Essay on Writer's Block Tactics HERE.
Living with Kryptonite: "Writer's Block": Strategies (living-with-kryptonite.blogspot.com)
2024-10-28
2024-10-27
模倣子 Macromemetic Analysis & Design Summary
Introduction
Here I just want to link to a number of my essays, particularly those that have to do with my notational systems, how they may be use to describe and analyze memetic systems, and how to do design of system changes to produce desired results.
I hope to make some notes about basic principles related to analysis and design and how they might be applied.
Relevant Essays and Links
I've tried to group essays by whether they were practical projects I did at work, or models or designed systems to do with child and family behavior, or other more theoretical examinations. Many of these contain state transition diagrams and deployment descriptors, which are useful tools in analyzing and designing memetic systems.
| Kids |
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|---|---|
| Workplace |
Blue Shirt Tuesday Doughnuts |
| Theories, Technical, Other |
Dining Philosophers, along with Bullying & Contact Memes The 12 Steps of Critique Groups Memetic Loops & Residual Memetic Debt What do Memetic States Look Like? Transition State Diagrams, Deployment Descriptors, & Transition Matrices "Full List" of Memetic Essays Memetic Nexuses & Power - & Rock Stars |
The Approach
In many of these projects, under Kids and Workplace, I analyzed what I wanted to happen, what was happening that I didn't want, and either modeled the existing system, or at least described it, as in the Bus Bingo, Road-Trip Bingo, Box Binning, Prime Pizza Thursday, and TV Time.
Sometimes it's useful to describe "what I want" in memetic deployment notation, sometimes it's not necessary to be so rigorous.
If you check out the Dysfunctional TV Time essay, you see how I simply modeled and described the dynamics of the situation with State Transition Diagrams, and then added more states and memes in order to give "me" (the parent) more options, more memes to deploy, to undercut "the kid's" memes, to create new ones for them, make sure everything is well-marked.
The two essays What Do Memetic States Look Like? and Memetic State Diagrams describe in some detail the notation system I have developed.
1. Memetic State Transition Diagrams - the "cloud diagrams" with arrows connecting them
2. Memetic Deployment Descriptors - the ICON.State.agent.meme1!meme2! => NewState thing
3. Memetic State Matrix (still working on the name, actually) - this is a collection of StateMatrix matrixes with Agents as columns and memes! as rows, and each entry of StateMatrixPointer:Weight
It's possible to completely describe a memetic system using deployment descriptors or memetic matrices, but can quickly become inscrutable for the novice, while a state transition diagram is a quick and easy way to visualize a simple system, and even make design decisions.
More will be revealed! Be sure to comment with questions and such!
2024-10-26
2024-10-24
Feli on US Elections (SUSPECNA)
Great video! The Electoral College is a problem, but fixing it poses a couple of problems: it would require amending the Constitution, it's unclear which system could replace it (mainly agreeing on it), how the "popular vote" is counted, i.e., each State's election board totals the results from each county, but they don't necessarily publish these results (I think) and it's unclear which authority (Congress, the Supreme Court?) could collect and adjudicate these results, or how they would be officially certified and delivered by the several States in some hypothetical "national vote counting," and so on. America is a republic, and the only real electoral decision that requires all of the States to get together and decide on one thing is the Presidential election. One problem is the "at large electors" i.e., those that match up with the "Senators" from the given State. In small States, which have only one seat in the House of Representatives, they still get two "at large" votes, for three times as many total votes.
One thing is that the State elections are based on laws which differ from State to State. Hence the "winner take all" thing. Also, most States have a "first past the post" vote counting system, as opposed to a "ranked choice voting" system (which we are voting on starting in Idaho, by the way, and I think they already have in Maine and other places). One possibility of interest to me, in the spirit of changing as little as possible, one bit at a time, to get the most impact at each step, is to put out a "uniform law" (a law that is passed by each State, which gets around the need for a Federal-level law) that would standardize voting laws, getting rid of things like "winner take all" and adding things like ranked choice voting, perhaps allow small states to "donate" their at large votes to other states (voted by their legislature? For whatever reason...?), and report an actual certified (by the governor, State supreme court, et al -- just like the Electoral College Certificates) Statewide vote count to the joint session of Congress (and to the Supreme Court and to the National Archives and wherever, like the EC certificates). You could then talk about, if the joint session received a set of EC certificates from the several States, ALONG WITH official certified popular vote counts, and in the case (rare but disturbing, especially when one party successfully "games" the electoral college in swing States and such) where the EC did not reflect the popular vote, the joint session has, I believe, the power to decide the President based on that (or anything else), i.e., override the EC result. I THINK the joint session on January 6 has the power to do that (as long as no violent and heavily-armed mobs don't break into the Capitol Buidling and stop them...but when has that ever happened?) I came up with the acronym of SUSPECNA (I'll have to look up what it meant) for this new uniform law. How does that sound for a start? If anybody wants to help me draft it and promote it, I welcome you! Simplified Uniform State Popular Electoral College Normalization ActSUSPECNA on A Medium
SUSPECNA Notes
Ranked Choice Voting and MORE Ranked Choice Voting
Idaho Prop 1 stuff...
2024-10-22
Writing Captivating First Chapters
Here's some good tips I found for writing a captivating first chapter.
Of course, some rules can be broken intentionally, but never
unintentionally. And some we already know, but its nice to have a list
to look at. :)
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