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My current take is that culture is just path-dependent[0] interpretations of pretty much the same situation [1] [0]large mean time between scattering events, e
by gradschoolfail 2y ago
My current take is that culture is just path-dependent[0] interpretations of pretty much the same situation [1]
[0]large mean time between scattering events, e.g. number and make-up of parties dont change very much since the last time the current system became barely-functional (we take on socio-technical debt before we have actual social tech??) as it is, 1789 was a bit too long ago for founder-mode, may halloween continue to console us!
[1]more tk. it seems mostly everyone is tripartite. Tripartism, has its own en.wikipage! But more research on YYA’s taxonomy is required of me.
- 082349872349872 2y agoIf you take the interpretation —as I do— that 1984 was a bunch of fast-forward* around the message that Orwell wanted to write, then it also says: a/ everyone is tripartite b/ every now and then, mid and high circulate, often by appeal to the low c/ as soon as the old mid becomes the new high, they forget their promises which is completely in keeping with what he said in Animal Farm. (did he have a third book on the topic?) {a: PIE, b: Veblen, c: Machiavelli}? (I recently learned the chinese latin TLA "SPA" from a Zhihu question about the PRC equivalent of the low) * not completely fast forward: one sentence of the last narrative explains why the Man even bothers to keep the low down: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40023059 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40023059 EDIT: on Tripartism, yeah, a large part of our current "The Middle" party was previously known as Christian Democrats.
- gradschoolfail 2y agoRe:cruelty/VPS/offering struggle Not sure if the sage is allowed cruelty(=irreversibilty?<= deluging), more sure that the sage is forbidden from enjoying it (or even signalling its enjoyment, cf Not-Hillel)
- 082349872349872 2y agoThat may be why a common definition of cruelty is being unnecessarily unpleasant: the Lords/Ladies of Instrumentality would say, it's not me, this just falls out of the Lagrangian, and yes it was horrible yet I was but the instrument. (compare the original words to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6m9SusjNYk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6m9SusjNYk ) The chinese note a tension between 霸 and 王 , do they also note one between 正 and 仁? Lagniappe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92WwPFDn_xM#t=90s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92WwPFDn_xM#t=90s
- gradschoolfail 2y agoHmm, no pro-logicians interested yet? Is it because logic is such a gradual domain.. would it move you beyond knowing just the name* to note that i’ve been involved with … experiments?? (Im a fan of <<Experimental Mathematics>> tho this is 2 steps removed, shall we call it “Experimental Logic”?) To whether its common or uncommon, depends on how deep you want to look, i guess! *Check out DP-G and TSC’s 2020 update, where their Ham doesnt seem so contrived, and in fact, closer to, let’s say, the-country-that-shall-not-be-renamed. Are the chinese paying attention??!! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42039941 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42039941 Citation on the tension? I suspect the tension isn’t between elite-driven and anarchism*. No time to hunt for a item i saw a while back here (its “everywhere”) observing that you cant see any of the supposedly cataclysmic events of the XX (& XIX?) on the emissions chart.. perhaps we should explore (cue tony blair’s victory song) the tension between inflation and deflation instead? *https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42031606 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42031606 [maybe Einstein saw Goedel as Spinoza reincarnate, pity he hadnt heard about MPB (or even RPF/AG] PS hadnt seen the PC article, thanks! The content is very familiar.. however.
- 082349872349872 2y agoHmm... can't find a source (by 1800 it's already trad.) for "he who causes two blades of grass to grow where one did before, is a greater benefactor to society, than {he who conquers kingdoms, all the politicians of a land, etc.}" How long before we have Gravitational Engineers? EDIT: as to pro-logician (in the proset sense) JYG is the closest I know of, and for him physics is more than one applicational layer away. (I find presenting boolean truth tables makes the foundational q's that bother him disappear for me. A gramme is better than a damn!) EDIT2: [multivariate, wlog] calculus works because things have interiors and exteriors, so in the sense of highly leveraging containment/implication, that'd be an advanced application of logic? (compare CSP's existential graphs) EDIT3: wow, looking at china vs india (esp. the crossing!), we can really see the power of: if your time horizon is... 1 year plant rice 10 years plant trees 100 years educate people I think I need to be less contemptuous of popularisation!
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