Tag: microsociology

• Aesthetics vs. Microsociology

  The problems of perception, assessment, category, association, prestige… What we are coming to call generalized reading.

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  September 7, 2021

  Diagrams

  aesthetics, generalized reading, literature, meaning, microsociology, perception, prestige

• Surrogation, or why we can’t have nice things

  X: Representation and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race. Y: True, but but anything before that probably couldn’t be called the human race.

  suspendedreason

  July 22, 2021

  Blog

  artificial intelligence, Campbell's Law, degenerate play, games, generalized reading, Goodhart's Law, institutional theory, Karl Friston, Markov blankets, mesa-optimization, microsociology, representation, selection games, signaling theory, strategic interaction, surrogation, wireheading

• Is strategic interaction Machiavellian?

  nderstanding of this objection is that it is founded in phenomenology—a feeling from those objecting that their conscious experience is only occasionally marked by a scheming, instrumental attitude toward their fellow interactants.

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  May 21, 2021

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  all communication is manipulation, communication, consent, cooperation, games, language games, microsociology, Niccolò Machiavelli, strategic ignorance, strategic interaction, The Wire