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  1. Nov 2024
    1. While the scope of the galaxy is substantial, it’s good to remember that Frontier’s universe – and what lives in it - will likely act as soft pressure against too much expansion, indirectly pushing players to group and organize to survive on the Frontier.

      External factors and player needs, visions and alignments make it so that player distribution is asymmetric, and forms localized blobs.

      The imagery I have in mind would be that certain concepts act as gravitation centers around which players assemble pushed by the external factors and attracted by the vision.

      Each blob will have its own internals and some of these blobs will even interact and exchange via various channels and in different modes.

  2. Sep 2024
    1. players can literally write the rules and behavior of decentralized applications, and therefore, any Smart Assembly created in the game

      It seems that the protocol of a smart object is given through the Solidity code.

      Protocol code as contract code.

    1. All game activity supervene on these immutable digital laws.

      At which level are these digital laws encoded?

    1. Could you create a virtual world that was true only to itself?

      A world true only to itself, is a world that manages its own truth. No other party decides of what is true, and participants can only interpret the manifestation of that truth.

  3. evefrontier.com evefrontier.com
    1. Exclave Ventures is a derelict hydra of autonomous protocols, long deserted by human users and now constituting a necrobiome class hyperobject.
    2. synthetic memetics

      Memetics is a theory of the evolution of culture based on Darwinian principles with the meme as the unit of culture.

    3. An Algorithmic Death Rattle

      Protocol deadland.

  4. evefrontier.com evefrontier.com
    1. Teleonomic Hypothesis

      The hypothesis that the structures around us serve a purpose?

    2. Still-effects also demonstrate properties of non-locality, which makes them indispensable for FTL applications.

      How can a non-local effect be leveraged to break the speed of light limit?

    3. Ergodic Reactor

      What could be the principle of work for this device?

      Ergodic, from ergodic process. A process which follow the "ergodic principle"

      • A point in a moving system will eventually visit all parts of the space in a uniform and random sense.
      • Over long periods of time, the time spent by a system in a region of phase space with the same energy is proportional to the volume of that region.

      Reactor, from reaction. The process is an ergodic reaction, what does that mean?

    4. The Vast Silence

      I like this idea because it goes back to a principle I love from eastern philosophy.

      This idea feels like, what if, the "energy" school started incorporating eastern vague concepts like "silence" with frameworks like thermodynamics in their theories.

  5. Feb 2024
    1. It may seem like the image file should be the key mechanism for storing andmanaging software projects, but in practice that is not the case at all.

      This is an important point.

    1. without any spooky action at a distance.

      Confirmed. Einstein. Physics.

    2. The behaviour of a unit of code should be as obvious as possible by looking only at that unit of code

      Locality is also a principle in physics.

  6. Jan 2024
    1. A system is a composition of objects thatare abstractions, which hide data andexpose behavior*

      Composition Abstraction Hide data Expose behavior

    1. Object metaphors are powerful, both because they leverage something familiar to introduce something new, and because they lean into our natural cognitive strengths for spatial reasoning and object manipulation.

      Metaphors make for good introductions. They leverage what is known to tackle the unknown.

  7. Dec 2023
    1. Building blocks encode a useful trait. A building block note encodes an idea.Building blocks are atomic. You want your BB-notes to be as small as possible, but no smaller. This maximizes combinatorial surface area.Building blocks are composable. BB-notes are focused on composition too. Big ideas are composed from smaller ideas, through hyperlinking and transclusion.

      Modularized note-taking principles.

    2. Introduce mutation.

      Question lines and prompt routines.

    1. A conversation can happen between yourself and yourself, across time, through the notes your past self took for your future self.

      While protocols are generally meant for systems with many free agents to organize their behavior toward a particular equilibrium, necessary to sustain. Given the efficiency of protocols to coordinate complex actors and incentivize them to participate in an orchestra of collectively meaningful dance. I want to explore whether it would be possible to consider human multiplicity of states viable for protocolization and thus creating internal incentives between your many variations to maintain some important behaviors.

    1. There is a growing need for open standards for formats used to represent text, images, video and other collections of data, so that one producer's data will be accessible to another's software.

      Data formats are like currency. Either standardize it or make sure there are converters. Money exchange. Most used formats are valuable but also valuable content in a rare format makes the converter more valuable.