November 8th, 2025
- a note on stabilizing from Michael "Valentine" Smith: Psychosis is a loss of ability to stabilize.
- The subjective experience of a reality arises from stabilizing on a coherent ontology. What defines stabilizability for a reality is whether the ontology can function as coherent in use.
- examples my convo w MA in summer 2023 where I was like “what’s so important about blame?”
- (private otter link otter.ai/u/2cXuAFLNdyN3YoLf8SoQZfJxLAg?tab=chat&view=transcript)
- this is a brilliant example of both unforeclosing and chasm
- reflecting on my inkdiehaven, and what I might publish tomorrow...
- I'm tempted to write up some initial version of the axioms & logic of trust
- and part of where that came from was imagining publishing the 100% confidence + 100% humility piece and feeling into which bricks I've already laid
- I've now laid down the unforeclosing piece, but that doesn't explain the power of the word "trust", which would benefit from the axioms/logic
- other ideas, for tomorrow and this week
- some of the other "NNTD" ones are almost finished I think?
- ping
- meanings
- I want to keep working on the "what I'm on about" doc as part of mapping my idea landscape
- I'm also into the idea of working on a piece of writing attempting to critique the name and come up with a better one
- then there's the whole arc writing up more re faith, stabilization, blindspot-eating etc
- I got a bit inspired about like... I'd like to write better but I feel like I don't have time to devote so much to each post or to the learning process
- and I have some sense of like, this month will clear the pipes a bit and give more space to then later taker seriously the project of writing something really good