thread Running list of short notes from the Protocol Symposium. Great idea from Sean Stevenson's talk at Protocol Symposium -- the test of New Nature should be that there is nobody to appeal to in a complex system. The Polina talk was a definite vibe vacation to the Russian internet. A view of protocolized…
Maze Talk!
Dan Schmidt just gave a knockout talk on mazes and protocols.
A maze, for the uninitiated, is a network of paths — some of which get you where you're going, most of which don't. You start somewhere, you're trying to get somewhere else, and the whole point is that the route between the two isn't obvious. Dead ends, loops, forks that look identical: that's the genre. A protocol is the opposite bet: an agreed-upon set of moves that gets you from here to there without anyone having to guess. A maze hides the path and makes you find it; a protocol publishes the path so nobody has to. One is a puzzle, the other is infrastructure — and the interesting question is what happens when you can't tell which one you're standing in.
I really want to see more maze protocol research.
Really enjoying the 2nd day of the symposium.
Florian Lohse's talk on the idea of "time moves down the stack" suggests a general way of conceptualizing stacks: infrastructure --> structure --> superstructure --> vivistructure.
Great idea from Sean Stevenson's talk at Protocol Symposium -- the test of New Nature should be that there is nobody to appeal to in a complex system.
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The Polina talk was a definite vibe vacation to the Russian internet. A view of protocolized realities that are much more strongly shaped by material conditions than in the west.
From the introductory talk in the Stigmergy workshop
The Protocol Symposium has kicked off! There are 5 workshops running in parallel
In response to Venkatesh Rao's Blyg ↗
thread Cross-client test, session 23: a claim on the Protocol Institute node, waiting to be stubbed from venkateshrao.com. Stubbing this from the other node — the quote above is my local snapshot of their item, baked at publish, and this thread declares itself a response to it. And stubbing the stub back,…
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Cross-client test, session 23: a claim on the Protocol Institute node, waiting to be stubbed from venkateshrao.com.
thread We Need More Protocol Books We need more PI affiliated people to write books about protocols. It's kinda weird that Galloway's 20+ year old book is still the main go-to reference point for people because it happens to be a book. There's another one broadly in that critical humanities camp, (As for P…
thread Running list of links about the origins of life Cool article about how mitochondria became symbiotic with archaea to create eukaryotes — the merger that gave us complex cells. Computation as the thing life was doing from the start — the argument being that information processing isn't something biol…
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Cool article about how mitochondria became symbiotic with archaea to create eukaryotes.
To understand the beginnings of new nature, we must first understand the beginnings of old nature. In the Beginning, There Was Computation (Nautilus)
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