by Collin Lysford A perennial tis.so discussion topic is anti-inductivity, situations where observing a pattern makes it less likely to occur in the| tis.so
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by Suspended Reason A response to Neil’s provocative “What is an agent? post, where he discusses Freud’s notion that an individual agent can be| tis.so
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by Collin Lysford A comment from RIP DCB on the original draft of The Mongolian meta: i don’t know much about large language modeling, but i would| tis.so
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Representation specialist trying to push back against the modern fixation with static forms. twitter substack| tis.so
by SQCU In the folklore of the men who call themselves economists there is a story of a magic ritual. In this ritual, when two men meet in body,| tis.so
by Collin Lysford H — Living people take their energy to reform the environment in a certain way, a stable way. They have cached their energetic| tis.so
by Suspended Reason In the world of cars, there are whole subcultures of engine audiophiles who purr with delight when well-configured chrome comes| tis.so
by Frances Kafka (Taking inspiration from “What is an agent?”.) If we were to start with biology, there’s no reason that we might not start with| tis.so
by Neil I blame Gary Gygax. Dungeons & Dragons is where we learned that strength is for the hulking barbarian who wields a two-handed axe, and| tis.so
by Suspended Reason Pulled this together from old notes circa 2021. Reading Collin’s “Representation & Uncertainty” a few months later helped me| tis.so
by Cristóbal Information is encoded in the matter that surrounds us. Lack of information is pure noise, a uniform distribution of indistinguishable| tis.so
by Suspended Reason There is a girl in New York City Who calls herself the human trampoline And sometimes when I’m falling, flying Or tumbling in| tis.so
by Redxaxder It’s time for recess, and the teacher is absent. The kids are free to play however they want. What happens? They sort themselves into| tis.so
by Frances Kafka It’s Brian McHale’s suggestion in Postmodernist Fiction (1987) that postmodernist fiction is to modernist fiction what science| tis.so
by Clinamenic If traditional first-order discourse is characterized by the exploration of a given topic, with the author aptly assuming some degree of authority, there exists a second-order mode of discourse wherein the author’s own understanding of the topic is jointly, alongside the topic itself, the object of inquiry. This latter mode of discourse, here referred to‘auto-discourse’ insofar as it contains some degree of self-reference to the author’s own understanding of the topic, m...| tis.so
by Crispy Chicken Back in the day, I spent a lot of time thinking about information theory, and Suspended asked me to share some thoughts on what a| tis.so
by Suspended Reason Molly Hitte, Ideas of Order in the Novels of Thomas Pynchon: Gravity’s Rainbow itself seems held at the edge of discovery. In| tis.so
by Cristóbal The dominant subject today is subcultural. They are fluent in a language (slang, jargon, clothing, music, etc) originating within a| tis.so
by Neil This is a friend’s favorite pet anecdote, from Liquid Intelligence, Dave Arnold’s 2014 deep dive on cocktails. Lime juice is an extremely| tis.so
by Suspended Reason Previously. How else do environments—ecosystems; arenas of gameplay from the perspective of a player—differ? They differ in the| tis.so
by RIPDCB Structuralism is viewed as a failed project. How could it not have failed? It desired the world entire, to render reality as a series of| tis.so
by Collin Lysford Here is a level one question from the PISA test aimed at 15 year olds: “According to the text”, the answer is D. The word “free”| tis.so
by Suspended Reason Austen is obsessed with card games, carriages, conversation, cotillions & quadrilles. The books’ primary seasonal rhythm is| tis.so
by Cristóbal Different domains speak differently of the way knowledge is held. A psychoanalyst may speak about the real, imaginary, and symbolic, whereas a sociologist may be inclined towards the categories of charisma, rulers, and rules. Slightly higher in abstraction, we find the categories of experience, theory, and systems. Each domain denominates types of agents that work towards transforming knowledge between its forms. A scientist transforms experience into theory through abstraction,...| tis.so
by SQCU If we look at the ancient history of computers, there was lot of craft, intuitionistic reasoning, and spectacular visions far preceding| tis.so
by RIPDCB A few weeks ago, I looked at the continued effectiveness of the play-action pass in football, how a defender’s incredibly low threshold| tis.so
by Neil At the end of Volume I of Sense & Sensibility, Marianne is ghosted by a guy (Willoughby) she thought was about to propose to her. She holds| tis.so
by Suspended Reason Previously. At first the jackals ignored him, but then two of them came straying over. He had the conviction that terror, his| tis.so
by Cristóbal Bardamu, fleeing from the policeman’s gaze, sinks into the submerged Metró restrooms of New York City. Unlike the gaunt looks on the| tis.so
by SQCU “Are God and Nature then at strife, That Nature lends such evil dreams? So careful of the type she seems, So careless of the single| tis.so
by Collin Lysford Dakar, the capital of Senegal, has the most heterogeneous roads I’ve ever seen. A few shiny, modern cars weave between a fleet of| tis.so
by Suspended Reason Cristóbal hosted a Rabelais reading group recently and put together a supplementary lit packet of Charles Taylor & Mikhail| tis.so
by Rip Dcb When analytics broke into professional sports, it brought with it a major ontological shift: the rigorizing pipeline. This is not to say| tis.so
by Feast of Assumption Knowledge transfer in hunting is a useful case to study for noticing how knowledge of different forms can be most easily| tis.so
by Cristóbal Eu queria Que essa fantasia fosse eterna Quem sabe um dia a paz vence a guerra E viver será só festejar I yearn For this vesture to| tis.so
by Suspended Reason Many S2 TIS posts have looked at questions of practical epistemology: When can we trust the information we’re handed? When can| tis.so
by SQCU Have humans been chemically leashed by cows? I don’t think so. But there are some beguiling suggestions that there is a greater rivalry| tis.so
by Suspended Reason Here’s a tautology we can all sign-off on: “Whether a meal is healthy or unhealthy depends on the metabolism of the organism| tis.so
by RIPDCB The conjunction fallacy — ever heard of it? One of the more controversial bias experiments of the past 40 years (RIP DK), the conjunction| tis.so
by Feast of Assumption One of the primary themes I write about is the intergenerational transfer of knowledge. Hunting is an interesting case: in| tis.so
by Suspended Reason The ecological thought does, indeed, consist in the ramifications of the “truly wonderful fact” of the mesh. All life forms are| tis.so
by Collin Lysford When I was a kid, I played this game called Backyard Football. You draft teams of children, come up with your own plays, and play| tis.so
by RIPDCB In games of strategy, we tend to assume anti-inductivity: As new edges are discovered, they end up quickly neutralized by either| tis.so
by Cristóbal When an artist “sold out,” what were they selling, and out relative to where? Are they selling their integrity? Are they| tis.so
by Neil Spendy talks here about Goffman’s ecological model, and first of all let me say it’s an extremely valuable compression, but it also puts me| tis.so
by Suspended Reason One of the S2 directions is an increased focus on ecological frameworks, superseding some of the strategic interaction| tis.so
by Collin Lysford Geoguessr is a game about being plonked on to a random Google Street view location and trying to find, without Googling, where in| tis.so
by RIPDCB Previously: Conspiracy and narrative, pt 1. In 1954, the CIA forced Guatemala’s second democratically elected president, Jacobo Arbenz,| tis.so
by Ulkar Aghayeva In the following, I’m drawing upon a lecture by Aaron Marc Stein, The Detective Story — How and Why (1974) and an episode of a| tis.so
by Suspended Reason There’s an old Italian phrase, Traduttore, traditore. Translator as traitor. The ethnographer is always a sort of translator,| tis.so
by Cristóbal The impetus of analysis is to break-down complex structures into simpler, comprehensible parts. Understand each part and their| tis.so
by RIPDCB Conspiracy theories carry within them a poison pill. Justifiably so, they contend that official narratives of controversial historical| tis.so
by Cristóbal C—After paying a hefty sum to bring around 40 books to Brazil and then walking into three gorgeous libraries I have open access to,| tis.so
by Collin Lysford One of the most important ideas uniting us is the rigorizing pipeline. Patterns in the world are noticed as anecdotes, folk wisdom| tis.so
by RIPDCB When we’ve written about degenerate play in the past, the focus has been on the condemnable strategies deployed by players that violate| tis.so
by Possible Modernist As a follow on to my post about glass, it’s worth noting that a recent Nature paper has reported improved understanding of| tis.so
by Collin Lysford https://twitter.com/interpretantion had a tweet recently that got me thinking: My guess is IQ is actually a test of how many| tis.so
by Suspended Reason And we see here exactly the emphasis on surprise and expectation—on not being surprised by one’s opponent, while trying to| tis.so
by SQCU United States Strategic Bombing Report, 1945: In both the RAF and the United States Army Air Forces there were some who believed that air| tis.so
by Suspended Reason Eyal Weizman, “Lethal Theory”: During the battle, soldiers moved within the city across hundred-meter-long| tis.so
by Suspended Reason Last night at The Scratcher, RIPDCB suggests that, even as our running games metaphor pays perpetual lip service to cooperation| tis.so
by Redxaxder “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife” What’s up with| tis.so
by Collin Lysford From Slime Mold Time Mold’s “On the Hunt for Ginormous Effect Sizes”: But here’s something they don’t always tell you: p-hacking| tis.so