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The minimal definition of user agency
Own your ID, own your content, own your contacts.
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Concept design in three easy steps
A semi-formal way to think about software
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Daniel Jackson
Trustless protocols are better than trustful ones
...even when you layer custody on top.
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Gordon Brander
LLMs break the internet. Signing everything fixes it.
The dead internet theory wasn't wrong, just early. Here's what to do next.
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Gordon Brander
Feedback is all you need
...for LLMs to gain agency.
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Gordon Brander
Pond brains and GPT-4
Stafford Beer and Gordon Pask were building a pond that thinks. Their biological computing project set out to build ecosystems with inputs and outputs…
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Gordon Brander
Everyone will have their own AI
I’ve been reading Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars Trilogy recently, a near-future sci-fi epic of terraforming, ecology, politics, big history. One of the…
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Gordon Brander
LLMs and hyper-orality
It seems that if you compost an internet’s worth of written knowledge, the text starts to speak back. When pushed to its extreme, literature gives birth…
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Gordon Brander
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