Tag: the inexact sciences

• Notes on the Inexact Sciences

  “Philosophers constantly see the method of science before their eyes, and are irresistibly tempted to ask and answer questions in the way science does. This tendency is the real source of metaphysics, and leads the philosopher into complete darkness.”

  suspendedreason

  August 30, 2021

  Essays

  art, Bruno Latour, Camille Paglia, Christopher Alexander, deception, ethnomethodology, fit, free will, generalized compatibilism, information logistics, Karl Friston, Ken Liberman, Kevin Scharp, literary theory, literature, Ludwig Wittgenstein, meaning, New Criticism, Pfeilstorch, Pierre Bourdieu, predictive processing, psychoanalysis, psychology, resonance, rhetoric, Sarah Perry, stamp collecting, Tal Yarkoni, the inexact sciences

• Transfer Phenomena & Two-Person Languages

  “Spotted: a dirty brown bag crushed under a tennis shoe. Looks like someone won’t be eating dinner tonight. XOXO… Gossip Girl.” The thing about voices is they are contagious.  I can’t do accents, but spend a week watching TV re-runs and I can GPT-3 an essay in the narrator’s delivery.

  suspendedreason

  August 27, 2021

  Essays

  concepts, conceptual engineering, coordination, Douglas Hofstadter, language games, literature, predictive hermeneutics, predictive processing, the inexact sciences, transfer phenomena, two-person languages, type of guy theory, vibe theory, video games, visual art

• Selection games

  rock’s apparent shape, size, and kind. The rock has no perception of John’s selection, nor any interest in whether or not it is selected. It is unable to change itself or its appearance in any way to increase or decrease its chances of selection, even if it were aware of, and interested in, the selection…

  suspendedreason

  May 28, 2021

  Essays

  alignment, Erving Goffman, games, generalized reading, institutional theory, Pfeilstorch, selection games, strategic interaction, the inexact sciences, The Wire

• 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

• Year In Review

  Bla bla bla, 2020 was a big year for me. I started off doing philosophy of language and ended up at “strategic interaction.” For the uninitiated, think game theory meets microsociology, or check out a slide deck. Add a side plate of institutional theory, debt, and philosophy of science. Though our press, Not Nothing, was…

  suspendedreason

  February 21, 2021

  Blog

  all communication is manipulation, El Morado, Erving Goffman, LessWrong, opticratics, Pfeilstorch, predictive hermeneutics, surrogation, the inexact sciences, Thomas Schelling

• The telephone effect, and the reciprocity of perspectives

  In F. L. Allen’s Only Yesterday, a history of the 1920s published in the early 30s, Allen writes about the revolution in manners and morals that began to pick up in the early years of the decade: Like all revolutions, this one was stimulated by foreign propoganda. It came, however, not from Moscow, but from…

  suspendedreason

  June 2, 2020

  Blog

  anthropology, erisology, ethnomethodology, functionalism, generalized compatibilism, oscillation, postrationalism, rationalism, reciprocity of perspectives, Roy Wagner, sociology, structuralism, telephone effect, the inexact sciences