Convergence Protocol
Status: active
Location: ~/Public/convergence-protocol/
URL: http://localhost/convergence-protocol/
What Is This?
A philosophical web experience exploring interconnected concepts through multiple entry points. The fragmentation is the feature — no single path is complete, all paths converge.
Core Philosophy: 40 nodes = 40 ways to see the same void.
Entry Points
Core Experiences (Main Folder)
| Experience | Description | Link |
|---|---|---|
| Node Web | Interactive journey through concepts | index.html |
| Mindmap | Visual graph of connections | mindmap.html |
| Sacred Geometry | Background visual experience | sacred-geometry-bg.html |
| Dev Thoughts | Development notes & philosophy | dev-thoughts.html |
Individual Concept Experiences
| Experience | Description | Link |
|---|---|---|
| Bias Experiences | 40+ individual concept pages | experiences/ |
| Complexity Trap | Special experience | complexity-trap.html |
| Matthew Effect | Cumulative advantage | matthew_effect.html |
| Network Effects | Connection dynamics | network-effects-experience.html |
| Supernormal Stimuli | Hijacked rewards | supernormal-stimuli.html |
| Temporal Lottery | Time & chance | temporal_lottery.html |
The 40+ Concepts
Existential & Civilization
- Black Swan — Unpredictable events with massive impact
- Great Filter — Why we see no alien civilizations
- Information Hazard — Dangerous knowledge
- Thucydides Trap — Rising vs ruling powers
- The Well — Perspective from the bottom
- Wireheading — Pleasure trap, superstimulus
Cognitive Biases
- Affect Heuristic — Gut feelings guide decisions
- Anchoring Bias — First number warps judgment
- Availability Heuristic — Recent = important
- Base Rate Fallacy — Ignoring background stats
- Confirmation Bias — Seeing what confirms beliefs
- Conjunction Fallacy — Adding details seems more likely
- Curse of Knowledge — Knowing makes it hard to imagine not knowing
- Fundamental Attribution Error — Blame character, not situation
- Gell-Mann Amnesia — Expert in one field, gullible in others
- Halo Effect — One good trait = all good traits
- Illusion of Control — Believing we influence randomness
- Illusion of Validity — Confidence exceeds accuracy
- Naive Realism — “I see reality as it really is”
- Normal Accidents — Complex systems fail inevitably
- Optimism Bias — “It won’t happen to me”
- Overconfidence Effect — We know less than we think
- Planning Fallacy — Underestimating time/cost
- Reflexivity — Observation changes the observed
- Status Quo Bias — Preferring things stay the same
- Sunk Cost Fallacy — Continuing due to past investment
- Survivorship Bias — Only seeing the winners
Systems & Dynamics
- Cybernetics — Control and communication in systems
- Demographic Transition — Population change patterns
- Lindy Effect — Older things live longer
- Lock-in Effect — Path dependence, QWERTY problem
- Loss Aversion — Losses hurt more than gains feel good
- Path Dependence — History matters
- Technical Debt — Shortcuts cost later
- Value Drift — Changing what we value over time
Related Projects
- Cognitive Bias Reference — Standalone bias explainers
Tasks
- ask-agent Deploy to convergence-protocol.com
- Add Chinese parallels section
- Integrate audio sayings
- Create shared links feature
Log
- 2026-02-20 — Embraced fragmentation as feature
- 2026-02-20 — Assessed deployment readiness
- 2026-02-22 — Linked all 40+ concepts to project