Quick Updates

• Our Community Archive browser extension is live! It unlocks a stream of tweets in real time.

• Introducing epistemic.garden, an R&D lab for community-driven collective intelligence!

  • Just as cells don’t realize they’re part of larger beings, we don’t always see the egregores and memeplexes shaping us. Our strategy doc lays out how we’re building tools to make these dynamics visible.

• In our last update, I asked for support to start an R&D lab that builds tools to map how ideas spread.

• We were graciously supported by Vitalik Buterin, the Survival and Flourishing Fund, and Peter Wang! Thank you patrons 🙏

• I wrapped up my job at the EU AI Office that I started in the mean time and finished some travel.

• Now we’re back on track!

Next up

• We’ll be working with strategic partners to build prototypes like a memetic weather report (‘what topics were up last week?’) and an embedding atlas that maps the terrain - communities of users.

• NYC October: I’ll be in New York Oct 8 – Nov 4 and plan to host a gathering on collective sensemaking, memetics, and AI-for-epistemics. If you’re around, I’d love to see you there.

Warmly,

xiq

What progress have you made since your last update?

• ran a month-long 30-person pop-up campus for projects relevant to my topic: Portal

• there I started the community archive, a crowdsourced open database and api of 16M tweets from 240 high quality and topic-relevant accounts

• I researched the foundations of wisdom and wrote about my research.

• I built multiple collective intelligence tools, like this keyword trends app, and an app that shows you a Birdseye view of your tweets with clustering and LLM analysis.

• Finally, I ran a 40-person community archive hackathon in NYC, with 16 submissions and raised prize money.
  

What are your next steps?

• Building tools to map how ideas spread. This can be very useful to defend against psyops and misinformation campaigns, which become bigger risks as AI improves to do them automatically.
  

Is there anything others could help you with?

I could use money to hire my best collaborators, although i would probably start another proposal here

Extremely grateful to Beth for her confidence, and thank you Austin!