Folksonomies allow open-ended convergence.

· Bits and Bobs 7/28/25
  • Folksonomies allow open-ended convergence.
    • Open-ended systems diffuse by default.
      • Convex.
    • Folksonomies create emergent schelling points so they can cohere by default.
      • Concave.
    • This allows useful ontologies to accrete, emergently.
    • A similar dynamic from Dan Bricklin: "Prototypes are their own organizing principle".
      • The prototype is made by a one-pizza team.
      • Once it's coherent and obviously viable, other people can glom onto it and scale it.
    • The limitations of software force humans to agree and converge, because it's so expensive if everyone rewrites all the code themselves.
      • But LLMs reduce that cost.
      • By default vibecoding will diffuse out into micro-apps that no one uses, don't talk to each other, and can't be combined.

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