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    Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 12 Feb 2019
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    TIL: Max g experienced by a human who came out alive is 46, at which g, he weighed over 7700 lbs for a few seconds. The record for a roller coaster is 6.3g for a few seconds. Fighter pilots can handle 8-9g in special suits. I'd like a 'g' for culture shockhttps://www.medicaldaily.com/breaking-point-whats-strongest-g-force-humans-can-tolerate-369246 …

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      2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 12 Feb 2019
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        "Weirding" is like an acceleration quantity. It's the second derivative of normalcy collapse. d^2N/dt^2.

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      3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 12 Feb 2019
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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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      4. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 12 Feb 2019
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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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      5. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 12 Feb 2019
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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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      2. Amit Paranjape‏Verified account @aparanjape 12 Feb 2019
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        46???

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        46g, or about 450 m/s^2

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      2. Danger & Cuddlekins‏ @Chiliandgarlic 12 Feb 2019
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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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      3. Danger & Cuddlekins‏ @Chiliandgarlic 12 Feb 2019
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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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      2. eripsa‏ @eripsa 12 Feb 2019
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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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