Editing Transcendent values (section)

==== DAO design ====
The Transcendent Values Thesis (TVS) motivates the creation of [[DAO Governance Framework|DGF]] as informs its design. It requires us to create a system of [[governance]] for any slightly sophisticated DAO, assuming we cannot engineer some perfect protocols that can anticipate all future market behaviors. TVS requires this system of governance to be fundamentally flexible, incorporating eternal evolution as a basic assumption. It requires review as a basic mechanism, assuming whatever protocols have been instantiated in the past will be insufficient to guarantee uniformly healthy and helpful contributions throughout time. Therefore we instantiate [[Judicial governance|judicial]] governance mechanisms for reviewing past actions and [[Legislative governance|legislative]] governance mechanisms for reviewing the very protocols for reviewing past actions.  

Judicial protocols such as [[Forum reference mechanisms|references]], which reward posts that improve the platform or punish participation that later is deemed to be harmful to the platform, can motivate potential corruptors to instead create improved policing mechanisms. At the very least, when the incentives are insufficient to prevent such Byzantine behavior, the judicial reference mechanisms can correct the consequences of the corrupt behavior, stabilizing the function of the platform.