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He studied Mechanical Engineering at S\u00e3o Paulo State University and Computer Sciences at Minerva University. Currently operating as an independent researcher at Sympoiesis.xyz, his research focuses on hardware and ML models. He is in charge of building the AI powered digital avatar for the Rio Sagrado. He is also a top-ranking project instructor at Coursera. His responsibility in the project is the programing of AI implementation of the interactive platform, contact with local researchers and communities and on site implementation of equipment.\n\nDerrick Yoder, 10.09.1988, American. Editor and Writer at the Center for World Philosophy and Religion. Independent Researcher focused on existential risk modeling and governance design. Studied Economics at Wabash College.", "hidden": false, "question": "Individual or team summary", "questionId": 5}, {"type": "multiple-choice", "answer": "Research", "hidden": false, "question": "Project category", "questionId": 6}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "This project seeks to address a perceived gap in token engineering where tokens serve not just as currency but as models of identity. Particularly for non-human entities, promoting ecological stewardship. Success will be measured by establishing AI-vatars for ecosystems, with tokens reflecting their health and status, leading to real-world conservation actions incentivized through our token model. Accomplishment will be evaluated by the uptake of SymbioTokens and positive ecological outcomes they facilitate.", "hidden": false, "question": "What specific problem(s) do you seek to solve with this grant, and how will you know whether you have accomplished your goal(s)?", "questionId": 7}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Our project contributes to token engineering by innovatively applying it to environmental governance, gesturing towards the design of a token system (SymbioToken) that incentivizes sustainable behaviors and ecological monitoring. This system demonstrates a public good by facilitating communal stewardship of natural resources, using tokens to foster actions that have a positive impact on the climate. It serves as an educational model for integrating token economics with conservation efforts, offering a replicable framework for global communities.", "hidden": false, "question": "Describe how your project contributes to token engineering and why it is a valuable public good.", "questionId": 8}, {"type": "multiple-choice", "answer": "Proof of concept (PoC)", "hidden": false, "question": "What stage do you consider your project is currently in?", "questionId": 9}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "The biggest update from the previous months is that the physical sculpture that represents the Rio Sagrado's AI-vatar (and that will host its associated hardware) is finalized at the [\"Salto do Sagrado\"](https://www.facebook.com/Cachoeirasaltodosagrado/) visiting center! Genadir has worked on it for a period of two months, creating multiples animal sculptures to highlight the local fauna, as well as indigenous figures to showcase the local culture.\n\n![WhatsApp Image 2024-04-02 at 09.54.33](https://hackmd.io/_uploads/rJ4iToheA.jpg)\n\n![photo_6147759193734626193_y](https://hackmd.io/_uploads/H1xMtl5-A.jpg)\n\n![photo_6179081857648408772_y](https://hackmd.io/_uploads/HyBUte9WR.jpg)\n\n![photo_6208431636924709896_y](https://hackmd.io/_uploads/HJwwKecWA.jpg)\n\n![photo_6208431636924709897_y](https://hackmd.io/_uploads/HJsuFlc-R.jpg)\n\n![photo_6208431636924709900_y](https://hackmd.io/_uploads/H1lAYx5ZC.jpg)\n\n![photo_6208431636924709901_y](https://hackmd.io/_uploads/Sye15x9Z0.jpg)\n\n\n![com.roblox.client-20240403-120826](https://hackmd.io/_uploads/r1c-Ro3eR.jpg)\n\n![Rio Sagrado AI-vatar Metaverse Experience](https://https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_KNYDh3rRc)\n\nAnd some of these wooden figures have been digitalized to be part of the Rio Sagrado AI-vatar Metaverse Experience, which has also been very recently released as a platform to illustrate the use of such AI-vatars.", "hidden": false, "question": "Please share any new updates or milestones from the prior months.", "questionId": 10}, {"type": "paragraph", "hidden": false, "question": "If your project has received prior funding from the Token Engineering Grants Program, please describe the impact that funding has had on the project.", "questionId": 11}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "Sympoiesis as an organization has received approximately 1100 DAI from the \"Gitcoin Program Beta Round Climate Round\" on April 2023, which has been used towards its operational expenses (including the setting up of the website sympoiesis.xyz and associated database capacity). Now, funding related to this specific proposal has come from gitcoin grants by the Zuzalu community for previous iterations/foundational aspects of the idea presented here. That's so because Zuzalu Montenegro (2023) represented a landmark for the project via the participation of Sympoiesis' members in the \"Zuzalu Nature Hackathon\", with the use of LLMs to serve as a voice for nonhuman entities, like rivers and other ecosystems. Since then, the \"Zuzalu Continuous Innovation\" round financed 1.819,13 DAI for the [SymbioDome concept](https://builder.gitcoin.co/#/chains/42161/registry/0x/projects/0xdd599364a88630e2982a7c6f56756095b168a6ac044160fca49705d9ebc46082) in Aug 2023, and the \"Zuzalu Q1-Tech Round\" round financed 1,9592 ETH for the [SymbioTotem concept](https://builder.gitcoin.co/#/chains/42161/registry/0x/projects/0x6c2901a11eb503c25a734451adf51e2e02d95a14d8a0d76070975409a9867d56) in Jan 2024. The procceding from these grants have been used towards the continuous acquisition of hardware and software for the development of the Rio Sagrado AI-vatar (including water sensors and compute units), as well as the work hours put into this work - including those of Genadir, the native artist who has crafted the physical sculpture to represent the river's avatar.", "hidden": false, "question": "Previous project funding sources (VC, grants, token sales, etc.)", "questionId": 12}, {"type": "number", "answer": "7860", "hidden": false, "question": "Total prior funding for the project in USD", "questionId": 13}, {"type": "short-answer", "hidden": true, "question": "How did you hear about the Token Engineering Grants Program?", "questionId": 14, "encryptedAnswer": {"ciphertext": "0wN2g4wOcHfXjFSj+QdfegRy3gEJnRgszJv7z9fuBROCTdSa1iZqBuEECyZEIz//YxrYsWy1Tf67A7+/mT65P4AoOjo+rY9AGZzPGTgpL18mXuV7ie90qwMIR6MdNvlRZgBVrBr7X9CpOdDYm43ngfczx4+B7yDXBqT+lwL+GIxavnZ784rbX/q8sr0XCYbB", "encryptedSymmetricKey": "5fce63731da64be974464b06987edf14f991e07dc89d6d145a73f747c7d58044ed1103f10050f90a5fc7cc551d137d02b7362473ed7195c2f982cbef75fbfc68ce75f77c78ea9a64bddb8684b7c5816bc4cd0bc1b2be1d1bfd7465c7a476738a8aa53a4f2871c92c99cd97acc4dabf7478a637f25a3bf2cc7e4c091dbc9456b400000000000000200eb523a619679f08e138bc04e6e50d7039c4b88e9aa957ddb71940a439c44702d5e2b3f71bfa89a3bf673222070c1daa"}}, {"type": "multiple-choice", "hidden": true, "question": "Would you agree to participate in a follow-up survey approximately 8 weeks after the grant round to assess the impact of the funding on your project?", "questionId": 15, "encryptedAnswer": {"ciphertext": "yMGRqNF8/DLt9VStSwIlCvCrOvDBTtNXkDZaLgFzw4I=", "encryptedSymmetricKey": "5cbeddb812af9997671b2490e9f88ca770b7212b2a13d2da75f12467c014a1f7751cdb20cc451687287ae8cc8bd93c014586cd40a540930b0801810f0e0b2096403440c03f372d0e2efcc530dfc6af0e7e203b7003a8c75cfb41f427f25a3ca9b036693daed9e9b5d4dfd992a7fbecbe8e35acbae8775554654551acd9992b170000000000000020f1594a326c288e4452c4d25c0d813d8879cd9483e57ce99b62577142bd644f3fdb6ff5e70ae7f63e9b3da4adff88eaa9"}}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "The project as outlined in this proposal encapsulates the essence of the larger vision for the symbiocracy endeavor, which sees great potential in the idea of dedicated design of token system for interspecies governance - something we can start building based on the blueprints outlined here. More specifically, we envision the design of a \"Symbiocracy Cell\" that can be made available to any LLM application (using the Langchain framework). Such a cell would contain guidance/instructions for a large language model to learn about symbiocracy (with multiple references - found in the Articulating Symbiocracy outline), as well as modeling feature so the models could simulate the bioeconomy in which they would be inserted/part of. Eventually, this cell would be integrated into the training of a dedicated non-human first large language model.", "hidden": false, "question": "Anything else you'd like to share about your project, previous work, or other project affiliations? 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The Rio Sagrado AI-vatar, an AI/remote sensing infused ecological guardian within Brazil's Atlantic forest, embodies this approach. We seek funds to bring such AI-vatar on chain.\n\n## Context\n\nFrom the 2022 [\"Articulating Symbiocracy\"](https://hackmd.io/KRr8PzKBSFO4K7TXOrn-PA?view) research proposal:\n\n> \"Symbiocracy is a concept aiming to create habitable multispecies landscapes, (re)imagining the coordination of human governance with sovereignty exercised by an intimate, organismal life-togetherness across and among different species, symbiotically relating to each other and to the environment they share.\"\n\n![symbiocracy](https://hackmd.io/_uploads/ryNHt4hxA.jpg)\n(DALL-E creation)\n\nSince then we at [Sympoiesis](https://sympoiesis.xyz) have been hard at work researching and prototyping interfaces that would make it possible for the symbiocracy concept to be materialized. Emerging technologies, like AI and remote sensing have been useful tools in that direction, yielding **proofs of concept** like the Rio Sagrado (\"Sacred River\") AI-vatar\n\n### Rio Sagrado AI-vatar\n\nThe Rio Sagrado AI-vatar is a hybrid AI and physical representation designed to voice and protect the interests of the Rio Sagrado, at the heart of the largest continuum of Atlantic forest in the world (Morrestes, PR, Brazil). It thus serves as a guardian by integrating scientific data with cultural history, highlighting the river's ecological and cultural significance.\n\n![WhatsApp Image 2024-04-02 at 09.54.34 (3)](https://hackmd.io/_uploads/H18PuE2eR.jpg)\n(Rio Sagrado AI-vatar's physical sculpture beside its creator, Genadir. Picture taken at the [\"Salto do Sagrado\" Waterfall Visiting Center](https://www.google.com/maps/@-25.6025857,-48.8058959,3a,75y,197.68h,62.91t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1sAF1QipOCHWOPYR-5fuCj-k4FPl49QMw86bJ-AfhB8dU!2e10!3e11!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipOCHWOPYR-5fuCj-k4FPl49QMw86bJ-AfhB8dU%3Dw203-h100-k-no-pi0-ya47.72028-ro0-fo100!7i4096!8i2048?entry=ttu))\n\n![image](https://hackmd.io/_uploads/BJv2_NngA.png)\n(Rio Sagrado AI-vatar's alpha [chat based LLM interface](http://sympoiesis.xyz/rio-sagrado/), trained with 20+ scientific papers on the river's watershed)\n\n![com.roblox.client-20240403-120923](https://hackmd.io/_uploads/HkFAa4hlC.jpg)\n([Rio Sagrado AI-vatar's Metaverse Experience](https://www.roblox.com/games/16982802810/Rio-Sagrado-AI-vatar-Metaverse-Experience), developed to illustrate the concept of an AI avatar for the river.)\n\n\nAs an instance of the broader [SymbioTotem concept](https://checker.gitcoin.co/public/project/show/symbiototem-by-sympoiesis), the Rio Sagrado AI-vatar is composed of a physical sculpture by a native artisan emphasizing local wildlife, and a voice-based LLM interface we are developing for human interaction, alongside dedicated water sensors to monitor the river's environmental conditions.\n\nMost importantly, The Rio Sagrado AI-vatar is becoming a key piece in the community movement seeking the recognition of Rio Sagrado as a living entity worthy of legal and civic rights. This pioneering move aims to secure environmental protections using a technologically-enhanced implementation of the Rights of Nature legal framework, recognizing the river as a stakeholder within human-centric institutions. Such status would allow the river to stand in opposition to a railroad development project that threatens the entire bioregion and its unmatched biodiversity. As a legal person, the river may be able to influence environmental policy and actions affecting its ecosystem, via their AI-vatar, thereby reinforcing its ecological and cultural significance through legal and communicative capacities.\n\n# The Quantum Leap\n\nWith the beta deployment of the Rio Sagrado AI-vatar/SymbioTotem planned for Q2 2024, we started to imagine how this effort could be integrated with identification processes that would grant the AI-vatar a kind of \"community perceived\" personhood, enabling it to \"enter into contracts\" with the community (both local and global). After all, the proceedings for the river's official legal recognition as an entity of rights will take time. And this is where blockchain technologies can make a difference.\n\n## Objective\n\nIn a nutshell, we want to develop a protocol for enabling on chain AI-vatars/SymbioTotems to perform autonomous ***information request<>action<>assessment event cycles on land,*** (or \u201cautonomous action-inquiry\u201d) as representations of watersheds, forests, beaches etc (now referred to as bioziones). The action inquiry will be performed by verified on-chain observers (in exchange for crypto compensation), enabling the latter to \u201cevidence\u201d itself and its goals throughout time, creating a persistent identity.\n\n[This document](https://www.notion.so/derrickyoder/Sensor-Network-Eco-Cyber-Personhood-Prototype-A-Symbiocracy-Project-9693523bcb884b0fa29e62ee6e5cb79f) outlines a more detailed sketch for how this could work at the protocol level. But in essence a rough route (taking the Rio Sagrado as a prototype) would involve:\n\n1. Create Ethereum Wallet for the AI-vatar: Set up a wallet specifically for the Rio Sagrado AI-vatar, using Account Abstraction for enhanced capabilities.\n2. Register an Ethereum Name Service (ENS) Domain: Acquire an ENS name (e.g., riosagrado.eth) to simplify the wallet address for public recognition and interaction purposes.\n3. Implement Smart Contract for AI-vatar Interaction: Develop smart contracts that allows the AI-vatar to process input from the sensor network and make requests (e.g., clean-up operations).\n4. Onboard verified observes: Create wallets and mechanisms for locals to become verified observers of the AI-vatar, allowing them to take actions (and get compensated) when requests are made.\n5. Run focused experiments to get feedback on the mechanism and the community reaction.\n\nThe idea is that the proccedings from this grant could fund the work hours to set up the above, as well as seed fund the Rio Sagrado's wallet for initial interactions with the community. These experimentations will be critial for a near-future design and implementation of a dedicated token system (the SymbioToken) for identity verification, action compensation, and governance process participation.\n\n## Netweaving\n\nThe Rio Sagrado AI-vatar as well as the Symbiocracy concept are intertwined with the emerging [ReRe (Regenerative Resources) web3 cultural regenerative protocol](https://github.com/ReRe-Recursos-Regenerativos), materialized via the creation of a Common Pool of Shareable Resources (CPoRS) for the  Rio Sagrado AI-vatar, which could be used towards the catalyzing of the aforementioned self-inference event cycle.\n\n![image](https://hackmd.io/_uploads/BkEdQw3lA.png)\n", "lastUpdated": 0, "projectGithub": "symp0iesis", "projectTwitter": "SymBioOrg"}, "recipient": "0x435CD42591cC503a909085c3d3d2899d17032F77"}}