Sublime

A network, once established, might be called an individual.

Another approach is to have highly trained humans try to write it all down, in a computer-interpretable form.

OODA loop

We could train a machine-learning system up to a certain level of competence—by normal imitation learning, say—and then, from that point forward, we could use it to help evaluate

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Because information technology has undermined the capacity of centralized authority to project power and provide physical security for systems that operate at a large scale, the optimal size of almost every enterprise in the “natural economy” is falling. To respond to this technological change will entail a massive investment requirement (read oppo

Ted Nelson, whose ambitious Xanadu Project (though never completed) was a vision of disparate information linked by “hypertext” connections.