garden/exgenesis.md

Exgenesis

• A person on twitter.
  • twitter https://twitter.com/exgenesis
    • "Friendly shamanpunk".
    • pull xiq
  • Interested in Browser extensions
  • project threadhelper
  • thesis recommendation systems
    • misaligment problem
    • evolutionary game theory

2020-12-19

• social dilemma
  • A bit heavy handed. on the nose.
• See a problem, like to think of how to solve the specific problem.
  • Scales up clearly to company-sized
• cooperation
  • Different at different scales.
• Other extensions in this space: competitors or cooperators?
  • memex
  • hypothes.is
    • See annotation standard
  • quotebacks
• game theoretical aspect of cooperation towards a goal
  • Cooperators might become defectors
    • What about open source as a solution to this?
      • Would like to do it but also would like to have a sustainable business.
• wikipedia style project
  • It didn't seem like it would work, then it did.
  • Social ranking, coalescing is as hard.
• The most achievable thing.
  • Decoupling the data store from the social network.
  • holochain
    • Decouple the data from the app
    • Same thing for recommendation system
    • Q: Is ipfs an alternative?
  • underscore protocol
• threadhelper
  • Bottleneck is definitely time.
  • exgenesis
    • Perhaps I know a developer that could be interesting in joining force. Working on the write/thread creation aspect.
    • typefully?
    • No, birdbear.
• What's the USP for threadhelper?
  • Starting from a very concrete problem (Twitter), other projects have a very wide scope.
  • hypothes.is is a lot more focused on annotating the web.
    • They might be adding note surfacing though.
  • We (nosilverv and exgenesis) have a good instinct.
  • wikilinks everywhere
• agora
  • A protocol for integrating with n backends/formats with "constant" cost.
  • An implementation that makes it easy for integrators to operate with data from all these sources, and to use action modules.