Every. Single. Time. I attempt to make my ideas clear, I relate to Peirce and his article on same and the suspicion that what "I am now writing is for the compositor and proof-reader exclusively." #CharlesSandersPeirce #CharlesPeirce #ontology

How to Make Our Ideas Clear

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Envisioning a Sustainable World

Vision is the most vital step in the policy process. If we don’t know where we want to go, it makes little difference that we make great progress.

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#introduction I've figured out something very interesting about collaborative knowledge assertions. I hope to write the ideas down. It has taken many years to arrive at this distillate.

I figured out something about FIPS and Nostr and the WWW as TBL imagined. TBL had triples correct (S,P,O: word orange(S) has a hyperlink(P) to a wiki page(O)) . These work at a logical level. But, he mixed physical(ish) and logical perspectives for G, the graph/domain. If he had kept those separate and used something like RDF N-Quads, but layered it within HTML, we would have many options besides ICANN in an explicit way. Most of the WWW is based on knowledge woven with corporate/org control structures that only need to be there for a physical perspective. In other words, he could have gone full open-world assumption on all 4. FIPS and Nostr also add identity and endorsement (identity=npub and endorsement=signing with nsec). We also need time. So, we have G,S,P,O,I,E,T. You can collaborate on knowledge with 7. Tip-o-the-hat to you Nostr/FIPS freaks for getting me here. I've been wrangling with identity, signatures, and sequences for a long time, longer than Bitcoin, but I'm fairly certain you helped push me over the finish line. Remaining in my investigations is how an unlimited pool of node IDs affects link rot of knowledge. TBL was also concerned with that, but he assigned nodes (as does RDF/OWL) with paths, which also seems braindead on reflection... but I'm still working that out. My memory on surface FIPS reading is it is doing it with IPV6, but, frankly, that is yet another physicalish binding vs logical. Oh... and this also points out a good distinction between Nostr and WebID for distributed identity. ~Peg