John Boyd presentation (more)

the global context for prompt engineering that all the main systems let you set (more)

Asking Questions is one of the key Thinking Tools - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Question (more)

One Question to Rule Them All. What Would You Say You Do Here? (more)

Warren Ellis: The Manfred Macx Media Diet. I re-read Charlie Stross’ ACCELERANDO at least once a year. More often, I’ll return to just the first three chapters once every few months. (more)

produced or determined by society or social forces (more)

Ernest André Gellner FRAI (9 December 1925 – 5 November 1995) was a French-born British-Czech philosopher and social anthropologist described by The Daily Telegraph, when he died, as one of the world's most vigorous intellectuals, and by The Independent as a "one-man crusader for critical rationalism". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Gellner (more)

Neo-feudalism or new feudalism is a theorized contemporary rebirth of policies of governance, economy, and public life, reminiscent of those which were present in many feudal societies. Such aspects include, but are not limited to: Unequal rights and legal protections for common people and for nobility,[1] dominance of societies by a small and powerful elite, a lack of social mobility, and relations of lordship and serfdom between the elite and the people, where the former are rich and the latter poor. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo-feudalism

John Robb notes Parag Khanna's prediction of Neo-FeudalIsm. What did diplomacy look like in the Middle Ages? First, it was characterized by complex multi-level relations: the Pope and his emissaries, Germanic duchies and vassal territories, Italian City State-s like Milan and Venice, and great universities from Oxford to Bologna. Second, it was informal. For most of history, the chief criteria for diplomatic inclusion have been status and prestige, not legal sovereignty—which only came into being in the 17th century. (more)

Parag Khanna thinks the City State will be the key player of the century. Already, more than half the world lives in cities (Urbanization), and the percentage is growing rapidly. But just 100 cities account for 30 percent of the world's economy, and almost all its Innovation. (more)

In John Boyd’s terminology, building a snowmobile is crafting a novel solution to a problem that synthesizes various fully optimized but conceptually unrelated elements into a cohesive whole (motorcycle handlebars + tank treads + skis + boat outboard motor = a vehicle built to traverse snow). In this case, we need a novel solution that rapidly develops space. (more)

Observation Orientation Decision Action (Observation, Orientation (model?), Decision/Decision Making, Action) (more)

old fighter pilot responsible for OODA model (more)

A ritual "is a sequence of activities involving gestures, words, and objects, performed in a sequestered place, and performed according to set sequence".[1] Rituals may be prescribed by the traditions of a community, including a religious community. Rituals are characterized but not defined by formalism, traditionalism, invariance, rule-governance, sacral symbolism, and performance. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ritual (more)

book (Design Fiction?) by Adrian Hon ASIN:B00EX8QRPM http://ahistoryofthefuture.org/ (more)

novel by Andy Kessler ISBN:098271632X (more)

Someone making a living on their own. I think of it as a one-person "company": being a freelancer or consultant doesn't smell the same (where as they do fall under the Free Agent umbrella). Is that implying a requirement on having a "product"? Not sure... (more)

Cyc (pronounced /ˈsaɪk/ SYKE) is a long-term artificial intelligence (AI) project that aims to assemble a comprehensive ontology and knowledge base that spans the basic concepts and rules about how the world works. Hoping to capture common sense knowledge, Cyc focuses on implicit knowledge. The project began in July 1984 at MCC and was developed later by the Cycorp company... By 2002, Cyc was described as having "consumed $60 million and 600 person-years of effort from programmers, philosophers and others—collectively known as Cyclists—who have been codifying what Lenat calls 'consensus reality' and entering it into a massive database... The knowledge base is divided into microtheories. Unlike the knowledge base as a whole, each microtheory must be free from monotonic contradictions. Each microtheory is a first-class object in the Cyc ontology; it has a name that is a regular constant. The concept names in Cyc are CycL terms or constants... An inference engine is a computer program that tries to derive answers from a knowledge base. The Cyc inference engine performs general logical deduction.[9] It also performs inductive reasoning, statistical machine learning and symbolic machine learning, and abductive reasoning... A Semantic Web version of OpenCyc was available starting in 2008, but ending sometime after 2016... The Cyc project has been described as "one of the most controversial endeavors of the artificial intelligence history".[26] Catherine Havasi, CEO of Luminoso, says that Cyc is the predecessor project to IBM Watson.[27] Machine-learning scientist Pedro Domingos refers to the project as a "catastrophic failure" for the unending amount of data required to produce any viable results and the inability for Cyc to evolve on its own. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyc (more)

I've been programming and designing software for over 25 years. My chief interest is in systems that allow end-users to visualize and manipulate complex systems. I've designed and built many systems that involve both complex user interfaces and an AI/KR component (such as a visual knowledge entry for medical expert systems, and a spatial visualizer for the Cyc knowledge base). I've also built many systems that involve end-user programming, for many different types of users including both children and scientists. My approach: the goal is to make software that lets people be smarter (Augmenting Human Intellect). http://hyperphor.com/ammdi https://www.linkedin.com/in/mdtravers/ (more)

Kevin Carson book (more)