if the person isn’t the primitive, what is?

if the person isn’t the primitive, what is?

couple months back, PL friend was like:

obsidian’s primitive is the markdown page; remnote’s is the bullet point

& i hadn’t really heard this term, ‘primitive’, used in this way before.

apparently it’s referring to the ‘fundamental object’.

i think a lot of people around me perceive people as primitives. atoms that inflict their will on the world in various ways that [re-]combine.

but — recent thought:

perhaps it helps not to think about inflicting your will on the world but to think about helping the world elicit from you as well as possible?

i notice what diff ppl / contexts / envs elicit from me.¹

‘elicitation’ is a gorgeous concept.² i spent a couple of months working on elicitation protocols. how to chart all that is contained within an object?

model as a process that acts on inputs?

anyway, i see people largely as substrates that ideas / broader forces pass & act through. i perceive those broader forces as the primitives.

i might chose to {host, shelter, sponsor} a {concept, agenda, idea, paradigm, confusion} the same way i might host a webpage.

this, but all of us, all the time

and we can perceive a human / agent / model in terms of which broader primitives they’re capable of expressing / most disposed to express.

misc.

• what is the least whack-a-mole-coded work in AIS rn?

• the hardest is ‘getting into things’ —

  • so you want on-ramps peppered throughout your week. this eve’s far.labs mixer got me back into technical / intellectual mode.

1. shoutout fernando s this eve for eliciting a fairly lucid philosopher. shoutout coworking earlier this month for eliciting blog posts.

2. i remember ELK & how foreign these terms felt in my mouth: ‘eliciting’, ‘latent’. now they are native.