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"A History of Possible Futures: Multipath Forecasting of Social Breakdown, Recovery, and Resilience" (Peter Turchin, Nina Witoszek, Stefan Thurner & others)

28 Jan 2020 8 minute read 0 comments rhyzom

Just read through this published paper from the Journal of Cliodynamics. Cliodynamics (/ˌkliːoʊdaɪˈnæmɪks/) is a transdisciplinary area of research integrating cultural evolution, economic history/cliometrics, macrosociology, the mathematical model...

"A History of Possible Futures: Multipath Forecasting of Social Breakdown, Recovery, and Resilience" (Peter Turchin, Nina Witoszek, Stefan Thurner & others)

Cryptoeconomic Protocol Design and Adaptable Self-Organized Complexity

21 Jan 2020 1 minute read 0 comments rhyzom

Just stumbled upon these really insightful, spot on articles on modeling cryptoeconomic protocols as complex system - part 1 and part 2. And the paper mentioned therein, "Foundations of Cryptoeconomic Systems". Excellent introduction to the matter th...

Cryptoeconomic Protocol Design and Adaptable Self-Organized Complexity

The real value of distributed peer-to-peer actor-network arrangements. Beyond all the hype, speculation and marketing pixie dust buzzwordery.

14 Oct 2019 3 minute read 1 comment rhyzom

The value of ad hoc assembled peer-to-peer networks on the basis of a common protocol and a shared database of records (essentially constituting a kind of bureaucracy and means of record-keeping) is really above and beyond in that itself, the concept...