epistemic garden

a theory of tpot (postrat twitter)

“postrationalist” twitter continuously refines old traditions with epistemic rigor and applies them to self-actualize

Mar 28 • xiq

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why am I reading the classics?

align eschatologies, data sovereignty, one piece, prophecy, a theory of tpot, and positive sci-fi futures

Mar 17 • xiq

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February 2026

Epistemic Garden Index

our compiled work on AI for community flourishing

Feb 23 • xiq

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Exoskeletons for online communities

This is my quick attempt at formulating Francisco’s (@xiq on Twitter) vision behind the Epistemic Garden, the organization behind the Community Archive…

Published on Alexandre Variengien • Feb 23

modelling the viability of opportunity networks | lab notes #7

How big should a peer-to-peer network be before it generates a steady stream of deals?

Feb 21 • xiq and Alexandre Variengien

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opportunity mining | lab notes #6

mining opportunities by making substacks negotiate

Feb 11 • xiq and Alexandre Variengien

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January 2026

how to measure serendipity online | lab notes #5

towards metrics for online community health

Jan 30 • xiq and Alexandre Variengien

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December 2025

discovering the postrat canon in the community archive | lab notes #4

our main strands of narrative!

Dec 22, 2025 • xiq

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deriving strands of discourse from a single tweet | lab notes #3

Looking into a community’s hosting capacity as a measure of growing agency

Dec 7, 2025 • xiq and Alexandre Variengien

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Bangers! are highly quoted tweets | lab notes #2

xiq and alexandre's first two weeks: we explore extracting narrative strands from clusters in the community archive and ship Bangers

Dec 1, 2025 • xiq and Alexandre Variengien

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epistemic garden recap | lab notes #1

Intentions for lab notes and context

Dec 1, 2025 • xiq

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November 2025

The AI for Collective Sensemaking Unconference

on liberating social data, building AI tools to produce collective action, and human flourishing

Nov 11, 2025 • xiq

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