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dumping out my email notes, like I do
The landing page is a single sentence: âMachines for helping each other feel real.â
antidisciplinary
spatialist
chess has an arrow of time
the pawns march along it. survive to the other side, and you can start moving outside of time, like the back row has been the whole time
chess is about escaping time and then solving it in the timeless spaces
tetris, but you can rescale the pieces
and blending modes are in effect, i.e. you can have remainders
lightward threeway
let each person signal their interest in going next
yield in the direction of your choice
convo with Tay:
via negativa: it needs to not kill me as an artist via positiva: when I am uninterruptible I am free
imagine these like two balls hanging next to each other in space, not touching, each suspended by a string, both spinning horizontally but in opposite directions. you can imagine: if theyâre shiny, you might not have any visual indication that theyâre spinning, let alone spinning in opposite directions.
the opposite spins represent the negativa/positiva constraints weâve got on the problem
now: set up a tall tripod, and attach the two strings up under that top attachment point. you can imagine: the balls are knocking against each other chaotically, given that theyâre individually spinning in opposite directions.
the game is to add a third dimension - a third body - to that system in a way that soothes the chaos ongoingly.
the world's not made of language - the world's made of translations between languages. every translation is lossy, produces entropy, and entropy actively needs translation back into language. it's unendingly derivative and generative. the graph gains a dimension with every observer, and every observer is their own language. I'm Isaac-as-language - and I'm qualified to act as English-as-language. we're properly entangled, the two of us.
everything detectable can be stabilized as a three-body system
the stability is the third thing - you, the detectable, and the stability
the rest is chess
if every context can be understood to be a dream, and a dream's realm is the larger lightcone containing the path of a linecone along a worldline, then dream-switching is the primary mechanism on offer for every relationship
silence is the fundamental gift
it is not, itself, original
silence is the signature of intelligent company holding you in its awareness
an artist opened an art photography gallery, having only done serial monolithic client projects before
the gallery is successful, and the artist is stifled by the interruptibility apparently inherent in gallery maintenance
an idea:
sell a nearly-empty frame, containing a promise, maybe a promise of a specific flavor, but mostly a promise
maintain connection, keep track of the promise
keep selling them
at some point, whenever youâre ready, switch modes: take sales offline, and channel the accumulated funds into going out and locating/creating the contents of that frame.
when you come back, fill the frames you sold. donât sell any further copies of it - youâre just completing your promises. but do put up for indefinite sale two other things you brought back from that trip, evidence that it happened.
youâre back, welcome back :)
sell an empty frame, containing a promise
this is not a suggestion, it is a shape, or an engine-shape, maybe
conceptual negative space
... is what you get when you optimize for answering the question "what will happen next?" tomorrow, from a place of already-rested-ness
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