Knowledge as a Public Good: Joshua Bate on DeSciWorld's Proof of Knowledge Protocol

Welcome to another episode of the DeSci Podcast! Today, we’re excited to host Joshua Bate, Founder of DeSciWorld. DeSciWorld is a community-driven initiative dedicated to facilitating the onboarding of individuals into the Decentralized Science (DeSci) space.

It provides users with the tools to view, engage with, and understand everything happening in the world of decentralized science.

In this episode, Joshua shares the vision behind DeSciWorld and its role as a global hub for the decentralized science community. We touch on Joshua's frank thoughts on the DeSci movement and how open discussion and unadultered knowledge transfer, alongside powerful incentives, are necessary to grow the space.

We also discuss the “Proof of Knowledge protocol”, DeSciWorld's upcoming technical product where users can upload data and receive incentives whenever their contributions are utilized. Joshua addresses concerns about spam and low-quality dataset submissions, as well as potential technical approaches to ensure that the data used to train AI remains high-quality and reliable.

DeSci World: https://desci.world/

SynapseDAO: https://synapse-dao.webflow.io/

Feel free to navigate through any of the topics discussed in the podcast using the timestamps below.

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⭐ Timestamps:

0:00 Intro

1:28 Overview of DeSci World

04:24 About “Proof of Knowledge” protocol

7:07 Ensuring high-quality datasets

14:04 Common misconceptions about DeSci

16:28 How incentives can drive DeSci adoption in Academia

20:10 Underappreciated aspects of Decentralized Science

22:10 Recommendations for getting started in DeSci

24:23 Competition vs. collaboration in the Web3 space

25:48 Scope of biotech

30:59 The future of of Decentralized Science

33:55 Outro

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Lea: https://twitter.com/lealeata

Joshua: https://twitter.com/jb87ua

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