Yeah I’m clearly missing something with the bedsheets. I found that essay fantastically hard to write because for any given example, it feels like there are 6 things happening at once. I still think the general principles are right, even if some of the examples are off.
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re: 6 things happening at once - started writing on wilderness a few days ago and realized what I was trying to do was superimpose a dozen distributions (e.g. bell curves) upon each other because I don't trust words anymore
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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.
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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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It's odd that no one has made a go at fully implementing Nelson's vision. One would think that modern web frameworks (React, etc.) would make it petty straightforward.
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Yes… although a problem is that he was never able to clearly explain what his vision was/is. Xanadu was funded for a while and I was one hop from some of the key implementors (may have met them, I forget) and this was the main obstacle.
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Thanks, I hadn’t seen this! “Sort of sometimes works” has been the state of the code for 30 years or so…
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More like 40. Ted hangs out at Internet Archive these days, which has plenty of engineering talent to draw on, so not sure why it hasn't progressed more.
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