miscellaneous topics

i'm caught between two platforms...

robotwisdom.com will blink out again
at the end of this month
unless another volunteer host turns up

i was appalled to learn that google
declines to index pages with more than 100 links
assuming they're spam
(i think pages with <100 are lazy)


google-reader-shared
has killed linkblogging for me
at least temporarily

i've fallen in love with reCAPTCHA

the little boost of knowing
i'm proofing random texts
makes that burden a joy

i tried the new online Monopoly
and find it pointless
except the perspective it offers
on googlemaps AI

if it implemented a map-recaptcha
i'd love it
to fill out the googlemaps model
with geographic intelligence

(Monopoly relaunches this week
if you want to try it out

about the only strategy
is sabotaging neighbors
or not

rural areas have few/no neighbors)


it may be a dark age for linkblogging
but it's interesting times for web 2.0

with tiny tweaks from myspace to facebook to twitter
bringing revolutionary vibe-shifts

which have many evolutions to go

it has to go back to
usenet's decentralised distribution




and i've got an idea
for a new antimath symbol
probably just "+"
that represents
a hypothetical absolute moral ideal

snubbed by almost all
subbing half-measures

pursued tirelessly by one or two

 
 
 
 
 
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Crayolacube combinatorics

starting
from the worldtree

and its
individual lifelines

isolate any
line segment
and flatten its spatial dimensions
down to just x
(with time as y)



paint this segment
using any convenient mapping
(eg the crayolacube
red-evil blue-sad
yellow-sick or -enslaved)



classify your segment by
start-color
and end-color



ignoring intermediate values
(here greyed)

notice the formal analogy
with the i ching's 64 hexgrams
permuting eight trigrams



each colorchange
within any segment
must have
causes

some expected
some unexpected



now
isolate any pair of segments
that start and end
at the same times

and classify this pair
by its two start colors
and its two end colors
(8^4 = 4096, too slow to render)



#1 of 64



sometimes the colorchange
in one segment
will help cause the colorchange
in the other segment

via
a strong or weak
linkage

strong

weak

 
 
 
 
 
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About: metatagsoup

this del.icio.us design experiment
is first of all intended as
an efficient ontology for
IMDb movie keywords

(a taxicab is a car is a vehicle is a prop)

substituting the theatrical
role-set-prop
for person-place-thing

and secondarily
a unification of all comparable ontologies
(roget polti adler barger lenat yahoo/dmoz)
and tagged web2.0 content

on the hypothesis that
movies (can) encompass all

the ontology defined
pragmatically (bottom up)
not philosophically (top down)
eg maybe:

props: vehicle weapon gizmo treasure clothing message container

sets: interior exterior road land sea weather

roles: girl kid buddy rival creature criminal cop stranger group maker mentor healer

prop:gizmo: phone camera clock weapon musicalinstrument

prop:message: letter sign file contract book magazine newspaper artwork

set:interior: store office bank theater club restaurant jail

(these 'literary' categories
being more artfi not scifi
seem to make nerds uncomfortable
but the semantic web movement
will just be spinning its wheels
until they're addressed)

 
 
 
 
 
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Toward a unified model of information

[thoughtmesh edition w/extra links]

my whole life since
maybe 1969
i've been struggling to write
a single book

with an evershifting shape but always
a psychology text
that at least sketches an outline
of human motivation
viewed thru a literary lens

like 'the sims XVI'
in textbook form

like solace perhaps
a composition of extracts
of nuances

like brainfeathers or finnegans wake
everyman's everyhistory

like laws of form or antimath
built up elegantly
from a single bit

like a pattern language for literary patterns

like polti or roget
a classification of plots
of story skeletons

like knuth a catalog
of data structures and algorithms

like cyc
a knowledgebase of common sense

like adler's syntopicon
an inventory of philosophies
wisdom marked up for robots
like the semantic web

a hierarchy of metadata
most urgent first

a constitution
for some possible utopia

and now centered on
colored lines in spacetime

x normally longitude-space
y simply ordinary time

with one line per
true human lifestory

and now with a suggested
simple first coloring

white for happy familymembers
all alike

blue for sad
red for bad

yellow for sickly
or better
for enslaved?

 
 
 
 
 
 
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The crayolacube and the Worldtree

trisect a cube
into 8 cubelets
(8/27ths of a rubik)

balance it on any point

color the top cubelet white
and the bottom cubelet black

the upper three-layer
red yellow blue

the lower three-layer
orange green purple

call this a crayolacube



in antimath i explored
dozens of literary permutations
of (-, 0, +)

but using the crayolacube
we can raise that to the 3rd power

white = +++
black = ---
redyellowblue = ++-
orangegreenpurple = +--

and if we can discover
an optimal assignment
of these 3 dimensions
we should generate a
polti vocabulary
with 100s or 1000s
of distinct story skeletons



try
(happy, healthy, good) for white
(unhappy, unhealthy, evil) for black

(pullman's satanic yhwh
was also sickly and sad)

but the trick here is to recognise
that (red yellow blue) don't represent
the 3 virtues
but rather the 3 vices
each polluting virtuous white
to a minimally diluted primary

say blue = sad
yellow = sickly
red = evil

and orangegreenpurple
are then doubly dilute

orange = evil and sickly but happy
(think montgomery burns)

green = sickly and sad but good
(a tragic dickens martyr-heroine)

purple = evil and sad but healthy
(kissinger?)
((could even jill st john make him smile?))



now we can paint the worldtree

yellow plagues lopping branches

blue moods
driving emos and scandinavians
to suicide

red wickedness usurping
political and economic power

children born innocent/white
yellowing occasionally with measlesmumpschickenpox

evil parents necessarily
breeding unhappy children

increasingly unhappy blue during adolescence

all experimenting with a little red evil
drinks drugs sex cruelty
happiness destroyed
(blue green purple black palette)
or health destroyed
(yellow orange green black palette)

some committing to evil
(red orange purple black palette)

maybe just until a brush with
black misery and death
reawakens their conscience



take any single human branch
and straighten it into a baton

the baton's sequence of crayola colors
is one possible view
of that person's life 'movie'

happy or sad
short or long
rich or dull
selfish or selfless

(is there much correlation here
to favorite music genres?
blue-emo red-metal white-gospel?)

happy palette: white yellow orange red

healthy palette: white red purple blue

good palette: white yellow green blue

 
 
 
 
 
 
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