diff --git a/agora pkg chapter.md b/agora pkg chapter.md index f7fbcb3ba..5d8a9fb53 100644 --- a/agora pkg chapter.md +++ b/agora pkg chapter.md @@ -301,7 +301,7 @@ A resource can be declared a [[Stoa]] by tagging it as such. This marks it as a # Applications This section explores possible further applications in the social and knowledge spaces in the form of a series of short essays. -## Building meaning together through federation +## Provisioning meaning together with federated heterarchies - An Agora supports taxonomies in principle but mostly provides a set of basic tools to converge on meaning best effort through social processes based on federated [[heterarchies]]. - [[Agora trees]], meaning by default [[outliner mode]] text with [[wikilinks]], hint at sections containing [[Agora Protocol]]. @@ -309,6 +309,17 @@ This section explores possible further applications in the social and knowledge - TODO: (Details on an [[open source algorithm]] for ranking and filtering based on the above go here.) - TODO: (Details on eventual [[convergence]] as a phenomenon to be studied.) +An Agora tries to solve all of these based on social signals contributed to the commons: + +- [[taxonomies]] + - [[heterarchies]], as represented by [[agora trees]] and [[path/like/queries]], can be reinforced by the Agora as more users hint at them. + - Hypothesis: this can do away with the need for fixed taxonomies or category systems, and the associated upkeep cost (and potentially gatekeeping) that comes with them. +- [[equivalence classes]] +- [[ranking]] +- [[filtering]] + +If users write that [[x]] pulls [[y]]. + ## Collaborative world building - We seek to provision and maintain a distributed knowledge graph tailored specifically to the goal of solving problems: those of its users and society at large. - This [[knowledge graph]] will be a [[commons]]. @@ -340,7 +351,7 @@ Thank you to [[neil]] and the [[agora community]]! ## Solving coordination problems -- An Agora can be seen as a would-be [[schelling point]] built around the [[principle of charity]]. +- An Agora can be seen as a would-be [[Schelling point]] built around the [[principle of charity]]. - An Agora can be used to solve [[coordination problems]] like those we need to solve to enable users to leave walled gardens and protect the [[commons]] against [[enclosure]] by [[anti disintermediating]] parties. It can be said to be a device for enacting [[counter anti disintermediation]]. - An Agora provides tries to provide free [[bridges]] to escape [[walled gardens]] with your friends. - An Agora can help people regain and maintain control of their data, including their [[social graphs]].