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I've been reading "On Green” (https://joecarlsmith.com/2024/03/21/on-green) and its following article, “On Attunement” with some interest today. I am uninterested in the ways he is focused on “AGI”, but that might actually be part of what he's saying and missing.
They talk about the philosophy of green in the "magic the gathering" sense, which has five core modes of things, and being a game, designed to balance. It's an attractive system and not without merit as a philosophical labeling system. In short: white, moral; blue, knowledge and rationality; red, passion and desire; black, power and achievement. And green. Green is the subject they can't identify clearly.
I don't think they really understand green. (They come from a very rationalist place, and that's not a good mode to understand Green)
Green is the domain of systems thinking and of ecology. It's one of flexible boundaries and hierarchies that vanish when you look at them for long. They talk about philosophical agents and try to fit a green philosophical stance into that framework, but it misses: the very idea of a self is nebulous in a green philosophy. Yes, it obviously exists, we are all separate from each other. But also we are inseparable from each other. Green is a philosophy of relationality and multiple perspectives and ever shifting viewpoints. It's not just yin, passive, permissive, but holistic. It's not that it lets the Other in, it's that it actively is in relation with the Other. The other is the self, the self is the other.
The essays also label green as conservative, and this is not quite true. It is not about being slow or regressive or traditional, but about being whole. They can't quite see that green's willingness to accept death and pain as things that happen and also its strong preservationist stance are not opposed to each other. It seems incoherent, but it's not: death and pain are things that happen to living parts of an ecosystem. They matter, but so too does the whole matter. Where so many blue rationalists see statistical and demographic counts of deaths and "sentient beings harmed”, green sees a whole ecosystem where some of that is deeply natural. It's unnatural, ecosystem-harming deaths that are disasters in the green philosophy. Wholesale extinctions. Protracted, painful deaths, as much for the wound they cause outside the individual as the individual suffering as well. But we all come to an end, and to change that wholesale would end so many kinds of relationship, so many things.
Green revels in the illegible, the incomplete, and the connected. It's easy to be green-blind, to ignore the subtle systemic effects. So many of us want simple cause and effect, rather than action and plurality of reactions.
Green's ability to embrace the illegible lets it deal with Red chaos; its resilience tempers red passion. It can ally with White philosophies into a pastoral, conservative, moralistic framework. It ends up at odds with the rationalist Blue and the power-hungry Black, because they drive disequilibrium, but more than just transition to new stable ecologies, they drive systems permanently out of stability, destroying relationships in their path. When confronted with this, they will deny it because the objects are still there. Preserved. Catalogued. Legible and accounted for. Perhaps used instrumentally. Perhaps wrecked for some "greater purpose” but only acknowledged as objects. The relationships between things remain illegible.

sometimes making a #conlang gets really philosophical really fast
I wanted to translate "how are you feeling?" into my conlang but I thought maybe I should instead translate it as "what are you feeling?" or "what are your feelings right now?"
are emotions something you do or something that happens to you or something you have?
oh boy

This morning, two paragraphs for spring.
Do you remember where I went when I went out? I don’t. Did you meet me, or did I meet you? Meeting met meeting. The day was wearing an outfit. The birds were zinging. Catch one for me you said, or did I say it to you?…
https://uses.substack.com/p/paragraphs

Dear Old Blood: Notes on a Wittgenstein Noir - complete series 🧩😶‍🌫️📖
Narrated literary hoax mystery | Total listening time: 2h 44m
The find of a noir detective story DEAR OLD BLOOD by the Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein sounds too good to be true. Academic Horace Murgatroyd thinks it’s a hoax, dreamed up by Herbert Denk to save a failing career. But who ...

Dear Old Blood: Notes on a Wittgenstein Noir - complete series 🧩😶‍🌫️📖
Narrated literary hoax mystery | Total listening time: 2h 44m The find of a noir detective story DEAR OLD BLOOD by the Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein sounds too good to be true. Academic Horace Murgatroyd thinks it’s a hoax, dreamed up by Herbert Denk to save a failing career. But who will win this war of authenticity? 1 seasons, 10 episodes as of Jan 16, 2024.

Daily Nous || Article’s Acceptance “On Hold” Following Complaints on Social Media
https://dailynous.com/2024/03/11/articles-acceptance-on-hold-following-complaints-on-social-media/

Granular Aluminum kinetic inductance nonlinearity
M. Zhdanova, I. Pologov, G. Svyatsky, V. Chichkov, N. Maleeva
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.00503 https://…

Granular Aluminum kinetic inductance nonlinearity
Granular Aluminum is a superconductor known for more than eighty years, which recently found its application in qubits, microwave detectors and compact resonators, due to its high kinetic inductance, critical magnetic field and critical current. Here we report on the nonlinear dependence of granular Aluminum inductance on current, which hints towards parametric amplification of the microwave signal in granular Aluminum films. The phase shift of the microwave signal reached 4 radians at a freque…

Des scientifiques passionnés de #Dune n’avaient pas attendu les films pour se poser la grande question: est-ce qu’une planète comme #Arrakis serait possible? Et les vers des sables, eux? Le Détecteur de rumeurs s’est penché sur leurs réponses.

Dune est-elle scientifiquement plausible? Oui et non
Des scientifiques passionnés de Dune n’avaient pas attendu les films pour se poser la grande question: est-ce qu’une planète comme Arrakis serait possible? Et les vers des sables, eux?

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.04225 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csRO_…

Feeling Optimistic? Ambiguity Attitudes for Online Decision Making
Due to the complexity of many decision making problems, tree search algorithms often have inadequate information to produce accurate transition models. Robust methods, designed to make safe decisions when faced with these uncertainties, often overlook the impact expressions of uncertainty have on how the decision is made. This work introduces the Ambiguity Attitude Graph Search (AAGS), advocating for more precise representation of ambiguities (uncertainty from a set of plausible models) in deci…

Use of Euler's theorem in the elucidation of economic concepts in goods exchange
Juan Villegas-Febres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.17244 https://<…

Use of Euler's theorem in the elucidation of economic concepts in goods exchange
Starting from a plausible assumption about the Total Revenue concept, a system of economic agents, that simulates the exchange of goods, is studied. Following a methodology equivalent to that used in the statistical-mechanical determination of the distribution of energies in a physical system, it is shown that the price of the exchanged goods arises naturally, as well as the well-known ``Law of demand". It is also shown that by using Euler's Theorem of homogeneous functions, the conditions emer…

Isochrone Fitting of Galactic Globular Clusters -- VI. High-latitude Clusters NGC5024 (M53), NGC5053, NGC5272 (M3), NGC5466, and NGC7099 (M30)
G. A. Gontcharov, S. S. Savchenko, A. A. Marchuk, C. J. Bonatto, O. S. Ryutina, M. Yu. Khovritchev, V. B. Il'in, A. V. Mosenkov, D. M. Poliakov, A. A. Smirnov
https://arxiv.org/abs/24…

Isochrone Fitting of Galactic Globular Clusters -- VI. High-latitude Clusters NGC5024 (M53), NGC5053, NGC5272 (M3), NGC5466, and NGC7099 (M30)
We fit various colour-magnitude diagrams (CMDs) of the high-latitude Galactic globular clusters NGC\,5024 (M53), NGC\,5053, NGC\,5272 (M3), NGC\,5466, and NGC\,7099 (M30) by isochrones from the Dartmouth Stellar Evolution Database and Bag of Stellar Tracks and Isochrones for $α$-enrichment [$α$/Fe]$=+0.4$. For the CMDs, we use data sets from {\it Hubble Space Telescope}, {\it Gaia}, and other sources utilizing, at least, 25 photometric filters for each cluster. We obtain the following charact…