Vision

Evolution Labs is a non-profit R&D group with a focus on building adaptive governance protocols into the Internet to maintain the veracity of research and communication in lieu of AI.

Goal

EvoLabs seeks to pioneer a new era of organizational structures capable of adapting, learning, and evolving.

Promoting Constructive Online Dialogue: By integrating AI and blockchain, we're designing digital spaces where meaningful and productive discussions can flourish.

Ensuring Fair Recognition for Participation: We've developed an innovative accounting system using Weighted Directed Acyclic Graphs (WDAG) for reputation governance. This system fairly allocates credit to DAO members based on their engagement and contributions.

Leading in Decentralized Innovation: Our labs serve as a testing ground for experimenting with governance and economic models that have the potential to redefine societal operations.

Activities

• Building and supporting the communities that make the Internet work

• Advancing the development and application of Internet infrastructure, technologies, and open standards, and

• Advocating for policy that is consistent with our view of the Internet

• Provides forums for discussion of issues that affect Internet evolution, development and use in technical, commercial, societal, and other contexts.

• Fosters an environment for international cooperation, community, and a culture that enables self-governance to work.

Why

We want to improve wisdom at a societal level. Wisdom development is not an automatable process and is part of a very long and ongoing conversation regarding how people organize, manage power and discourse, and make decisions. People have to change their hearts and their minds. The only way to do this is through the messy process of (un)learning, making decisions, self-reflection, discourse, exploration, courage, etc. Unfortunately, language is limited, there is no direct relationship between signs and their significance (in fact language makes it easy for a plethora of things to hide in plain sight) thus, humans are making a lot of things up. Things are unsustainable if wisdom does not keep pace with power. Values management and their aesthetics are major stabilizing agents in this conversation. Alas, we are still attempting to use the best tools and metaphors of our time to add to the discourse of how wisdom can be better wrangled at an important inflection point in Humanity’s history.

Assuming emerging tech like AI, blockchain, IoT, etc. will be ubiquitous, how can the internet – World Wide (Web/agora) – maintain a semblance of health? This is the focal point of our R&D efforts. We are currently using emerging technologies to improve discourse and decision-making tools for decentralized groups to make money sustainably (sine enshittification) by instantiating adaptive governance (amongst other concepts) into the internet.

Tech won’t make People or a person “better,” but it can help people hit their walls harder and faster in a way they might start to pay more attention to their thoughts, emotions, and actions (hopefully not in a controlled way). We start with values and use the aforementioned technologies to improve discourse and decision-making in a way that helps an organization pay attention to long-term individual and communal growth. For starters, we aim to create an R&D group with the kernel/demo of our current ideas to build with a larger community. In the mid to long term, we hope to engage Humanities and STEM researchers, librarians, developers, lawyers, artists, non-technical decentralized communities (e.g., Baltimore’s independent news scene, Maroons, Taiwan’s g0v, Philippines, Moldova, etc.), for-profit guilds, farmers, etc., to continue our quest to better understand socio-technical “Truths” to instantiate new kinds of organizations. Though the ideas of our current findings are simple, the tech can be challenging to implement and the social design is impossible.