From Good Things, To Good Things, A Guiding Glossary
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Epsilonic inquiry (n):
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The act of pursuing a seemingly intractable/impossible problem whose tangential byproducts produce measurable scientific or artistic gain. (Because there is an infinite amount, it’s a type of play that’s infinite, limited only by imagination, creativity and understanding)
Solōsis(n):
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Playgrounding
The independent re-derivation of a known truth through an isolated cognitive path.
Creating Information Holes (n):
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Using Gaps of know and unknown knowledge or data. Some theories are given by the implied data in these gaps, like if element 90 and 92 exist, implies element 91 if it makes structural sense to the metaphor it actually applied to.
Contra-Instantiation(n):
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The Deliberate attempt to instantiate a state or object that a theory declares impossible. Usually by creating information holes in anecdotal and/or empirical evidence.
Aka: Paradox Engineering
Omni-Strategy(ies)
1) Directive: The representation of the inevitable end state strategies any sufficiently intelligent or long lived agent would converge upon regardless of path taken
2) Generative: Strategies that maximize the space of possible strategies, preferences and futures without foreclosing optionality. The optimal way to reach those solutions is to preserve and expand strategic freedom along the way
3) (n) Solving a problem for someone, that gets them more of what they want, in a way that benefits the other people potentially affected by it, and the rest of the world with all its plants, animals, bugs, creatures, ecosystems, ETC. Which usually combines all 3 strategies and definition into 1 unified model to preserve and utilize the flow of perspectives and preferences.
What’s the minimum amount of information required that suggest something is true? (inspired from First Principles by Aristotle) (its uses the own observer’s biases, and assumptions against themselves)
Creating playgrounds, playground making, playground. Creating possibilities in a way that opens more doors to greater levels of play. Technically a nick name for the “ 2) Generative “ Omni-Strat. meaning.