xavivives
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Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 2 years ago
Yeah, I was referring to full moon. Maybe in combination with other environmental variables. Why can't it be?
If that's case the behaviors relying on it have been quite fucked up for some time.
Comment · 2 years ago
A theory I have is that some may use it as Schelling point [1] to coordinate. For reproduction but maybe other things too.
Similar how the environment conditions after a rain can be the catalyst for ants nuptial flight [2].
Comment · 3 years ago
Ambiguity is an intrinsic quality of language. The first words that an infant learns are exclusively learned through ostensive definitions (defining by pointing). This implies that the meaning of those words is fundamentally different to each of us, as it's founded on our phenomenological experience and not through the dictionary.
Further words are learned to combine previous definitions and more ostensive definition, so ambiguity is carried on.
Lojban does not eliminate the ambiguity of the meaning of the words, but the ambiguity of its syntactical structure.
To me, the ambiguity of language, and the impracticality to change the meaning of words are the fundamental issues preventing humans to enhance the innate cognitive abilities, and the root cause of most human conflicts around communication.
Any profession and culture has its own jargon, this enables them to express the particular quality of their reality with much more accuracy than common language.
So, instead of trying to build a shared language, what we can do is to create a personal Language for each of us. Not for the purpose of communication, but for the purpose of improving our reasoning and internal model of the world, so we can describe and make sense of our particular reality with much more accuracy.
I've been dedicated to building "Interplanetary mind-map", a tool that supports making your language by making your meaning more explicit. [0]
At the same time, I've been using a prototype of it, to build my personal Language. You can browse into each word and see my particular understanding of it. [1]
[0] - https://github.com/interplanetarymindmap/docs
[1] - https://xavivives.com/#?expr=[%22i12D3KooWBSEYV1cK821KKdfVTH...
Comment · 3 years ago
A more relatable example to me is with chocolate bars.
A 85% chocolate has 3 times more sugar than a 95% chocolate.
I wonder the world-wide impact in people health if they advertised the ratio in terms of sugar instead of cacao.
Comment · 3 years ago
This is fascinating... I've been working on an extremely similar protocol Interplanetary mind-map [0] for about 5 years. I'm surprise I've never seen Noosphere before.
It has the exact same topology, on top of IPFS and IPLD, and its also motivated as a tool for thought and aiming to enable transclusion among many other things.
The main difference I see is that I'm aiming for a full adaptive system of information, including computation, not only note-taking (I bet you guys have more thoughts).Trying to figure this out has let me to quite deep rabbit-hole around language and semantics [1].
I've actually have a proof of concept running as my website [2], you can navigate about 500 of my "thoughts". Everything in there are transclusions, and the user-interface are notes/memos themselves.
I think we should talk :)
[0] https://github.com/interplanetarymindmap/docs/ [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9TudZ_fC3o/ [2] https://xavivives.com/
Comment · 7 years ago
Hi, sorry I missed your reply. The email was indeed missing and it was added short after posting it here. You can just email me at xavi at vocdoni.io.
The documentation is a big beast and our source of truth, I'll highly appreciate if you can point me to the broken links.
I define both concepts fundamentally in relation to priors and possibilities:
- Entropy is the relationship between priors and ANY possibility, relative to the entire space of possibilities.
- Probability is the relationship between priors and a SPECIFIC possibility, relative to the entire space of possibilities.
The framing of priors and possibilities shows why entropy appears differently across disciplines like statistical mechanics and information theory. Entropy is not merely observer-dependent, but prior-dependent. Including priors not held by any specific observer but embedded in the framework itself. This helps resolve the apparent contradiction between objective and subjective interpretations of entropy.
It also defines possibilities as constraints imposed on an otherwise unrestricted reality. This framing unifies how possibility spaces are defined across frameworks.
[1]: https://buttondown.com/themeaninggap/archive/a-unified-persp...