I caught the cat sitting on the bathroom counter watching the faucet drip the other day.
-- rec -- On Sun, Jul 5, 2015 at 10:40 PM, Marcus Daniels <[email protected]> wrote: > Nick writes: > > "It seems to me that in the discussion we are having, the word > "entertainment" cannot go undefined. How do you tell the difference > between entertainment and productive work you enjoy. That it makes a > profit?" > > Suppose individuals are represented by nodes on a graph, each positioned > in some high dimensional space (subjectively defined, but such that they > can all be projected onto a higher dimensional space by some oracle). A > definition of useful is the ability to move from one place in the space to > another or to strengthen or weaken connections to others. A connection on > the graph could by any sort of transformation that occurs to one node given > a change in the other. One way to move is to be attached to another set > of individuals that are already moving. Such a set might be, say, a > business. To be attached to that set might involve participating in a > class of moves relative to other nodes not in the set, say, the customers > of that business. These coordinated actions would be profit motivated > actions, or more generally social transactions. Similarly, there can be > the opposite relationship of customer seeking a service (here > entertainment). Some types of transformations ai > m to create other coordinated moves, such as a fabric of connections > amongst nodes representing theological constraints, criminality, > governance, and so on. > > I'm talking about another kind of useful which is movement in a subjective > space that is not constrained, or is only minimally constrained, by the > edges in the graph. Movement in this space mostly does not change the > configuration of the graph, but the nodes nonetheless move. Useful is not > defined in terms of a particular graph transformation, but in understanding > how to navigate the new dimensions without the pulling and pushing from > other nodes. Given the possibility of collisions in the higher > dimensional space, there's the possibility of a new social network forming > there. > > Productive work can be defined socially, in terms of the graph > transformations (one case being profit) or it can be defined privately or > semi-privately by the subset of nodes that define their state in terms of > dimensions not yet influenced by the various social fabrics. > > Marcus > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >
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