parallax
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October 21st, 2026
- tweet about parallax by rival voices
October 16th, 2025
- parallax examples - neo-darwinian synthesis, and others in thread
October 14th, 2025
- parallax examples very literal and very cool - 50 CCTV cameras
August 19th, 2025
- parallax corollary - sometimes you can't see how things point at the same thing
May 23rd, 2024
- Duncan Sabien's Double Crux post has a thing on integrating info, kinda parallax style, with a metaphor of navigating a maze where you need both peoples' perspective
December 8th, 2023
- me & Dean co-eyeing the angle to drill into this pinecone Nov 21
- this graphic from @_emergent_
May 16th, 2023
- Malcolm & Jess getting stressed looking at a doc full of images and trying to label them - "this one's Joe, no this one's Joe, but you labelled that one Joe, no I didn't"
- but I was in print layout mode and she wasn't, so her label that seemed to her to be right above a given image was actually FAR above it on a different page and right below another image
November 6th, 2022
- we dig into this somewhat in the middle of this long video but end up more argumentative than dialogical
- talking about scraping off skin cells and honoring the fractal parts down as well as up:
- also re parallax:
- MS > Notice that in the parallax analogy/example, neither eye ever sees through the other. What happens instead is, each eye learns how to coordinate with the other, and a separate process (the visual cortex) creates a "third eye" that does in fact see out of both eyes simultaneously. A larger "you" gets constructed out of two smaller "you"s, and it's only the larger "you" that needs to see from both vantage points.
- I don't know how much that actually generalizes. But I think it does some, and maybe a lot. Like, I don't ever need to see the world through your interface thing — but I need to have a way of coordinating with it enough that our process of jamming together allows an emergent "we" to arise that "sees" through both of us. (And you with mine, likewise, of course.)
- MO > Yeah, this is another open question for me of things that are similar and different at different scales, because it obviously analogizes quite well, but to name a simple contrast, I clearly can imagine the world through your perspective in a way that the eyes can't and don't need to. Like if we're facing each other, I can imagine your view, in which I'm seeing my face, but I'm not calling it "my face" I'm calling it "Malcolm's face", etc etc. So that's clearly unlike eyes in that way. And then there's a question of in what other ways is it similar/different.
- MO > Speaking of parallax, I'm enjoying how we seem to have a bit we're doing where you tend to find yourself as the "maybe it's basically the same at all fractal scales" eye and I find myself as the "maybe it's actually very different at all fractal scales" eye! Like that came up re scraping off skin cells. I continue to be very excited about having a conversation where we try to dovetail all of this!
speciation metaphor for meta-protocol › in Convening an Ontario meta-protocol jam I wrote › Michael "Valentine" Smith brought up the liberalism parad… › and I commented:
- also "mate" here is something like the deep perspectival intimacy of parallax/ophanim, which we already talked on tuesday about how it has an interpenetrative vulnerability quality that's somewhat like sex.
Podcast summaries
- Keywords - fractal fractal selves perspective-taking parallax Game B Jordan Hall Jim Rutt Show The Challenge of Partial Control Destructive Global Capitalism Grokking Systems and Society community much of human collaboration scales sublinearly but it's possible to scale superlinearly the point of friendliness is not to avoid conflict, but to actually create contexts that allow for deeper, more intense, prolonged conflict over the long term dialogue human superorganism Geoffrey West Books/Scale by Geoffrey West Books/Scale by Geoffrey West fractal selves internal conflict inner conflict internal conflict Higher Dimensional Thinking, the End of Paradox, and a More Adequate Understanding of Reality
August 14th, 2021
Notes on Malcolm Ocean - Internal Trust-Dancing - interna… › Notes August 15th, 2021 on what this process is about, wh… › M > This process is aiming towards Juxtaposition ; it's j…
- you're juxtaposing two vantage points until they parallax
Notes on Malcolm Ocean - Internal Trust-Dancing - interna… › M: One analogy I sometimes use for this is, if you think …
Malcolm podcast appearances
List › November 30th, 2021 on Ari in the Air with Ari Delashmutt › Becoming a Super Organism w/ Malcolm Ocean
- talks about parallax as part of forming a human superorganism