Realized why I am not a big fan of period dramas: art direction yak-shaving temptations seem to distract directors from char/plot/insight.
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haha! Yup precisely the phenomenon in both sci fi and period drama I am trying to grok better, thanks!
oh man, Tyler Cowen's paper starts out promising then heads perversely in exactly the wrong direction :(
he puts narratives inside the behavior space of models. I go the other way.
Good narrative (i. e. not Ayn Rand) should leave a big residue no matter how big a bite a given model takes out of it.
narrative is really compact, invented phenomenology, it is pre-epistemological. A way of preparing for knowing.
hell no. That would be category theory. Narratives are infra-model. I have beginnings of an account in my book (Tempo)
meaning it gives you an understanding of the territory (residue) regardless of what the map (model) is trying to say?
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residues are good. By bite I mean explain. Eg, once you bite out what's explained by objectivism, Atlas Shrugged is empty

