The Protocolized Jamverse Jam worldbuilding contest closes today protocolized.summerofprotocols.com/p/jamverse-j...
Jamverse Jam Contest Closes Today
Less than 24 hours left to submit your entries
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Venkatesh Rao 🔹
@vgr.bsky.social
Delver at contraptions.venkateshrao.com
I’m doing a talk in 2 minutes on New Nature, the Protocol Institute research mission. It’s going to be pretty concept and information dense, and probably the best entry point into what we’re up to for a while. www.youtube.com/@protocol-in...
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Less than a week left to propose a talk for the Protocol Symposium. If you’re looking for ideas, you can find some in the challenges program page this editorial talks about. protocolized.summerofprotocols.com/p/challenges...
Challenges: Trivial, Grand, and Whitehead
Introducing the Protocol Institute Challenges program
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Excited for our third annual protocol symposium in September, and the first under the aegis of the Protocol Institute. Talk and workshop abstracts due June 14th. protocolized.summerofprotocols.com/p/2026-proto...
2026 Protocol Symposium: New Nature
Call for abstracts open, due June 14, 2026
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Starting in 5 minutes on our discord — the third session in our series on stigmergy in the formal protocol theory interest group. We're discussing pebble automata this week. Mathematics of hansel-gretel breadcrumbs and the future of AI. discord.com/events/10824...
Discord - Group Chat That’s All Fun & Games
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SIGFPT on stigmergy in protocols starting in 9 minutes. It’s turning into a significant lens for understanding how agentic ai protocols work (or don’t) SIGFPT is the formal protocol theory special interest group hosted by the Protocol Institute discord.com/events/10824...
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Haven't been very active here lately, because Timber Stinson-Schroff, @tmbr.bsky.social and I have been busy launching the Protocol Institute. I wrote a post laying out our agenda. Reach out if you might be interested in supporting it. protocolized.summerofprotocols.com/p/inventing-...
Inventing New Nature
Defining the Protocol Institute's research mission
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Our just-launched Protocol Institute is launching this collaborative program with the Long Now foundation. 2 exciting protocol-themed grant opps — “book of time” and “epistemic cycles”. Apply by June 5.
The Long Now Foundation@longnow.org · 3mo agoWhat does long-term thinking look like in practice? Introducing Long Now Labs, a collaborative space to test, prototype, and build long-term tools. If you're a designer, researcher, or technologist interested in the deep future, we want to hear from you. Submissions are open: longnow.org/labs/001/
Next SIGFPT on Protocolizing Agent Space: On the Protocolized discord in 5 minutes: Next SIGFPT on Protocolizing Agent Space: On the Protocolized discord in 5 minutes: discord.com/events/10824...
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Starting in 3 minutes, next SIGFPT (Special Interest Group in Formal Protocol Theory). We’ll be discussing multiagent reinforcement learning and “autocurricula”. Readings: deepmind.google/blog/underst... and arxiv.org/pdf/1903.00742 Meeting will be in our Discord discord.com/events/10824...
Understanding Agent Cooperation
We employ deep multi-agent reinforcement learning to model the emergence of cooperation. The new notion of sequential social dilemmas allows us to model how rational agents interact, and arrive at mor...
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The next SIGFPT (Special Interest Group in Formal Protocol Theory) call starts in 10 minutes on our Discord. This session, we will be workshopping homework problems for teaching protocol theory. discord.gg/ZG2YXQvG
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Starting in 10 minutes — SIGFPT (Special Interest Group in Formal Protocol Theory) session on vibecoding protocols on our discord. discord.com/events/10824...
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Double-slit time experiment. I don’t know what this means, but I’m going to assume parallel universe portal guns. thequantuminsider.com/2023/04/04/t...
Time Is on My Sides: Researchers Show Double-Slit Experiment Also Applies to Time
The wave-particle duality of quantum objects like photons, electrons and atoms through double-slit experiments.Now it's time's turn.
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I’m a Rube Goldberg but only because I haven’t yet found an idea that will move me to inventor. I enjoy burner/prepper quadrant esp art end, but I haven’t yet learned to enjoy true DIY. I only do it if hiring help would be too $$ or high friction. Interesting to apply this frame to Claude Code.
Finished my online book from my twitter archives. With a preface chapter chronicling my twitter journey. Heaviest lift vibe-coding project I’ve done so far. Next steps: turn this into epub and pdf versions. Book: venkateshrao.com/twitter-book Repo for the curious: github.com/vgururao/twi...
2026 kickoff of SIGFPT (Special Interest Group in Formal Protocol Theory) starts in 5 minutes on our discord discord.gg/qaPjFFp2H?ev... protocolized.summerofprotocols.com/p/theorizing...
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Too long for a note, too casual for a post… so you get a screenshot essay on floors as workspaces
New art series titled Birren Named for the Birren industrial safety color palette from the 1950s Birren #1
Thought: “Human” is now a compile target rather than superseded. Like assembly or JavaScript. Some proposition in the neighborhood of that is true. Where “human” is some mix of artisanal+bespoke+idiosyncratic. Started unpacking the thought in my latest contraptions.venkateshrao.com/p/revenge-of...
Revenge of the Dilettantes
Book club and AI adventures, age of bespokeness, study groups, new rules of engagement
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Trained a model on my october/november paintings on titles.xyz and the results are absolutely astounding. Every test I ran produced better results than my own manual efforts. Essay and public access soon. My handmade training set is here venkateshrao.com/BucketArt/in...
Been too agentic today. Gonna practice my learned helplessness for a while now.
