Now it’s a fully relativity theory. Everybody is moving on a trackless land. Some people just enter mutual gravitational capture. That’s community. A stable gravity well of mutuality. It can grow bigger and bigger and warp adventure space.
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Really big ones like hacker news collapse into black holes. Someday somebody will take a picture of this.
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One of the reasons I still do refactor camp is that it’s 50% or so entirely new people each time. Reassures me that something is moving, hopefully me. I don’t think anybody besides me has attended all of them.
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As a ribbonfarm dilettante, I get a good deal of satisfaction out of pseudo-membership in a slew of contradicting communities.
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Straddling between LessWrong, Slate Star Codex, YIMBYs, IETF / W3C, Neoliberalism, Marginal Revolution, planning committees, and startup culture keeps you on your toes.
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Plenty of internal contradiction without being disingenuous.
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Interesting that those are your triangulation reference points. Most apply to pre-2014 posts I’d say. More recent stuff doesn’t yet have interesting neighbors. I need to redraw my map.
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Where does Integral Theory / Wilber belong on the 2x2? Deterministic Optimism? Who are its nearest neighbors?
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