garden/exgenesis.md

Exgenesis

• A [person] on [twitter].
• [twitter] twitter.com/exgenesis
  • "Friendly shamanpunk".
• 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.