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    1. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP Jan 19

      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Gift of Trees of Draught of Barrel

      1/ islands, yes, but perhaps more worrying than that, folds in the manifold I will explain >>>https://twitter.com/IntractableLion/status/1483883726320721922 …

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      Gift of Trees of Draught of Barrel @IntractableLion
      I think if you could chart socio-technological complexity you'd see something like the chart of nuclides, with spaced islands of stability pic.twitter.com/yYBoy48JrG
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    2. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP Jan 19

      2/ a manifold is a shape in a 3-d graph, where the "floor" contains the X and Y axis, and you "pick" some X and some Y, and these get mapped to some altitude Z above the floor [ z is a function of x and y ; f(x,y) = z ] if you look at all x and all y, the output is >>>

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    3. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP Jan 19

      3/ a draped "sheet" floating above the floor e.g.pic.twitter.com/rtDGCPFG67

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    4. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP Jan 19

      4/ orpic.twitter.com/OTp4tJ2yJY

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    5. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP Jan 19

      5/ most functions you play with in math class have one output if f(x,y) = 2x + y + 3 then above the location on the "floor" (2,9) the function has a single value however, some functions have more than one solution... f(x,y) = sqrt(x) + y has 1 solution at (0, 12)

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    6. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP Jan 19

      6/ ...but has 2 solutions at (4,12) ...because 2^2 = 4 and -2^4, so the two solutions of f(x,y) = sqrt(x) + y at (4,12) are 2 + 12 = 14 and -2 + 12 = 10

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    7. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP Jan 19

      7/ so let's imagine that we discover some function that describes the standard of living of members of a society. The output of the function, standard of living, is 'z' and the inputs are, I dunno, average education level + access to oil (in reality the function will have ...

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    8. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP Jan 19

      8/ ...thousands of inputs) so anyway, in this simple model, we see the manifold floating over the plane ... but if the function can have multiple values, we will see either multiple sheets floating one above the next, or one sheet that has kinks and folds

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    9. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP Jan 19

      9/ ...and the scary AF thing is that there might be some sort of path-dependent approach where we started back in 1800 at a certain place on the graph and stepwise moved in both X and Y steps...and climbed up to a place on the graph that is very tall...but also is folded ...

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    10. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP Jan 19

      10/ and we are near a precipice where the sheet does not continue in the same direction. Right now, perhaps, there are 2 or 3 or 12 possible values for our current state X,Y ... but if we take a small step to X+1, Y we might be in a spot where we "fall" a long way...and then...

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      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP Jan 19

      11/ we can not step back one step to X,Y because when we do so, we are no longer at the topmost possible value of the multi-valued function, but are at a much lower tier one simple example of this concept is what if we built technology A, then with that B, then with that C ...

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      • vector (fish angel) David pondered it for a while; Karl K. Gallagher Some Other Nick zywiec Àdhamh Cynebeald A rich🚚🚛🚚🚛 Appalachian Magein ⛰️🌲🛡️ Dedicating Ruckus
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        2. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP Jan 19

          12/ ...and eventually we get up to Q, and we still remember the predecessor technology P, but have forgotten the details of A through O. If we choose to do something to destroy Q, we may be screwed, and have to start over at A. Imagine if we threw away nuclear technology now

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        3. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP Jan 19

          13/ ...and forgot all of the details of it in a generation ...but at this point, all of the easily accessible oil and coal are gone. That's one example. There are others. I suggest that this applies in social tech as well as energy etc tech.

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        4. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP Jan 19

          14/ If you burn down the Enlightenment, or stigmatize and devalue Kegan level 4 norms ("we must all abide by the rules, such as the SCOTUS and the fillibuster, even if they hurt us in a given electoral cycle"), can we step BACK into those norms 5 or 25 years later, or >>>

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        5. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP Jan 19

          15/ ...do we have to laboriously climb the hill a second time, over 2 or 5 or 15 generations?

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        6. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP Jan 19

          16/ People are playing with fire.

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        7. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP Jan 19

          17/pic.twitter.com/TLR3aEggIj

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        8. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP Jan 19

          ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Todd Barrett

          18/https://twitter.com/thepiclord/status/1483893611863457797 …

          ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs added,

          Todd Barrett @thepiclord
          Replying to @MorlockP
          You just explained a pretty advanced shape-rotating concept in a way that a wordcel could probably grasp. Also you've injected some abject terror into my day good job.
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        9. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP Jan 19

          19/ on my "to read list" https://www.amazon.com/Collapse-Complex-Societies-Studies-Archaeology/dp/052138673X … The Collapse of Complex Societies (New Studies in Archaeology) Reprint Edition by Joseph A. Tainte

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        10. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP Jan 19

          ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Benjamin I. Espen  🏛

          29/ my man! this is just the one I had in mind!https://twitter.com/BenEspen/status/1483902220286316546 …

          ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs added,

          Benjamin I. Espen  🏛 @BenEspen
          https://twitter.com/MorlockP/status/1483884051618484235 … pic.twitter.com/TmMQykub2R
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        11. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP Jan 19

          30/ ah, wait, not EXACTLY The one, but close enough !

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