Ying Liang Zhang·Oct 6Reading Carse’s Finite and Infinite Games: Why Migration Management Looks Like a Finite GameI recently read James Carse’s Finite and Infinite Games. A finite game is like a race: the rules are fixed, the players are labelled by…
Nick Williams·Aug 2Notes from the Grey WorldWe all get drawn into the Grey World, one way or another. We can’t help it — there is a current that inexorably pulls us in, in such a way…
Nick Williams·May 7Life In The Formal Realm Isn’t LifeIn the Formal World there is no such thing as free will — obviously there can’t be or else there be nothing ‘formal’ about it. Formal means…A response icon1A response icon1
Nick Williams·Feb 13Obeying The RulesIn the Equilibrium Realm reality is always exactly what the External Authority says it is. That’s the very definition of reality when we’re…
Nick Williams·Dec 10, 2025Psychological Bootstrapping [Part 2]A very basic — the most basic — form of psychological bootstrapping is where we do a thing and then say that we didn’t do it, that it was…
Nick Williams·Nov 9, 2025Defending Ourselves Against The Vastness Of RealityA closed world is a world that has a tight lid on it — the qualification here being that we don’t know that there is a lid. We never see…
Nick Williams·Sep 28, 2025The Magisterial VoiceCommunication requires that there be no hierarchy — it requires that everyone involved be on the very same level (or rather, we could say…
Nick Williams·Sep 5, 2025Face To Face With The Mincing MachineA ‘game’ is a state of conflict — an ongoing state of conflict. The point of the game is therefore to bring this state of conflict to a…
Nick Williams·Jul 13, 2025Giving Up Our TrickinessImage credit — ‘Midjourney Prompt: Anansi the Spider steals wisdom’. Taken from medium.com/@gioparks808/5
Nick Williams·Jul 10, 2025The Inviolate TemplateIt’s impossible to be in Rational / Purposeful Mode and yet at the same time ‘be in reality’. That just can’t be done. When we think about…
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