Okay I'll show myself out now
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ps obviously my ultimate goal is to reduce ribbonfarm to a black hole
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Venkatesh Rao Retweeted Robert Yang
Okay, I'm not done yet. Content lives in a discrete symbol space, relativity is continuous space, so you have to modify ideas of spatial curvature to reflect discrete structures. This tweet on game level design (ht
@visakanv gets at the idea)https://twitter.com/radiatoryang/status/765976617378349056 …Venkatesh Rao added,
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Not really kidding about this... my old mental model of ribbonfarm was a flat map, this was the last version:https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2015/09/08/the-greater-ribbonfarm-cultural-region-2015/ …
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Venkatesh Rao Retweeted Venkatesh Rao
The map I'm developing now situates ribbonfarm at the mouth of a wormhole that I think of as the 'great weirding' wormhole to the future. The mouth is 3 piece-wise locally flat map areas around the mouth.https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1088566620241375232 …
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The limit of solipsism is what a friend of mine called "vanishing past your own event horizon". Late style is vanishing past your own event horizon in writing. Elderblogging is hopefully a wormhole into a continued infinite game instead.
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If I degenerate into complete incomprehensibility in the next couple of years, you'll know I've gone blackhole. But if I start making sense again, it was a wormhole. Only way to figure out which it is is to dive in :D
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I might owe an unconscious debt to Scott McCloud's idea of a "picture plane", which is also a triangle, for my current conceptualization of the space in which textual content "lives" http://scottmccloud.com/4-inventions/triangle/11.html …pic.twitter.com/aaOuPmESUU
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McCloud's triangle has vertices of abstraction, resemblance, and meaning. Mine has vertices of domestic, public, and frontier spaces.https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2017/06/27/been-there-done-that/ …
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Venkatesh Rao Retweeted Venkatesh Rao
If you want to grok where I'm going with this thread and the previous one on frenet-serret equations without the nerdy pop-math/pop-science analogies, it's really just getting at the form-content coupling that's created by the internet.https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1095071402367971328 …
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Venkatesh Rao @vgrSometimes the universe gives you a sign that you're on the right path. I was wondering how to apply metaphor of frenet-serret formulas (coordinate-free ways of describing curves) to twitter and blog threads, and look what I found on the wiki page: RIBBONS! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frenet%E2%80%93Serret_formulas … pic.twitter.com/99ba2nJLmRShow this thread1 reply 0 retweets 5 likesShow this thread
One of the deeper mistakes I made in my brief career as a product manager of web products is to not fully realize the extent to which the web's form is shaped by the content it invites, in a chicken-egg evolution. The medium is the message AND the message is the medium.
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