introducing the first programs of the @resonantcompute lab today 🤍 its time to get building
1. gardens - working groups around nitty gritty topics (ex: portable memory)
2. gatherings - its all enabled by community
3. projects - spotlighting and supporting resonant work and startups
these lay the foundations for all to come - and for a new way of building tech
unfortunately (or fortunately) at the VERY frontier, method itself becomes unstable. the question is no longer only “what experiment would prove this?”
we're asking “what form of inquiry lets us see the mountain at all?”
in trad science, when we’re looking at innovation, what we’re doing is taking an investment in an open field – a broad question – that cannot be answered in a binary way with one experiment, or even a set of experiments
all we’re trying to do is iteratively take the most uncertain question, the highest area of risk, and collapsing that, trying to find the answer to that with an experiment, over and over again, with the hope that we have de-risked the concept so we have a viable idea at the end of the day
we are scaffolding and seeding for supercooperation: if you are building, researching, or funding something in this space, propose a garden, nominate works that you admire, or come talk to us about being a patron
@resonantcompute is directed by the incredible @carsonlevine14 & @lizwandersworld
we declared that technology should make us more human, not more absent. 1200+ people agreed when they signed our resonant computing manifesto. now, it’s growing season at @resonantcompute
https://t.co/o0uBtRPlTe
gatherings: dinners, talks, walks, work nights, anywhere in the world. are you hosting something in the spirit of resonance? we will help you share it https://t.co/rSkE6h3GXR
from sarah perry's deep laziness on ribbonfarm
the christopher alexander version of what tangential action spaces is trying to formalize geometrically
https://t.co/ET8vuRngwr
drug development has a v underrated advantage: the bottlenecks are legible
target -> lead -> tox -> IND -> phase I/II/III -> approval
the science is uncertain, but the path has gates!! it's an absolutely brutal funnel, but at least it is a funnel lol
i would argue tangential action spaces are the local mechanics of a non-euclidean theory of discovery (or non-euclidean adventures in mountain climbing) aka the adjacent possible https://t.co/Bjiy5ftuG7
"Knowledge lies with the builders, not the buildings"
Big shoutout to @jiamixue@_benjaminparry , @mattyj612 and the rest of the team for organizing such an incredible event last night!