Excellent new Drexler post: when complex, true ideas spread through society, they undergo a simplification process to make them easier to understand and share; but this often strips away the conditions/qualifiers that made the idea true in the first place. https://t.co/27PHLmJmfZ https://t.co/dr1G7Kgyrb

Here are 13 things that every skilled chaos-surfer understands:

1. How something appears to you may not be how it is.


2. What is said or shown may not be all there is.


3. What is true for me may not be true for you.


4. The same words may mean different things to different people.


5. What people say may not be what they mean. Because comms is lossy and language is

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