u/jungandjung

How will that work? I can see Midnight as potentially Cardano 1.1 if not 2.0, even if not in the near future. Cardano exist for a relatively long time now and huge amount of work has been done, it’s not easy to gain up on it that’s for aure. So when Charles mentions staking… I hear native defi?

The dRep situation is strange, or odd, either way not really rational, not something you would brag about when mentioning governance. The number one dRep by voting power is Yoroi Wallet which is now discontinued, so… who is this dRep entity now? Emurgo? Also Emurgo who is the number four dRep by voting power is the company that made Yoroi wallet and who is now stepping down from the pentad and development(dishonored).

It makes it too random for Emurgo to be biggest dReps now, with such massive voting power. Cardano foundation-the bread and butter of Cardano no? Is on the other hand at a number nine? Not exactly social butterflies? Odd. Maybe I don’t get it, but Cryptocrow(Jason) just one dude who wants to retire from crypto into his Warhammer fantasy or something like that, has a greater community confidence vote and is in top five? He’s my current dRep, I understand why he is in top five, he has online presence and decent amount of personality, I would put him at number two after Charles.

Personality, for better or worse is archetypally(meaning over thousands of years) important to people, it’s not that we’re dirty hopeless peasants followers, rather we’re consolidators, our brains are wired to distill the narrative which that very brain creates, extreme and pathological example here would be what Elon is to shibes.

So what kind of governance we’re really aiming at here with such arbitrary consensus mechanism?

So far these are rumors so I wouldn’t quote anyone. I’m not sure how costly it is to run it, but maybe there are people out there who are into this kind of thing not just for the money, but obviously money is an inescapable factor, they can try if they believe they can do a better job at running it.

That is difficult to see. Because the seeing will not require the seer.

The purpose is to choose not to pursue thought. No matter how wonderful or important it is. That is the essence of meditation.

The rumination, the daydreaming, the reactivity, all that is neurological if anything, but since there is a choice involved it is also psychological.

Mindfulness or awareness is the default state, one does not need to meditate to cultivate it, unless it is no longer a default state, and for many, and I believe for most it is not a default state of mind, the default state is the opposite, constant distraction, to be anywhere and to do anything other than be here and now, the industry of content is evidence to that.

It is no longer a choice because it is a neurological adaptation. Try to forget how to drive a car, forget how to cycle, to walk. Impossible. But you can choose to distance yourself from it, bit by bit.

When K said the change has to happen now this instant, not tomorrow, he meant that choice.

Any change is good as long as we keep learning. I suspect Charles might retire from Cardano, at least after Leios mainnet, to do more with Midnight.

It makes sense to NOT be the face of two major projects at once.

Also there is a sentiment that an ecosystem as big as Cardano should not be overshadowed by a single leader. Ideally leadership should be decentralized, a responsibility of every individual.

“When the Master governs, the people are hardly aware that he exists. Next best is a leader who is loved. The Master doesn’t talk, he acts. When his work is done, the people say, “Amazing: we did it, all by ourselves!” — Tao Te Ching, Verse 17

So like I said the DReps will have to rediscover their sense of accountability to the community, that should be the next major upgrade.

What the ecosystem needs right now is stronger DRep accountability, more community workshops, and greater institutional representation.

Imo the original roadmap will be achieved with Ouroboros Leios upgrade, Ouroboros is a snake that eats its own tail(so we come full circle).

This is it. The beginning. Ground zero.

Happy Friday.

The popular sentiment is if one is not an atheist then one is either a Christian or a follower of any other organised world religion, of its various denominations. Would I pick catholicism or protestantism or lutheranism etc. which one defines me as a person? Maybe my friends or my partner belong to one or the other, then I might explore that one, whichever basket I fall into.

The popular sentiment is that an atheist is someone who does not believe in God, it seems that's fair, and a religious person is someone who does or not sure, but why not just in case, a warranty for afterlife?

The common denominator here is belief, atheist believes there is no God, and non atheist believes there is God, and usually they identify with the religion they were born into.

You either believe in yes or believe in no. The latter in the age of reason gave birth to agnosticism, first publicly coined in 1869 by metaphysicists. Agnostic meaning I need proof for the either, thus belief is based on empirical evidence. Not to mention Jung despised agnostics, or at least looked down on their intellectualization, that reason is above everything!

To this day people still debate what Jung meant when he said 'I know, I don't believe'. Yes he probably meant gnosis but it has to be unpacked, what gnosis is. Is it knowledge or is it perception? Do you know it or do you embody it?

I can think of it only as a subjective empirical evidence, but not empirical in conventional sense, where you are the yardstick, that is the meaning as it is felt by you is the yardstick, it is neither a belief nor a lack of belief, it is an experience, a personal, individual, I would call trans-subjective experience, it is direct inner experience in its purest form. Jung did spoke at length of what divine encounter is and he hypothesised that god image cannot be distinguished from the Self, and maybe it shouldn't... but that, as history shows regresses into organized literalism, as I would call it, in other words an institution like the Church, etc with its crusades, missions, preachings, witch-hunts, tortures, martyrs, saints... with crusades still active today!

So the way I see it, it is not a question of belief but of inner experiential knowledge, you either had it or you didn't. No religious institution in the word will be able to give it to you, do it for you, likely it will lead you astray from that inner experience.