Joel @ Future Folklore (📡 🛸 👽)
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Future Folklore 🛸 Mystic Engine 🪽 Legal tech ⚖️
Manhattan
Joined January 2022
I'm excited to share some recent R&D efforts nicknamed Mystic Engine. This is a collection of technology discovery methods applied to anomalous literature and accounts, spanning mystics to modern day close encounters. The current approach looks for similarly structured knowledge across what on the surface are radically different domains, like mystical autobiographies and speculative physics. Technically, it's looking for isomorphic subgraphs in embedded knowledge graphs. The basic question is: In what ways is knowledge structured similarly across the domains, as told by witnesses, scientists, and other chroniclers with vastly different words, emphases, worldviews? Can one help explain another, or point to an additional, shared reality? Underlying Mystic Engine is the conviction that anomalous events are encoded with technological insights. One can take the 'faith' position that these events are deliberately embedded with treasures awaiting discovery. Or one can take the more agnostic stance that such accounts genuinely contain good faith descriptions of strange encounters, and that there's much to learn from them. Wherever one falls, I think of Mystic Engine as part reconstruction, retrieval, reverse engineering the cases, chaining together different disciplines to arrive at more holistic understanding. But the upshot to this is not "pure" research; it's technological discovery – whether cracking the source code or just gleaning inspiration. This is where language models now, and in the future, more sophisticated agentic approaches to discovery, play a major role. Specialized agents can be assigned the task of speculating technologies that bridge the structurally similar subdomains of the knowledge mapped. This is applied abductive logic (no pun intended). Already the results of some very specific case work is yielding promising leads. I believe it's primarily through new concrete invention that more light gets shed on the core mysteries that fascinate us. Technology is epistemology. For the isomorphic comparison method, I take significant inspiration from recent publications by MIT materials scientist Markus Buehler. While this method has taken up the bulk of the Mystic Engine efforts so far, there are others waiting in the wings. Shout-out to the Future Folklore community and others for being such treasured conversion partners for tech-forward approaches to UAP and other anomalies in our weird and wild space/time. Back to burning the midnight oil. 🛸🏴☠️
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forget UFOs we need to be reverse engineering the shrimp
Mantis shrimps have a phononic shield?? (to protect their clubs from ns shock waves due to the cavitation bubbles) And it is even chirped pitch to be broadband??? This used to be suggested, and now it is direct experimental measurement with laser ultrasonic spectroscopy. Reinforcement learning man, nature used it to design phononic shield way before we did. (a periodic change in mechanical properties could give rise to acoustic/mechanical bands similar to electronic band structure in a periodic atomic crystal lattice, and can form a bandgap that stops the acoustic wave propagation at certain frequencies similar to an insulator stopping current flows.)
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RT @ashleevance: A single tab in Chrome on my laptop is consuming 102,400 times the amount of memory as the entire Apollo Guidance Computer
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RT @AsteroidWatch: While still an extremely low possibility, asteroid 2024 YR4's impact probability with Earth has increased from about 1%…
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"the internet of animals"
Animals can be prophetic more accurately than our most advanced technology
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who leaked this?
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this is fine
This could be the world's first recorded sighting of a live adult black devil or anglerfish (Melanocetus johnsonii), a deep sea creature in broad daylight and on the surface!!😱
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RT @MitoPsychoBio: The whole body is a transduction system converting cognitive content into chemistry — @drmichaellevin We are psychobio…
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Entrepreneurship is gonna look a lot more like art than business because the only moat left will be taste, not technicality. The role of art has always been to detect the signs of cultural change—artists find creative arbitrages, saying what people think before they realize it themselves. So the future of consumer products depends on how well you can detect, define, and create what people want before they know it. Traditional market research might be less useful because most people don’t know/can’t articulate what they want—it’s up to the artistically intuitive and psychologically inclined thinkers to find the local religion or patterns of belief and desire in a given market. “Everywhere I go I find a poet has been there before me.” (Freud)
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RT @frances__lorenz: Remember when AI researchers used to be like, "this is a neural network, isn't it cool? It can say DOG or CAT if you s…
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"A lot of people think venture capital is a game of numbers. It's not—it's a game of courage."
It's difficult and surreal to write this. A titan has fallen. This weekend we lost Dick Kramlich, my beloved uncle, co-founder of @NEA and Green Bay Ventures. He lived a long and epic life that rippled through the technology world and the art world, not to mention his large family and countless friends. He was a huge reason I got into venture capital, letting me stay in his guest bedroom for six months when I moved to SF (though he charged me rent out of principle haha), inspiring me to dive into "deep" tech (not that he called it that; it was just venture to him), and reminding me to always put people and honor first. He was a true legend, a pioneer of our asset class, and hopelessly in love with the entrepreneurial journey right to the end, even hosting dinner for 20 people from a startup he backed the night before he passed. Very few people are fortunate enough to love what we do so much that it never feels like work. Uncle Dick was one of them. He always encouraged me to follow my passions (especially if they had to do with making money 😆), take (calculated) risks, and be courageous in my convictions even (especially?) when they're unpopular. I love this quote from him, which NEA shared in their tribute today: "A lot of people think venture capital is a game of numbers. It's not—it's a game of courage." I suspect this post will surface even more lives his impacted than the family knew about. He was that gracious, that giving of his time, and even through adversity exuded kindness, character, an innocently mischievous sense of humor. He had an undying optimism, always seeing a way through despite the odds, probably because he had been through so much––from joining the Air Force the week Sputnik launched to the dot com bubble. I can see him right now telling Saint Peter that he's still got one last grand slam investment to make before he rides into the sunset, turning back to us with his characteristic impish wink. I'll miss you, UD <3
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twf you levitate a megalith psionically
the ideas You send forth and the strength You grant to bring them to life
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