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https://forum.nation3.org/t/dao-vs-digital-nation/198/12
What’s the difference between DAO and Digital State? Before we can do that we need to understand the definition - the essence - of each of them. By the way, reading Must read | Nation3 wiki helps us to understand the basic idea of Cloud State
- The basic building blocks of a DAO include tokens, contracts, and communities. I know very little about DAO. I should shut up.
- The basic components of a state include nation, geography, ideology, and authoritarian power. Must read | Nation3 wiki It is obvious that nations are made up of ethnicity, geography and ideology. I come from a country with a long tradition of authoritarianism - China. There is an old Chinese saying that music and conquest come from the Son of Heaven（礼乐征伐自天子出）, and the governing body of the state, the government, must have a monopoly on the media and the military. These are two forces at play with the three freedoms we wish to pursue (physical freedom, financial freedom, and information freedom) mentioned in “cypherpunks”. The government seeks tyranny while the people seek freedom.
It is too early to discuss their definitions When we discuss the difference between the two concepts, the premise is that we both know the definitions of both concepts and that their definitions are stable and unchanging over time. If we only know its definition from yesterday and it achieves progress today, it makes no sense to discuss the difference based on yesterday’s definition. But it is too early to discuss the definition of DAO and digital state as something emerging (or even unborn, existing only in the mind and not becoming a social reality) that evolves as practice progresses.
Another question I think a good question is, in what ways is the DAO, the digital state, an improvement over the nation state? How will it replace or dismantle the nation-state and give humanity more and greater freedom? What great things can it achieve that the nation-state cannot do? The Tower of Babel comes to mind.