⿻ patcon (is in Toronto)

Currently hiring 1-2 postdocs to work on origins of life theory/experiment, assembly theory, life detection, with me and @leecronin.bsky.social, positions are mostly based at ASU but also some time could be spent at U. Glasgow, Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/176391 Please help us spread the word!

@saraimari.bsky.social You should def load your past tweets into bluesky so ppl can see you in this :))) mino.mobi/novelty/?han...

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Even the presentation I was about to give them -- they saw what I used to generate it ("I am speaking to attendees of a civic hacknight civictech.ca [...]") & they can judge the output. So they would leave the circle learning THAT even if the presentation was bad.

“The confidence I have in my taste and my ability to express what I feel.” - Rick Rubin Meme YouTube video by CoderClub

At last civic hacknight, was trying to sell a table of variously-technical attendees on ubiquity of learning in AI world (as an agent was live-writing the onboarding slide deck from my codebase)

We're all about to become better at articulating our taste, a very core primitive: youtu.be/jg1WUOxY6Cg

It's so disgusting that I can almost hear the countless hours this man has been talking to a sycophantic ChatGPT... thanks OpenAI

This is how you create a new generation of terrorists, Friends.

Sounds like someone who should be in jail for war crimes.

dyyyying

h/t @makeworld.space !!!

Holy shit, I want this to be my new "about me" link: mino.mobi/novelty/?han...

I sure as heck don't mind being benchmarked by such a cheap metric...! I think I actually appreciate novelty as a core value, so this is neat for something I value so much to be so easy to calculate :)

Yay Climate Fast's environmental voting record scores, presenting their work at @civictechto.bsky.social civic hacknight 🎉🎉

votingrecords.climatefast.ca

guild.host/events/civic... #civictech

I'm glad I saw this *after*I just flew back from Mumbai to London... Grateful for safe passage 🙏🏽

It feels wild knowing the rate at which SO MANY PEOPLE are building things in tech, things which will no longer have a purpose or profit model in maybe a year... 🤔

I think i figured out whats wrong with me! socially I'm a herd animal, but my executive function is cat-like.

As in, self-management is mostly creating conditions in which I feel like my dear humans don't need things from me, at which point my executive brain starts figure-eighting their legs

www.linkedin.com/posts/patcon... (SORRY FOR LINKEDINNNNN)

Valence swarming & perspective maps A proposed tool for multiplayer cognition

😊 nodescription.substack.com/p/valence-sw...

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Yeah, thanks for voicing this! For myself, provenance feels a bit weak when I get stream-of-consciousness sharing. Screenshots might improve that feeling 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

h/t @michaellevin.bsky.social and SA Senchal for the thinks 🙏🏻

Cognitive Light Cone and the scaling of goals YouTube video by Michael Levin's Academic Content

What if biology & culture already have the largest goal state programmed at low level. What if "laughter" is pursuing a goal state that is larger & more far-reaching (in cosmological sense) than smthng that seems important, ie. diplomacy between states? youtube.com/shorts/rAsIQ...

This is amazing.

www.getyourfuckingmoneyback.com

hey all -- @agoracitizen.network is looking for input on new interface changes, if anyone would like to provide feedback! re: www.agoracitizen.app/conversation...

polislike user group discord: polislike.short.gy/discord

I've got the contact info for the innopolis ethereum folks. If anyone wants me to make an intro, just ask :)

Oh! And @agoracitizen.network folks are attending this too! :)

And my next prototypes will likely be working toward using ATProto (for reaction to chat messages on video streaming). I'm curious about building on @stream.place (had a brief semi-related chat with @makeworld.space yesterday, and this came up) 🙏🏻

bsky.app/profile/patc...

A crew of public servants and technologists (under "Polis EU" banner), recently created an EDIC (European digital infra consortium), & we're meeting for a work session in Helsinki in a week. Their interest is more sovereign tech, but ATProto will be on agenda! (Tho not priority)

Hop in discord :)

Awesome Polis Useful resources for using Polis and building things on top of it

Some Russian students made a poc for ethereum that won a hackathon award. patcon.github.io/awesome-poli...

A group of ppl meet weekly under MetaGov: polislike.short.gy/notes

There's a discord! polislike.short.gy/discord

Awesome Polis Useful resources for using Polis and building things on top of it

Thanks @udit.bsky.social 🙏🏻

@metagov.bsky.social has folks interested in this in their #polislike and #deliberative-tools-and-interop channel

@agoracitizen.network released a draft of their thoughts: www.dds.xyz

YOUR MESSAGE MADE ME REALISE EVERYONE IN THE HOUSE WAS UPSTAIRS WATCHING HOCKEY WHILE I WAS IN BED ON DEMOCRACY TWITTER. THANK YOU