"Weirding" is like an acceleration quantity. It's the second derivative of normalcy collapse. d^2N/dt^2.
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A good definition of "normalcy" N might be based on some measure of map-territory concordance, or a "registration error" being bounded below some quantity, E say. So N = 1/(1+E) perhaps. N =1 at E =0, N --> 0 as E--> inf.
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Misregistration (a term from the printing industry, referring to, for instance, CMYK layers of ink on a color page not lining up properly along edges due to printhead misalignment) is likely the best technical concept that looks like what we informally call "glitches" in reality.
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You could define E as % of area of a map that is "glitchy" (hmm... maybe a "glitch" is actually more like the 3rd derivative of normalcy, a la "jerk" in newtonian mechanics). As reality changes, the map tracks it, and E grows larger or smaller depending on how well you keep up
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46g, or about 450 m/s^2
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Hmm, since a "g" is our normal everyday gravity, an equivalent for culture shock would have to be our normal everyday culture shock? Like, how often in a day we're confronted by experiences alien to our own?
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Or, to be more workable, maybe it's just the measure of the work it takes to get out of your own head to interact with others. Relatively easy with folks you're intimate with, usually manageable if you're in your native culture, increasingly hard as you experience culture shock
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I would submit that "culture shock" is not physically analogous to g, the force felt when masses accelerate relative to each other. Rather, culture shock is more like the impact force on crossing a state transition, analogous to the belly flop. g is a factor, but not the only onepic.twitter.com/QqJK1OwrFF
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In addition to mass and velocity (related to G), the other factor in the belly flop is the relative change in density moving from air to water. In culture shock, this is analogous to the difference in memetic density and coherence across the threshold.
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