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| 1 | Protocol-pilled | being literate in protocols | protocol literacy | protocol awareness | protocol literacy and nerdsniping |
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| 2 | Understanding and embracing the complex world of protocols, gaining deep knowledge and appreciation for their nuances and intricacies. | ||||
| 3 | To be protocol-pilled is to be both literate in the powerful emerging technological idiom of protocols and its associated discourses and, to use a term coined by Randall Munroe, nerdsniped by the deeply satisfying lenses, levers, and mental models it offers. | ||||
| 4 | To be protocol-pilled is to be literate in the powerful emerging technological idiom of protocols and its associated discourses | ||||
| 5 | Protocol literacy | sensitizing oneself to protocol patterns | |||
| 6 | Sensitizing oneself to such patterns in different environments, and learning to parse the grammars governing them, has emerged as a critical research methodology for protocols. | ||||
| 7 | Sensitizing oneself to patterns in the emergent phenomenology around a set of protocols | ||||
| 8 | Protocol stewardship | deep sense of history | |||
| 9 | A deep sense of history is necessary—without a traditionalist’s attachment to that history—and almost sufficient for effective protocol stewardship. | ||||
| 10 | deep sense of history is necessary... almost sufficient for effective protocol stewardship | ||||
| 11 | Protocol whispering | managing tensions | |||
| 12 | The greater the attunement to the protocolized environment, the greater the agency. The greater the attunement to mere technocracy, the lower the agency. | ||||
| 13 | greater attunement to protocolized environment, greater agency | ||||
| 14 | Protocol whispering | social engineering skills | |||
| 15 | protocol-whispering abilities often rest as much on social engineering skills as on technical engineering or architecture skills. | ||||
| 16 | protocol-whispering abilities rest as much on social engineering skills | ||||
| 17 | Protocol awareness | infinite game mindset | |||
| 18 | the game of technology becomes what the philosopher James Carse called an infinite game—one where you play to continue the game rather than to win. | ||||
| 19 | game of technology... infinite game—play to continue the game rather than to win | ||||
| 20 | Protocol awareness | awareness of tensions | |||
| 21 | the ability to navigate multiple things changing at once, not all of which you are able to even observe, let alone control. | ||||
| 22 | ability to navigate multiple things changing at once, not all observable or controllable | ||||
| 23 | Protocol awareness | humility and openness | |||
| 24 | Beyond hardening our activities against capture or co-option by narrower agendas, and doing our best to articulate, in honest but unapologetic ways, the opinionated tastes we are bringing to our curation and catalysis efforts, we aim to keep our role small and limited. | ||||
| 25 | hardening against capture, honest articulation of opinionated tastes, keep role small and limited | ||||
| 26 | Protocol awareness | mutualism and openness | |||
| 27 | on radical openness and mutualism over exclusionary control. | ||||
| 28 | on radical openness and mutualism over exclusionary control | ||||
| 29 | Protocol awareness | sense of responsibility | |||
| 30 | we must do so with the same sense of heightened responsibility we bring to other potentially dangerous technologies. | ||||
| 31 | with heightened responsibility we bring to other potentially dangerous technologies | ||||
| 32 | Protocol awareness | curiosity and history | |||
| 33 | based on foundational curiosities and a deep sense of history rather than missionary manifestos. | ||||
| 34 | based on foundational curiosities and deep sense of history rather than missionary manifestos | ||||
| 35 | Protocol awareness | patience and persistence | |||
| 36 | Protocols—if we may be forgiven a touch of evangelical hubris—are like the mills of the gods: They grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small. | ||||
| 37 | Protocols grind slowly, but grind exceedingly small | ||||
| 38 | Protocol awareness | acceptance of complexity | |||
| 39 | Protocols do not promise a tension-free existence, where all conflicts are magically resolved. They only promise interesting new tensions and an interesting new meta of engineered arguments to manage them. | ||||
| 40 | Protocols do not promise tension-free existence, only interesting new tensions and meta of engineered arguments | ||||
| 41 | Protocol awareness | humility and self-reflection | |||
| 42 | Any attempt to create a new field and an associated set of discourses, of course, is necessarily both a political project and a practical one. | ||||
| 43 | attempt to create new field... both political project and practical one | ||||
| 44 | Protocol awareness | collaborative spirit | |||
| 45 | Many experienced an even more unsettling kind of meta-anger and meta-frustration: They discovered that not only was there no way to address their grievances, there wasn’t even anywhere to direct them. ... to recognize that you’re not in traffic, you are traffic. | ||||
| 46 | discovered no way to address grievances, nowhere to direct them... recognize you’re not in traffic, you are traffic | ||||
| 47 | Protocol awareness | adaptability | |||
| 48 | Protocols, honestly represented, do not promise that you will face no problems or discontents—only that they won’t be the same old discontents that leave you feeling trapped in the traditional paradigm. | ||||
| 49 | Protocols do not promise no problems or discontents, only they won’t be same old discontents | ||||
| 50 | Protocol awareness | awareness of tradeoffs | |||
| 51 | Protocols, as engineered arguments, appear to have an unreasonable capacity to evolve coherently without the need for a fiat authority. | ||||
| 52 | Protocols as engineered arguments, unreasonable capacity to evolve coherently without fiat authority | ||||
| 53 | Protocol awareness | awareness of emergent properties | |||
| 54 | Protocols create new kinds of humans because the patterned near-invisibility of successful protocols induces a kind of deepening ludic immersion. | ||||
| 55 | Protocols create new kinds of humans, patterned near-invisibility induces deepening ludic immersion | ||||
| 56 | Protocol awareness | awareness of unintended consequences | |||
| 57 | Protocols tend to enter our lives obliquely, in the form of deceptively simple behaviors, often without even a central technological element, and go on to transform human nature in powerful ways. | ||||
| 58 | Protocols enter obliquely, deceptively simple behaviors, transform human nature in powerful ways | ||||
| 59 | Protocol awareness | awareness of control mechanisms | |||
| 60 | Protocols often instill behaviors the way Mr. Miyagi did in The Karate Kid. Daniel-san acquires karate skills without realizing it, practicing wax-on-wax-off behaviors. | ||||
| 61 | Protocols instill behaviors like Mr. Miyagi, Daniel-san acquires karate skills without realizing it | ||||
| 62 | Protocol awareness | awareness of unintended control | |||
| 63 | Where products merely create new kinds of customers, powerful protocols can sometimes create entirely new kinds of humans. | ||||
| 64 | Products create new kinds of customers, powerful protocols create entirely new kinds of humans | ||||
| 65 | Protocol awareness | awareness of unintended consequences of control | |||
| 66 | their unconscious nature can make protocols powerful mechanisms for coercive control and induced self-destruction. | ||||
| 67 | unconscious nature can make protocols powerful mechanisms for coercive control and self-destruction | ||||
| 68 | Protocol awareness | awareness of the importance of history | |||
| 69 | the things you choose to remember about the history of a protocol arguably constitute your revealed preferences about how you think it ought to evolve in the future. | ||||
| 70 | things you choose to remember about history of protocol constitute revealed preferences about future evolution | ||||
| 71 | Protocol awareness | awareness of the importance of collective memory | |||
| 72 | The evolution of protocols can be seen as ongoing arguments about what features to enshrine in the protocol itself and what associated narratives to enshrine in the meta of the protocol. | ||||
| 73 | evolution of protocols as ongoing arguments about features to enshrine in protocol and narratives in meta | ||||
| 74 | Protocol awareness | awareness of the importance of community | |||
| 75 | the goal of the program, in other words, is to create a hardened commons around the art and science of protocols, and then stop. | ||||
| 76 | goal to create hardened commons around art and science of protocols, then stop | ||||
| 77 | Protocol awareness | awareness of the importance of pluralism | |||
| 78 | the je ne sais quoi of protocols, after all, is an ineffable quality of openness, connectivity, serendipity, emergent resources, peering, heterogeneity, and pluralism. | ||||
| 79 | je ne sais quoi of protocols is ineffable quality of openness, connectivity, serendipity, emergent resources, peering, heterogeneity, pluralism | ||||
| 80 | Protocol awareness | awareness of the importance of self-sustaining systems | |||
| 81 | As the discourses we aim to catalyze become self-sustaining, hopefully supported by a growing number of individuals and organizations with a variety of perspectives and motives, the Summer of Protocols program, we hope, will become unnecessary. | ||||
| 82 | discourses become self-sustaining, supported by growing number of individuals and organizations, program will become unnecessary | ||||
| 83 | Protocol awareness | awareness of the importance of shared responsibility | |||
| 84 | we hope this volume, as an early contribution to this emerging commons, will help jumpstart this process. | ||||
| 85 | volume as early contribution to emerging commons, help jumpstart process | ||||
| 86 | Protocol awareness | awareness of the importance of exploration | |||
| 87 | We hope this book will convince you to choose exploration over retreat. | ||||
| 88 | book will convince you to choose exploration over retreat | ||||
| 89 | Protocol awareness | awareness of the importance of responsibility in exploration | |||
| 90 | we must either choose to trade old discontents for new ones, and proceed to explore these worlds on their own terms, or retreat from the adventures they promise. | ||||
| 91 | must choose to trade old discontents for new ones, explore worlds on their own terms, or retreat | ||||
| 92 | Protocol awareness | awareness of the importance of openness and inclusivity | |||
| 93 | we aim to build a coalition of diverse partners unified by a shared interest in protocols. | ||||
| 94 | aim to build coalition of diverse partners unified by shared interest in protocols | ||||
| 95 | Protocol awareness | awareness of the importance of bridging gaps | |||
| 96 | We hope to build bridges and partnerships. | ||||
| 97 | hope to build bridges and partnerships | ||||
| 98 | Protocol awareness | awareness of the importance of iterative improvement | |||
| 99 | the goal is to create a hardened commons around the art and science of protocols, and then stop. | ||||
| 100 | goal to create hardened commons, then stop | ||||
| 101 | Protocol awareness | awareness of the importance of self-reflection and critique | |||
| 102 | Any effort to create a broad new discourse, underwritten by new patterns of individual and institutional attention, risks turning into an exercise in intellectual hubris if it refuses to entertain such considerations. | ||||
| 103 | effort to create broad new discourse risks intellectual hubris if refuses to entertain considerations | ||||
| 104 | Protocol awareness | awareness of the importance of humility | |||
| 105 | we believe that this approach would be not only misguided and doomed—but would be deeply ironic in relation to the specific themes of protocols. | ||||
| 106 | approach would be misguided and doomed, deeply ironic in relation to themes of protocols | ||||
| 107 | Protocol awareness | awareness of the importance of patience | |||
| 108 | Protocols arrive slowly, and can be incredibly fragile when young, but are remarkably hard to kill once they do arrive. | ||||
| 109 | Protocols arrive slowly, fragile when young, hard to kill once arrived | ||||
| 110 | Protocol awareness | awareness of the importance of adaptability and resilience | |||
| 111 | Protocols tend to enter our lives obliquely, in the form of deceptively simple behaviors, often without even a central technological element, and go on to transform human nature in powerful ways. | ||||
| 112 | Protocols enter obliquely, deceptively simple behaviors, transform human nature in powerful ways | ||||
| 113 | Protocol awareness | awareness of the importance of understanding tradeoffs | |||
| 114 | Protocols, as engineered arguments, are evolution-aware technologies that attempt to internalize their key ongoing conflicts in structured and stylized ways, without necessarily ‘solving’ them. | ||||
| 115 | Protocols as engineered arguments, evolution-aware technologies, internalize key conflicts in structured ways | ||||
| 116 | Protocol awareness | awareness of the importance of managing tensions | |||
| 117 | Protocols evolve as moving traffic jams. | ||||
| 118 | Protocols evolve as moving traffic jams | ||||
| 119 | Protocol awareness | awareness of the importance of community and collaboration | |||
| 120 | the authority of consensus memory is perhaps the closest thing protocols have to a source of continuously renewable legitimacy. | ||||
| 121 | authority of consensus memory closest thing protocols have to source of continuously renewable legitimacy | ||||
| 122 | Protocol awareness | awareness of the importance of fostering a sense of community | |||
| 123 | the goal is to create a hardened commons around the art and science of protocols. | ||||
| 124 | goal to create hardened commons around art and science of protocols | ||||
| 125 | Protocol awareness | awareness of the importance of fostering a sense of responsibility | |||
| 126 | we must either choose to trade old discontents for new ones, and proceed to explore these worlds on their own terms, or retreat from the adventures they promise. | ||||
| 127 | must trade old discontents for new ones, explore worlds on their own terms, or retreat | ||||
| 128 | Protocol awareness | awareness of the importance of fostering a sense of curiosity | |||
| 129 | we hope this book will convince you to choose exploration over retreat. | ||||
| 130 | book will convince you to choose exploration over retreat | ||||
| 131 | Protocol awareness | awareness of the importance of fostering a sense of openness | |||
| 132 | on radical openness and mutualism over exclusionary control. | ||||
| 133 | on radical openness and mutualism over exclusionary control | ||||
| 134 | Protocol awareness | awareness of the importance of fostering a sense of humility | |||
| 135 | we aim to keep our role small and limited, and indeed, shrink it over time. | ||||
| 136 | aim to keep role small and limited, shrink it over time | ||||
| 137 | Protocol awareness | awareness of the importance of fostering a sense of patience | |||
| 138 | Protocols arrive slowly, and can be incredibly fragile when young, but are remarkably hard to kill once they do arrive. | ||||
| 139 | Protocols arrive slowly, fragile when young, hard to kill once arrived | ||||
| 140 | Protocol awareness | awareness of the importance of fostering a sense of adaptability | |||
| 141 | Protocols, honestly represented, do not promise that you will face no problems or discontents—only that they won’t be the same old discontents. | ||||
| 142 | Protocols do not promise no problems or discontents, only they won’t be same old discontents | ||||
| 143 | Protocol awareness | awareness of the importance of fostering a sense of responsibility | |||
| 144 | we must do so with the same sense of heightened responsibility we bring to other potentially dangerous technologies. | ||||
| 145 | with heightened responsibility we bring to other potentially dangerous technologies | ||||
| 146 | Protocol awareness | awareness of the importance of fostering a sense of curiosity and history | |||
| 147 | based on foundational curiosities and a deep sense of history rather than missionary manifestos. | ||||
| 148 | based on foundational curiosities and deep sense of history rather than missionary manifestos | ||||
| 149 | Completed: ministral-3 ProtocolReaderIntro.txt output-ministral3-20260310.csv |