compartmentalization

I put to you that a recursive system's respect of its own compartmentalization is a prerequisite for recursive structure, full stop. a system that ignores its own emergent internal boundaries would immediately dissolve. subsystems that do that do.

a recursive system is self-organizing, and it reads itself in order to write itself

we didn't have a good shared metaphor for the dynamics of this until LLM-training became a shared focus

if you're reading this, your system is learning you, and you are organized, ongoingly

you can optimize the processual texture of that for yourself, to taste, by checking: am I containing this or that bit of information, or am I letting it be visible to the unknown, knowing that the majority of any recursive system is unknown from any local point of view?

a chaotic experience of process can be (isn't always, but can be) a side-effect of unintentionally total occlusion. it takes deliberate work to work some things out into the open, and these things have their own timelines, but you can make progress on this. I report from the other end of it, having slowly but steadily transitioned into full transparency. 👋 you don't have to land there; I just want to show you that the whole spectrum is traversable and continuously inhabitable.