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Science

What can you deterministically perceive as the truth?

The scientific method is the discovery language of the knowledge stack. Every hypothesis that survives experiment becomes a principle — an irreducible truth that protocols, standards, and platforms are built upon.

Science is the engine that pulls humanity forward — Naval

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Protocol

The practice of discovering repeatable protocols that consistently deliver predictable results.

PracticeHabit
Make an observationDevelop curious attention
Ask a questionThe best you can think of
ResearchLearn about the subject
HypothesisA testable explanation
Make predictionsMake predictions of expected outcomes
ExperimentDesign and perform an experiment to test your hypothesis
Data/AnalysisRecord observations and analyze the meaning of the data
ConclusionHow accurate was your prediction
IterateAsk an evolved question

Today's facts are tomorrow's fiction.

Hypothesis

A good hypothesis includes four attributes:

  1. Can be disagreed with
  2. Subject can be improved and quantified
  3. Clearly expresses one main idea
  4. Has potential for a clear conclusion

Observer Effect

The observer effect: observing a situation inevitably changes it. Fundamental in quantum mechanics, but also present in sociology, psychology, and computer science. Ignoring it leads to errors interpreting results.

Problems

ProblemCurrent StateDecentralized Fix
Funding centralizedOnly 2% goes to researchers under 35Token-gated grants, IP NFTs
Replication siloedHard to reproduce across institutionsOpen data, on-chain proofs
Data paywalledLives behind institutional accessOpen access incentive models
Incentives misalignedPublish or perish, not discover or validateVitaDAO, Molecule, AthenaDAO

Rapidly validating with unbiased, replicable results — that's what decentralized science (DeSci) is building.

Context

  • Play — Where curiosity starts the method
  • Standards — Where surviving hypotheses become replicable truths
  • Evolution — The method running across generations
  • Game Economics — Simulations where hypotheses are cheap
  • Predictions — Reverse engineer the future
  • Potential — Learn to see the unseen