Precise, general, novel

Three axes: precision, generality, novelty

Forms a 3D space.

Pysics: precise, general, well-known.

My engineering experience: precise, quite specific, novel.

Web3 wild speculation: vague, general, novel.

Idea — always better to move to the right. But hard.

It’s possible to be precise about generalities (good philosophy), and it’s possible to be precise about specifics (good measurement, good planning).

For example:

	Specific	General
Precise	Good measurement, solid observation, good planning	Good philosophy
Vague	Stuff that’s plain wrong.	Getting lost in abstraction

Or:

	Specific	General
Precise	Detail	Good logic, good mathematics
Vague	Stuff that’s plain wrong.	Equivocation

Which set of examples would you prefer? Why?

Easier to draw.

I often accept a small loss of precision to gain generality. Others are often happy with me when I strive to be specific.

Here’s a table:

Then I can query on stuff.

Can either be a 0-1 scale, or :low, :medium, :high

Default values (humble)

By default, “just saying stuff” does:

That means I can actually order by “good stuff” 🤔

good := correlation_map^T * article_things

Hmm.

Here are some contrasting views. Please don’t mind me shrugging in the middle.

I can make a nice little UI that works on this. Set your preference. Load preferences from others.

What is liveness? What is degree of life?

Definitions:

Wholeness is really about treating everything you do as inseparable from a context. Nothing exists in a vacuum. Alexander saw building not as creating something new, but as repairing the surrounding environment.
Life, in Alexander’s formulation, is a similar process to Schrödinger’s idea of local elimination of entropy. That is, objects that were not strictly biologically alive could still be “alive” through a form of symbiosis with entities that are biologically alive.
Living structure refers to artifacts that exhibit this kind of life. These are structures that attract people (and animals, and plants, etc.) to come and live their lives within and around them, reinforcing and enriching them. This is not unlike how an anthill is a living structure, as it is constantly being maintained and expanded. Living structure makes you want to take care of it, because it takes care of you.