Jan. 17, 2020, 11:11 p.m.

chptr 2

wonder systems

(being the thesis chapter where I pretend to be a social scientist. less complete than the previous one, & available for comment here)



a single user merrily exploring
an erstwhile
idea
complicates just about everything

organizing an engineering
between the two
is essential

Imagine
others abstaining or oblivious.
estimate in their favor

Consider the atoms
of one human and one design
if any intelligence were to be
the entire “molecule”

a continuous narrowing (through the expertise of workers) of an initially vast
worker is seen as a distinct and self-improving
consensus
whose minds are comparatively easier to read
by holding peripheral

They felt marginalized by the nature of
the next admiral to come in and
exert power on what their neighbours think

the model is outside the chain of command, and less susceptible to orders.

A discursive motif
shocked the participants who had requested
how to alter other
to take the form of a “simulation”.

time
feeling powerless
aids presenters’ arguments

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