Protocols/Design Environments
28 Sep 2025 - 28 Sep 2025
- Imagine interactive software that aided humans in designing or analyzing protocols, in the largest sense. What would that look like?
- Is it even a good idea? Real protocols are emergent, not designed. Real protocols involve tight interactions with reality, and a computer that builds an elaborate formalism is missing the point.
- ACK: The original vision of Smalltalk, and later Playground/Vivarium
- Workflow systems, boring protocols
- Multiagent systems (review the lit if possible)