Fluid interfaces for sensemaking at pace with AI development.

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Disclaimer: this is both an invitation and something of a reference doc. I've put the more reference-y material in collapsible sections at the end.

0. What is this?

This is an extended rendezvous for creating culture and technology, for those enlivened by reimagining AI-based interfaces.

Specifically, we’re creating for the near future where our infrastructure is embedded with realistic levels of intelligence (i.e., only mildly creative but widely adopted) yet full of novel, wild design paradigms anyway.

In particular, we’re going to concretely explore wholesome interface designs that anticipate a teleattention era. Where cheap attentivity implies unstructured meanings can scalably compose without requiring shared preformed protocols, because moderate AI reliably does tailored, just-in-time “autostructuring".

The focus (which we will get to, with some patience) is on applying this to transforming research methodology and interaction. This is what “live theory” is about: sensemaking that can feed into a rich, sane, and heart-opening future.

Huh?

It’s a project for AI interfaces that don’t suck, to redo how (conceptual AI safety) research is done.

Wait, so you think AI can only be mildly intelligent?

Nope.

But you only care about the short term, of “mild intelligence”?

Nope, the opposite. We expect AI to be very, very, very transformative. And therefore, we expect intervening periods to be very, very transformative (as should you!). Additionally, we expect even “very $^{2}$ transformative” intervening periods to be crucial, and quite weird themselves, however short they might be.

In preparing for this upcoming intervening period, we want to work on the newly enabled design ontologies of sensemaking that can keep pace with a world replete with AIs and their prolific outputs. Using the near-term crazy future to meet the even crazier far-off future i...

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