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I was thinking about an ontology for scenes. First attempt was a false start that didn’t hold together — a hierarchy from a handful of top-level scenes to zillions of low level subcultural ones. Second attempt didn’t work either — large superscenes subsiding sub scenes...
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But I think I have it now. The right structure is a temporal DAG defined by exit-to relationships. When you exit a scene what scenes can you go to next?
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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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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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To make it clearer, between any two pairs, define the direction as A —> B if net flow is that direction. Then filter out links where total flow is below a threshold |A—>B|+|B —> A| > min_circ. My claim is, what’s left will be a near-perfect DAG with few/no cycles.
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It will be a forest though, not fully connected. Within a component, which we can call a superscene, there will be a partial order
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Somebody mine Twitter to construct this, then train a model on it to build a scene navigator product that speaks local lingo in all scenes. Then sell targeted ad capability. Subcultural WMD 🤣
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The fringe of scenes with no exits will be called “the cool zone” In this example, scenes 1.4, 1.5, 2.7, 2.6 If you want to “X before it was cool” you have to be a proto-scene solo pioneer beyond that. You will be a precool person.
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