Participants: me, Lion Kimbro, Kartik Agaram.
Notes
TechMeet, Lion's Internet Office,
2022-07-21 11:55pm, Seattle time
2022-07-22 6:55am, UTC
2022-07-22 11:55pm, Yekaterinburg, Russia
lines.love
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trying to mimic a notebook like paper and pencil
Ivan Sutherland, SketchPad
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Lines
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Pensieve
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Linking without Names; Anonymous (not titled, not named) Identifiers
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an Editor that folds information behind the words
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APL & BQN -- https://mlochbaum.github.io/BQN/index.html
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Lion's Project: D&D, Communities, DM dynamics
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Conversational Spaces in real life and Internet
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Conversational Tags that anyone can attach or detach to utterances, and that infect replies to ripple through a conversation
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Preserving Valuable things from conversational spaces w/ ForgiveAndForgetInSoftware
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Text vs. Speech
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"Orality" -- such as "The Hacker's Dictionary" (programming = an oral culture)
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It's not about spoken vs. written
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It's more about: History is constantly lost, unless you make an effort
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Plato's argument against writing (https://fs.blog/an-old-argument-against-writing): when you write something down, you have only the illusion of understanding it
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just the act of writing something down does something to you
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Feynman and others: if you aren't interacting w/ something written down, you aren't thinking
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we read too much ((cell phones)) https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/reading-ourselves-to-death
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"writing for dead people"
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is anybody going to read this?
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the universe has a way of hitting you down; ephemerality; crumbling sands
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Troika! -- https://www.troikarpg.com/
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Borges -- "Every moment is immortal, but there are so many of them, you get lost"
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"Is it worth believing in?" or "Do I like it?"
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"Why is this God so cruel?" "You have to submit, and then it makes sense to you."
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"We shouldn't believe things just because they are true; We should believe them because they are worth believing."
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platforms/anti-platform -- over-generalizing from special cases
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multi-component systems
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Metronomicon -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAwSoT81qd8
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"Write down what you think, and let it grow." "If it's written, it happened."
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Desktop GUI by Web; Creating a Multi-user system this way
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math notation project: https://us.metamath.org
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math proof project: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mizar_system
Why we write
http://akkartik.name/post/wangs-carpets -- how minds can be both materialistic and souls can yet exist
Hogfather, from Terry Pratchet's discworld, on the relationship between ideals/dreams and matter:
anti-communication - Herbert Brun
SmolNet - Fediverse - "Commercial Web" - IndieWeb - (anti-complexity movements)
Fediverse -- network of social networks
Mastodon:
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Lion's to come
What Kartik thinks of when he thinks of every moment being immortal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b005iHf8Z3g