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AnarchismConsensus DemocracyMy Political BeliefsAnarchism
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IndividualismLocal CommunitiesRepresentative DemocracyReferenced by:
IndividualismLocal CommunitiesMy Political BeliefsRepresentative DemocracyTechnocracy23 words, ~0 minute read.
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CommuneMy Personal WebsiteThe Small WebReferenced by:
CommuneThe Small WebChromatic Lattice
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Federated IdentityOrchardWebringsWeirdConsensus Democracy
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AnarchismGerrymanderingMy Political BeliefsDecentralized
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ChronologicalCommuneGarden-RSSNetwork of KnowledgeOrchardThe Cozy WebThe Small WebThis Knowledge Hub40 words, ~0 minute read.
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@@ -54,6 +57,8 @@ If you want a private network, say for a school or job, you could setup a relay
Servers would give clients ways to subscribe to subsets of all received messages - e.g. all messages, all messages from a specific user, any replies to messages from a specific user, or "shallow" subscriptions to a message, meaning it'll send you only 1 level of replies to that message.
+With a decentralized identity and the ability to switch servers seamlessly whenever you want, many of the benefits of self hosting a server are granted to everyone. This means there'll likely be fewer servers than the current fediverse has. There'll likely be enough to ensure redundancy, but beyond that I'd really only expect a couple large servers, similar to how bluesky intends AtProto to have, and perhaps smaller instances by institutions that want to provide storage for the people within that institution. Fortunately, it also means the disadvantages of only having 1 or a small number of servers also go away. We only need enough instances for redundancy, but beyond that we don't need to worry about being locked into a server or your server having rules you disagree with or anything. You'll always have your data, and can just send it to another server whenever you'd like. These fewer but larger servers will be useful for discoverability with less traffic between all the servers.
+
## Content
The protocol should be fairly content agnostic, and allow arbitrary metadata on messages that can be used by the community to come up with their own new forms of content to transmit over the protocol. For example, perhaps there's a body field that could include arbitrary text _or_ binary data, and for binary data another field could clarify if its audio, video, an image, or something else.
@@ -72,6 +77,10 @@ Anyone can send edit and delete requests as replies to messages, but they'll typ
Anyone can spin up their own bots that just automatically send out delete requests based on custom logic, like checking for images that match the CSAM hash list, or messages that ChatGPT says are non-constructive. Through this, the ecosystem will over time allow people to further customize their experience by filtering out unwanted content more and more precisely.
+As an alternative or complementary solution, identities could have a system by which they vouch for or against other identities, and clients could use this network of vouches to filter posts to display or retrieve. For example, a user may say they only want to see posts made by identities within a chain of 10 vouches to themselves. Upon account creation, users could be prompted to vouch for IRL friends or some popular figures within topics they care about to get started. In theory the longer the chain can be, the more varied the content a user will see, and the more likely for it to be something they disagree with. This would allow users to customize how narrow their feed is at a given time by just changing the max chain length. They can also continue vouching for more people to more precisely expand their feed. This would essentially be an alternative to how current fediverse applications block entire instances as a heuristic, so they can get rid of undesirable content while minimizing how much of it they need to see before doing so. Except in this model, you can always reach people regardless of what server they decided to use, and the controls of in the hands of the individual.
+
+Clients could include tools to analyze their network of vouches, such as displaying all the identities within certain max lengths, or viewing what chain was followed for a specific post to have been displayed. Clients could also add additional tools to customize the chain, like being able to ignore a specific user's vouches or reposts/reblogs. They could allow specific entities, such as one representing a reddit-like community, to display all replies rather than use the network of trust, and offer controls like only counting likes from within the network when sorting the replies. They could also allow for overriding the max chain length for different contexts, such as when used for counting likes.
+
## Success
I believe the main benefits of this new fediverse are mostly going to apply to the techy power users who will appreciate the increased control over their identity and browsing experience. As far as the general public goes, I think the main benefit will be verified authorship and guaranteeing lack of tampering. Specifically, I think this will appeal to notable figures who have to be wary of concerns like that. Reddit and Twitter could edit your content or stifle it in the algorithm, or any other sort of malicious actions. So I think success of this platform will mostly come from seeing notable figures switching to it, and treating is as the source of truth (even if they cross post it to other platforms for increased outreach). Ideally, they even host their messages on their own website.
@@ -98,6 +107,9 @@ Here's some initial ideas for components I currently plan on proposing and perha
- **Editors**: Describes a list of identities who have the power to edit this message, or accept edit requests to this message.
- **Deleters**: Describes a list of identities who have the power to delete this message, or accept deletion requests to this message.
- **No Discovery**: Marks that this message should not be included in any global feeds or search results. Servers should only send it to servers and clients that subscribe to messages like this one.
+- **Timestamp Requested**: Marks that this message would like to receive a response from a trusted server (optionally defined in the component data) once it is delivered. May also include a schema ID that represents what the timestamp represents. Defaults to referring to the published date.
+- **Calendar Event**: Describes a calendar event.
+- **RSVP**: Marks that you [are, might be, or aren't] participating in whatever a linked entity is describing.
### Chatting
@@ -111,10 +123,40 @@ Here are some of the components that could be used to represent a chat room:
The agentic fediverse could support sharing games using a Game component that includes a url or raw html required to play a game. In theory they could even support "cloud saves" by signing a message of their save data that only they can decrypt and sending it as a reply to the game message. Clients could handle displaying the game alongside the usual filtering and sorting features.
+I'd also be excited in seeing a sort of MMO style game on the agentic fediverse. So you see other players and there's a shared game state, calculated on the client based on the actions recorded by the various different players. And since the rules would have to be defined by the components, people could create their own copies of the world (e.g. to play with a friend group or solo), or even make their own mods of the game. I'd like to look into that. I'll perhaps rethink [Chromatic Lattice](/garden/chromatic-lattice/index.md) to work on such a framework, although it may be too complicated for this idea.
+
+Having the game state be calculatable by the client like that would also allow trophies and achievements to work verifiably. People could probably still write software to copy someone else's events at the right times and effectively replicate their save, but I think that won't happen commonly enough to matter.
+
+### Permissions
+
+Instead of having various different licenses like CC0, MIT, etc., just make each permission discrete. For example, you can have a DoNotTrainOn component that marks that using an entity for training AI models is not allowed.
+
+This is different from the willow permissions system which determines who can read or write to specific entities/paths. This is for telling someone who has read access to your post what they're allowed to use it for.
+
+There should be a component that makes permissions explicit rather than implicit. E.g. assume you don't have the right to do anything unless explicitly stated.
+
## Local identity and contact management
If I have multiple apps that use the agentic fediverse (e.g. one for reddit like content, one for Twitter, discord, Google drive, etc.), I'd like to easily have them all use the same identity(s), as well as a shared contact list (so I know the person I saw do something on one app is the same as the person that did something on another app).
To that end, there should be an app/program that manages your identities and contacts on that device. It sets up your initial identity, any cloud backups, etc., and the other apps talk to it as needed. That could be sending it individual messages to sign or asking for a key that can be used to do limited functionality.
-Contacts could be signed such that they're only readable by us, and then sent over the network so I can have multiple devices that keep their contact list synced between them
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+Contacts could be signed such that they're only readable by us, and then sent over the network so I can have multiple devices that keep their contact list synced between them
+
+An identity management app could also work as a link handler for the `leaf` protocol. It could take a schema ID as another path component, which then describes the purpose of the URI and the expected remaining data in the URI. The identity management app can then pass the message along to any app that has specified it knows how to handle that schema.
+
+## Sustainability
+
+Servers are expensive, especially as they get popular. Most current fediverse instances are free and funded by donations. Things like ads or paying for an account are difficult to do due to the nature of federation. This is a pretty major problem because if a server becomes too expensive to host, it will shut down, along with all the accounts associated with it. Fedi v2 makes individual servers going down not be an issue anymore, since identities aren't attached to them. However, it's an issue if _all_ the instances go down, and if there's no way to pay for them still, why would _any_ instance stay up?
+
+Since instance nodes do not have to do filtering, sorting, or really any other processing, but rather just serving the events and sending out notifications to clients, the cost will be cheaper than the current fediverse. It's really just a file server, which is cheap. For example, idrive charges $40 per tb per year, which is enough for a LOT of content. So I expect some instance nodes to have fairly generous free tiers that will suffice for a lot of users. Idrive also doesn't have egress charges, so the cost only scales with how much content is being published, not downloaded.
+
+For power users, instance nodes could accept payments to store data above the free quota. This would likely most often happen for people wishing to upload high resolution images or videos. A user could also switch nodes after filling a quota on one node - you don't have to delete your content on the old instance. You could also do this to backup your content on multiple nodes (although you should also keep a local copy of all your content).
+
+I assume this aspect of Fedi v2 will be the most controversial - people really like free services, and are expecting it. Knowing they might eventually need to pay to post more will perhaps require a cultural shift. I think it's worth it to not have ads or tracking, and in general we should be supporting sustainable services.
+
+## What about Incremental Social?
+
+I think Incremental Social can operate similarly to weird.one, hosting an iroh node and storing events for the agentic fediverse for users of the site. We'll generate and manage a keypair for the user, with the possibility of the user migrating their identity.
+
+I suspect the way the identity management app will work to support sites like weird.one and incremental.social is by passing the request for a delegate key to incremental.social, which will then show the consent screen before passing the key back to the app which sends it to the actual fediverse app.
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It's [Open Source](/garden/open-source/index.md)!
-The [TV Tropes](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/TheGameDevTree) page on this game mentions some of the cool things about this game
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+The [TV Tropes](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/TheGameDevTree) page on this game mentions some of the cool things about this game
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+
+Gerrymandering, or the deliberate outlining of voting districts in order to consolidate or spread out voters who you expect to vote similarly to each other, is typically portrayed as an unambiguously unfair thing to do. And I (typically) agree! But there are some interesting caveats that illustrate how illusory our concept of fairness really is, that demonstrate it is in fact a [Social Construct](/garden/social-constructs/index.md). For example, Louisiana's most recent redistricting (in 2024) stirred up controversy for a new district, district 6, being drawn with very weird borders, specifically to ensure it has a majority of black voters who were previously more spread out across the districts. This is classic gerrymandering that makes it so that voting bloc determines the result of that district and the one already existing majority black district, but has nominal impact on any of the other 4 districts. But this process is actually being argued to be more fair to black voters, because previous congressional maps, despite appearing more fair, were not very proportional to race by only having 1 majority black district versus 5 majority white districts. This is the racial composition of Louisiana based on census data from 2017 to 2021, and the new congressional map highlighting the 2 districts that are majority black:
+
+
+Source: [Neilsberg](https://www.neilsberg.com/insights/topic/louisiana-population/)
+
+
+Source: [Democracy Docket](https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/new-louisiana-congressional-map-with-two-majority-black-districts-heads-to-governor/)
+
+Having 2 districts means black voters are represented by 1/3 of the districts, which is remarkably proportional, considering they make up 32% of the population. In this way, the gerrymandering is being employed to make the district representation more proportional by race, which groups like the NAACP argue makes them more fair. I agree with their assessment and think this will make Louisiana much more fair, and that's awesome. Naturally, it is being sued for its obvious gerrymandering however, with arguments that it is making the election less fair, under the definition that gerrymandering is intrinsically unfair.
+
+Both sides of the argument are dealing with conflicting definitions of fairness. Determining it based on how close to square each district ends up is just as arbitrary as making them proportional by race. They could have been proportional by age or party or hobby. And in any case, 6 representatives means the proportions are going to be very crude proportions in anyways - the racial composition showed no other races reached the ~1/6 of a population required to be given a single representative, so is it "fair" that they don't get any representative of their own? And is it even fair to be treating racial demographics as a monolithic voting blocs in the first place? Sure those two districts are gerrymandered to be majority black, but what if they're also all the black voters that voted a specific way, and the ones who voted another way are the ones still spread out across the majority white districts?
+
+These are not new insights, and [in](https://www.npr.org/2023/11/18/1194448925/congress-proportional-representation-explainer) [fact](https://www.democracydocket.com/analysis/proportional-representation-reimagining-american-elections-to-combat-gerrymandering/) [many](https://protectdemocracy.org/work/proportional-representation-competitiveness/) [argue](https://fairvote.org/archives/how-proportional-representation-would-finally-solve-our-redistricting-and-gerrymandering-problems/) [that](https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/proportional-representation-can-reduce-impact-gerrymandering) congressional districts should just use proportional representation directly, which would allow for larger districts with multiple representatives based on votes (such as a ranked choice vote, where you keep picking the most voted person, redistribute their votes to their next pick, and continue until all representatives picked), regardless of demographics or how anyone decided to draw up lines on a map... Except even then, what if the larger districts are still gerrymandered? What if the state itself is gerrymandered? Louisiana being composed of 32% black voters is "packed" considering the US as a whole only has a 12% black population. And unless we increase the number of representatives, there's likely still going to be demographics and political dispositions that lack even a single representative. But maybe some would argue below that 1 representative threshold, those demographics and political views aren't significant enough to warrant a material impact on how the area is run?
+
+I've been mentioning race a lot here, but I think it's important to understand why that demographic specifically is considered so important to account for here. America is and has been a racist country for a long time, with many issues present in the system itself, and therefore our social constructs as well. Black people have been regularly under-represented in our government and suffered greatly for it. I've been making the case that proportionality by race is a reasonable metric for fairness, but to be honest there's quite a strong case that, due to historical oppression, black people may deserve to be _over-represented_ in order to help them regain equal footing in our society. To help correct the racist parts very much still present in our laws and processes, which may be hard to do if a minority of our representatives are chosen by black people. This adds a whole new facet to our discussion on fairness that I'm only briefly touching on here, but even proportionality may not be considered "fair", due to its ambivalence to historical context.
+
+My personal stance on what would be most fair is actually that representation is intrinsically an inaccurate abstraction of the people's political will. I think the closer we get to having individuals voting directly on the issues the better (see [Direct Democracy](/garden/direct-democracy/index.md) ), and beyond that I'd ideally prefer a system where policies are workshopped and ideated upon until they can achieve a near unanimous vote before being implemented (see [Consensus Democracy](/garden/consensus-democracy/index.md) ). But hopefully all of this goes to show how complex fairness is, and how there is no "objectively" definition of fairness. Therefore, arguments should not center on appeals to "fairness" like its some objective or authoritative measure. You must be able to justify why your policy improves things in material. And to clarify, I _do_ support the new congressional map that makes two majority black voting districts - I'm all for harm reduction, and that map is the _least_ we can do in trying to make the system more fair, by most reasonable definitions of fairness.
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Digital GardensIncremental SocialKronosMy Personal WebsiteSocial MediaReferenced by:
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Incremental SocialKronos/nowOrchardSocial ConstructsSocial Media2272 words, ~12 minute read.
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Incremental SocialKronos/nowOrchardSocial ConstructsSocial MediaIncremental Social
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My ProjectsProfectusMy Browser Stack
+447 words, ~2 minute read.
+
+
+This is the list of tools I use for browsing the internet in a safe way that ensures it's a pleasant experience.
+
+## Browser
+
+I've used a lot of browsers over time, and currently use [Zen](https://zen-browser.app/) because of it's modern look. At this point I really just recommend any fork of Firefox (such as Zen). Mozilla has seen its fair share of controversy, but nowhere near the amount Google has, and it's worth using a Firefox based browser in order to fight the chrome monopoly.
+
+Other great Firefox forks to look at are [librewolf](https://librewolf.net/) and [waterfox](https://www.waterfox.net/), which are privacy centric and lightweight and run faster than stock firefox.
+
+## Extensions
+
+A classic recommendation you've probably already heard, [uBlock Origin](https://ublockorigin.com/) is a requirement for browsing the internet. Ads spy on you and significantly degrade your browsing experience, and this extension fixes that. Gorhill, it's creator, deserves so much appreciation for the service they've done to the entire world.
+
+### Youtube
+
+If you browse YouTube in your browser, you might be interested in these extensions as well:
+
+[Sponsorblock](https://sponsor.ajay.app/) uses crowd sourced information on YouTube videos to automatically skip past parts you don't care about, like sponsor reads or calls to like or subscribe.
+
+[DeArrow](https://dearrow.ajay.app/) uses crowd sourced information on YouTube videos to replace the original titles with more descriptive ones (to avoid click bait). It'll also replace thumbnails with random frames from the video itself. Note this extension asks for a $1 donation or to request free access, which can take a few hours (but you can "trial" the extension in the meantime).
+
+## Search
+
+With the advent of AI generated content, it has become much more difficult to search the web. Here's some techniques to find useful, original, human made resources.
+
+If you'd like to clean up your mainstream search engine results(Google, DuckDuckGo, or Bing), you can use the [Huge AI Blocklist](https://github.com/laylavish/uBlockOrigin-HUGE-AI-Blocklist). The list works with uBlock Origin, but they recommend using [uBlacklist](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublacklist/), an extension specifically for blocking certain Google search results.
+
+If you're willing to pay, [Kagi](https://kagi.com/welcome) is a premium search engine you may be interested in. Being a paid service, it doesn't rely on ads or tracking to make a profit, and has a great reputation for high quality results and additional features free search engines don't have like personalized rankings for domains.
+
+There is also an independent search engine called [Marginalia](https://search.marginalia.nu/) that designed to show you non commercialized sites that are typically smaller and independent, which acts as a great filter to only see human made resources.
+
+Finally, if your goal is just privacy, the extension mentioned in the following section will help redirect you to alternative search engines as well.
+
+## Privacy respecting front ends
+
+There are many projects out there that offer sites you can go to that interface with popular but not privacy respecting websites like YouTube or Twitter. This is personally a bit overkill for me, but I've considered using them in the past. Rather than looking up each alternative directly and finding a working instance, I recommend just using a regularly maintained extension that automatically redirects you from the popular site to a working instance of the alternative frontend, like [Privacy Redirect](https://github.com/SimonBrazell/privacy-redirect).
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+title: "My Political Beliefs"
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+My Political Beliefs
+228 words, ~1 minute read.
+
+
+Referenced by:
My Political JourneyPolitical QuizzesMy Political Journey
+714 words, ~4 minute read.
+
+
+Referenced by:
Political QuizzesReferenced by:
Guide to Incrementals/What is Content?Tagged by:
Advent IncrementalBabble BudsCapture the CitadelDice ArmorGame Dev TreeIncremental SocialKronosOpti-SpeechPlanar PioneersProfectusV-ecsTagged by:
Advent IncrementalBabble BudsCapture the CitadelDice ArmorGame Dev TreeIncremental SocialKronosOpti-SpeechOrchardPlanar PioneersProfectusV-ecs133 words, ~1 minute read.
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AnarchismLocal CommunitiesTechnocracyNetwork of Knowledge
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+
+Referenced by:
/nowOrchardObjectivity
+629 words, ~3 minute read.
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+Referenced by:
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+
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+
+
+I think personality is best explained with a combination of Social Identity Theory and Self Categorization Theory
+- Social Identity Theory
+ - Posits that significant amount of our personality is derived from our membership in various social groups
+ - People categorize themselves and others into groups based on nationality, gender, profession, interests, etc.
+ - The groups one feels they most identity with end up shaping one's behaviors
+ - Also leads to discrimination and out-group homogeneity
+- Self Categorization Theory
+ - People act in ways that they perceive as typical for the members of the group they identify with
+ - Can lead to viewing oneself as an embodiment of the group prototype rather than a unique individual
+- I believe people adopt core identities and then subconsciously use their perception of how people with those identities as a mnemonic for how they should behave
+- [Gender Performativity](/garden/gender-performativity/index.md) maps cleanly onto these theories
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+title: "Political Quizzes"
+prev: false
+next: false
+---
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+Political Quizzes
+841 words, ~5 minute read.
+
+
+Political quizzes are a bit of a guilty pleasure of mine. I really enjoy getting my beliefs distilled into a handful of labels, and getting forced to think about issues I may not have thought about that thoroughly. I often take issue with the wording of various questions though, and certainly have opinions on some quizzes being better than others.
+
+Ultimately, the reason I consider these quizzes a _guilty_ pleasure is because the results shouldn't really be used for anything. I believe we should vote on the issues directly, and any form of [Representative Democracy](/garden/representative-democracy/index.md) is an unnecessary abstraction. The labels may be useful as a mnemonic, but not as useful as the individual answers and the justifications behind those answers. Plus, people are going to interpret the questions differently, especially when it comes to understanding terms like liberalism, freedom, or merit.
+
+With all that said, here I'll discuss some tests I've taken, the results I've gotten l, and my overall thoughts on it. I'll include the dates taken so they can map to [My Political Journey](/garden/my-political-journey/index.md).
+
+# Prism Political Quiz
+
+Made by the six triangles creator, I really like this [test](https://prismquiz.github.io)! It actually might be my favorite. It novelly gives you multiple positions to take on a given issue, rather than a statement you can agree or disagree with. I overall really liked the choices, and nearly always felt one represented my views.
+
+I like the [results](https://prismquiz.github.io/results.html?result=m0QWd0KZP&lang=en) I got on 2024-09-06. I was surprised at my government value being just "direct democracy", when the way I define my views on Government in [My Political Beliefs](/garden/my-political-beliefs/index.md) (at the time of taking the test), which I believe I reflected accurately in my responses here, would probably include at least some points on anarchism and confederationism. That said, I liked these results so much that they inspired me to write that page on my political beliefs, which takes clear inspiration from this test.
+
+
+
+# Six Triangles
+
+I was intrigued by [Six Triangles](https://sixtriangles.github.io/index.html)' idea of replacing axes with triangles, although some of the additional points seem a bit redundant, or just acted as a disguised additional axis. For example, the truth corner of personal freedom is not really related to the axis of freedom vs security. It could have easily been its own axis specific to misinformation. Similarly, I think the burden corner of equality is going to be highly correlated to their equality of opportunity score. Others, however, really benefit from the third point, like economy being split up into laissez faire capitalism, "well regulated" capitalism, and socialism.
+
+Unfortunately, I found a lot of the questions to be poorly worded or vague. For example, I disagree with the statement "The government occasionally needs to do things which aren't popular for the good of its people" because popular isn't sufficient, but in a system that requires unanimity (or near unanimity), I'd argue everything that gets passed is for the good of the people, based off the values and considerations of those specific people. That nuance doesn't carry over if I just select "disagree" though. They also have the statement "Small government is usually better than big government" without any context for what big vs small mean in this context: number of employees? Amount of nationalized services? Number of constituents? Amount of regulations? This distinction matters for getting (more) accurate results.
+
+The [results](https://sixtriangles.github.io/results.html?xzacdiqqqqfrqqlqbnwoipzx&lang=en) from taking it on 2024-09-05 were quite satisfying to go through. I particularly enjoyed being called a "Fanatic anti-imperialist". The main score I disagreed with was the government triangle; I would've preferred a higher minarchy score.
+
+
+
+
+
+# SapplyValues
+
+I took the [SapplyValues](https://sapplyvalues.github.io/) quiz on 2024-05-07:
+
+
+
+# 4Orbs
+
+I took the [4Orbs](https://theghostofinky.github.io/4orbs/index.html) quiz on 2023-07-09:
+
+
+
+# Spekr
+
+I like that this quiz gives live feedback, as it helped me introspect on the differences between my self-reported positions versus positions political quizzes assign me (for example, I usually think I'm way closer to anarchist than these tests usually put me, although funnily enough this quiz probably gave me one of the strongest anarchist score of any test I've taken). I also like that the creator is an anarchist themselves, which is likely uncommon across political quiz writers. I also felt like a lot of the questions were phrased in quite interesting ways.
+
+I took the [spekr](https://jarick.works/spekr/) quiz on 2023-05-17:
+
+
+
+# isidewith
+
+I really didn't like this quiz. I think its overly-constrained to the range of discussion considered politically viable in America, and therefore didn't ask any questions about abolishing the state or replacing corporations with worker's co-operatives. I disagree with my results here moreso than any other political quiz I've taken.
+
+I took the [isidewith](https://www.isidewith.com/political-quiz) quiz on 2023-05-03:
+
+
+
+
+
+I got quite different [results](https://secure.isidewith.com/elections/2016-presidential/1596263908) on 2016-10-30, pre-radicalization:
+
+
+
+# Political compass
+
+I took the [political compass](https://www.politicalcompass.org/test) quiz on 2023-02-19:
+
+
+
+I'd gotten similar results on 2022-06-15:
+
+
+
+# 9Axes
+
+I only took the short version, but here are my results from taking the [9Axes](https://9axes.github.io/) quiz on 2022-06-15:
+
+
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+---
+alias: "Prescriptivism, Descriptivism, Prescriptivism or Descriptivism"
+public: "true"
+slug: "prescriptivism-vs-descriptivism"
+title: "Prescriptivism vs Descriptivism"
+prev: false
+next: false
+---
+
+Prescriptivism vs Descriptivism
+256 words, ~1 minute read.
+
+
+Referenced by:
Social ConstructsProfectus
-73 words, ~0 minute read.
+27 words, ~0 minute read.
Referenced by:
Advent IncrementalPlanar PioneersTags:
My ProjectsRepresentative Democracy
-51 words, ~0 minute read.
+87 words, ~0 minute read.
-Referenced by:
AnarchismReferenced by:
AnarchismPolitical QuizzesScientific Constructivism
+271 words, ~1 minute read.
+
+
+Scientific constructivism is the philosophical idea that science is a [Social Construct](/garden/social-constructs/index.md) , in this case one created socially by scientists.
+
+In her video on [Social Constructs](https://youtu.be/koud7hgGyQ8), Philosophy Tube discusses taxonomy as an example social construct. We observe animals' natural properties and form categories along arbitrary lines, and just deal with weird edge cases like the platypus that don't neatly fit into our prescribed lines. Some criticized this argument, because modern taxonomy typically looks at lineage and nearest shared ancestors, which avoids those edge cases and is therefore seen as a more "objective" measure. But us choosing to taxonomize using that metric versus any other is still inherently arbitrary and thus a construct.
+
+This [lovely response](https://convincingreasons.wordpress.com/2021/03/25/is-science-a-social-construct-a-response-to-richard-dawkins/) to Richard Dawkins claiming science is not a social construct is a great read. It argues, amongst other points, that science is to natural properties as a map is to the physical landscape. That is, science and maps are social constructs because they are our attempts to define and understand the underlying properties. Science is a process, not objective truth. (This same argument could be applied to mathematics, where there is some underlying property we don't have a name for, but mathematics - the axioms, theorems, proofs, etc. - as a collective body is a social construct above that underlying property). Philosophy Tube describes how height, one such natural property, might be used at different layers of social constructs. We have a concept of "tallness", which is a social construct based on the underlying property "height". However there could be a society that goes an extra layer of abstraction up and has a concept of "bigs", which are the elites of this society, as determined by their exceptional tallness. We might think its silly of such a society to structure themselves in this way, and question their reasoning for having a concept of "bigs" in the first place. But so to could a society that's one layer below ours question us for having a concept of "tallness", arguing that its fine to measure height but that its silly to describe people as being tall or not. They might argue that they, by merely measuring a natural property of height, do not have a social construct. However a layer below even them might question them for choosing to measure height in the first place. Does that not inherently imbue meaning (and therefore a social definition) upon the measured number? And by that logic, any measured property, by us choosing to measure it in the first place, is some level of social construct.
+
+Science will often be affected by our own biases and come to incorrect conclusions. A classic example of this is phrenology, a racist "science" that used its supposed " [Objectivity](/garden/objectivity/index.md)" to argue for racial differences that didn't exist. You may argue that science has already built in affordances for previous research being determined incorrect, however. We have ([flawed](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1420798/)) peer reviews and regularly ([ish](https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/21504366/science-replication-crisis-peer-review-statistics)) replicate experiments and further verify various historical theories. However even the process of peer reviews, the scientific method, and conducting science at all are social constructs. Academia similarly has arbitrary restrictions, like defining statistical significance at 5% difference, that arbitrarily determine what is science and what is not (and often leads to [data dredging](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_dredging)).
+
+While looking online to see people who agree and disagree with science as a social construct, I found some interesting pages that didn't really fit in elsewhere. I found this paper, [Questioning science: how knowledge is socially constructed ](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9314650/), which has a cool sounding abstract but I haven't found the article itself, and considering how little its been cited it seems far from seminal. I also found this entertaining [forum thread](https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/how-to-counter-everything-is-a-construct-worldview.797946/) discussing social constructs and science, which became a good example of how many people believe something being a construct means its not "real", and that therefore anything real/observable must therefore not be a construct. Fortunately, there are some voices in there attempting to clarify the nature of social constructs, and the back and forth was just enjoyable to read.
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+---
+alias: "Social Construct"
+public: "true"
+slug: "social-constructs"
+title: "Social Constructs"
+prev: false
+next: false
+---
+
+Social Constructs
+1088 words, ~6 minute read.
+
+
+Referenced by:
GenderGerrymanderingObjectivityPrescriptivism vs DescriptivismScientific ConstructivismTrans athletes in sportsTechnocracy
+296 words, ~2 minute read.
+
+
+Technocracies are a form of government where technical experts make the decisions. It sounds appealing and like a solution to the "problem" of "How can [Democracy](/garden/anarchism/index.md) be good if most people are stupid?". Well I don't think that's really a problem in the first place, as it implies some sort of objective knowledge and truth, when really the best decision _is_ the one those affected by the decision most agree with. However, even under the premise that tyranny of the majority is a problem worth addressing, technocracies don't hold up under critical analysis.
+
+Who decides the criteria for technical expertise? Whatever the answer is will be introducing bias into the government, because true meritocracies are a [Neoliberal](/garden/neoliberalism/index.md) myth. Indeed, this government would likely just perpetuate people's existing material conditions, as those with power will have access to more resources, which means they'll be more likely to be able to meet the qualifications of technical expertise and thus remain in power. Conversely, those in poorer material conditions will be less likely to become technical experts, and thus have less agency to improve their material conditions.
+
+In [TikTok Vs Democracy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4F9QzXjUB10), Abigail Thorne discusses how surveillance capitalism can lead to a technocracy-flavored version of authoritarianism, and argues that even if democracy is "not a system for choosing the best leader or guaranteeing the best outcome" that it is "a system that has maximal respect for everyone's equal humanity".
+
+A similar implementation that's considered slightly more palatable is a democracy where those with more education get more votes. But this still has the same issues of who writes the criteria and perpetuating material conditions. That is, it makes the idea sound more palatable without meaningfully addressing any of the criticisms of technocracies.
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diff --git a/site/garden/the-indieweb/amplification/index.md b/site/garden/the-indieweb/amplification/index.md
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57 words, ~0 minute read.
-Referenced by:
Digital GardensIncremental SocialKronosMy Personal WebsiteSocial MediaReferenced by:
Incremental SocialKronos/nowOrchardSocial ConstructsSocial Media14 words, ~0 minute read.
-Referenced by:
Digital GardensIncremental SocialKronosMy Personal WebsiteSocial MediaReferenced by:
Incremental SocialKronos/nowOrchardSocial ConstructsSocial Media778 words, ~4 minute read.
-Referenced by:
CommuneFederated IdentityFedi v2My Personal Website/nowThe IndieWeb/Signature BlocksThis Knowledge HubWebringsWeirdReferenced by:
CommuneFederated IdentityFedi v2My Personal WebsiteThe IndieWeb/Signature BlocksThis Knowledge HubWebringsWeirdTrans athletes in sports
+288 words, ~2 minute read.
+
+
+Sports are meant to be competitions with winners and losers, which means intrinsically that one has to be better than the other. But we've determined certain advantages as "fair" ones and others as not, without fully acknowledging how fairness is just a [Social Construct](/garden/social-constructs/index.md).
+
+When Michael Phelps won gold medal after gold medal, no one complained that his naturally webbed feet were an "unfair" advantage, or put him in a separate league like we do for [Gender](/garden/gender/index.md). But when Caster Semenya, a cis woman with naturally higher levels of testosterone than other women, wanted to compete in track and field internationally she was told she'd need to take testosterone reducing medicine (until she years later [won the case](https://apnews.com/article/caster-semenya-sex-eligbility-court-ruling-0ad6f46e1357659f8cc315dde7b01faf) in Europe's human rights court, with caveats). If you have ADHD you're allowed to take performance enhancing drugs, but otherwise not. Coffee and protein could clearly be classified as performance enhancing drugs but for the fact we've socially defined PED as narrowly avoiding those substances. These are arbitrary rules that only seem fair to some people, because there is no objective fairness. So when trans athletes are attacked both when they compete with [those of their assigned gender](https://www.advocate.com/election/texas-gop-colin-allred-transgender) at birth as well as when they compete with [those of their preferred gender](https://www.texastribune.org/2021/01/30/texas-republicans-transgender-students-sports/), it's clear the motivation behind it all is not really about fairness in sports, but about making trans people go away. And yet, trans athletes tend to be an issue where even many socially leftist voices will discuss how "complicated" this issue is and even spread the idea that anti-trans policies are required in order to preserve fairness, such as The Young Turks as described in [Why I Left TYT](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6DiIQWb0DE).
+
+Being trans should not mean you are banned from competing or relegated to a division for just trans people. The argument is usually that trans individuals are either currently receiving or used to receive larger amounts of testosterone than those they'd be competing with. But the competition isn't about who has the more testosterone. Well, the argument continues, testosterone levels may be indicative of increased muscle growth. But muscle growth also isn't what the competition is about. It can be argued to indicate performance at the actual sport/activity the competition is over, but at this point isn't it too many layers of imperfect abstractions and assumptions? The person who wins is less tied to their actual ability and who happens to come out on top on each of these specific estimations.
+
+There are many advantages one might have in sports, but contrary to a true meritocracy, our arbitrary distinctions on allowed vs disallowed advantages exposes the biases of our society, which are often racist, sexist, and transphobic. Therefore, appeals to "fairness" are explicit endorsements of those biases, namely bigotry.
+
+I also support idubbbz discussing his support for trans athletes in [100 percent women](https://youtu.be/qfUsuQ8rfu4), coming from the context of a boxer who has ran boxing competitions.
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diff --git a/site/garden/weird/index.md b/site/garden/weird/index.md
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114 words, ~1 minute read.
-Referenced by:
CommuneFedi v2My Personal WebsiteThe Small WebReferenced by:
CommuneFedi v2The Small Web/now
-181 words, ~1 minute read.
+186 words, ~1 minute read.
This "now page" offers a big picture glimpse into what I’m focused on at this point in my life. [What is a now page](https://nownownow.com/about)?
-## IndieWeb
+## Digital Gardens
-I've been learning a lot about [The Small Web](/garden/the-small-web/index.md) (or the various other names it goes by). I've been working on this website and implementing the various IndieWeb building blocks
+I'm building (at least) a mockup for [Orchard](/garden/orchard/index.md), an app for message gardening into a [Network of Knowledge](/garden/network-of-knowledge/index.md).
-I'm also working on a proposal for adding [The IndieWeb/Signature Blocks](/garden/the-indieweb/signature-blocks/index.md) to your notes
-
-## Commune
-
-While I'm not contributing to the project directly, I'm following along and participating with the discussions and designs of [Commune](/garden/commune/index.md).
-
-I'm working on a mockup of what an app could look like that treats incoming messages, emails, etc. differently based on user defined rules, with a focus on moving them into personal or communal digital gardens.
+Ultimately, I think this project could have some implications on how _this_ digital garden operates, so I've decided to stop further indieweb integrations like webmentions for now. I'd like to see a server be able to bridge indieweb and agentic fediverse posts, and start using the agentic fediverse posts as my new source of truth.
## Incremental Social
I'm running and improving the social media site [Incremental Social](/garden/incremental-social/index.md), along with CardboardEmpress.
+I'd like to make it host an iroh node for hosting agentic fediverse content, managing a keypair for each account (with options for migration).
+
## Chromatic Lattice
-I'm working on a multiplayer incremental game. That's all that's known publicly for now 😜.
+I'm working on a multiplayer incremental game called [Chromatic Lattice](/garden/chromatic-lattice/index.md) . It's still largely in the concept phase, and may even be built on the [Agentic fediverse](undefined).
## Kronos
-I'm working on a long single player narratively driven incremental game. This is a very long-term project.
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+I'm working on a long single player narratively driven incremental game called [Kronos](/garden/kronos/index.md) . This is a very long-term project.
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