DMOZ page (more)

from Robert Anton Wilson's Schrodingers Cat Trilogy (p114) (see also 2004-07-16-PlayAlienIntelligence) (more)

Suffering, or pain in a broad sense,[1] may be an experience of unpleasantness and aversion associated with the perception of harm or threat of harm in an individual.[2] Suffering is the basic element that makes up the negative valence of affective phenomena. The opposite of suffering is pleasure or happiness. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suffering (more)

Meaningful life - see Meaningful Life Roadmap (more)

Self-Transcendence, aka Getting Over Yourself

One of Charles Handy's Organization Models: small business operates only its area of Focus, OutSourcing everything else. http://heroesnotzombies.com/2008/01/04/charles-handys-doughnut/ (more)

Sometimes you have some furniture you've "outgrown". Maybe you try to sell it to neighbors, or post on Craigslist. But it doesn't work. (more)

Announcing GnosisDAO. Gnosis was founded in 2015 with the aim to build prediction markets that enable worldwide access to accurate information. Five years later, our technology powers decentralized prediction market platforms¹, and we’re ready to embark on the next giant leap of the journey: GnosisDAO. (more)

Gnosis builds new market mechanisms for decentralized finance (DeFi). Our three interoperable product lines allow you to securely create, trade, and hold digital assets on Ethereum. https://gnosis.io/ GnosisDAO is the prediction market-driven collective, stewarding the Gnosis ecosystem through futarchy: governance by prediction markets. (more)

Kayleigh Petrie: Digital cooperatives are the future. The operations, day to day decisions and rules can be easily handled and enforced by pre-defined code, called smart contracts, running on a blockchain. (more)

Why Decentralized Artificial Intelligence Will Reinvent The Industry As We Know It. Now, we are moving toward the next frontier — decentralized AI that can run and train on local devices or make decisions in decentralized networks like blockchain. (more)

Nathan Baschez: Will DAOs replace Corporations? Punk 4156, a notable NFT collector who identifies as the CryptoPunk that he owns.... this project, NounsDAO, has in less than two months amassed a community-controlled treasury worth $20M, growing by roughly $500K a day (more)

Kei Kreutler: A Prehistory of DAOs. Cooperatives, gaming guilds, and the networks to come. (more)

Hunter Walk: “Coming for the Content, Staying for the Community” Started With Video Games (Or Maybe Religion?) (more)

Tribes, Institutions, Markets, Networks (more)

John Robb on Tribalism and how it fits into David Ronfeldt's TIMN framework (Tribes, Institutions, Markets, Networks). Each time a new form arises, it generates a set of dynamics - and it's the same set of dynamics each time. No society can escape the TIMN progression or these dynamics.

Tim Berners-Lee projects like Solid generally turn me off because they seem to fight against Worse is Better and not provide a simple/fast path to getting benefits. But... (more)

Bruce Sterling story - 2011-04-30-SterlingManekiNeko

Bruce Sterling's Maneki Neko story (from 1998?!?) reminds me of Halting State (the SPOOKS ARG bits) and Daemon. The really big network databases, with their armies of search engines, indexers, and catalogues, had some very arcane interests. The net machines would never pay for data, because the global information networks were noncommercial. But the net machines were very polite, and had excellent net etiquette. They returned a favor for a favor, and since they were machines with excellent, enormous memories, they never forgot a good deed... He had first met his wife at a video store. She had just used her credit card to buy a disk of primitive black-and-white American anime of the 1950s. The pokkecon had urged him to go up and speak to her on the subject of Felix the Cat. Felix was an early television cartoon star and one of Tsuyoshi’s personal favorites. Tsuyoshi would have been too shy to approach an attractive woman on his own, but no one was a stranger to the net... Tsuyoshi offered a hand gesture. The woman gestured back, a jerky series of cryptic finger movements. Tsuyoshi didn’t recognize any of the Gesture-s. She wasn’t from his part of the network. (Tribe, Network Economy, Real World Game)

The Alexander Technique, named after its creator Frederick Matthias Alexander, is a popular type of alternative therapy based on the idea that poor posture gives rise to a range of health problems... Proponents and teachers of the Alexander Technique believe the technique can address a variety of health conditions, but there is a lack of research to support the claims.[5][6] As of 2015 there was evidence suggesting the Alexander Technique may be helpful for long-term back pain, long-term neck pain, and could help people cope with Parkinson's disease.[6] Both the American health insurance company Aetna, and the Australian Department of Health have conducted reviews and concluded that there is insufficient evidence for health claims to warrant insurance coverage. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Technique (more)