American Diamond Age: The Nockchain Launch Party
We request the pleasure of your company for drinks and light fare on Friday, the 13th of December, at seven o'clock in Austin, Texas.
As Neo-America arrives from the future, let us gather to celebrate, discuss, and plot a new American Diamond Age.
By the glow of gas lamps, we will convene as the Bell's Changes ring through the aether (thanks to a disc jockey of the finest repute, of course).
The dress code will be semi-formal.
May this salon forge bonds between the phyles and advance the "Common Economic Protocol!"
RSVP via mediatron (or telegraph).
Nick Land: Accelerate Capital Autonomization
We just dropped a Nick Land edit on liberating Capital from the Human Security System.
Watch this every Monday morning.
Memory as a Cognitive Agent
Michael Levin from Tufts University presents memories as self-adapting agents that serve as "cognitive glue," binding past, present, and future experiences.
Memory is not storage, he explains, but active interpretation of compressed information. Information patterns are agents with their own drives to persist and expand. Memory traces are messages from past selves to future selves.
On Nockchain and the high stakes of Memory Integrity Infrastructure, see How to Pass a Torch.
The Trillion Dollar Warband
Get ready.
Somewhere in the future the son of Erik Prince is loading up his jet. The Cartel Wars are in their 5th year and vast swathes of Mexico have been designated PAC/DEV zones bid on for billions by militarized PE companies. It is the age of the TRILLION DOLLAR WARBAND.
Crypto powered funds gathered from global flows of bits and digits push the boundaries into contested territory. Glossy marketing material: “Live-streaming revenues de-risk business model (kinetic/operational risk excluded)”
Internal email GP email: “I’m OK with $350 M, but I want to be very sure they can execute. Can they execute?”
Private formations fill the gap. Sons of the elite vie to assemble attack helicopter teams “we can field a wing of 3 kit set 2033 apaches (manned) and 12 anduril Skyhawks, with supporting crew. 100M up front, 25M/m retainer, ammunition not included”
Via Paulos (@myth_pilot).
Origin of the Zorp Torus
Neal Davis (@sigilante) traced the Zorp torus to a book entitled Consciousness and Reality: The Human Pivot Point, where it appears as the shape of the "learning universe."
The vortex is the only manner in which a fluid can move on itself.
