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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…
Gordon Brander
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January 2023
LLMs and information post-scarcity
How does this change the internet? A handful of guesses.
Gordon Brander
Jan 9
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December 2022
web2 has a bad emperor problem
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
Dec 16, 2022
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November 2022
Subconscious raises a seed
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
Nov 27, 2022
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Thinking together
While analyzing a global history databank spanning 10,000 years, Shin, et al found a disconcerting pattern. Civilizations scale until they are…
Gordon Brander
Nov 7, 2022
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October 2022
Imagine a notebook
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
Oct 26, 2022
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Noosphere design principles
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
Oct 9, 2022
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Coevolution creates living complexity
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
Oct 3, 2022
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September 2022
The path of evolution is always through the adjacent possible
Complex systems can evolve from simple systems only if there are stable intermediate forms. (Donella Meadows, 2008. Thinking in Systems)
Gordon Brander
Sep 26, 2022
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Living systems grow from simple seeds
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
Sep 11, 2022
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August 2022
Complex ideas procreate through citation
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
Aug 26, 2022
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Noosphere, a protocol for thought
Your brain on IPFS
Gordon Brander
Aug 19, 2022
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