Architecture of Everything
New idea for an "Architecture of Everything" newsletter series, where I present my favorite problems (Feynman style) as a daily email, and prompt you to share your thoughts. It’s a way to crowd source answers to the questions I care about most:
The architecture of death, consciousness, space, history, writing, government, video games, technology, music, religion, news, social media, mind, software.
Some of the latest:
- Is the act of dying a time-dilation odyssey, where 3 minutes feels like a 30,000 years afterlife?
- If I capture my consciousness in 10 million words of logs and essays, could that enable an AI textual replica to evolve and engage with the world 500 years beyond my death?
- Can we resurrect Christianity by putting psychedelics back in the holy wine?
- What will be the psychic and cultural effects when our species understands "spatial relativity," that the Big Bang emerged from a black hole in a parent universe?
- If cycles emerge form order, can we predict the future based on historical patterns?
- If there is a universal language of patterns beneath all essays, can we build an AI to give world-class feedback and make it more approachable to become a master at writing?
- Were psilocybin mushrooms a linguistic mutagen that accelerated the evolution of human consciousness?
- Could we restructure the thesaurus to 3x the vocabulary of the average person?
- Might blockchain-based governance be the civic breakthrough required for a species not to exterminate itself?
- What text-based video game formats are undiscovered?
- What are the societal effects when AR/VR is mature enough to simulate teleportation, and how can we design the metaverse to promote human flourishing?
- How can popular music change the values system of a culture?
- What systems of attention, language, and action lead to a transcendent consciousness?
- Can we use AI to filter through millions of comments on breaking news, structuring each event as a range of unique interpretations?
- How might a new social media algorithm trigger a Renaissance in connection, self-expression, and agency?
(Image getting one of these per day with 300-500 words of context).