Protocols/Design Environments

28 Sep 2025 - 28 Sep 2025
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    • 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)