October 13th, 2022
- relates to cultural evolution broadly
- overt statement haha
- idk but lasers
- > will we learn to live in harmony with nature and reduce our wants to what it can provide? No! We will use lasers.
- ahh there's a caveat here though which is something like...
- the disgust IS a sign that you don't want to be close to the person, in whatever sense
- either you don't want to
- > I have also learned that when I am being rigid and inflexible, I am usually in the grip of an emotional reaction. The rigidity is a compensatory reaction to an uncertainty I am not able or willing to experience.
- —A Trackless Path by Ken McLeod
- re meta-protocol as "geometric"
- a comment from a friend
- I feel lost...meta-norms are optimal--- geometrically? I am confused about how they are geometric? I think you are getting at the fact that they are optimal for the 'space' that they are in... or that they occupy the niche according to principles of humans and interaction and things. The image feels nice, but lands hazy.