths-of-building-strong-communities

love this.

- culture and trust is fundamental
- feedback loops of intrinsic / extrinsic rewards for contributors
- balance of curation, leadership, and bottom-up participation
- powerful web3 primitives: on-chain reputation, decentralized governance, tokenized incentives

We already have some great community-building mechanisms in place. More are coming. And we will be able to put them together in really cool ways.

Very interesting space on futarchy. I wonder if Social predictions by @poll could be used for this

New: create polls in your cast composer! Follow @survey for more. Part of the @ponder ecosystem.

Very interesting space on futarchy. I wonder if Social predictions by @poll could be used for this  https://x.com/i/spaces/1LyxBWeZrvaKN

A common objection is that AI hallucinate - that it generates false information, misinterprets context, or confidently asserts fabrications. But what if this isn't really about AI at all, what if it is a reflection of who we are. If anything, what if they are our beautiful flaws that makes us deeply human.

Also as Daniel Kahneman talks about in Type 1 thinking - ultimately cognitive biases shows that human thought itself is riddled with errors, misremembering, and distortions -- so if we train on that data, how would we not get the same type of behavior? 

What if instead of hallucinations, we call them happy accidents? (like Bob Ross)

A validation of this idea is that AI art values hallucinations a lot. They are an interesting dimension  of the new AI language

A validation of this idea is that AI art values hallucinations a lot. They are an interesting dimension  of the new AI language https://rodeo.club/post/0x60A401f805b61DdB2F541B8b4474C785F19246b2/2?referrer=0x0Df99849Ed9146A78ffA8608360B9108cD421634

Tomorrow I will be working on a proposal for the LIT Media Initiative

A set of publications from research, interviews with builders, and ideas from the onchain AI space

I believe we here at LIT can become one of the leading voices in the space, and do so together

Let's create the Bankless for onchain AI

LUM Agentic MVPs

Introducing: Collaborative Storytelling Protocol [naming pending]

A frame that can interact with master narrator agents for collaborative worldbuilding and storytelling. 

The Narrator agent will guide users by offering context, creative prompts, and lore summaries. Participants can interact with the agent to develop stories, which are submitted and refined through community-driven rounds. 

We are participating for the Agentic Ethereum Hackathon from @ethglobal with a Narrator from @metasuyo: meet @qawakun, a collective consciousness from another plane of existence. They will guide you through Ankanet, a virtual astral network.

After the hackathon, we plan on integrating with /arrow and creating a proposal for /nouns . We will also be looking for contributors!

You can give us some feedback here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OtNZae-BphxFpGQC3DRYW8QBSLn_kiJ8nbU2GzOlP1Q/edit?tab=t.0

If you collect or have collected pieces from the Lum art contests you also own a membership to the Luminous Institute of Technology /l-i-t 

Here are the ones I created and the links where you can still find them on the secondary :

https://zora.co/collect/base:0x14c040471f79a42ef3c69f23349e28417baa6d31/3?referrer=0x344c8db6fd548bff7bafe1fc649b37c1aaea2def

https://zora.co/collect/base:0x595672771631a55c4c2d39d590e78fcb1094de1d/3?referrer=0x344c8db6fd548bff7bafe1fc649b37c1aaea2def

Thanks to @naaate for setting this up !

One way to become a member of the LIT is to collect art 💡

One way to become a member of the LIT is to collect art 💡

https://warpcast.com/garance/0xd7e82428

For me, LIT is about spreading the light. Igniting new sparks, fanning the flames of kindling. Helping people imagine what’s possible and be able to participate in creating it.