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@jalexandercohen.comSep 8, 2026, 7:10 PM

12) With the meta transform kludge, we can apply rigorous prims to non-rigorous domains. At least I hope so.

Thoughts?

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@jalexandercohen.comSep 8, 2026, 6:52 PM

5) Conclusion: problem-solving requires a meta transform upwards. You can't drive to successful task completion with a functional blind spot.

Thoughts?

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@jalexandercohen.comSep 7, 2026, 1:53 AM

8) Anyone else working on this type of #metacognition tinkering? Would love a koffeeklatsch.

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@jalexandercohen.comSep 6, 2026, 5:04 PM

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@jalexandercohen.comSep 6, 2026, 7:09 AM

A lot of cross-domain and hypothetical leaps and TBA and TBD. I'll leave it here for now.

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@jalexandercohen.comSep 6, 2026, 6:33 AM

7) It gives me strength to contemplate it. Even if it cannot work. Yet. I still believe we can get there from here.

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@jalexandercohen.comSep 6, 2026, 6:33 AM

2) Am I missing other internal, external, or endogenous points of friction that can be looked at?

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@jalexandercohen.comSep 6, 2026, 6:02 AM

3) More design details, specs and tech dives later (RAH helped, along with Texas Instruments; my friend David R. knows what I'm talking about).

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@jalexandercohen.comSep 6, 2026, 5:46 AM

8) I hope you join us, at least in spirit.

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@jalexandercohen.comSep 6, 2026, 5:11 AM

More on heists TBA, but it's 'stealing ideas from the future by kludging necessary conditions' and 'stealing ideas from unrelated domains with new tricks.'

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@jalexandercohen.comSep 6, 2026, 4:40 AM

8) #PersonalReferent 1990s EfNet IRC #bearcave and how it maintained and built a defensive community against bad actors.

IRC story and generalized lessons TBD.

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@jalexandercohen.comSep 6, 2026, 2:29 AM

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#beardedvillains #J'sBizarreAdventure #masculinity #StandByYourTheory @beardedvillains

@jalexandercohen.comSep 6, 2026, 1:35 AM

Your baseline human right:

YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO LIVE WITHOUT SYSTEMIC DREAD.

The existence of an org implies an impermeable boundary around its humans. An org can can support no dread. By design.

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@jalexandercohen.comSep 6, 2026, 1:22 AM

Again, enshittification or it just happened that way?

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@jalexandercohen.comSep 6, 2026, 1:10 AM

2) To have someone speak up and if necessary advocate on your behalf, impartially, like public counsel.

Above all: to eliminate dread of the org. I'll come back to this.

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@jalexandercohen.comSep 6, 2026, 1:03 AM

Want to help me find the lights?

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@jalexandercohen.comSep 6, 2026, 12:26 AM

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@jalexandercohen.comSep 6, 2026, 12:26 AM

Vital design lessons from Heinlein's gentle consumerist satire of the 1950s corporate treadmill, with an unfortunately jaw-droppingly strange resolution in the romance subplot.

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@jalexandercohen.comSep 5, 2026, 11:17 PM

9) In conclusion:

We don't need permission from anyone to clone a good org process and give it away to people to use freely.

First one in, turn on the lights.

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@jalexandercohen.comSep 5, 2026, 10:47 PM

#caregivingdesignprinciples

Do not work on a human's task without knowing the current state of their assent.

Lack of assent is an immediate, unrecoverable task failure.

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