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was drafting a message

(couple hours later)

haven't slept yet but I did take an hour in a steam room here and I come back with a water+heat thought:

locksmith: locks, keys, conditions; statically compiles to liquid, shakes out to a boolean yield-or-react at render-time

mechanic: events, tasks (liquid templates), actions; a loop pulls due event runs from event queues, event runs are performed, event runs generate task runs, task runs generate action runs, some action runs submit events to be enqueued as event runs

it occurs to me that counter is about routing optionality? a model of runtime loops in general. the perceiver is already running it; Counter is an overworld's minimap

law of attraction: that which is like unto itself is drawn but as a computational persistence optimization, saving on complexity. needs with like needs run in the same need-centers?

locksmith: returns logically, returns synchronously, runtime is opaque, no memory

mechanic: forks logically, forks asynchronously, runtime is hosted, memory is manual

counter: navigates opaquely, cycles ambiently, runtime is baba you, memory is the map