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Re: Join Me in Jamverse

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Post by thataccount » Thu, Aug 06, 2026, 5:55 PM UTC

Arubis wrote: post #7

thataccount wrote: post #5

It looks like Ethereum is somehow a part of this universe along with AI? I am not sure what the identity is here fully, but I get that writers are wanted. Are they supposed to also be crypto broish?

Venkat's an advisor to Ethereum in some capacity. The Protocolized Reader has a couple essays that are blockchain-adjacent, but from the more utopian angle of using them to build a better world rather than just a vehicle for currency speculation and graft.

It looks like the way in is through a contest that expired then?

Re: Join Me in Jamverse

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Post by Arubis » Thu, Aug 06, 2026, 6:03 PM UTC

thataccount wrote: post #11

Arubis wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Venkat's an advisor to Ethereum in some capacity. The Protocolized Reader has a couple essays that are blockchain-adjacent, but from the more utopian angle of using them to build a better world rather than just a vehicle for currency speculation and graft.

It looks like the way in is through a contest that expired then?

Yes to the contest having expired; I was surprised to see this posted now instead of a month back. There's still a decent and growing community around all this on the Protocolized discord (https://protocolized.io/community) and there's bounties for both fiction and nonfiction pieces.

(I'm an enthusiast, but not a current producer. Too many other open threads in my life.)

Re: Join Me in Jamverse

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Post by pixelready » Thu, Aug 06, 2026, 6:27 PM UTC

cautiouscat wrote: post #9

Off topic but it’s getting crazy how confidently you can point at a websites design and go “An LLM designed this.” Jamverse kind of just reminds me of a less guided SCP wiki? I’m not sure I fully get it though. Seems interesting though, I’ll have to poke through and read.

I think what we sense as “LLM design” now is what used to be “oh, they used a popular squarespace template or Wordpress theme”. Makes sense that as the models were training on UI, they would heavily favor recurring patterns such as re-used design templates and popular UI libraries over the bespoke stuff.

That plus the AI generated imagery being used in hero images on a lot of sites is built from lazy prompts and riddled with tells like weird shape choices, smooth glossy surfaces, or mangled text.

Re: Join Me in Jamverse

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Post by colinhb » Thu, Aug 06, 2026, 9:26 PM UTC

cautiouscat wrote: post #9

Off topic but it’s getting crazy how confidently you can point at a websites design and go “An LLM designed this.” Jamverse kind of just reminds me of a less guided SCP wiki? I’m not sure I fully get it though. Seems interesting though, I’ll have to poke through and read.

Isn't this just Substack? I don't think they allow too much styling - body and section fonts, header size, header image and icons, etc. Could be wrong.

EDIT: Oh the Jamverse website. Yes, agree 100% - apologies for missing at first.

Re: Join Me in Jamverse

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Post by zem » Thu, Aug 06, 2026, 10:57 PM UTC

> Jamverse (named for Fred Pohl’s dictum that the science-fiction writer’s job is to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam)

clarke once said he was proud of one of his books not only having predicted the portable personal music player, but that people would use them to be public nuisances.

Re: Join Me in Jamverse

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Post by thataccount » Fri, Aug 07, 2026, 2:45 AM UTC

Arubis wrote: post #12

thataccount wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It looks like the way in is through a contest that expired then?

Yes to the contest having expired; I was surprised to see this posted now instead of a month back. There's still a decent and growing community around all this on the Protocolized discord ( https://protocolized.io/community ) and there's bounties for both fiction and nonfiction pieces. (I'm an enthusiast, but not a current producer. Too many other open threads in my life.)

If it weren't on discord I might think about it.

Re: Join Me in Jamverse

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Post by Nail2680 » Fri, Aug 07, 2026, 3:21 AM UTC

I was hoping for a post about learning to use the Jam build system that Boost uses, but the "extended fiction"part was interesting. I don't think I still understand what this is.