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Shapes, an analogy of human cultural learning: https://t.co/R5bpRz6kJvhttps://t.co/bBvb3bEPiw
A network of shapes.https://t.co/Pp2d8DTVir
An ecology of sand.https://t.co/E4dbpLZ0JPhttps://t.co/rQMfOJcmFZ
The Sieve and the Sand, Status451, part 2"it passes the critical point at which the phase transition takes place."https://t.co/jVWpCk5LfM
Too Late for the Pebbles to Vote, Fahrenheit 451, part 2https://t.co/vF6KaaaD9j
More sand, Better filters.https://t.co/KVSc82Q2zC
Become the Sieve you want to see in the world.https://t.co/hUxTYE8FrG
... or if in doubt, moar care bits.https://t.co/tmiQcg5i5p
Redefine the game:https://t.co/TvIFoammXG
Understand the game:https://t.co/vuHRttXcEt
Update your Model: https://t.co/fm55EpHCvd
It's interesting to Model the game we are playing as shapes vibrating in a bucket of sand.https://t.co/sds7HL5XyG
I am a #DungianShadow MFW: you google your twitter feed & realize an entire thread is subtweeting @The_Lagrangianhttps://t.co/YQlA2WPepN https://t.co/XzhABBZxBb
"It's an epistemic shit show out there."https://t.co/XGH7waPL4C
Earlier in this thread, I spoke of a network of shapes. I'd like to take moment to expand on that in context of:https://t.co/MpqbZ66fER
1/6 Consider this analogy of communication, the majority illusion, & it's effects on the narrative of the outgroup.https://t.co/WMBRTkZM2e https://t.co/0gwkZPMmnQ
Frame emotional distress of dissonance as a form of pain steming from conflicting personal and social narratives:https://t.co/sJ2tn1NzPA https://t.co/HV0bgSjc57
Model emotion as temporal states tuned for susceptibility/resistance to social cooperation and it looks a lot like:https://t.co/tMWUFMnacF https://t.co/QexTmIf0sr
The Heider-Simmel illusion is a tool used to quantify ToM in autistic people. Literally shapes interacting:https://t.co/MPu8ICAyan
Or in the wise words of worrydream: "stop drawing dead fish": https://t.co/BQ1apVlrEx
We've got the tools to make interactive agent based models. narratives with 'living' shapes. Embodied simulations... https://t.co/xDhl5pl6m5
So we could take this idea and turn it into a 'reality'? https://t.co/I5HbGpxjCb
~A simulated reality. Agent based models of empathy; "shapes jostling in sand": a cybernetic view of communication. https://t.co/1hQ1vYqUZl
(abstraction leak; placing another stigmergic reference for my future self when reviewing PhD goals: https://t.co/aHFezIKBpm )
Maybe a robot that speaks in emoji? https://t.co/A2mEORCqSF ... a meta simulation of agent oriented state machines: https://t.co/P7AglIPtZD
Tl;DR: abstract refactoring on trying to model ant "emotions" and scent communication systems as hive state: https://t.co/rijDRC21TL
The games we play:Cargo-Culting & Pattern Matching. Does the shape fit? Hold my beer...https://t.co/EjgevnupVr https://t.co/WvqlsosTDj
"we don’t mean to tear your world apart or cause you to spend weeks obsessing over the meaning of life, but hey..."https://t.co/ndaVpjCHg3
"If you look too closely (at a sufficiently low level of abstraction), the agency might seem to disappear."https://t.co/L9uB8KrcL9 https://t.co/I0su8sy2aH
Fractal patterns in crystallizing candied sand percipitating from solution as evaporation, a metaphor of assemblage.https://t.co/DzhvcTpOtb
Ideas: abstract jigsaw pieces all jumbled in a drawer; no real pattern.We use them to build maps of our territory.https://t.co/OXnqu3BPGo https://t.co/WPeIm4rZJH
Some people cut pieces,some people paint them,Others run around and rearrange them.https://t.co/FW1EHnxkQS
Jigsaw pieces that are generative wang tiles: https://t.co/Xcl5pmwlqT
Starch is a really interesting shape.https://t.co/69UBg6JDoo