Tag: strategic epistemology

• On the vibe shift, pt 1: Worldbuilding

  See Part 2: Nameless, Faceless. Chatting with a friend last week, I mentioned I was writing a party report on the Lisbon ETH conferences for Spike. She said she was surprised. That there was a narcissism to the genre she’d expect to turn me off. A reasonable criticism—the format’s short history is ≈ synonymous with…

  suspendedreason

  November 18, 2021

  Essays

  Alfred Schutz, Donald Trump, Gabe Duquette, Geoff Mak, Honor Levy, Kaitlin Phillips, party reporting, Peli Grietzer, Pierre Bourdieu, Sex & The City, strategic epistemology, Thomas Schelling, typification, Vibe Shift, vibe theory, Web3, worldbuilding

• Epistemic Strategies pt. 1

  This is the first of a two-part essay on strategic manipulations of other agents’ epistemic states. Part One lays the groundwork by tying together theories of metonyms, expression games, and signals vs. cues. Part Two will lay out the epistemic axes of legibility vs. illegibility, commitment vs. flexibility, and ignorance vs. knowingness, and the situations…

  suspendedreason

  May 12, 2021

  Essays

  abduction, epistemology, Erving Goffman, generalized reading, intrinsic empowerment, keeping upwind, metonyms, OODA loop, perception, predictive processing, signaling theory, sociality, strategic epistemology, strategic ignorance, strategic interaction, Thomas Kuhn, William James

• Pfeilstorch Progress: Games, Dialectic, Spirit

  I launched a [Discord server with a] small community of friends, which has this year, 2021, evolved into an online forum. Our mascot is the pfeilstorch. We’re interested in the inexact sciences, and moreover, in the rigorizing pipeline that got us from natural philosophy to biology, or alchemy to chemistry.

  suspendedreason

  May 11, 2021

  Blog

  all communication is manipulation, Bruno Latour, degenerate play, discursive games, erisology, Erving Goffman, Franz Boas, games, generalized reading, Interpretation, John Nerst, language, language games, LessWrong, linguistics, opticratics, Pfeilstorch, Pierre Bourdieu, Sapir-Whorf, Sigmund Freud, strategic epistemology, surrogation, telephone effect, the inexact sciences, Thomas Schelling