Hello Jerry-verse
This is an experiment in thinking out loud. We can’t all make late night Gather Town jams or midday coffee fueled Discord DMs, but I hope to give everyone that feeling, as well as keep them up to speed on the thinkity think. P.S. I’m minting this as an NFT because Mirror asked me and YOLO. Funds go to the Krause House treasury.
This Edition
- To WAGBAT or to WAGBAL?
- GPT-3 Empowered Community
- Calls to Action
To WAGBAT or to WAGBAL?
I’ve grown increasingly hot on the idea of starting our own league over shooting straight at acquiring an equity position in a major team. I may be in the minority now, but I sense that most of us are here because we’re interested in new forms of player and fan empowerment, and I believe that operating in a context where we can write the entire rulebook allows us a much greater space of exploration and freedom to operate. In addition, this league would inevitably start humbly, which allows us much greater freedom to tinker as we operate with significantly less downside risk.
We’ve launched the Krause House Accelerator, and building an agency seems inevitable. I see providing value to athletes, content creators, media personalities, and sports media ventures as the playbook for building a network (The Krause House) that could serve the groundwork bringing sufficient attention, talent, and resources to a league.
This is a more humble path than pitching NBA ownership groups, but we can focus on building together and creating real lasting value. What do you think?
GPT-3 Empowered Community
I've been playing around with Open AI's GPT-3 playground, and exploring what it could do for the Krause House. I put this Snapshot proposal in and told it to summarize it, and seemed to work quite well:
“In short, the KH accelerator is a 6-week program with 2 official + 1 informal 90 min sessions per week, designed to help high quality projects at the intersection of crypto and sports with insights, processes, and tools to scale their vision. The KH accelerator would use $KRAUSE to incentivize guest speakers and compensate for operational roles, with 100,000 $KRAUSE for tokenswaps and 150,000 $KRAUSE in total.”
It’s hard to imagine that AI-assisted governance is not part of the future, so why not start learning in practice?
We could use it as a friendly helper in the Discord to answer questions, we could have a sentiment bot to let us know where morale needs a boost, we could have bots that help people write proposals. We also could generate POAP art from a summary of an event. The possibilities are endless, so let’s get creative. For those of you with AI related experience, skills, or ideas, now is your time to shine.
I also think we shouldn't underestimate the fun these bots can bring. I prompted the AI to roast @Boosh's tragic career in the #nba-picks channel in the style of Charles Barkley and this is what I got out:
All jokes aside, there's a lot of potential here, and I encourage you to check it out.
From what I understand, we could train it on Krause House data (Discord history, blog posts) in order to give it context about Krause House, and potentially a personality.
Calls to Action: Choose Your Own Adventure
- Let me know what you’d like to see from this outlet.
- Share your thoughts about the WAGBAT vs. WAGBAL debate on Discord.
- Go wild with the GPT-3 playground and share some cool results in Discord. If you know anyone who would be able to help, get them involved!
- I encourage you to experiment with sharing your own experience and thoughts within Krause House. There are countless people much wiser and more creative than me in our community, and I’d rather be reading your newsletter than writing one!
- Drop a suggestion in the suggestions channel—or better yet make that change yourself!
Shoutouts
- Shoutout to @Isiah for inspiring me to finally get around to this.
- Shoutout to @Commodore and @Flex for hosting an high vibe Season recap.
- Shoutout to @Aarts and Branding Team (@dluxe, @bigbully, @gandaolf) for some elite branding direction.
WAGBAT 🦇 (or should I say WAGBAL?)
