I agree that a “call to action on a ‘meta governance’ discussion” is definitely in order. However, I don’t think separation of powers and term limits addresses the more fundamental problem: that no collective prioritization method currently exists in any DAO, including the NNS. Political “solutions” are, at best, just limits or constraints upon dictatorship, which is the prevailing decision-making method when prioritization is required in large organizations. Prioritization represents true power, since that is how conflicts between competing alternatives, evaluators and decision criteria are resolved.
As part of my upcoming PhD studies, I have already offered DFINITY my time to explore and experiment with collective prioritization methods that could truly decentralize power. However, there appears to be no interest whatsoever from anyone at DFINITY in this collaboration, even when it would involve no investment on their part. Therefore, I honestly don’t see this discussion going anywhere.
I would only be interested in pursuing this discussion if it might lead to a change or improvement to the IC in the foreseeable future, I don’t see that happening as long as no one at DFINITY is even willing to acknowledge that a “prioritization chasm” currently exists in both the NNS and SNS governance. It is simply not possible for power to be decentralized until this chasm is crossed. However, most individuals have great difficulty acknowledging this stark reality.
The smaller IC community of SNS-1 stakeholders might be willing to engage in developing solutions to the prioritisation challenge. SNS-1 is community lead and thus is not dependent on Dfinity prioritisation. SNS-1 could become a great learning ground for the DAO challenges that are coming upon us.
@khm, Is SNS-1 even a real DAO though? I thought it was just a trial run for the SNS token process. Once real DAOs under SNSs come onto the IC, I would be willing to work with them on any collective prioritization decisions. I agree that there could still be an opportunity to do some research without any real assistance from DFINITY. My hope is that DFINITY will eventually realize how large the “prioritization chasm” truly is in both the NNS and the IC ecosystem overall, but that will clearly have to wait for another year in the future.
@khm, I’ve sent you a DM with a proposal about how a collaboration might work. If I decide to commit to the IC within the next couple of months, we can take the discussion further from there. In the meantime, please share my proposal thoughts with the SNS-1 chat group to see if there is any significant interest.