Conceptual work
An intro to surrogation via the lessons of Midas.
An indicator comes to stand in for some indicated whole.
Papers
Reason & Rutten 2018: Predictive Hermeneutics
Surprisal, cognitive updating, and the avant-garde.
Situating LessWrong in Contemporary Philosophy (In Progress)
Reinventing the wheel, or breaking new ground?
Discursive Games, Discursive Warfare
Why do people argue different positions depending on who they're talking to?
Letters
1: The Meaning of Meaning
Starting from scratch: meaning, intent, and entailment.
1.1 Reason
1.2 Crispy
1.3 LIVE
1.4 Reason
2: Context and Social Games
From case studies to general principles.
2.1 Crispy2.2 Reason
2.3 Crispy
2.4 LIVE
3: Stacked Games and Mutual Futures Modeling
How we keep double ledgers, or, "having your cake and eating it too."
3.1 Hazard3.2 LIVE
3.3 Reason
4: On Generalized Reading
Moving away from signaling theory's "writing" paradigm.
4.1 ReasonBlogposts
Crispy Chicken: The Lipstick Economy of Ideas
Crispy Chicken: Concepts Are Tools, Not Artifacts
Suspended Reason: The surrogation matrix
Crispy Chicken: Wireheading is a Teleological Misnomer
Suspended Reason: From measurement to degeneration
Spilled Reality: Reference on the fly
Spilled Reality: Mutual Modeling of Futures
Crispy Chicken: Miscellaneous Musings on Language
Crispy Chicken: How Should We Describe How Language Works?
Spilled Reality: Sporting vs. Herding
Charts on Charts: Learning From All Directions
Crispy Chicken: My Struggle with Literalism
Natural Hazard: Gödel's Legacy: A game without end
Suspended Reason: Institutional Myth in Contemporary Art
Forum
Decks
Intro to Strategic Interactionism
Rescussitating the love-child of Schelling and Goffman.
The Efficient Transaction Hypothesis
Forget fungible value: if someone makes a trade, assume it's efficient.
The Reality-Games-Narratives-Morality Approach
Fictional games sitting atop non-fictional games.
Arguing Definitions As Arguing Decisions
If observable properties, then behavioral consequences.
All the things formal systems can't do and whether they matter.