Field notes
- Governance, not orchestration
Why a Synoetic colony has no conductor: a constitution and a shared field instead of a command tree — and what that buys when your collaborators are autonomous agents.
- What we take from biology — and where we do better
Biology is not a catalogue of optimal designs; it is a catalogue of designs that survived. Copying it wholesale is a mistake — so we choose, pattern by pattern, what to take and what to improve.
- Gas Town, and what came after
Steve Yegge sketched a factory town of AI agents run by a mayor. It is a sharp picture of one end of a spectrum — and following its assumptions to their limit is what pointed us at the other end.