Ronen Tamari
@ronentk.me
Researcher & entrepreneur | Co-founder @cosmik.network | Building @semble.so | collective sensemaking | https://ronentk.me/ | Ecosystem building @atproto.science | Prev- Open Science Fellow @asterainstitute.bsky.social
AI as an epistemic parasite - useful framing IMO and very real threat
"Current AI sounds smart because it trained on centuries of humans who touched reality... writers who lived with consequences and wrote them down. It’s parasitic on that inheritance"
blog.cosmos-institute.org/p/a-world-un...
"Current AI sounds smart because it trained on centuries of humans who touched reality... writers who lived with consequences and wrote them down. It’s parasitic on that inheritance"
blog.cosmos-institute.org/p/a-world-un...
January 12, 2026 at 1:10 AM
AI as an epistemic parasite - useful framing IMO and very real threat
"Current AI sounds smart because it trained on centuries of humans who touched reality... writers who lived with consequences and wrote them down. It’s parasitic on that inheritance"
blog.cosmos-institute.org/p/a-world-un...
"Current AI sounds smart because it trained on centuries of humans who touched reality... writers who lived with consequences and wrote them down. It’s parasitic on that inheritance"
blog.cosmos-institute.org/p/a-world-un...
#ATProto is giving Major Evolutionary Transition vibes:
"(1) a new form of cooperation with almost total interdependence among individuals ... that creates a new functional entity, and (2) a ... new form of communication to support this cooperation."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Maj...
"(1) a new form of cooperation with almost total interdependence among individuals ... that creates a new functional entity, and (2) a ... new form of communication to support this cooperation."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Maj...
January 9, 2026 at 4:46 PM
#ATProto is giving Major Evolutionary Transition vibes:
"(1) a new form of cooperation with almost total interdependence among individuals ... that creates a new functional entity, and (2) a ... new form of communication to support this cooperation."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Maj...
"(1) a new form of cooperation with almost total interdependence among individuals ... that creates a new functional entity, and (2) a ... new form of communication to support this cooperation."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Maj...
January 8, 2026 at 8:51 PM
"college students as “a parasite feeding on the rest of society” who exhibited a “failure to understand and to appreciate the crucial role played [by] the reward-punishment structure of the market.”"
December 30, 2025 at 2:26 PM
"college students as “a parasite feeding on the rest of society” who exhibited a “failure to understand and to appreciate the crucial role played [by] the reward-punishment structure of the market.”"
December 30, 2025 at 2:23 PM
cool to see this shout out to @tylerjfisher.com @sill.social ! >
December 25, 2025 at 5:31 PM
cool to see this shout out to @tylerjfisher.com @sill.social ! >
Interesting concept of “durable knowledge” - curious to dig into this more. >
December 25, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Interesting concept of “durable knowledge” - curious to dig into this more. >
ATproto and open social more broadly have such a pivotal role to play in creating better information ecosystems! This is from our slides at the August ATproto NYC hack day >
December 25, 2025 at 5:31 PM
ATproto and open social more broadly have such a pivotal role to play in creating better information ecosystems! This is from our slides at the August ATproto NYC hack day >
“the internet is a tool for thought and had better get good at it” - evergreen noosphere slide by @gordon.bsky.social >
December 25, 2025 at 5:31 PM
“the internet is a tool for thought and had better get good at it” - evergreen noosphere slide by @gordon.bsky.social >
Feel like this deserves more attention. Big tech, with its centralized control of markets and information, is actually similar to the centralized socialist planner that Hayek rejected so vehemently?
(from the excellent summit.sfu.ca/item/39967)
(from the excellent summit.sfu.ca/item/39967)
December 21, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Feel like this deserves more attention. Big tech, with its centralized control of markets and information, is actually similar to the centralized socialist planner that Hayek rejected so vehemently?
(from the excellent summit.sfu.ca/item/39967)
(from the excellent summit.sfu.ca/item/39967)
Agreed, and at the same time I feel we have barely scratched the surface on the power of movements: there is something important in what my friend Ida wrote here
idajosefiina.com/services-1
idajosefiina.com/services-1
December 19, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Agreed, and at the same time I feel we have barely scratched the surface on the power of movements: there is something important in what my friend Ida wrote here
idajosefiina.com/services-1
idajosefiina.com/services-1
Interesting Euro-AI opportunity
next-frontier.ai/home
next-frontier.ai/home
December 17, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Interesting Euro-AI opportunity
next-frontier.ai/home
next-frontier.ai/home
Really enjoyed this piece by @anil.recoil.org , & great to see more recognition of the potential of ATProto for science! @atproto.science
anil.recoil.org/notes/princi...
anil.recoil.org/notes/princi...
December 16, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Really enjoyed this piece by @anil.recoil.org , & great to see more recognition of the potential of ATProto for science! @atproto.science
anil.recoil.org/notes/princi...
anil.recoil.org/notes/princi...
David Reynolds' bio of John Brown was by far the most mind opening book I've read in a while. Hauntingly relevant.
Check out the final lines, written in 2005.
"W. E. B. Du Bois's startling pronouncement thunders through American history. Indeed, 'John Brown was right.'"
Check out the final lines, written in 2005.
"W. E. B. Du Bois's startling pronouncement thunders through American history. Indeed, 'John Brown was right.'"
December 14, 2025 at 12:38 AM
David Reynolds' bio of John Brown was by far the most mind opening book I've read in a while. Hauntingly relevant.
Check out the final lines, written in 2005.
"W. E. B. Du Bois's startling pronouncement thunders through American history. Indeed, 'John Brown was right.'"
Check out the final lines, written in 2005.
"W. E. B. Du Bois's startling pronouncement thunders through American history. Indeed, 'John Brown was right.'"
December 12, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Check out this piece, it covers these arguments very thoroughly
"attention markets pose a special threat to individual autonomy and escape the classical liberal defense of free markets. Those who value autonomy should worry about the attention markets that exist today."
bsky.app/profile/rone...
"attention markets pose a special threat to individual autonomy and escape the classical liberal defense of free markets. Those who value autonomy should worry about the attention markets that exist today."
bsky.app/profile/rone...
December 9, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Check out this piece, it covers these arguments very thoroughly
"attention markets pose a special threat to individual autonomy and escape the classical liberal defense of free markets. Those who value autonomy should worry about the attention markets that exist today."
bsky.app/profile/rone...
"attention markets pose a special threat to individual autonomy and escape the classical liberal defense of free markets. Those who value autonomy should worry about the attention markets that exist today."
bsky.app/profile/rone...
Next time someone asks you "what is the atproto killer app?" show them this meme.
There is no killer app, there is a killer ecosystem
There is no killer app, there is a killer ecosystem
December 8, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Next time someone asks you "what is the atproto killer app?" show them this meme.
There is no killer app, there is a killer ecosystem
There is no killer app, there is a killer ecosystem
I created a basic Notion → semble.so integration! Using our PDS client. Right now it’s just a POC, still needs auth & support for collections. Will be interesting to see how far I can get with Claude code 😅
Sovereign computing + AI coding assistants is 🔥
Sovereign computing + AI coding assistants is 🔥
December 5, 2025 at 8:34 PM
I created a basic Notion → semble.so integration! Using our PDS client. Right now it’s just a POC, still needs auth & support for collections. Will be interesting to see how far I can get with Claude code 😅
Sovereign computing + AI coding assistants is 🔥
Sovereign computing + AI coding assistants is 🔥
Strong agree - social media are tools for collective sensemaking (and had better get good at it, to paraphrase @gordon.bsky.social )
December 4, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Strong agree - social media are tools for collective sensemaking (and had better get good at it, to paraphrase @gordon.bsky.social )
Yes, this is what we're building towards- starting with Bluesky and then other ATProto apps (and beyond!). And yes @hilarybaumann.com we were inspired by @henryzoo.com's work! The mockup below shows how we're thinking about adding it to Semble. Curious to hear if you had other ideas @tom.sherman.is
December 3, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Yes, this is what we're building towards- starting with Bluesky and then other ATProto apps (and beyond!). And yes @hilarybaumann.com we were inspired by @henryzoo.com's work! The mockup below shows how we're thinking about adding it to Semble. Curious to hear if you had other ideas @tom.sherman.is
AI gets most of the attention, but science social media continues to play an instrumental role as the sensemaking front line for the wild new reality we find ourselves facing
November 30, 2025 at 7:16 PM
AI gets most of the attention, but science social media continues to play an instrumental role as the sensemaking front line for the wild new reality we find ourselves facing
"Every age has its own fascism" - Primo Levi
(From the excellent "Neoliberal Fascism as the Endpoint of Casino Capitalism" h/t @erlend.sh) semble.so/url?id=https...
(From the excellent "Neoliberal Fascism as the Endpoint of Casino Capitalism" h/t @erlend.sh) semble.so/url?id=https...
November 30, 2025 at 2:29 AM
"Every age has its own fascism" - Primo Levi
(From the excellent "Neoliberal Fascism as the Endpoint of Casino Capitalism" h/t @erlend.sh) semble.so/url?id=https...
(From the excellent "Neoliberal Fascism as the Endpoint of Casino Capitalism" h/t @erlend.sh) semble.so/url?id=https...
"Neural AI synthesizes .. the common memory accumulated over the centuries. Far from being autonomous, it .. amplifies a stigmergic collective intelligence. Millions of users contribute to .. models by asking them questions and commenting on the answers they receive. We sow data to harvest meaning."
November 25, 2025 at 2:34 AM
"Neural AI synthesizes .. the common memory accumulated over the centuries. Far from being autonomous, it .. amplifies a stigmergic collective intelligence. Millions of users contribute to .. models by asking them questions and commenting on the answers they receive. We sow data to harvest meaning."
"we humans credit ourselves with limitless potential for changing our external reality. But we still struggle to imagine changing our minds. A staggering arena of human potential goes unrealised because we're wired to pursue external progress while ignoring the possibility of inner transformation."
November 23, 2025 at 3:30 PM
"we humans credit ourselves with limitless potential for changing our external reality. But we still struggle to imagine changing our minds. A staggering arena of human potential goes unrealised because we're wired to pursue external progress while ignoring the possibility of inner transformation."