"Ads Don't Work That Way" still a great essay but this example really didn't hold up. @KevinSimler have you reevaluated any of your ideas here since?pic.twitter.com/KTwAICRa8t
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but yeah, i really wish there were better patterns for how to talk about these kinds of domains. “superimposed distributions” kinda gets at it.
I often think in terms of trying to decompose a high-dimensional space into ~principal components, and then describing the principal components in isolation. E.g. in social situations, there’s the prestige component, the dominance component, the coalition politics component, etc.
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Each is best understood by thinking about it by itself, as a pure vector unadulterated with the other components. But then any real-world example is a data point that mixes everything together. And of course the vectors aren’t orthogonal, and they mix chaotically....
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This is what hypertext was supposed to be for—“everything is deeply intertwingled” was Ted Nelson’s slogan. I persist in writing hypertext books even though no one can make sense of the format. His vision had level-of-detail sliders and other mechanisms not yet available.
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