@GabrielDuquette it's complicated of course but...trails are the first maps, maps are representations of information about a territory...
@vgr @GabrielDuquette accessibility by paving is simplifying a complex thing - route for what? trade, travel, in information space weirder
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@sarahdoingthing@GabrielDuquette Other direction is not "simplify" but "transform" creative-destructively (colonize, change-nature-of etc). -
@vgr@GabrielDuquette my point is paving is a pretty boring (simple) transform compared to route-equivalent things in information space - 1 more reply
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@sarahdoingthing Prop: An 'artificial' transformation is net +ve if NPV of future illegibility >= NPV of illegibility of natural course.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@sarahdoingthing@GabrielDuquette Precisely. Intentions evolve as a territory goes from virgin wilderness to settled civilization.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@sarahdoingthing@GabrielDuquette To call it "simplify" is to accord the "original" some sort of sacred primacy ("natural" state is best).Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@sarahdoingthing@GabrielDuquette Reductio ad absurdum is "take only pictures, leave only footprints" national park thematic minimalismThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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