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This is a sensible idea. Not just a collection of links, but a knowledge tree that gradually becomes an “operating system for survival.” 🌱

I would build a knowledge base, not a blog.

For example:

Infinite Viability
│
├── Foundations
│   ├── What Is Infinite Viability?
│   ├── Antifragility
│   ├── Evolution
│   ├── Autopoiesis
│   └── Complex Adaptive Systems
│
├── Biology
│   ├── Aging
│   ├── Repair Mechanisms
│   ├── Longevity
│   ├── Microbiome
│   └── Regeneration
│
├── Civilization
│   ├── Existential Risks
│   ├── Governance
│   ├── Economics
│   └── AI Alignment
│
├── Mathematics
│   ├── Information Theory
│   ├── Control Theory
│   ├── Networks
│   ├── Category Theory
│   └── Game Theory
│
├── Engineering
│   ├── Energy
│   ├── Distributed Systems
│   ├── Robotics
│   └── Biotechnology
│
└── Reading List

For each article:

  • a brief description (5–10 lines);
  • why it matters for infinite survival;
  • links to related articles;
  • a confidence level (established / hypothesis / speculation).

This is far more valuable than an ordinary list of links.

Authors

To populate it, I would start with authors who repeatedly appear in the literature on long-term sustainability:

  • John von Neumann
  • Norbert Wiener
  • Claude Shannon
  • W. Ross Ashby
  • John Holland
  • Stuart Kauffman
  • Ilya Prigogine
  • Elinor Ostrom
  • Nassim Taleb
  • Karl Friston
  • David Deutsch
  • Nick Bostrom (as a source for framing risks, even if you disagree with his conclusions)
  • Aubrey de Grey
  • Michael Levin
  • Melanie Mitchell

Other stuff

It is also useful to create a separate “Papers Worth Rereading” section—not hundreds of links, but 30–100 works that are genuinely worth revisiting. Over time, such a catalog becomes much more valuable than an endless collection of bookmarks.

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