Linus Torvalds, imo, is the reason we have open source, through Linux & Git. He’s the open source philosopher king.

I think he’s put enough in to know where his allegiance lies, over a 2010 US citizenship - a very different world.

There is also 0 chance, US/MS government hasn’t put a lot of pressure on him over the last 34 years of creating and spreading, at least the OS form of socialism

Can identity, topology, and communication emerge directly from information itself — without configuration, without fixed IDs, without ports, without keys, and without a discovery service?

In "hey,", every node starts from the same initial bytes (ROOT) and evolves a recursively defined structure by folding in every event it experiences: - success or failure when binding a port - messages received - local input - the state projections of other nodes

This evolving structure is not metadata. It is the node’s identity, its history, and its behaviour model.

From that single structure, nodes deterministically derive: - their network port - their next fallback port - how they interpret peer messages - how they respond - and how they integrate into the mesh

There is no configuration. No bootstrap server. No membership protocol. No global routing.

Yet nodes still discover each other, stabilise into a mesh, form communication channels, and maintain a shared symbolic dataspace — what I think of as a “symbol economy,” where meaning emerges naturally from entropy and interaction.

The system is minimal, but the implications are larger: it hints at distributed systems driven by number theory and information flow rather than named identities or predesigned roles.

This could form the basis for: - self-assembling P2P networks - identity models rooted in informational history - new forms of symbolic deduplication or superposition - topology that emerges mathematically rather than being configured - communication layers defined by entropic deltas instead of message schemas

The project is still early, but the underlying idea feels promising, and the current implementation already shows coherent (and sometimes surprising) emergent behaviour.

If nothing else, I hope it gets the noggin turnin

Repo: https://github.com/c0ndu17/hey

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It’d be pretty cool if someone derived a legal smart contract solution. One could argue that, the tech enabled products are two things a digital service, and a manufactured product. Those costs could be potentially be seperated.

Then again, I know nothing ^_^

One thing, I’d like to understand is do regular Americans think that the country, following an isolationist policy will out compete the rest of the world?

It wraps ultimate power up in a contradiction, you have it but you can’t use it. Sure, technically you could but it would be your last act.

Another important aspect, the for and against is currently split between parties, so there’s somewhat of unification factor between parties on that divide as well.

It gets a lot of hate, because it is imperfect, but I don’t think it gets its fair shake. My views more of, if it ain’t broke is it really worth the risk changing it.

Ennui: A feeling of listlessness and dissatisfaction arising from a lack of occupation or excitement.

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