ABE at RacketCon and other updates
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Siddhartha Kasivajhula
Nov 22, 2023, 5:06:56 PM11/22/23
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Dear friends,
I hope you are doing well. I recently gave a talk (with Michael Ballantyne, who is a big contributor to the Qi project that we appraised some time ago!) at RacketCon in Evanston, IL, on the beautiful campus of Northwestern University. It was a really fun weekend filled with lots of incredible talks, including the keynote address by none other than Douglas Crockford, creator of JSON (a widely used software standard)!
The conference was a nice opportunity to hang out with lots of fun and smart people. Some of us hung out and shared meals and drinks in the hotel lobby and adjoining bar, and we walked along the shore of the lake (i.e. Lake Michigan) in the free time we had outside of conference activities (it was cold and windy, but that made it even more exciting :) ). It was really nice to meet people in the Racket community whom I'd only interacted with online before that.
In case you aren't familiar, Racket is an academically-inclined programming language that contains lots of cutting edge technology far in advance of most mainstream languages. I strongly believe that these technologies will make it easier for us to develop the infrastructure that's needed for ABE and for the dialectical processes that power it (as Ben's work on the DIA scripts and syntax already foreshadows). Stay tuned in the coming months for more exciting developments on the technical side!
I also did another invited talk for the Foresight Institute on the theoretical foundations of ABE, including some important insights on the nature of economic value and the origin of money that resolve many paradoxes that we see in economic systems today. This talk presented solutions to systemic problems like hunger, poverty, and war -- these problems lead so many of us to despair, and I want to tell you that I firmly believe ABE has concrete theoretical solutions to them. I've been eagerly, anxiously waiting to share this talk with you, but it is unfortunately yet to be posted by them (the talk was back in September). I will send it out as soon as it's available. I'm also working on a paper that elaborates on these theoretical solutions that I will aim to share when it's ready!
In the meantime, please enjoy the RacketCon talk on the subject of how ABE provides an alternative collaboration model to traditional corporations like Google and Toyota (which are effective but in some sense create the least possible value by discouraging sharing and appropriating value instead -- this model is actually quite inefficient!), and traditional open source licensing (which isn't sustainable and doesn't live up to its promises because it does not provide a viable economic mechanism to achieve its goals), and academia (which doesn't entail economic accountability for the value of your contributions, thus preventing those making valuable scientific contributions from having much of a say in the world's politics which are dominated by mercantile, corporate interests instead). ABE is the new answer here, and, I believe, it is the right one!
Enjoy:
Qi: A Day in the Life (Sustainable Open Source through ABE)
Feedback or input is always appreciated as we continue to work on this together. Thank you, as always, for your support and good wishes.
Happy Thanksgiving!
-Sid
I hope you are doing well. I recently gave a talk (with Michael Ballantyne, who is a big contributor to the Qi project that we appraised some time ago!) at RacketCon in Evanston, IL, on the beautiful campus of Northwestern University. It was a really fun weekend filled with lots of incredible talks, including the keynote address by none other than Douglas Crockford, creator of JSON (a widely used software standard)!
The conference was a nice opportunity to hang out with lots of fun and smart people. Some of us hung out and shared meals and drinks in the hotel lobby and adjoining bar, and we walked along the shore of the lake (i.e. Lake Michigan) in the free time we had outside of conference activities (it was cold and windy, but that made it even more exciting :) ). It was really nice to meet people in the Racket community whom I'd only interacted with online before that.
In case you aren't familiar, Racket is an academically-inclined programming language that contains lots of cutting edge technology far in advance of most mainstream languages. I strongly believe that these technologies will make it easier for us to develop the infrastructure that's needed for ABE and for the dialectical processes that power it (as Ben's work on the DIA scripts and syntax already foreshadows). Stay tuned in the coming months for more exciting developments on the technical side!
I also did another invited talk for the Foresight Institute on the theoretical foundations of ABE, including some important insights on the nature of economic value and the origin of money that resolve many paradoxes that we see in economic systems today. This talk presented solutions to systemic problems like hunger, poverty, and war -- these problems lead so many of us to despair, and I want to tell you that I firmly believe ABE has concrete theoretical solutions to them. I've been eagerly, anxiously waiting to share this talk with you, but it is unfortunately yet to be posted by them (the talk was back in September). I will send it out as soon as it's available. I'm also working on a paper that elaborates on these theoretical solutions that I will aim to share when it's ready!
In the meantime, please enjoy the RacketCon talk on the subject of how ABE provides an alternative collaboration model to traditional corporations like Google and Toyota (which are effective but in some sense create the least possible value by discouraging sharing and appropriating value instead -- this model is actually quite inefficient!), and traditional open source licensing (which isn't sustainable and doesn't live up to its promises because it does not provide a viable economic mechanism to achieve its goals), and academia (which doesn't entail economic accountability for the value of your contributions, thus preventing those making valuable scientific contributions from having much of a say in the world's politics which are dominated by mercantile, corporate interests instead). ABE is the new answer here, and, I believe, it is the right one!
Enjoy:
Qi: A Day in the Life (Sustainable Open Source through ABE)
Feedback or input is always appreciated as we continue to work on this together. Thank you, as always, for your support and good wishes.
Happy Thanksgiving!
-Sid
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