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Zargham
@mzargham.bsky.social
Field Cybernetician; CyberInfrastructure is Public Infrastructure; Founder and Chief Engineer @ BlockScience; Researcher @ Metagov.org
This is exactly what I’m trying to work through via my experiences in multi-agent control systems engineering — but intersecting it with institutional economics. An exploration of that intersection here: zenodo.org/records/1512...
Protocols and Institutions
This paper is a pre-print of a book chapter that explores the relationship between protocols and institutions through the lens of control systems engineering. Cross-referencing concepts from Instituti...
zenodo.org
May 13, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Not everything can be reduced do a sound-byte (bite?). The brevity/clarity of a pithy summary may improve transmission but decisions and resultant outcomes are sensitive to the loss of nuance. Normalize complex but well reasoned and carefully laid out takes!
November 28, 2024 at 2:05 PM
I recently came across an artist that proclaimed themselves “The only folk punk band not afraid to call themselves a folk punk band.” This brought me so much joy.
July 14, 2023 at 3:44 PM
But how do you feel about Whiffle-Tennis?
May 20, 2023 at 3:24 AM
“Who is”

Damn where is the edit button.
April 26, 2023 at 1:45 AM
Reposted by Zargham
In human societies, if bad actors don’t incur costs for bad actions, then it can’t help but degenerate into an inhumane space.

The lack of a robust “I’m a human” ID protocol in the internet is what’s created our current dystopian hellscape. I’m hopeful that LLMs will actually force a change.
April 25, 2023 at 11:19 AM
Nit pick. Stigmergy (phenomenon) is ancient/natural, and the term was coined c. 1959.
March 6, 2023 at 4:18 PM