Sunday, February 29, 2004
The number one reason that I have yet not built a superweapon that would let me conquer the world is the fact that instead of having any kind of ready-made parts to assemble into the tool of ultimate destruction (or ultimate construction, as the case may be) I have to pick up stray objects and fashion them into parts.
They don’t fit together very well and fall apart at every opportunity. And I don’t have the right tools.
And I’ve no idea what to do when it actually fires and blows up in my hands.
What’s more annoying is that I have so little to stand on. All I have is a few ideas on sociometric network analysis and the concept of archetypal social structures, and lots of absurd, unclear evidence backed up mostly by conversation logs and intuition. This has been suggested before. But I don’t think anything as insane as what I stumble onto every other month has ever been described in mythology. You’re welcome to beat me up with a copy of Popper’s book if you prove me wrong. You can even use Berne’s books.
Seven basic plots in life and nine in literature? I think we’re walking around a 10th.
Today’s million dollar question is: Just how quickly does life begin to imitate art? Is it possible for life to start imitating art before the object of art is complete and public? And are we sure we don’t have someone specific to blame for this?
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Realistic women do not exist.
By this I mean that instead of acting logically or following their emotions, they follow story patterns that direct their emotions. Which patterns are learned through socialisation, and direct what a woman should be like. Since men are more concerned with the practical solutions due to the same gender role profiles, they are less affected by this effect, at least until they get caught in a woman’s story pattern, in which they just as eagerly act out a predictable scenario.
Today’s million dollar questions are:
- “There’s only seven basic plots in life and nine in literature.” That’s a joke. However, it’s certain that the number of the basic scenarios is limited and the possible mutations are also finite in number. Can a definite library of such scenarios be built?
- Is there a way to automate the process of searching through this library through content-analysis of conversations?
- Will that knowledge, if obtained, turn into power, or it will become just one more disillusionment device showing how really futile any efforts are?
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Thursday, October 2, 2003
There is magic in the air
There is power… isn’t there?
Something close which I can’t see.
Which is me and is not me…
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Wednesday, August 28, 2002
Chobits мне как-то не очень нравится. Терпеть не могу таких протагонистов — сверхэмоциональных, несдержанных оболтусов, которые отмачивают не менее трех бессмыслиц за серию. Таких бессмыслиц из-за которых вся улица оборачивается и начинает бочком пробираться к выходу. По телевизору я бы это смотреть не смог… Но тематика все-таки родная донельзя.
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Все описанные в фантастической литературе приборы для манипуляции пространством отличаются некоторыми характерными свойствами. Как бы они ни были сложны, сколько деталей бы им ни было нужно, все они содержат некий “волшебный элемент”. Continue reading ›
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Большую часть ночи, вместо того чтобы спать как положено нормальным людям, я размышлял над поиском правильного соционического типа одной дамы, с которой более не вожусь. В порядке работы над ошибками. Она не типировалась с завиднейшим упорством. Continue reading ›
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