Notices by dschorno (dschorno@refactorcamp.org), page 3

Stephen Fry in my book just made an interesting connection between word rhymes and metaphors/similes ("rhyming concepts"). Parroting the ribbonfarm writing course a little bit, the connection seems like Schmidhuber style compressibility/interest: https://arxiv.org/abs/0812.4360. Lame rhymes and lame metaphors are just ones that don't offer new compression.

nega-walt-whitman in my mind with his rigid metrical verse would herald a swing towards more "new millennial conservative" values, giving us a new conception of fixed social roles and expectations. Kindof based on Strauss–Howe generational theory: "During The High institutions are strong and individualism is weak."

If i were to try to write an essay about the value of enforced social norms I would call it "Friends don't let friends live and let live"

TURN, O Libtard, for the war is over,
(From it and all henceforth expanding, doubting no
more, resolute, sweeping the world,)

actually has a lot to do with the conversation here the other day to do with how certain discoveries (calculus) become ready to happen

Probably new poetry attention is towards the "instapoets" and their shitty motivational quote style BS: https://thebaffler.com/latest/instapoetry-roberts

Though I think if we are in wartimes, maybe there is an opportunity for something like a nega-walt whitman: someone to make metrical verse not so shameful & signify a cultural shift back towards a new set of structured social values

It's always a shock to find out you are a statistic and being pulled along by the unseen forces of the zeitgeist.

I've been getting into reading and writing poetry more over the last year, thought I was being so original! https://www.npr.org/2018/06/08/618386432/poetry-is-making-a-big-comeback-in-the-u-s-survey-results-reveal

2036 will see our first openly furry president

@jacoblyles Hey man I hear you.

About a year and a half ago I slipped into a 3 month long bout of psychosis and said a LOT of embarrassing things on social media when I was crazy.

All the time between then and now, having gone from a six figure salary to relying on my parents, too many symptoms until a few months ago to do anything productive, has been very challenging. But I've been reluctant to reach out to people out of fear of embarrassing myself again and being too much of a whiner.

@vgr Sure! So this is for the header bar image on the front page and a thumbnail for developers. Do you want to use the logo that you already have up on the homepage and just add some sort of background graphic?

@telos hey man I was a big fan of your talk! I actually was talking about it a little bit on this channel the other day. Wish I could have made it out to see it in person

@vgr I was actually reacting to the recent Kim Petras backlash in the pop music world (though it seemed maybe too lowbrow in this particular forum to directly mention haha):

pop enthusiasts skew heavily LGBT so you'd think they'd support this openly transgender artist, but because she is working with/made a statement defending Dr. Luke (alleged abuser of Kesha), she is now persona non grata despite 3 fairly considerate apologies.

Many examples in recent times of well-crafted apologies that only win over a small portion of the offended audience, and only temporarily—the people demand blood!

@ultimape @johnhenry this page has all the talk info: https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2018/05/17/refactor-camp-cryptoeconomics-and-blockchain-weirding-summary-and-wrap-up/

the timestamp appears to be https://youtu.be/UX3Q9ozuSSw?t=1h26m56s

Blockchain verified social proof is essentially only machine readable, the widget would act as an adaptor to plug that info back in to the human visual judgement system

Idea: A widget companies can embed on their website that visually displays some (blockchain verified) social signaling proof of work (like total donations to charities or something).

In a certain sense this already exists in an analog way with certifications and awards graphics and "badges", the key difference being dynamic data updating, the addition of decentralization, and "blockchain magic".

Link it back to the org's website for that sweet sweet SEO boost

Recommendations for standout talks to watch from the recent refactor camp?

Toby Shorin's "A New Era of Trust" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7C5hRoDqEo&feature=youtu.be&t=3h29m58s) was great. Some thoughts:

• I learned on my most recent job that there is a truly amazing appetite from businesses for third-party visuals that give the appearance of credibility & external validation.

• "trust on the blockchain" was interesting but was a little handwavey—as long as humans are making the judgement calls visuals will remain dominant imo

@micostigan Everyone has bitcoin regrets! I mined 50BTC and then lost it all in a hard
drive crash

@vgr Cartmanland is actually exactly the mechanism that made me sign up btw (saw that invite on twitter and was pissed that there were no slots left)