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The potential for collective agenda-setting through iterated ranked-choice voting protocols

From Public Choice — A Primer by Eamonn Butler Voting Paradoxes in Action Indeed, as Condorcet pointed out, some systems could produce almost any result. Rock might lose to Paper, and Paper to Scissors, but Scissors would still be defeated by Rock. The outcome depends on how the election is ...

A brief note on the collective exocortex to come

From a 2019 IEEE paper titled Decentralized Construction of Knowledge Graphs for Deep Recommender Systems Based on Blockchain-Powered Smart Contracts The “collective exocortex” is a term I’m using as a placeholder for an idea that I predict will begin with the benign interlinking of individuals

Digital land is not land

Fees from token lending/renting for token-gated access are analogous to cash flows for usage-based software business models, thereby providing an intrinsic valuation framework for tokens

From Decentralized Society: Finding Web3’s Soul:Property rights are defined in the Roman legal tradition as bundles of rights to use (“usus”), consum...

8 billion stories and the preservation of Humanity’s Will

ProposalHere’s my half-baked proposal — that all 8 billion of us start writing down our thoughts and experiences, from our deepest, darkest secrets to our most inane, frivolous musings, and use time-lock cryptography to send these fragments of our lived experiences into the future. That all of humanity begins fostering a culture that promotes the continual recording and eventual transmission of collective human wisdom for posterity’s sake. That we recognize the inherent uniqueness and value o...

Velocity and the n-body problem

Part 4 of Planetary-Scale Computation: An industry primer on the hyperscale CSP oligopoly (AWS/Azure/GCP):Let’s Get Physical, (Cyber)Physical!: Flows of Atoms, Flows of ElectronsA Cloudy History: Four Histories of Cloud ComputingPrimer on the Economics of Cloud ComputingThree-Body: Competitive Dynamics in the Hyperscale OligopolyInitial Positions and Laws of [Competitive] MotionMass and the Law of [Economic] GravitationVelocity and the n-body problemThe Telos of Planetary-Scale Computation: O...

Mass and the Law of [Economic] Gravitation

Part 4.2 of Planetary-Scale Computation: An industry primer on the hyperscale CSP oligopoly (AWS/Azure/GCP):Let’s Get Physical, (Cyber)Physical!: Flows of Atoms, Flows of ElectronsA Cloudy History: Four Histories of Cloud ComputingPrimer on the Economics of Cloud ComputingThree-Body: Competitive Dynamics in the Hyperscale OligopolyInitial Positions and Laws of [Competitive] MotionMass and the Law of [Economic] GravitationVelocity and the n-body problemThe Telos of Planetary-Scale Computation:...

Three Body: Competitive Dynamics in the Hyperscale Oligopoly

Part 4 of Planetary-Scale Computation: An industry primer on the hyperscale CSP oligopoly (AWS/Azure/GCP):Let’s Get Physical, (Cyber)Physical!: Flows of Atoms, Flows of ElectronsA Cloudy History: Four Histories of Cloud ComputingPrimer on the Economics of Cloud ComputingThree-Body: Competitive Dynamics in the Hyperscale OligopolyInitial Positions and Laws of [Competitive] MotionMass and the Law of [Economic] GravitationVelocity and the n-body problemThe Telos of Planetary-Scale Computation: O...

Primer on the Economics of Cloud Computing

Part 3 of Planetary-Scale Computation: An industry primer on the hyperscale CSP oligopoly (AWS/Azure/GCP):Let’s Get Physical, (Cyber)Physical!: Flows of Atoms, Flows of ElectronsA Cloudy History: Four Histories of Cloud ComputingPrimer on the Economics of Cloud ComputingThree-Body: Competitive Dynamics in the Hyperscale OligopolyInitial Positions and Laws of [Competitive] MotionMass and the Law of [Economic] GravitationVelocity and the n-body problemThe Telos of Planetary-Scale Computation: O...