Why the Tau Language is a Big Deal
In this article I’ll demonstrate things that the Tau Language can do that were never possible before, and why it matters so much. Consider an interactive AI agent that accepts commands from the user and performs them. The agent is a program implemented in some language L, and the commands are given in some language K. Suppose the user gives…
Tau Net: The Endgame of Blockchain Technology
Blockchain has been around for about two decades and received tremendous attention, yet its promise to change society hasn’t evolved at all. All technological developments around blockchain can be divided into two categories. The first is intentional or unintentional yet false presentations, of promises that are not technologically or economically feasible, and in reality carry too little to make any…
Agoras and the Economics of Knowledge
In our current world one can rarely monetize their knowledge in a direct manner. We almost never buy or sell (or price) a single piece of knowledge. Seeking knowledge in an economical setting is currently mostly done by appealing to people who we assume to be involved in a field where the knowledge of interest may exist, just like there…
Consensus and Options
In this post we won’t get into an overview of Tau and Agoras as we did in the last three posts, but we’ll dive into two specific parts of each: Tau’s governance model, and Agoras derivatives market. As promised in the last post, in this post we’ll talk on who gets to decide. Recall that Tau is a software that…
The Art of Self-Reference
This post, like the previous two, comes to shed light on the same subjects. The post “The New Tau” went bottom up from TML to Agoras and focused on scaling discussions. The post “From Agoras to TML” went the other way around, and focused on knowledge economy. Here we approach the subject by emphasizing on self definition. Our main example…
From Agoras to TML
In the last blogpost we went through our five stages in chronological and conceptually bottom-up order, language, knowledge, discussion, collaboration, change, and knowledge market. The first five steps are about creation of a knowledge society, and from there we can build a knowledge economy on top of it. On this post we go backwards, we consider what we mean by…
The New Tau
We are interested in a process in which a small or very large group of people repeatedly reach and follow agreements. We refer to such processes as Social Choice. We identify five aspects arising from them, language, knowledge, discussion, collaboration, and choice about choice. We propose a social choice mechanism by a careful consideration of these aspects. Some of the…
Tau and the Crisis of Truth
We live in a world in which no one knows the law. Except trivial cases, you cannot know what is legal and what is not, all you can do is try and see what is the judge’s or policeman’s opinion after you’ve taken your actions, which of course differs from one to another. Or you can consult a lawyer that…
Tau as a Generalized Blockchain
Bitcoin may abstractly be described as a decentralized machine that appends new data (transactions) to a public shared database (ledger) given certain proofs (signatures). One immediately asks, what if we take the Blockchain algorithm and allow arbitrary data with multiple public shared databases and with arbitrary proofs? Moreover, can the protocol itself evolve with time? Let’s break those questions into…
Proof of Code Execution
Putting it altogether, code is rules and queries, while the compiler (being essentially an autoprover) follows the rules and their consequences and outputs answers (while performing any side-effects). This is a closed loop, the code is retrieved from tau-chain upon a new block, using, obviously, some tau client. So we accept and execute block T by executing the code that…