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Mar. 5th, 2025 09:01 pmIn the US, the media is often called the fourth branch of the government. Why? Because in a republic, the people between elections don't have any direct control over the three official branches of the government (executive, legislative, judicial), while the media serves as the only real-time public feedback/control channel. Today, the fourth branch of the government is not the traditional media, but a mix of podcasts, social influencers, blogs, etc. During the Biden term, the Democrats managed to lose control over that new media. There’s nobody like Joe Rogan on their side now. This means that the Democrats not only lost control over the three official branches of the government after the elections, but also that there’s no way for them to provide key inputs into the in-between-elections feedback/control system now. To me, this is the essence of the Democrats' current predicament. There are no thought leaders among them who could go on, e.g. the Joe Rogan show, and credibly represent the dissatisfied population. They could go to Ezra Kline or Jon Stuart, but that wouldn't move the needle. Maybe AOC could go on a Joe Rogan tour. Or Bill Mahr. The Democrats need to take a page from Trump's playbook and flood the zone.
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Dec. 4th, 2024 10:53 pm
https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.02394
Need to play with the idea. We can probably glue together narratives as graphs.
upd: The Algebra of Open and Interconnected Systems.
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1609.05382
О войне и Красной Шапочке
Feb. 4th, 2023 03:36 pmОтветы волка на вопросы Красной Шапочки были новой информацией, но не новым знанием. Знание появилось только после того, как он ее съел.
После начала войны у нас не стало намного больше информации о России. Но прибавилось огромное знание о ней. Информацию можно было игнорировать, а знание - нет. The asymmetry between past and present knowledge is dramatic.
В определенной степени это относится к переходу from Google to the so-called generative AI.
После начала войны у нас не стало намного больше информации о России. Но прибавилось огромное знание о ней. Информацию можно было игнорировать, а знание - нет. The asymmetry between past and present knowledge is dramatic.
В определенной степени это относится к переходу from Google to the so-called generative AI.
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Oct. 18th, 2022 08:11 am“ ...to learn is to form an internal model of the external world.”
--- Stanislas Dehaene. “How We Learn.”
Note that he either externalizes confirmation of the model or considers its confirmation to be a part of formation. (upd. via trial and error).
cf: Lawvere's rough sketch of mathematical thinking where confirmation can be made explicit.
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Jun. 30th, 2022 01:15 am“The telos is responsible for what as matter and what as aspect are together co-responsible for the sacrificial vessel.”
Heidegger, quoted from Dusek, Val, Scharff, Robert C. “Philosophy of Technology.”
s: p -> e
t: p -> e
telos, i.e. c:
p -> c
e -> c
Within the scope of a given telos, elements (causes) can be modeled as a slice category. This probably means that an algebra on the telos would be a co-slice cat.
Heidegger, quoted from Dusek, Val, Scharff, Robert C. “Philosophy of Technology.”
s: p -> e
t: p -> e
telos, i.e. c:
p -> c
e -> c
Within the scope of a given telos, elements (causes) can be modeled as a slice category. This probably means that an algebra on the telos would be a co-slice cat.
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Jun. 26th, 2022 11:54 amLet's use Aristotle's four causes to probe and reveal hidden gems in the Three Little Pigs story, while keeping an eye on potential categorical implications.
Aristotle's theory proposes four main types of causes:
1) Material cause -- an undifferentiated raw material, e.g. straw, sticks, bricks. (M – material)
2) Formal cause –- a form that gives shape to a material. (P – package)
3) Efficient cause –- an active effort to apply a form to a material. (T – technology)
4) Final cause –– an end, a purpose, a final use worth bothering with the whole effort. (R - result)
How does this theory work for the Little Pigs?
1) We have three types of raw materials: a) actual physical materials: straw, etc.; b) pigs' raw labor – a day per each; c) wolf's effort.
2) We also have three types of form: a) house design; b) labor organization that divides each pig's day into work and fun; c) wolf's labor, e.g. trickstery and blowing.
3) Each character (pig/wolf) acts an efficient cause because they shape both the material and their own labor.
4) The purpose for the pigs is to have fun and repel the wolf. For the wolf, it's eating the pigs.
PxT --> MxM --> R.
PxT --> MxM --> RxR. ( when we consider a zero-sum game between the pigs and the wolf).
The outcomes are binary: success(true) and failure (false). Therefore, we can use booleans to measure them, which in turn allows us to apply boolean algebra, so that we can easily evaluate and compare various uses of resources and technology.
Our choice of booleans has an important implications because it helps build a dynamic model that shows life-changing reversals from failure to success and back. (being vs becoming).
Aristotle's theory proposes four main types of causes:
1) Material cause -- an undifferentiated raw material, e.g. straw, sticks, bricks. (M – material)
2) Formal cause –- a form that gives shape to a material. (P – package)
3) Efficient cause –- an active effort to apply a form to a material. (T – technology)
4) Final cause –– an end, a purpose, a final use worth bothering with the whole effort. (R - result)
How does this theory work for the Little Pigs?
1) We have three types of raw materials: a) actual physical materials: straw, etc.; b) pigs' raw labor – a day per each; c) wolf's effort.
2) We also have three types of form: a) house design; b) labor organization that divides each pig's day into work and fun; c) wolf's labor, e.g. trickstery and blowing.
3) Each character (pig/wolf) acts an efficient cause because they shape both the material and their own labor.
4) The purpose for the pigs is to have fun and repel the wolf. For the wolf, it's eating the pigs.
PxT --> MxM --> R.
PxT --> MxM --> RxR. ( when we consider a zero-sum game between the pigs and the wolf).
The outcomes are binary: success(true) and failure (false). Therefore, we can use booleans to measure them, which in turn allows us to apply boolean algebra, so that we can easily evaluate and compare various uses of resources and technology.
Our choice of booleans has an important implications because it helps build a dynamic model that shows life-changing reversals from failure to success and back. (being vs becoming).
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Jun. 24th, 2022 09:36 pmРоссия - не самая примитивная страна, но очень близко тому. Поэтому коллективное хуйло будет стараться насильно примитизировать окружающее пространство, которое становится все сложнее и сложнее из-за разнообразия внешних связей.
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Jun. 20th, 2022 12:35 pmThis use of 1, 2, 2 x 2, is based on the insight that these very simple categories are ‘basic figure shapes’ for the analysis of general categories; it is an example of a general
method for analyzing the ‘inside’ of objects in any category
--- Lawvere & Schanuel. Conceptual Mathematics, 2009. p 370.
In the context of Lawvere's 1992 paper "Categories of Space and Quantity", 1 represents being; 2 - becoming; 2x2 – coherent scenarios of becoming, with a natural transformation between them (theories).
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Jun. 20th, 2022 12:17 pmhttps://dotsub.com/view/b3caf154-7085-479c-917c-6791a4143e3c/viewTranscript/eng
Annotated Silly Symphony.
Time/Effort allocation by the Little Pigs is a good example of a linear category.
Annotated Silly Symphony.
| Last Modified By | Time | Content |
|---|---|---|
| msimal | 00:31 00:34 | I build my house of straw |
| msimal | 00:34 00:36 | I build my house of hay |
| msimal | 00:36 00:40 | I toot my flute I don't give a hoot and play around all day |
Time/Effort allocation by the Little Pigs is a good example of a linear category.
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Jun. 17th, 2022 10:26 pmTxM -> TxM
Here we have an endofunctor and a topos (if we consider this structure as a dynamical system).
Truth object for this dynamical system:
True: {1,1} -> {0,1} -> {0,0}
False: {1,0} -> {1,0}
Note: the coordinates are in TxM phase "becoming" space wrt novelty, novel/emerging = 1, existing/established = 0.
https://youtu.be/o-yBDYgUqZQ?t=6008
Here we have an endofunctor and a topos (if we consider this structure as a dynamical system).
Truth object for this dynamical system:
True: {1,1} -> {0,1} -> {0,0}
False: {1,0} -> {1,0}
Note: the coordinates are in TxM phase "becoming" space wrt novelty, novel/emerging = 1, existing/established = 0.
https://youtu.be/o-yBDYgUqZQ?t=6008
After listening to the third lecture on statistical mechanics, I've finally figured out why little pigs keep building bigger and bigger brick houses after the big bad wolf is long gone. Now, we need to put a formal model behind it.
Pigs is a gas!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmM1jOV1uSY&t=615s
Pigs is a gas!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmM1jOV1uSY&t=615s
Quote of the Day
Feb. 23rd, 2022 12:15 amThe usage of the term asabiya has several advantages. The most important reason is that it has very little theoretical baggage, because (unfortunately) few people are familiar with lbn Khaldun's writings.
Peter Turchin. Historical Dynamics: Why States Rise and Fall.
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Feb. 20th, 2022 08:10 pmBefore I forget,
s: P -> D;
t: P -> D;
j: P -> D;
a1: P -> C;
a2; D -> C.
F: C -> Ω (quantity type functor).
C can be thought of as J2BD.
In a simplest case, P = D; therefore, the model collapses to P -> C and becomes a choice problem wrt f: X -> P, wherein X -> C and P -> C are given.
s: P -> D;
t: P -> D;
j: P -> D;
a1: P -> C;
a2; D -> C.
F: C -> Ω (quantity type functor).
C can be thought of as J2BD.
In a simplest case, P = D; therefore, the model collapses to P -> C and becomes a choice problem wrt f: X -> P, wherein X -> C and P -> C are given.
(no subject)
Feb. 14th, 2022 04:23 pmЗаранее прошу прощения у украинцев, но в условиях возможного 2/16 военного конфликта вместе с огромным количеством шума и неизвестности есть определенные сигналы рациональности, которые США и Россия посылают друг другу своими действиями. Эта рациональность проявляется, если рассматривать ситуацию в модели переговоров, когда у каждой стороны есть заложники. Для усиления собственной позиции надо захватить заложников, которые наиболее ценны для другой стороны и отдать в заложники тех, кто наименее ценен.
С такой точки зрения, Россия захватила в заложники Украину и отдала в заложники экономические последствия санкций. Соотвественно, США угрожают санкциями, чтобы Россия вернула Украину. Рациональность поведения сторон в том, что США сигнализируют, что Украина им не нужна ("берите, сколько хотите"), а Россия сигнализирует, что санкции ей нипочем ("вводите, сколько хотите"). При этом, нет информации, что именно является предметом торга. Вполне возможно, что Путин сам не знает и пытается выяснить, что можно выторговать в обмен на Украину.
p.s. Зеленский не выглядит президентом военного времени. Ему, как Черчиллю, надо всеми своими действиями показывать, что Путин умоется кровью, если полезет воевать.
С такой точки зрения, Россия захватила в заложники Украину и отдала в заложники экономические последствия санкций. Соотвественно, США угрожают санкциями, чтобы Россия вернула Украину. Рациональность поведения сторон в том, что США сигнализируют, что Украина им не нужна ("берите, сколько хотите"), а Россия сигнализирует, что санкции ей нипочем ("вводите, сколько хотите"). При этом, нет информации, что именно является предметом торга. Вполне возможно, что Путин сам не знает и пытается выяснить, что можно выторговать в обмен на Украину.
p.s. Зеленский не выглядит президентом военного времени. Ему, как Черчиллю, надо всеми своими действиями показывать, что Путин умоется кровью, если полезет воевать.
