targeted clotting

Our bodies generally do a pretty good job of sending molecules (like blood thickeners) where they are needed (like the site of a wound) and not where they aren't needed (like in our brain).  Our body's circulatory system for molecules is like society's electronic ideastream.

For sustainable use of either molecules or ideas, explicit awareness of the multi-layer structure of our communities as well as the scope of a given communication is crucial. 

Like chemical concentration differences from point to point in our bodies, gradients in social access to information are necessary.  Intelligent packaging of communications is also important, so that the damage due to occasional spills is minimal.  For example confusing countries & corporations with individuals is just as irresponsible, whether you do it as a reporter or as a supreme court justice.

Thus we're all responsible for what we say, what we repeat, and what we listen to.  Let's set some better examples downstream...

pros & cons

Theorem: 

Moving toward the negative of anything embedded in a higher-dimensional space reduces the orthogonality (and hence dimensionality) of your path with respect to the postive of that same thing.

Corollary:

X and anti-X are in cahoots, even when they don't act like it.

baseball & innovation

"Baseball professionals" might be seen as folks who love the game (in whatever field), and who may aspire to the discipline's hall of fame. 

That said, experts in the game are often the last to see opportunities to adapt to new information and developments. 

Can you think of any examples of this?

technical question

More generally, what sub-system correlations have you been buffering of late?

layered self-concepts

The cells of animals and plants in practice each maintain their own microbe, tissue & organism selves just as each of us maintain our own organism, family & culture selves.

One difference, of course, is that we each have unique organism, family & culture self-concepts that we can talk about to help us buffer correlations which look inward and outward from the boundaries of our self, our family & our culture.

What fraction of your time are you able to spend looking inward & outward from each?

Bayesian inference

Modern approaches to making decisions about concepts, models and parameters based on partial information require that you make the underlying assumptions explicit. This is key, for example, to understanding where the ideal gas law, equipartition, and mass-action work well, and to figuring out what to do when they don't.

It might help folks put political broadcast and pedagogical strategies to better use as well.  What kind of entries would you put into a table which outlines important assumptions that folks make everyday, as well as where those assumptions do and don't apply?

A sample table of this sort follows, to perhaps inspire your ideas:

Bayesian inference in political media

Concept	Assumption	Application Area
focus bandwidth on who's boss	leader choice solves problems	social hierarchy is a key for only select vertebrates
dollars spent is value lost	financial value is conserved	the household scale but not the national scale
treat unbelievers as inhuman	idea-pools always serve humans	may help only if unbelievers are few & can't hear
vote makes right	consensus is well-informed	only w/both incentives & time to update awareness
you're measured by your finances	all means to money are of value	this works in worlds w/o ways to prey on communities

e-culture possibilities

Authentication-accessed archival joint-editing space may allow families, schools, and cities to craft digital-space content useful for future as well as for current generations.

This is important because there is a key role (if our planet is to sustain a large sentient population) for parallel competition between individuals, between gene pools, and between idea pools.

For example, to families an archival wiki cloud-database might be a place for:

• family stories,
• genealogy information,
• recipes,
• operating protocols,
• links e.g. to other resources of interest to family members,
• and what else?

Resources (and developing business models) able over the long haul to host and manage access to such collaboration spaces may be possible to develop with existing technology (like cell phones) already available across much of the planet.