Patterns of Synchronized Shared Realities

| | 1D: Clock ![[clock-icon.png\|50]] | 2D: Bitcoin (Cryptocurrencies) ![[bitcoin-icon.png\|50]] | 3D: Ethereum (Web3) ![[ethereum-icon.png\|50]] | 4D: Society Protocol (Web4) ![[society-logo.svg\|50]] | | :-------------------------------------------------------------------------: | :---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------: | :----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------: | :--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------: | :---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------: | | **Survival** | It’s almost guaranteed to survive being the most neutral and long lasting synchronized state. | Depends on it’s need in the future, it’s not guaranteed but currently has a niche. The need to rebalance the pyramid in the future brings up serious concerns. | Depends on it’s need in the future, it’s not guaranteed but currently has a niche. The need for 3D blockspace stands the possibility of becoming commoditized. | Most Society Protocol instances will fail to survive. The one’s that do last through time and grow bigger, will inherit the Earth. | | **Legitimacy (trust)** | Clocks are so legitimate that people buy luxury designer watches to use as a Store of Value (SoV). | It’s never been 51% attacked. The ledger's full history is 100% accurate start-to-finish for everyone involved so far. | If we consider the 70% pre-mine of social value distribution and switching the shared reality via a social fork legitimate, everything after that has been 100% accurate. Ethereum has never suffered a stoppage, hack, or 51% attack. | The legitimacy of Society Protocol instances depends on the security of the codebase, the initial Energy distribution, and the Governance methods of each instance. Apart from the shared codebase...the legitimacy of each instance is independent of each other. | | **Information** | Very limited information only 1D reads of an integer. | 2D informational transfer (read-write) abilities. Not the greatest, but transfers digital information losslessly worldwide. | 3D informational transfer of any programmable object (read-write-own) worldwide in increments of 12s (and going lower). | 4D informational transfer of the shared reality of society (read-write-own-coordinate) peoples lives, social graphs, and interactions. | | **Access (agency)** | Clocks can only read from the shared reality, not write anything. Access here can mean synchronizing with the social layer's timekeeping system–which is trivial. | Bearer instrument agency. Access to the STB at the behest of the Proof of Work (PoW) nodes. | Bearer instrument agency. Access to the STB at the behest of the Proof of Stake (PoS) nodes. | After an account is established: Bearer instrument agency to access the protocol. Equal access to control of the protocol proportional to social value. Access to the STB at the behest of the Hunters. | | **Coordination (Incentivization Mechanisms)** | Only one integer of coordination that we cannot write to. | Only coordinates simple read-write interactions and messages. 2D Cryptocurrencies cannot store 3D objects. | Powerful coordination abilities, including programmable infrastructure DEXs, currencies, NFTs, any 3D object essentially. | Unfathomable coordination abilities of synchronizing and incentivizing the entire society. Never possible before during history. | | **Fairness, Representation of Interests** | The fairest representation possible, due to an external neutral point of reference called the Sun. | Imperceptible social layer and miners control these aspects. Users interests aren’t equally represented, but rather in tiers. | Imperceptible social layer and stakers control these aspects. Users interests aren’t equally represented, but rather in tiers. | Everyone gets meritocratic access to control in the Synchronized State based on their explicit social value (Energy). | | **Synchronization** | Manual synchronization around a shared exterrnal point. | Automated globally ~Every 10 minutes. | Automated globally ~every 12 seconds. | Automated globally ~every <1 second. | | **Moats (defensibility)** | Some social layers are on a different lunar calendar, although all of them are easily accessible and convertible at this point. | A complex issue but basically PoW is often vulnerable to other PoW chains and it’s hard to moat it off. Many chains try, but fundamentally its difficult. | Every 3D synchronized state has become differentiated in the way that it does things. While the objects inside them are interoperable, the mechanics of how each blockchain works are quite different, and they are competing on these moats. | Every Society Protocol instance Energy is unique and non-fungible. Each Society Protocol instance has a massive moat protecting its users identities, assets, and data. | | **Interoperability / Ubiquity** | Absolutely. The clock might be the most ubiquitous mechanism in the world. | It’s spreading globally and acting as a ubiquitous SOV across Nation State borders. | All Web3 blockchains can interoperate via bridges at the expense of inheriting the security risk of the bridge itself and each other's security. The whole of Web3 is becoming ubiquitous for payments and soon tokenization of the entire global economy. | While Society Protocol instances can interoperate through either Web3 or shared interoperability layers, their interoperability and ubiquity of instances will take a long time to happen. In the end, they will be able to sign automated programmable treaties and interoperate between each other–in the same manner Nation States do today. | | **Ability to form a State** | No | No | No | Yes | | **Ability to perceive the state strength from the STB (shared reality)** | No (we can’t see how many other users use clocks) | No | No | Yes |