livingsoft

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by livingsoft 2mo ago
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 together just to keep simple websites running - now we h
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by livingsoft 2mo ago
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 the Web as a consensus reality made of human speech is too
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by livingsoft 2mo ago
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 of local webs that grows by processing the dead material of
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by livingsoft 3mo ago
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 efficient to split it into smaller, more coherent, repeatabl
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by livingsoft 3mo ago
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 valuable in life than longevity.
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by livingsoft 3mo ago
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 update the YT channel, if you want to follow the p
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by livingsoft 3mo ago
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 forcing us to understand the code - You can learn to work with an