The Infinite Knowledge Machine with Shady El Damaty

It's 2030 and the US government has replaced NSA server farms with Ethereum staking nodes. We've made it, but have we really? How do we avoid a doomsday scenario of immutable dogma enforced through a blockchain plugged into every aspect of life? My perspective on Ethereum as a technology is very different from technologists, degens, regens, and the anons in between. As a scientist, I immediately recognize Ethereum for what it is, an autonomous knowledge machine. In this talk, I will cover how the scientific method enshrined as a set of smart contracts will act as a safeguard from dystopian future scenarios. How discovery is a recursive arc, drawing from historical examples, the history of decentralized science (DeSci), and where we're going from here 🚀 https://twitter.com/hebbianloop Shady El Damaty Co-Founder Holonym Shady El Damaty, Ph.D., is a co-founder at Holonym, a zero-knowledge identity protocol for producing private proofs of verified credentials, and founded OpSci, a non-profit developing tooling for web-native open science practice. Shady has a Ph.D. in neuroscience with expertise in MR pulse sequence development and ML/AI for neural signal processing. Shady was awarded a 2023 Foresight Fellow in the Intelligent Cooperation and Neurotech tracks. Previously, Shady was the principal investigator on a Department of Justice (DOJ) grant to track the neural correlates of violent outcomes in young adults. He is also a Mistletoe Fellowship alumnus, providing consulting for hardware start-ups. Currently, Shady is based in Washington, D.C. and can be found tapping to the beat at local jazz clubs, or practicing other languages at neighborhood cafes.