killing it this week. Hyperlexia is a writer's friend I suppose. Big Tech Seeing like a State appears to be your version of aggregation theory. A framework many others can understand, and one also widely applicable. Continue to run with it.
> "Once you look for legibility, you start to see it everywhere."
The provocative extrapolation here is that it is not just our institutions which legibilize, but in fact people themselves. We inevitably put others into boxes (height, skin color, occupation, etc.) in order to classify them - that is, render them legible. We reduce them to set a of features, and these compose the map (model), not the territory. These features become inputs into our predictive model. Without legibility, there is no model, no prediction, and no exercise of *control* over those predictions. Instead, there is simply noise (error). Legibility is the fuel to our predictive models and therefore our ability to exercise agency. It is the process of transmuting things from the unknown (illegible) to the known (legible). In my opinion, the legibilization of every corner of the universe is the fundamental, inexorable human project.
killing it this week. Hyperlexia is a writer's friend I suppose. Big Tech Seeing like a State appears to be your version of aggregation theory. A framework many others can understand, and one also widely applicable. Continue to run with it.
Maybe I’ll write something on the economics of homesteading mental models next!
"next" being 60 days later.
> "The most effective institutions tend to reshape society in their own image."
I have always found this parallel amusing:
"Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness...So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him." Genesis 1
The really universal design patterns have mostly been discovered a long time ago, but usually not written down in a form that's easy to parse.
"Mullet approach", what a great term.
> "Once you look for legibility, you start to see it everywhere."
The provocative extrapolation here is that it is not just our institutions which legibilize, but in fact people themselves. We inevitably put others into boxes (height, skin color, occupation, etc.) in order to classify them - that is, render them legible. We reduce them to set a of features, and these compose the map (model), not the territory. These features become inputs into our predictive model. Without legibility, there is no model, no prediction, and no exercise of *control* over those predictions. Instead, there is simply noise (error). Legibility is the fuel to our predictive models and therefore our ability to exercise agency. It is the process of transmuting things from the unknown (illegible) to the known (legible). In my opinion, the legibilization of every corner of the universe is the fundamental, inexorable human project.