So you talk about earlier and later scenes. You can only go from earlier to later. These are not references to maturity level but exit order. If it looks like you’re going backwards it is always through irony or a related mode. Later scenes will be more dissonant.
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Scenes form a developmental partially ordered sequence. So a question like “where do you go if you leave tech role in Silicon Valley?” is well-posed. You’re unlikely to go get an MBA and join Wall Street for eg, but likely to go to LA and get into entertainment media.
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Finance scene is upstream of tech, which is upstream of media. Fin tech is post-tech and ironically-fin.
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It’s a partial order so you can move to any scene that is not-upstream. Even reactionary moves are fundamentally ironic. Tech to trad is not the same as just being trad. So not-upstream.
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I’m currently very curious about “post-tech” scenes. I have an inventory but not a map: crypto, entertainment, trad, waldenponding, neoreaction, local politics, biotech. Each is post in a different way.
Tech is a bottleneck scene. Everything is either pre-tech or post-tech.
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It is locally total order. Only 1 scene at a time is the bottleneck usually. Other scenes don’t induce total pre/post cuts.
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Well if there’s a net direction locally (A to be is more likely than B to A) for every pair with significant flow, you’ll get at least a local order. I suspect if you impose a minimum net flow threshold to filter random noise you’ll get a proper DAG.
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My these is basically that there is a historical direction to the grain of living scenes that’s independent of their youth/maturity. We have aging rock groupies and young trad knitters, so it looks confusing, but the exit patterns are a revealed preference sign of growth vectors
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Example of the sort of thing you mean? Mac vs PC might be one. I went PC to Mac but have no strong sense of one being “later” evolutionarily. But then again, that’s more consumption choice than scene. It’s not like I party with Mac types and used to party with PC types.
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