Boris Mann Causal Islands Conference I'm in! Many more ideas, guess I'll need to go do those now...

A lil video for you:
- Green shape = knowledgebase query
- No hidden/non-visual state
- Edges are doing LLM stuff, but can be arbitrary processes.

I really like the 'Bring Your Own Access' model you get with this...

A potential roadmap for trustworthy AI:

1. build a version controlled en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiphys… platform to predict the probable impacts of actions
2. use AI to accelerate the sim
3. make tools to validate traces and define 'bad states'
4. run any AI output through the simulator

MAXIMUM GAIN! engineeringmedia.com/comics/21

Finally read this paper from Ellie Rennie and Jason Potts

Wonderful synthesis of Hayek and Ostrom to arrive at a novel 'contribution theory of value' which explains how blockchains enable the emergence of property rights from the commons in digital economies

Sybil attacks in legacy public goods funding. Gov't institution creates grant program targeting small firms -> before genuine small firms even learn about those programs (much less apply) the large firms have already spun out qualifying 'small firms' to soak up the funding.

This is basically my approach to economics

Russel pat ✨ Overly harsh but: “would you prefer to live in a house built by expert carpenters with basic tools or a house built by a group of novices with power tools?”

We’re working toward expert carpenters with power tools but we’re not there yet and the learning curve is steep.

Metagov is experimenting with whether a group’s knowledge, practices, rules and norms can be activated through LLMs and other technologies by creating a synthetic deme that mirrors its natural counterpart. ⁦Metagov⁩ with ⁦BlockScience⁩

DeSci Summit still hot 🔥

Systems thinking is a core primitive for building resilient research networks that become a schelling point for researchers worldwide, merely by the fact that they are a superior way to do complex research

🚨 OTNS: Mutualism, labor unions and cooperatives (not charity)

Primavera De Filippi and I spoke to Sara Horowitz, founder of the Freelancers Union and author of the book Mutualism. Sara was a co-conspirators ay Zuzalu who brought her extensive experience of building worker-focused orgs.

First macrodose of MycoFi 🍄🤯💸! Listening to this pod is probably the first time I felt the immense power this collaboration tech without feeling queasy 🫠

greenpill.network season 4 off to a good start...
open.spotify.com/episode/1aFg5R…

This looks like interesting work, but … RNNs, Mamba, S4, etc. are *all* state-space models, at least according to the control theory terminology that has been in use since at least 1960!

Applied to Summer of Protocols! 'Revisiting the Source: improving the SourceCred credit attribution protocol'. Check it👇
forum.summerofprotocols.com/t/pig-revisiti…
#SummerOfProtocols

Control systems and signal processing are the fields where you use mathematics to build real things. You even learn to implement your designs without digital computers, eg via analog circuits and/or fluid dynamics. Learning to do that makes you much stronger with digital systems.

xkcd 2916 is the biggest thing happened to compositional systems theory why is nobody talking about it

xkcd.com/2916

Paper presented at the Public Choice conference with Jason Potts: Consider the problem of the organisation and governance of economic production in distributed organisations and collectives. The first part of the problem is incentivising high-quality contributions to…

Thanks! The thing is, for all of us involved in CyberCat Institute it’s currently a side gig, perhaps this will change but as of right now we have exactly zero funding…

Researcher Spotlight 💡

Kelsie Nabben is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at @EUISchuman and a Senior Social Scientist at BlockScience.

📌 As an ethnographic researcher, her work specializes in the social impacts of decentralized digital infrastructure.

We think there’s a lot more to do here on both the algorithm and theory. Check out our paper for more :)

arxiv.org/abs/2404.00765

One of our favorite books in the BSci library 📚 If you haven't had a chance, highly recommend reading 'Small is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered' by E.F. Schumacher🤓

For the book's 50th birthday🎂Schumacher Center for a New Economics is offering a free study guide:
centerforneweconomics.org/envision/libra…