Love it! I’ve sent that to a couple folks before linking to the wireframes at 14:15. That and Alex Obenauer’s “itemized OS” are the closest worldviews I’ve seen to the stuff I’ve been chipping away at. I’m more interested in tools that increase people’s agency and creativity than in security per se, but Mark Miller’s work got me excited about how well the two aims mesh.

I agree with all their goals. I just don't see what it will do about the really wicked moderation problems for which they spent so much time castigating the current platforms. Sure, their revocable ocap system would help with direct harassment, but that's not the really tricky, toxic problem. In particular, more private communities (which, granted, were not invented by this project, just hopefully made easier) probably make disinformation worse.

I also object to their implicit equivocation on "context", using it in their problem statement in reference to evaluating toxicity of a phrase, i.e. roughly linguistic context, and in their demo to refer to a social context for the purpose of defining an identity. These are not remotely the same thing. I doubt this was an intentional obfuscation, but they should have been more careful. "Context" is possibly even more abstract than "love", even more so in a "context" including discussions of computer science and linguistics.

Agreed- I should clarify, I didn’t find much of Randy’s portion persuasive, and I’m personally not interested in a Spritely as a way to solve any of the tricky problems you bring up. What I’m most interested in is the user interface and underlying “itemized OS” - in particular check out the workflow at 19:30. I also loved the Mark Miller cameo at 32:00 about the “ontological crisis” issue (incidentally what Project Cambria.. the other one.. was trying to tackle).

I would also be remiss not to mention WeChat, which is kind of paving the way for these kinds of UX patterns at scale. There’s no western equivalent right now, but I think there’s enormous potential for a properly decentralized alternative. Very interesting (translated) talk from the founder here: https://blog.wechat.com/2019/03/18/what-is-wechats-dream-wechat-founder-allen-zhang-explains/.

I would also be remiss not to mention WeChat, which is kind of paving the way for these kinds of UX patterns at scale. There’s no western equivalent right now, but I think there’s enormous potential for a properly decentralized alternative. Very interesting (translated) talk from the founder here: https://blog.wechat.com/2019/03/18/what-is-wechats-dream-wechat-founder-allen-zhang-explains/.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4W_m176PIdU was very fun to watch and got me to think about this "tools for thought" space in spite of my general determination to avoid it like the plague.

I quibble, though, that this (or Roam) has much to do with Zettelkasten, where the point is to be able to create links between arbitrary fine-grained fragments. That's not the same as arbitrarily deep outlines connected together using WikiWords.

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/NfdHG6oHBJ8Qxc26s/the-zettelkasten-method-1

Came here to share this. I think the bigger category here is "multicoding", where the representational syntax with some aesthetic effect dualize to have computationally interpretable meaning: https://esoteric.codes/blog/chef-multicoding-esolang-aesthetics

wow this is amazing, I would love something like this for web...

This looks like a really neat project and a great way to incentivize people to tackle it. Not inconsequential prize money!

oh wait, It should "Allows crowdfunding (e.g. via tokenization, crypto bounties)". Is this some exotic crypto play? (I think not really but it makes me uneasy)