"Cellosophical explorations 2" is out, continuing @leaflet.pub's field reporter series. I'm fascinated by bacterial chemotaxis & how it might help us unravel the origins of intelligence. Actually, I am fascinated by chemotaxis even if it doesn't tell us anything about intelligence, it's that cool.

Cellosophical Explorations #2

Bacterial Chemotaxis as a model system

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My first cellosophical exploration as a field reporter for @leaflet.pub & my first foray into @atproto.science via synthetic biology as reported in @quantamagazine.bsky.social and stored on @semble.so. 1st of N updates on Spudcells. Do point me towards people worth talking to/handles to follow!

Cellosophical Explorations #1

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Remember, both the Iliad and the Odyssey were originally audiobooks.

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Hyperproblems

Hyperproblems are scientific challenges whose scale, complexity, novelty and interdependence overwhelm traditional research models, requiring new forms of collective intelligence, modeling, coordination and communication.

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zeu@zeu.dev · 3w ago

need to see “hyper” more in internet related project names

congrats! Really appreciate being able to collaborate on this :)

Watch this space - @ranganaut.bsky.social is cooking some exciting new ways of doing science!

Ranganaut@ranganaut.bsky.social · 3w ago

1/n This is such an honor - thanks for showcasing my madcap project @leaflet.pub! Cellosophy (cellosophy.leaflet.pub) began with me asking whether it's possible to do *new science* in a *new metascience* kind of way.

1/n This is such an honor - thanks for showcasing my madcap project @leaflet.pub! Cellosophy (cellosophy.leaflet.pub) began with me asking whether it's possible to do *new science* in a *new metascience* kind of way.

Cellosophy

Cognition and Intelligence in Unicellular Creatures

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Leaflet@leaflet.pub · 3w ago

Announcing a great slate of *Field Reporters* — publications on community activity from art to movies, soccer analytics to Black media, local & regional scenes & more! Excited to see how these can not only capture interesting Atmospheric activity, but help catalyze it. Check em out & subscribe!

I believe the origins of intelligence/mind are to be found in unicellular organisms, aka "Cellosophy." Last week, I created a @semble.so collection and said a @leaflet.pub publication is in the works. Here it is! Soft launch for now- longish thread on the project and the inaugural essay tomorrow.

Cellosophy: A Synthetic Philosophy of the Microbial Mind

Cellosophy Essay #1

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+1 to @leaflet.pub for making it easy to create multiple publications - from dedicated blogs standalone meditations. Anyway, I have been watching the world cup like half the planet and I think a lot about AI, so here's an essay on the World Cup as a metaphor for Being Human in the age of AI.

The offside algorithm, or, what the World Cup taught me about our AI future

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A very well funded sociopath comes to mind: NotebookLM, but yeah...

Allan “Ransomware Sommelier” Liska@ransomwaresommelier.com · last mo.

What kind of sociopath has EVER looked at a PDF document and said to themselves, "This could be a podcast?"

Love this kind of @semble.so <> @leaflet.pub workflow! Underrated & something we want to explore more, definitely some cool collab / integrations we could play with for research + sensemaking + publishing infrastructure!

Ranganaut@ranganaut.bsky.social · last mo.

1/3 May I present "Cellosophy" - a new @semble.so collection on the origins of intelligence in unicellular organisms. Soon to be a @leaflet.pub! semble.so/profile/rang... We tend to think of intelligence as something abstract but in reality, you can't divorce it from its material substrate.

👀 whoa sounds very cool!

1/3 May I present "Cellosophy" - a new @semble.so collection on the origins of intelligence in unicellular organisms. Soon to be a @leaflet.pub! semble.so/profile/rang... We tend to think of intelligence as something abstract but in reality, you can't divorce it from its material substrate.

Cellosophy (by Ranganaut) — Semble

Exploring the origins of intelligence and agency, starting with unicellular organisms such as bacteria, choanoflagellates and other protists.

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@leaflet.pub I want to change the leaflet subdomain for one of my pubs. I don't see a way to do so within the pub settings. As a workaround, I tried adding the desired subdomain to my domain list, but there's a glitch - leaflet claims to add it successfully, but it's never available to be assigned.

Just turned email newsletters on for Hyperproblems - exciting times! hyperproblems.com

Hyperproblems

Hyperproblems are scientific challenges whose scale, complexity, novelty and interdependence overwhelm traditional research models, requiring new forms of collective intelligence, modeling, coordinati...

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Leaflet@leaflet.pub · 3mo ago

Big day: Leaflet now supports EMAIL NEWSLETTERS 📧📬💌 Turn on ~Newsletter Mode~ and readers can subscribe with email as well as atproto! This is in alpha, and only available with Leaflet Pro. Help us test & reach out with any q's! Drop your email at lab.leaflet.pub — we'll send something soon :)

Great use of subpages in Leaflet — and a canvas page at the end as map of a series in progress!

Ranganaut@ranganaut.bsky.social · 3mo ago

It’s been a while since my last essay on Hyperproblems - this one is a sequel, but it’s also bringing in ideas that I had set aside a decade ago. Also: I am experimenting with the pages within pages feature of @leaflet.pub to create a layered narrative. 

It’s been a while since my last essay on Hyperproblems - this one is a sequel, but it’s also bringing in ideas that I had set aside a decade ago. Also: I am experimenting with the pages within pages feature of @leaflet.pub to create a layered narrative. 

Epistrons: Knowledge Artifacts for Hyperproblems

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Nucular strategery in particular

Karthik Sankaran@rajakorman.bsky.social · 4mo ago

A word that appeared to be timely, but may nevertheless have been well before its time.

The more I investigate the ongoing Gulf War, the more it appears to be a polyconflict, and to echo Tolstoy’s opening line in Anna Karennina: > Every commodity shock is shocking in its own way.

Polyconflict #4: Firewood and the Gendered Nature of Polyconflict

I wasn’t planning on writing another essay in the Polyconflict series this quickly, but a twitter thread sparked a reverie on the relationship between the Gulf War, gendered harms and the need for met...

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When the metabolic rift leads to a metabolic clash - brief thoughts on an essay by @nilsgilman.bsky.social in FP.

The Daily Planet #129: The Coming Metabolic War

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As I keep saying, while we are waiting to be turned into paperclips, pay some attention to the everyday dystopias being unleashed by AI.

The Daily Planet #129: Everyday Dystopias

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I’m not so sanguine about a green global deal emerging from this chaos - EV adoption will definitely increase, but so will coal, especially in India and China, who have a lot of it, even if of low quality.

Albert Pinto@70sbachchan.bsky.social · 5mo ago

40/ Did you ever doubt, anon? EV orders double in a week in Manilla. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Republishing an earlier post - 'AI meets war' is a raging topic these days for obvious reasons

The Daily Planet #127: Military Intelligence

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Wars are bad for people, but they are bad for everyone else too. As today's link says: "War contaminates the conditions for life itself"

The Daily Planet #128: War and the non-human world

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@leaflet.pub posting not working for me right now. Tried multiple browsers. An attempted post from yesterday is still stuck.

There’s an uber-dystopian version of AI where it annihilates us or sucks out our souls while we believe we are in a matrix of plenty. Maybe one of those dystopias will come to pass, but a far more likely dystopia is one that’s coming into being as we speak. Observations on an essay in @noemamag.com

The Daily Planet #126: A Plausible Dystopia

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Having come this far, none of the parties to this war wants it to end with what’s been achieved so far, except, perhaps, Trump. I just don’t see ‘Mission Accomplished’ anytime soon and I dread where we could be going willy-nilly.

The Planet is a hyperobject, and we only have access to a minuscule subset of it through our senses. How can art help us grasp the unseen?

The Daily Planet #125

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Michael Levin is an interesting thinker; a rare Platonist in Biology. This quote from a recent post of his makes me think of biological engineering, but not the kind where we force organisms to do our willing, but rather work with their agential capacity to produce forms that we need

The Daily Planet #124: The Anatomical Compiler

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Deep time is a political and civilizational event. A society’s sense of time is inseparable from its sense of order, and what it believes it owes to the future. Our sense of self will be different if we imagine ourselves against the backdrop of deep time.

The Daily Planet #123: Deep Time Impermanence

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