At the kind invitation of Maximilan, who had seen my presentation at the Democracy and AI workshop, I gave an expanded version of my previous presentation to the Stamina group. I expanded the slides a bit, and despite having much more time than at the previous workshop, I ended up …
I am currently attending the 2025 Summer of Protocols symposium. As a school project, I laid down my current thinking for the idea alignment layer of hyperknowledge. Work in progress here. Slides here.
I wrote an article for the 6th International Workshop on Democracy and AI, held in conjunction with the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) 2025. The article, titled "Democracy as a scaled collective intelligence process: points of vulnerability and augmentation", will be published in the proceedings, on May 31st …
Kristen Pavle, of the Sensemaking Scenius community, kindly invited Jack Park, Sonny Bhatia and I to present what we meant by knowledge federation. The panel was moderated by Daniel Ari Friedman. It was a very lively meeting, and the chat was exploding in all directions. Here's the transcript.
Frode Hegeland invited Jack Park and I to contribute a further section to the fifth volume of his series on the future of text (pp. 188-190). We elaborate on knowledge federation, and presented in the Symposium. We used those slides.
We presented some recent work at the Critical Deliberative Democracy Tech:
Jamie presentend on Digital Governance at Society Library, which included a description of a process I am working on with her;
And then I presented ongoing design work on SenseCraft with Jack Park. Slides are here.
Another video continuing the conversation with Steve Melville and Simon Grant, and thanks to Adriana Ruiz for dropping in:
The conceptual model is settling down. Did a status report for the CTA's Collabathon today.
Still working on getting my data model finialized for the CTA's Collabathon, as mentioned in the february post. We had a long chat about the work in progress with Steve Melville, whose Memetic Activation Platform project (github) looks absolutely amazing. Deep thanks for hosting the call, and for everyone who …
We discussed the state of my fluid concept proposal in a CDL call on March 3rd, 2023.
Nutshell version: I'm still shooting for a federated formal concept lattice. It should evolve as a CRDT using definition elements, in particular distinctions and instances. (From a commoning perspective, we need to add …
Though it might not be obvious here, there is a lot of ongoing activity in the hyperknowledge conceptual universe. Among other things, I am working on a prototype of what I described earlier as concept unification/distinction (with a bit of epistemic federation thrown in.) The point is to have …
Though not strictly a hyperknowledge seminar, these slides describes a plan for building blocks and components for realizing HyperKnowledge. This was presented (on July the 7th 2022, at 12hEST) as part of CDL seminars, with emphasis on how to integrate it with MMM.
This slide deck was presented again the …
I contributed some of the data models to Jack Park's presentation of his OpenSherlock vision on 2022-06-04.
A team within the Canonical Debate Lab, including me, wrote a concise document describing open problems in Collective Intelligence design; or from another perspective pitfalls of a naive approach. Many HyperKnowledge design concerns are reflected in that paper.
This was written for a design competition, which we won for the …
This was be the third in a series of seminars examining HyperKnowledge themes, November, Friday 19th at 10hEST.
The slides show preliminary UML diagrams for statements and concepts.
This was the second in a series of seminars examining HyperKnowledge themes, October Friday 29th at 10hEDT. Here are the slides and the recording below.
What was covered:
This was the first in a series of seminars examining HyperKnowledge themes, Tuesday 12th at 13hEDT.
Here are slides.
We looked at the large-scale aims of the HyperKnowledge project, listed specific problems it attempts to solve and why they are important to those aims, and presented proposals for solution to …
I presented an example vocabulary (json, ttl) for topic linking at the 2020 conference on linked data for libraries, with my friend and colleague Jamie Joyce of Society Library. Video and her slides.
Frode Hegeland invited me to contribute a section to his first book on the future of text, where I discuss some of the ideas behind hyperknowledge (pp. 272-273)
A presentation of HyperKnowledge to the Coronawhy group, with Jack Park of TopicQuests. Slides.
Presentation to Canonical Debate Lab. A good starting point for overall goals, notes below.
Thanks to Jack Park and Frode Hegeland, I presented a very early prototype of hyperknowledge in the demo session of the 50th anniversary of the Mother of all demos by Doug Englebart.