by Michael Zargham, Isaac Patka, Geoffrey Arone — For compliance-focused business leaders, blockchain technology presents a paradox. On one hand, it offers transformative potential for unlocking new markets and removing barriers to accessing financial services. On the other, it comes fraught with challenges such as security vulnerabilities, regulatory uncertainty, and systemic risks. The solution to unlock the full…

By Michael Zargham and Ilan Ben-Meir — “Language is the liquid that we’re all dissolved in. Great for solving problems, after it creates a problem.” — Isaac Brock By now, everybody has heard some version of the claim that the invention of LLMs has the potential to reshape our society on a structural level. Exactly what these…

Enabling Adaptive Institutions for Complex Systems — This short essay was written as a summary of my active research as it pertains to AI and Institutional Design. The substance comes primarily from two forthcoming papers Block Diagrams for Categorical Cybernetics and What Constitutes a Constitution? The coinage of Model-Based-Institutional-Design (MBID) is an amalgamation of Model-Based-Systems-Engineering (MBSE) and…

Preamble: In a world of growing complexity and interconnectedness, we, the proponents of meta-rationalism, stand united in our commitment to foster a more inclusive, nuanced, and integrative approach to understanding and navigating the challenges that define our era. Recognizing the limitations of traditional epistemologies and the need for diverse perspectives…

Exploring the Insights of the Collective Subconscious — Background With 175 billion parameters, Generative Pretrained Transformer 3 (GPT-3), OpenAI’s state-of-the-art language processing AI model behind ChatGPT, is one of the largest and most powerful models to date. It can generate human-like text and has a wide range of applications, including language translation…

Ethics as Mission and Motivation for the Token Engineering Commons — Our community is a technology-abled social organization committed to the application of web3 technologies to achieve human-centric outcomes. Much like traditional engineering societies we engage in research, education, and standard setting in addition to designing, building and maintaining technological solutions. As with any emerging technology there is still a lot…

And other musings on algorithmic policy-making I met the Aragon founders at ETH Buenos Aires May 2018, hung out with the Chris Burniske, Lane Rettig, Rhys Lindmark among many others. I had spent late 2017 and early 2018, wrapping up a paper on the mathematical framework I use for designing…

Motivation, Recent Progress, and Next Steps — What Motivates us? BlockScience decided to release cadCAD as open source software because we believe that simulation and modeling are an integral part of design and analysis of complex systems. Data science as field brings advanced computational methods to the analysis of systems, but due to its dependence on extant…

Co-Creative Communities, Complex Systems & Game Theory In this recent article Dandelion Mané introduced SourceCred an Open Source Software project taking aim at the age old challenge of credit attribution in Co-Creative Communities. I say age old because human collaboration to achieve collective goals with incentives driven predominately by social…