Summer of Protocols
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A channel for the Summer of Protocols, see summerofprotocols.com
We shouldn’t just have decentralized ids. We should have decentralized egos and superegos too.
The 4 necessary and sufficient conditions for a hardened commons:
1. Decentralized ids
2. End-to-end encryption
3. Cryptocurrencies
4. Hypersonic tactical missiles
1. Decentralized ids
2. End-to-end encryption
3. Cryptocurrencies
4. Hypersonic tactical missiles
State of the field in 2024:
What’s your favorite protocol hacker story?
Protocols and standards are like the infamous marshmallow game, but legit and played in terms of agency
A little bit less now, but a lot more later
A little bit less now, but a lot more later
training data ⊃ media ⊃ tokens
value ⊃ attention
value ⊃ attention
@atlas how do you measure your coverage of established connections vs executed connections vs evaluated connections vs potential connections
Thing Knowledge
brand surrounding protocol feat. @bryanjohnson https://nemesisglobal.substack.com/p/brand-analysis-d-is-for-dont-die
Neat protocol progress
If you solve all your problems you’ll have nothing left to do
But you also can’t neglect any problem
The trick is to half-ass your solution to most problems and only fully solve the truly unbearable ones
Kicking the tin can down the road is The Way. If you can live with a problem to some degree, you should ask “why not?
But you also can’t neglect any problem
The trick is to half-ass your solution to most problems and only fully solve the truly unbearable ones
Kicking the tin can down the road is The Way. If you can live with a problem to some degree, you should ask “why not?
Needed:
Bad actors protocols
Punishers protocols
cf Ray Nayler, The Mountain in the Sea
// crosspost to /gloom
Bad actors protocols
Punishers protocols
cf Ray Nayler, The Mountain in the Sea
// crosspost to /gloom
inside you there are two wolves
Borders are a protocol hotspot. Why? When you have to respect another's sovereignty, your surface area/options for disaster prevention goes *way* down.
https://winnipegsun.com/opinion/columnists/siemens-says-first-case-of-ped-proof-of-manitoba-porks-effective-biosecurity-protocols
https://winnipegsun.com/opinion/columnists/siemens-says-first-case-of-ped-proof-of-manitoba-porks-effective-biosecurity-protocols
Protocols as engineered arguments ==> protocols as rules of engagement (and disengagement)
“Good, clean fight”
“Good, clean fight”
*dignitas*
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👀 hoomans permissionlessly making scoring systems for other hoomans
what could possibly go wrong 😑
what could possibly go wrong 😑
Thought this was a good composability cautionary tale 👇🧵
Great game A Few Words #131
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🥹 Nice try!
https://a-few-words.com
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🥹 Nice try!
https://a-few-words.com
Search tool that calculates how decentralized a protocol is: https://isitdecentralized.app/
Organizers love panels because it’s easy to get B-listers to commit to them. There’s a lot of us around, and we’re generally too busy to prep proper talks for everything, but not A-lister enough to merit solo fireside chat interviews by prepared interviewers. Panels aggregate 2-3 B-listers in the hope that they will add up to an A-lister. But even with the most skilled moderator this is hard since a conversation between equals is fundamentally more incoherent than a talk or interview. I’d say panel moderation is 10x harder than *good* podcast hosting. Not least because panel moderation is not a steady gig anyone gets to practice. Even talk show hosts talk to guests one at a time.
Most panels I’ve been on, including ones I’ve moderated, sucked royally, so I rarely agree to do them these days. The rare good ones turn into de facto parallel interviews.
Anyone who actually has anything to say dislikes them. I don’t think audiences or moderators enjoy them either.
Replace with mini talk-shows.
Most panels I’ve been on, including ones I’ve moderated, sucked royally, so I rarely agree to do them these days. The rare good ones turn into de facto parallel interviews.
Anyone who actually has anything to say dislikes them. I don’t think audiences or moderators enjoy them either.
Replace with mini talk-shows.
From the forum: Should I rebuild my app on AT Protocol?
https://forum.summerofprotocols.com/t/should-i-rebuild-my-app-on-at-protocol/1690
https://forum.summerofprotocols.com/t/should-i-rebuild-my-app-on-at-protocol/1690
Best book I read this year, which is a non-trivial statement since it’s December and I think I’ll finish just one more book this month. Thing Knowledge by Davis Baird.
Also very relevant to protocols. I’m now convinced protocols are a best understood as a kind of behavioral envelope around things that bear knowledge in the sense of Baird’s notion of material epistemology. Protocols complete incomplete,y encapsulated things that cannot be entirely black-boxed or made fully foolproof.
https://www.ucpress.edu/books/thing-knowledge/hardcover
Also very relevant to protocols. I’m now convinced protocols are a best understood as a kind of behavioral envelope around things that bear knowledge in the sense of Baird’s notion of material epistemology. Protocols complete incomplete,y encapsulated things that cannot be entirely black-boxed or made fully foolproof.
https://www.ucpress.edu/books/thing-knowledge/hardcover