What I've been up to

Updates about my life, the Community Archive, and epistemic.garden

Quick Updates

• Our Community Archive browser extension is live! It unlocks a stream of tweets in real time.

• Introducing epistemic.garden, an R&D lab for community-driven collective intelligence!

  • Just as cells don’t realize they’re part of larger beings, we don’t always see the egregores and memeplexes shaping us. Our strategy doc lays out how we’re building tools to make these dynamics visible.

• In our last update, I asked for support to start an R&D lab that builds tools to map how ideas spread.

• We were graciously supported by Vitalik Buterin, the Survival and Flourishing Fund, and Peter Wang! Thank you patrons 🙏

• I wrapped up my job at the EU AI Office that I started in the mean time and finished some travel.

• Now we’re back on track!

Next up

• We’ll be working with strategic partners to build prototypes like a memetic weather report (‘what topics were up last week?’) and an embedding atlas that maps the terrain - communities of users.

• NYC October: I’ll be in New York Oct 8 – Nov 4 and plan to host a gathering on collective sensemaking, memetics, and AI-for-epistemics. If you’re around, I’d love to see you there.

Warmly,

xiq