on protocols

a research program aiming to accelerate and broaden the study of protocols

Protocols arrive slowly, and can be incredibly fragile when young, but are remarkably hard to kill once they do arrive.

Artificial Memory and Orienting Infinity.

The things you choose to remember about the history of a protocol arguably constitute your revealed preferences about how you think it ought to evolve in the future. The things a protocol itself remembers is some function of all the things individual participants in it remember and all the traces their behaviors leave behind in the material substrates it touches.

On ‘killing’ protocols

Perhaps some protocols would be best left behind. What has historically killed protocols? I wonder…

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to be continued…

Links

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