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Close, but no. Software is about the mind , and its ability to shape (and be shaped by) its environment. Software was about "people" back when we had to pool our keystrokes togethe…

The principles are correct, but what gwern misses is that the paradigm shift required has nothing to do with AI models. The bottleneck is our medium of communication: the idea of t…

yes, but it can be not so grim - we just need to equip everyone with the means to grow their own local webs, and find a way to connect them by p2p. call it Mycelial Web: federation…

Corporate megasoftware suffers from the same structural problems as ancient megafauna; when there is a fixed amount of material to build the organism, it's almost always more effic…

I'm with the UNIX old timers on this one; cleanliness is overrated. Life is messy, creation is messy. More uptime means more mess. Uptime is longevity; there are few things more va…

Yes, you found it. Blancs is the browser prototype for non-technical users, but the full system, Mycelium, I'm currently working on towards demos and distribution. I'll be sure to …

The author is spot on about the paradigm change of software as a lifeform. Living things provide us with genuine interactions and experiences of learning and growing, without forci…