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Analogue

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Analogue

@analoguegroup

What should exist?

Joined October 2024

Analogue
@analoguegroup
May 28, 2025
Introducing our first Analogue explorer: Michael Edward Johnson (@johnsonmxe). Mike is exploring vasocomputation: a novel theory that posits blood vessels serve as a computational infrastructure, storing trauma and memory, and bridging Buddhist concepts with frontier
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@analoguegroup
Apr 15, 2025
Terence McKenna once framed this world as a struggle between habit and novelty. Funny how the same duality was reflected on the personal level: Terence’s big theory was about novelty, his friend’s Rupert Sheldrake’s — about repetition
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Analogue
@analoguegroup
Apr 3, 2025
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Analogue
@analoguegroup
Jun 4, 2025
the experiment worked. now we’re bringing them to your city. spaces where ideas collide and the smartest people aren’t afraid to say “I don’t know.” the best conversations happen when nobody’s performing. because real insight emerges from real questions.
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Analogue
@analoguegroup
May 28, 2025
Replying to @analoguegroup
“Any term in one domain should have an analogue in another domain.” We discuss how cross-domain analogies influence Mike's approach to identifying research topics, and why missing connections between fields may signal fundamental gaps in our understanding.
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Analogue
@analoguegroup
Mar 8, 2025
"in the pursuit of eudaimonia, it's good and sometimes necessary to explore parts of epistemic space that aren't always obviously moored - in order to explore the edge of the possible. But when you return to the world and want to communicate, you need to be understood" @viemccoy
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Analogue
@analoguegroup
May 20, 2025
Announcing our first digital Socratic Salon in partnership with @interintellect_ : Rethinking the Fertility "Crisis" Declining birthrates are often framed as a “fertility crisis.” But does this framing obscures more than it reveals? June 1st. Applications below.
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Analogue
@analoguegroup
May 28, 2025
Replying to @analoguegroup
“How do you construct questions that don't yet have clear names?” Mike walks us through doing foundational work outside well-mapped domains -- and building scientific legitimacy from the edges inward, in spaces too early, weird, or underdefined for traditional academic funding.
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@analoguegroup
May 28, 2025
Replying to @analoguegroup
“What does it mean to be clever?” We dive into research aesthetics: how great researchers work from principle rather than chasing credentials or playing finite status games. Follow Michael @johnsonmxe and read “Principles of Vasocomputation”: opentheory.net/2023/07/princi…
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Analogue
@analoguegroup
Jun 5, 2025
does AI strengthen or erode human relationships? “It's not my responsibility to figure this out.” “It’s not obvious to me that AI inherently diminishes human-to-human interaction.” “We are not just transferring information; we’re constructing identities and relationships.”
Analogue
@analoguegroup
Jun 4, 2025
the experiment worked. now we’re bringing them to your city. spaces where ideas collide and the smartest people aren’t afraid to say “I don’t know.” the best conversations happen when nobody’s performing. because real insight emerges from real questions.
GIF
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Analogue
@analoguegroup
May 15, 2025
“When systems that were designed for resilience are optimized instead for efficiency, they break”
Rusty
@Rusty_Swarf
May 15, 2025
thought of @hermittoday
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Analogue
@analoguegroup
Jun 6, 2025
How do we maintain research integrity in an AI-enabled world? “clearly fraudulent figures with text that is not actually text that still passed peer review.” “Academia is not an institution... loosely held institution no real boundary.” Salon paper below.
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Analogue
@analoguegroup
Jun 17, 2025
what if the future of funding scientific discovery involves emergent, mission-driven, incentive-compatible teams
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Analogue
@analoguegroup
Aug 25, 2025
proud to be supporting this expedition on AI frontier labs’ unit economics
anjali
@anjali_shriva
Aug 25, 2025
last week i had a one-sentence realization that explains Cursor and Anthropic's price hikes, service outages and all the drama that followed: "a token is not a stable unit of cost, nor compute" but that sentence requires a lot of explaining:
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