March 13th, 2021
- "if I give you half my sandwich because I want you to not go hungry, that's not a compromise."
- Notes while reading
- preliminaries for communal, meta-rational, institutional design (draft; ~6000 words) by Mark Lippmann
- this bit really resonates with NNTD
- > We don’t immediately realize how different we are from each other.
- > Sometimes we surprise each other with our actions: “How could they do that?” Or, “That doesn’t make sense!” Or, “That makes sense, in retrospect.”
- > Sometimes we surprise each other with our words: “I wouldn’t have put it that way.” Or, “That’s an interesting way to put it.” Or, “What do you mean by that?”
- conversation that connected to NNTD
- meta-communication necessary to escape double binds
- but also if metacomms limited then there may be yet further double binds that can't be escaped
- and also, can use meta-style communication to instantiate double binds
- this image - "Evolution" by Casey Cripe connects for me with Jordan Hall referring to natural language of the universe
- I want to do with music what Casey Cripe & Mark Henson (below) are doing with art - kinda. Some of Mark Henson's stuff is too dark / dualistic or something... working with really simple stereotyped images of what the problem is and what the solution might be. I like the image below though:
