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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…
Gordon Brander

January 2023

How does this change the internet? A handful of guesses.
Gordon Brander

December 2022

In his book The Origins of Political Order, Francis Fukuyama describes a political dilemma called the bad emperor problem. Here is the bad emperor…
Gordon Brander

November 2022

TLDR: we have raised a seed round to further our mission of building a decentralized commons for thought. We’re building an open protocol, and an app on…
Gordon Brander
While analyzing a global history databank spanning 10,000 years, Shin, et al found a disconcerting pattern. Civilizations scale until they are…
Gordon Brander

October 2022

Imagine a notebook. It lives on your computer, and is encrypted with keys only you have access to. This notebook is designed to last decades, a…
Gordon Brander
We’ve been making a lot of headway on Noosphere the last few weeks. New contributors, progress on a Noosphere CLI, and the beginnings of the p2p petname…
Gordon Brander
Adewale Oshineye juxtaposed these two quotes in the Subconscious Discord recently: A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from…
Gordon Brander

September 2022

Complex systems can evolve from simple systems only if there are stable intermediate forms. (Donella Meadows, 2008. Thinking in Systems)
Gordon Brander
A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. A complex system designed from scratch never works and…
Gordon Brander

August 2022

A provocation from Dawkins: ideas are alive! The gene, the DNA molecule, happens to be the replicating entity that prevails on our own planet. There may…
Gordon Brander
Your brain on IPFS
Gordon Brander
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