The OS

Can anybody else out there see the vision of the future which involves a unified, open source, decentralized platform that everyone alive uses? Can anyone else see its features on the horizon?

It is built on a Language that is composed of expressions. Everything is an expression. Each expression is uniquely addressable through a global hash function which defines the “expression space” of all possible expressions. The global primitive expressions are something like the primitives of Lisp, jot, or the Lambda Calculus- a minimal set from which all others are composed. These can live in the earliest expression space (0, 1, 2, 3). The rest of the expressions are discovered by the developers that use the system. If the expressions are globally addressable, then they can live on a decentralized ledger; a catalog of software experiences and solutions that can be shared across an open market.

The primitives serve as a “constitution” of the entire system but as the system grows, it might be discovered that the “constitution” needs amendment; that there are new primitives discovered which everyone receives as “good”. In the way that Lisp emerges from LC in a way that is obviously interesting and stable. These decisions could be motivated by the need for efficient implementations or simply the stability of certain expressions over time. There would be a mechanism for distributing updates to the primitives of the language baked into the language.

The Language is built for the explicit purpose of bridging the gap between human-interpretable expressions and model representations. So everything the Language does is explicitly to manage data (in the form of expressions), train models, and extract interpretable features to implement as UX. So the language is focused and readable.

Another thought is that system has a runtime environment with each expression running in a process dissociated from the others but with expressions flowing between them like the BEAM. This model can scale across hardware barriers and is fault tolerant. It can self organize, ideally.

A system of this nature could be called something simple and obvious, like The OS.

Can anyone see how the system technological progress alludes to reflects our nature? I think that one feature that most systems that endure share is beauty (think elegance, efficiency, adaptability, meaning); I think that with the right system, Life may give us the cathedral and the bazaar. After all, it already has in a literal sense. I’d love to hear any thoughts this stirs up.

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