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Mark Burgess
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Mark Burgess's personal blog at mark-burgess-oslo-mb.medium.com covers ai, systems and philosophy. Since 2023, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “Using Promise Theory to solve the distributed consensus problem”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-05, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Mark Burgess's Medium posts on Promise Theory, including a distributed consensus proposal, and on a quantitative model of trust as a predictor of social group sizes. Comments discuss the consensus system and quote the trust model.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Using Promise Theory to solve the distributed consensus problem2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-03-12
- CFEngine's Star Trek and AI Origins (2023)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-12-06
What Hacker News says?
Near as I can tell this system/paper/post thing is a hybrid between a database proxy and an (allegedly) strictly serializable log tailer sitting squarely at “CP” in conventional nomenclature, e.g. https://mark-burgess-oslo-mb.medium.com/using-promise-theory... I haven’t done heavyweight distributed systems theory in a few years, and so who knows, maybe @aphyr shows up and Jepsen-stamps this thing, but after reading…
Comment linking /using-promise-theory-to-solve-the-distributed-consensus-problem-4cc2116f24e1
on “Using Promise Theory to solve the distributed consensus problem”Submitted CFEngine's Star Trek and AI Origins (2023) as a story · 63 points
HN discussion> In the end, one way of stating the conclusion of this model is that a social group is a form of tool for economic benefit, and the other tools we create build on the cognitive underpinnings of social interactions. Indeed, in the modern world, we often spend more time working with and getting to know our tools and processes than with friends and family members. > One important implication of our findings from the W…
Comment linking /the-role-of-intent-and-context-knowledge-graphs-with-cognitive-agents-fb45d8dfb34d
on “A Quantitative Model of Trust as a Predictor of Social Group Sizes”Submitted Using Promise Theory to solve the distributed consensus problem as a story · 51 points
HN discussionSubmitted From Cognition to Understanding as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How shall we live? (2023) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Sorrow of the Cloud Messengers as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted CFEngine's Star Trek and AI Origins as a story · 1 points
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