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Hi there, I'm RSW Fire and I'm here to introduce you to Autonomy Realms.
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It is software and infrastructure that I built first for myself and then for others.
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It's a way of organizing your digital life and allowing artificial intelligence to process
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it and analyze it and reflect on it and create data about it and a way for you to share that
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data with others and with artificial intelligence in a variety of ways.
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It's really difficult to explain what I built without just showing it to you.
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There are so many different ways that someone might find it useful in their life that aren't
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obvious, but I think that if I take you through how I built it for myself first, how I use
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it for myself, and you just imagine, you'll just know if this is for you.
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You'll just know, I think.
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So I'm going to try to just, I don't have a script for you, I don't have any marketing
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pitch, I would start by saying go to autonomyrealms.com if you want to learn about the system that
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I'm about to share with you, if you want to understand how it works underneath the hood
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because I'm trying to keep this pretty high level, I'm going to make this a demonstration
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of what Autonomy Realms is.
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Just go to the landing page here and you can learn more about it, but what I want to show
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you is one of the ways that it can be used.
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Autonomy Realms is a system that takes your lived experience and it turns it into what
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I call signals.
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Those signals can have GPS data attached to them and because of that you can plot them
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on a map.
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That's what we're looking at here, we're looking at signals that are public, because this is
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the public commons map, this is the map that we all share together, so if somebody else
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has their own realm on this platform, their signals will appear on this map anywhere in
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the world.
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I can just see this filling up one day with activity, I think that would be really awesome
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to witness.
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Over here, you'll mostly just see myself.
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Every single thing plotted on this map is something I created, so if I click on one
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it opens up the signal display, and this is a transmission, so it's a video I created.
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I made this video back in January of 2025, it was my first day of orientation at Oregon
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State Park, so I started volunteering on this day.
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And there are other types of signals, so there's video, that was the main one, that was kind
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of what started this whole thing, I made over 900 videos and they're all on this platform,
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and they're all organized and I'll show that to you.
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But there are other types, so you can create audio recordings, and it uses the same principle
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as this, it just turns it into a transcript, that's what video does, and it gives that
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transcript to AI to analyze, and then AI can collect all this data on every video or audio
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signal you create.
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This is actually an older version, it gets more data than this now, I haven't been able
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to process my whole catalog with the most recent versions of the system, just due to
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the cost.
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I've been working on this without very much support, and that's just a whole other story
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that's reflected in MyRealm here.
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So you can go to MyRealm here and just see all my signals.
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They go back two years, I started off in Kentucky, there's a whole bunch more I've just put on
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the map here, I probably don't have GPS coordinates, but probably like 400 signals, and then I
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spent a month traveling across the country, and then I came to the coast, and that was
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like over a year ago, that was October of 2024, so like a year and a half, and all the
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signals I've created since then are on here.
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I started at the very southern coast, so October 10, 2024, that's when I first got to the coast,
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I turned this into a featured signal, so that's why you can see on this map with the
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star here, and this was the day that I arrived on the coast.
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So we made it to our first stop, it's 6 o'clock in the morning, we're going to get some fuel
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here.
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You can watch me travel across the country, down here you have this paths feature, this
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is something I'm still working on, but it kind of gives you, this is a timeline, so
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you can just go to the very next video to see what happened after that, after I arrived
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on the coast, and just keep going.
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Or you can use these things I call clusters, I'll talk about that another time.
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You can group things into places, so all of these are places where my signals have been
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plotted on the map, so like Kumbug Mountains, one of my favorite places on the coast, click
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locate and it takes us there, you can see this purple line here, that's when I hiked
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that trail, if I click on it, this is called a trace by the way, it shows I called it Sacred
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Journey, that's just what I chose to do, I did something about this mountain, and I did
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that on November 4th, 2024, all the data is in the system.
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I originally got that data using Gaia GPS, but I can take the data from Gaia GPS and
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import it into my system, other users can do the same thing, it's a feature, just that
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you can export your data from there, or other sources that use the same kind of standard
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formats and just import them into the system, and so this trail that I hiked over a year
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and a half ago is plotted on my map, with 9 other signals from different things that
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I recorded while I was there, at different times, each of these dates here, I spent November,
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December, this is kind of the time range of when I was there, that's another important
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feature of the system, over time, the more you do this, I've got over 900 signals, you
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can start using time ranges, so I can go on here, and this whole map is going to change,
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90 days, 30 days, 7 days, 1 day, I have to get some of my signals into the system still,
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but if we go back a little ways, you know, these are just in the last 30 days, these
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smaller icons, these are photos, so you can, that's another signal type, you can take pictures,
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like I go hiking a lot, and that's what all these traces here are, these are just different
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photos that I've taken along these paths, you can click on them, see if I go on, still
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working on some of the different displays, and user experience for some of this stuff,
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this is the corridor where I live right now, so there's a lot of activity here, which is
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why you might use the time spans, you might want to focus on certain time periods, clusters
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do the same thing, so this was my journey from Kentucky to Oregon, like I just showed
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you, we can click that, and it will filter the map, according to all of those settings,
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including the dates, and see how it zoomed out on its own, and then it created this thing
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over here, this is partly what a cluster does, so that's just my journey going from Kentucky
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to Oregon, you can clear that, and just go back to the previous context that you had,
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you can minimize a lot of these windows that appear, so this is called a browser panel,
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you can minimize, this is my first time boondocking in my RV, that was in September 2024, I think
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I was in Wyoming, it's bought on the map, you can minimize this, and it will show up
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on this thing on the side, so that you can get back to it if you, just kind of like a
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little bookmark, a temporary one, if you wanted to make it more permanent, just star it, if
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you haven't encountered it, just star it, and then it's going to show up under this
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little panel right here, I'll improve this, once stars become more of a thing, I'll just
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improve this whole interface here, and you've got these ones up here, so the side panel,
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that's the details panel, if you minimize those, they just show up here, it has a notifications
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thing, so I uploaded a photo signal, I can locate it on the map, I can just click this,
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and it will find it on this map, take me right to it, but it's already been processed, it's
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completely processed, you would go into the admin to see what that's all about, and this
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is the admin, I don't think I'll, in this video, go through all of that, but I'll just
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show you, so the main feature of the system are signals, so a lot of the activity does
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happen there, and then you cluster your signals, you group signals together, and it creates
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a clustering, and you can do different things with that, and then if you cluster your clusters,
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you turn them into shapes, there's a whole system and reason behind all that, that I
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didn't even get into, because there's so much to this system that it's hard to just
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give you a linear path through it, so this is just my first attempt at trying to explain
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it, you create your own places, the traces system I was telling you about, here's where
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you would import them, Sanctum is a subscription service, so if you had like your own YouTube
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channel and you wanted to plot your videos on a map like this, in your own realm, you
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could do that, and then you could create a subscription service, and then like with my
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own system, I'll show you, so with my videos, so we're going to activate, we're already
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in, see how it says my name here, RSW Fire, we're in a realm context, so what we're looking
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at right now are all my signals, I'm going to clear this because it's a cluster, we're
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just going to close this cluster, and then you'll see, you know, I've got over 400 signals
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over here on the coast, and I have two different Sanctums here, so I have a free one and I
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have a patron one, both of them require you to sign up, but the free one is truly free,
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you're just signing up, you're just becoming a member of my community, patron gives you
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a sliding scale where you can choose anywhere between $5 and $50 a month in order to see
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signals that are in that category, and you can see here, there's 140 of them so far,
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if I click this, it'll open up this panel here on the right, showing you all the ones
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that are marked that way, and the only way to watch any of these videos is to be a member
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of that level, to be a patron subscriber, and every realm can create their own Sanctum
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tiers, you can call them whatever you want, you can have as many as you want, you do all
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of that yourself, you set that up, this is just how I organize mine, my realm, I put
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most of them under free because I want them to be semi-public, basically, but I don't
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want them to, I didn't want them to take over the public commons map, because over time
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that whole thing is, I mean, there's going to be a lot of iterating to that part, this
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is just the way that I felt mine, like I talk about a lot of sensitive things in my videos,
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I've been, like I've recorded 900 of them, a lot of them on YouTube over the course of
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the past two years, I didn't feel like it was witnessed cleanly, and I just wanted more
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safeguards to what I was sharing, I guess, and so I built this entire system around it,
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and I'm trying to put most of them under one of these Sanctum tiers, but then, you know,
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then there's the public ones, and you even have a private catacomb, because you can have,
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you can create signals just for yourself and use them to just process them with AI for
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your own purposes, I mean, there's a lot of different ways you can use this system, this,
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using it as an atlas, using it on a map is just one way, the other way is stream mode,
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and that's where you go to your own domain, so that should have actually gone to rswfire.com
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because I have my own CNAME, hopefully this is still working, I've been neglecting, I'll
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be honest, neglecting this part a little bit, I'm going to get back to this soon, I'm just
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done with some more of the atlas stuff, but here, you can see all of the same signals,
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you're still, you're around, but you're browsing it from a different context, instead of browsing
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it from a map, you're browsing it in more of this flattened, don't want to call it flattened,
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because there's just, there's a lot to this too, but you're not browsing it from a geospatial,
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you know, orientation, so all the same, you know, different documents that you might upload
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into your system, your signals, the different videos that I was, you know, that you might
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create, the transcripts and all the data, and all the things that you just saw in the
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map, just shared in a different context in a different way, there's a whole lot more
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that needs to be done with this, because one of the things, especially for people like
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me or others who create a lot of videos, I want to make them useful, essentially to
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unflatten them, because that's what YouTube does, is it just makes only your most recent
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video the most likely to be seen, everything else is basically forgotten, but you know,
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I'm trying to build a system where it feels useful and engaging, and I don't have the
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right words for it, I'm not going to explain it right now, but there's just, there's a
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lot of iterating, I'm still doing some of these things, and I'm also open to feedback,
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I guess, we can call that my introduction to Autonomy Realms for now, so if you're interested,
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please check it out, and leave a comment, let me know what you think, I'm very curious.
