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It takes effort for me to compute whether grandfather is de gauche or de droite.. the better question to ask yourself continuously is whether: does this noise

It takes effort for me to compute whether grandfather is de gauche or de droite.. the better question to ask yourself continuously is whether: does this noise (spaghetti/imprecision in this context) improve or remove performance ((0-1) though the 2 questions are related; it's enough to point out that if necessity is the mother of invention, then paradox is the father of discovery)? (0-1) https://quillette.com/2022/04/05/noise-a-flaw-in-human-judgment-a-review/ https://quillette.com/2022/04/05/noise-a-flaw-in-human-judgm... https://www.newscientist.com/article/2431131-buildings-that-include-weak-points-on-purpose-withstand-more-damage/ https://www.newscientist.com/article/2431131-buildings-that-...

082349872349872 2y ago
thanks for these and the other (sps)! atm I'm busy altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relative to other matter, so it may be a week or two before I'm back to the more intellectual exercise of altering the truthiness of symbols in strings or graphs relative to other symbols...
- vinnyvichy 2y ago
  Ah what shall we do if our beloved HN weren't an obligate asynchrotroph :) Passive consumption recommendation (fit for travel plausibly even) is: to «Das Glasperlenspiel» the postpostmodern (but merely pre-eschatological) riposte could only be «Anathem» --- had to complete the commutative diagram. (0)https://ironichles.livejournal.com/56695.html https://ironichles.livejournal.com/56695.html
  - 082349872349872 2y ago
    Ah, but the kernel between Hesse and Stephenson is fairly large; I'd say Hesse has a large idea (Berlin's "hedgehog") towards which his characters and plots and settings all work, while Stephenson has a cornucopia of small ideas (Berlin's "fox") and his characters and plots and settings are largely excuses to get them all out of his head and down in print. My diagram would be: (Exercise: who is the contemporary hedgehog X?) Hesse ---------> Pynchon | | | | V V X ----------> Stephenson Compare https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyril_M._Kornbluth#Personality_and_habits https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyril_M._Kornbluth#Personality... (and some of YT's more discursive HN commentary). [to what degree are foxes cohedgehogs, or hedgehogs cofoxes? can we get the plurality of ideas of a fox by reversing arrows such that each of the fox's multiple ideas maps back, in the image, to a shared thematic point?]
    - vinnyvichy 2y ago
      Will have to woolgather/think about this, but I wonder if it might not be easier (for now, for me) to frame your question(s) in terms of a short exact sequence, with Hesse squarely in the middle, of course. I agree that Pynchon was more or less an aloof observer of the von Neumann denouement.. maybe you can have Lem in your corner depending on how optimistic you think he is, but I would put Kim Stanley Robinson in that corner (been thinking about the Mondragon Accord). The median HN'er, I don't know, Iain Banks/Gibson. Feel free to take it to another level with some cryptic pointers (/arrows) :) H https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondragon_Corporation#Mondragon_in_fiction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondragon_Corporation#Mondrago... And checkout KSR's influences. I admit to not having read <<DGPS>> in its entirety (or any majority,really) -- reason being that I read Demian E2E and surmised that the apple hedgehog didn't land too far from the tree fox. Trying to reconsider now :)
      - vinnyvichy 2y ago
        Also, Platonov. https://socialecologies.wordpress.com/2015/07/05/reading-andrey-platonov/ https://socialecologies.wordpress.com/2015/07/05/reading-and...
      - 082349872349872 2y ago
        Re: Mondragon, compare https://www.igalia.com https://www.igalia.com (how many of these are there?); the CNT may have lost at the barricades (and half-star forts), but there are still sparks among their embers?
        vinnyvichy 2y ago
        I hear Portugal (not, specifically, the Man) is trying to host a Cambrian. Sorry, you have to find citations for that, should be an interesting exercise
        082349872349872 2y ago
        The (mafic?) object of 18 May brings us right back to JvN and prediction vs control. Depending upon how isotropic a skipping stone one picks, the resulting trajectory may be predictable or chaotic: in a world of too cheap-to-meter compute and effectors, one might imagine a "skipping stone" with LEDs and some kind of mechanical effectors that could be used to write Peristence-of-Vision messages by "skipping" it across a lake surface?
082349872349872 2y ago
Just an aside on Henderson: Everyone, even the atheist furry and the cis-Baptist, professes belief in equal outcomes for equal situations; the problems arise both because we all have differing discretion functions to determine situations given facts and law, and because we all have different equivalence* relations on outcomes. All a n i m a l s are e q u a l (but some are more equal than others) * consider reflexive vs irreflexive symmetric transitive rel'ns, or the US doctrine of "separate but equal" (1896-1954)
- vinnyvichy 2y ago
  Not me :) unequal outcomes is either plain observation, or fantasy --- only, the latter only, I might deign to call "beliefs".. Given, some may put observation and fantasy in the same equivalence class, I should like to encounter them. (Talented SWEs?/intermediate reppers(aka designers)?) EDIT: in case you missed it, follow-up on ANK (not KANs) https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=762 https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=762
  - 082349872349872 2y ago
    just skimming a poorly translated and poorly formatted english version of K,AN as viewed by his students... > Perhaps Andrey Nikolaevich's approach to teaching was also influenced by the free postgraduate existence, which he later recalled as his happiest time. At that time, a graduate student was supposed to pass 14 exams in 14 different mathematical sciences. But the exam could be replaced by an independent result in the relevant field. Andrey Nikolaevich said that he never passed a single exam, but instead wrote 14 articles on various topics with new results. "One of the results, concluded Andrey Nikolaevich, "turned out to be incorrect, but I realized this after the exam was completed." Now, that is the good stuff: Нужны Парижу деньги се ля ви / А рыцари ему нужны тем паче!
    - vinnyvichy 2y ago
      Unable to produce Parisian courtesy, but hey here's patrician legacy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnum_Photos https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnum_Photos

082349872349872 2y ago

thanks for these and the other (sps)! atm I'm busy altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relative to other matter, so it may be a week or two before I'm back to the more intellectual exercise of altering the truthiness of symbols in strings or graphs relative to other symbols...

vinnyvichy 2y ago
Ah what shall we do if our beloved HN weren't an obligate asynchrotroph :) Passive consumption recommendation (fit for travel plausibly even) is: to «Das Glasperlenspiel» the postpostmodern (but merely pre-eschatological) riposte could only be «Anathem» --- had to complete the commutative diagram. (0)https://ironichles.livejournal.com/56695.html https://ironichles.livejournal.com/56695.html
- 082349872349872 2y ago
  Ah, but the kernel between Hesse and Stephenson is fairly large; I'd say Hesse has a large idea (Berlin's "hedgehog") towards which his characters and plots and settings all work, while Stephenson has a cornucopia of small ideas (Berlin's "fox") and his characters and plots and settings are largely excuses to get them all out of his head and down in print. My diagram would be: (Exercise: who is the contemporary hedgehog X?) Hesse ---------> Pynchon | | | | V V X ----------> Stephenson Compare https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyril_M._Kornbluth#Personality_and_habits https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyril_M._Kornbluth#Personality... (and some of YT's more discursive HN commentary). [to what degree are foxes cohedgehogs, or hedgehogs cofoxes? can we get the plurality of ideas of a fox by reversing arrows such that each of the fox's multiple ideas maps back, in the image, to a shared thematic point?]
  - vinnyvichy 2y ago
    Will have to woolgather/think about this, but I wonder if it might not be easier (for now, for me) to frame your question(s) in terms of a short exact sequence, with Hesse squarely in the middle, of course. I agree that Pynchon was more or less an aloof observer of the von Neumann denouement.. maybe you can have Lem in your corner depending on how optimistic you think he is, but I would put Kim Stanley Robinson in that corner (been thinking about the Mondragon Accord). The median HN'er, I don't know, Iain Banks/Gibson. Feel free to take it to another level with some cryptic pointers (/arrows) :) H https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondragon_Corporation#Mondragon_in_fiction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondragon_Corporation#Mondrago... And checkout KSR's influences. I admit to not having read <<DGPS>> in its entirety (or any majority,really) -- reason being that I read Demian E2E and surmised that the apple hedgehog didn't land too far from the tree fox. Trying to reconsider now :)
    - vinnyvichy 2y ago
      Also, Platonov. https://socialecologies.wordpress.com/2015/07/05/reading-andrey-platonov/ https://socialecologies.wordpress.com/2015/07/05/reading-and...
    - 082349872349872 2y ago
      Re: Mondragon, compare https://www.igalia.com https://www.igalia.com (how many of these are there?); the CNT may have lost at the barricades (and half-star forts), but there are still sparks among their embers?
      - vinnyvichy 2y ago
        I hear Portugal (not, specifically, the Man) is trying to host a Cambrian. Sorry, you have to find citations for that, should be an interesting exercise
        082349872349872 2y ago
        The (mafic?) object of 18 May brings us right back to JvN and prediction vs control. Depending upon how isotropic a skipping stone one picks, the resulting trajectory may be predictable or chaotic: in a world of too cheap-to-meter compute and effectors, one might imagine a "skipping stone" with LEDs and some kind of mechanical effectors that could be used to write Peristence-of-Vision messages by "skipping" it across a lake surface?

082349872349872 2y ago

Just an aside on Henderson: Everyone, even the atheist furry and the cis-Baptist, professes belief in equal outcomes for equal situations; the problems arise both because we all have differing discretion functions to determine situations given facts and law, and because we all have different equivalence* relations on outcomes. All a n i m a l s are e q u a l (but some are more equal than others) * consider reflexive vs irreflexive symmetric transitive rel'ns, or the US doctrine of "separate but equal" (1896-1954)

vinnyvichy 2y ago
Not me :) unequal outcomes is either plain observation, or fantasy --- only, the latter only, I might deign to call "beliefs".. Given, some may put observation and fantasy in the same equivalence class, I should like to encounter them. (Talented SWEs?/intermediate reppers(aka designers)?) EDIT: in case you missed it, follow-up on ANK (not KANs) https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=762 https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=762
- 082349872349872 2y ago
  just skimming a poorly translated and poorly formatted english version of K,AN as viewed by his students... > Perhaps Andrey Nikolaevich's approach to teaching was also influenced by the free postgraduate existence, which he later recalled as his happiest time. At that time, a graduate student was supposed to pass 14 exams in 14 different mathematical sciences. But the exam could be replaced by an independent result in the relevant field. Andrey Nikolaevich said that he never passed a single exam, but instead wrote 14 articles on various topics with new results. "One of the results, concluded Andrey Nikolaevich, "turned out to be incorrect, but I realized this after the exam was completed." Now, that is the good stuff: Нужны Парижу деньги се ля ви / А рыцари ему нужны тем паче!
  - vinnyvichy 2y ago
    Unable to produce Parisian courtesy, but hey here's patrician legacy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnum_Photos https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnum_Photos