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The minimal definition of user agency
Own your ID, own your content, own your contacts.
May 26
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Gordon Brander
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Concept design in three easy steps
A semi-formal way to think about software
May 19
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Daniel Jackson
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Trustless protocols are better than trustful ones
...even when you layer custody on top.
May 10
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Gordon Brander
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April 2023
LLMs break the internet. Signing everything fixes it.
The dead internet theory wasn't wrong, just early. Here's what to do next.
Apr 25
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Gordon Brander
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Feedback is all you need
...for LLMs to gain agency.
Apr 7
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Gordon Brander
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March 2023
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…
Mar 21
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Gordon Brander
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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…
Mar 15
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Gordon Brander
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February 2023
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…
Feb 1
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Gordon Brander
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January 2023
LLMs and information post-scarcity
How does this change the internet? A handful of guesses.
Jan 9
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Gordon Brander
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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…
Dec 16, 2022
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Gordon Brander
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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…
Nov 27, 2022
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Gordon Brander
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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…
Nov 7, 2022
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Gordon Brander
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