Shawn Murphy - Noospheric Software Foundation

Even simple problems are now insoluble

Consider the case of Daylight Savings Time (DST). It goofs up everyone in its grip. It costs billions. It even kills people: speeding, late for work or driving, under slept. It confuses entire nations. We try to turn it off, yet every year it evades eradication merely by requiring that

Convergence Ritual

Zulu is World Time – Let's GoZulu

About one billion people interact daily with someone on another continent. In our increasingly global lives, agreeing on WHEN is ever more a problem...

Toward Alignment

they sleep at our throats

Humans and dogs have co-evolved. Our funny fur buddies have fangs which can end us. We can confuse them with a blanket. We are at peace with them. We are partners. Heck, we love one another. We overwhelm them at tests of IQ and the ability to unpack emojis. Yet

Convergence Ritual

one-on-one mind melds

When two people and two people only are having a conversation with one another there's a particular magical thing that happens. Let's acknowledge the Vulcans and call it Mind Melding.

Convergence Ritual

rate adaptation

If, when we collaborate with one another, we notice that the interactions are producing favourable results then we might experiment with increasing the frequency of interactions and the promptness of our responses. If the channels that we are using are asynchronous, for instance mail, then augmenting with more synchronous chat

Language Games

What was "Who's On First"? [WIP]

The timeless classic "Who's on First" was a skit, a bit, a routine – and those are language games. Were any real assertions about a guy named "Who" being made? What did that routine contribute to our knowledge of the world?

Experiments

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Experiments

a self-hosting, realtime knowledge collaboration experiment

Presentation

Bootstrapping the Noosphere

bootstrap (BOOT-strap) verb: Start something complex with minimal outside help. no·o·sphere (NOH-uh-sfeer) noun: The global fusion of mind and machine which is emerging from the biosphere.

Convergence Ritual

Three Kinds of Conversation

Convergence Ritual

solidarity among humans [WIP]

We aren't like them -- them corporations, parties, ideologies, movements, nations, fads and teams. They aren't human and don't need blue skies, clean water, safe food and a future good for babies.

Absurd Optimism

imagine Sisyphus hacking [WIP]

Why do we do what we do? Why do when it seems hopeless? Why try when it feels futile? Is anybody else trying?