Posted by
Nick Thompson on
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/a-further-tangent-tp7407608p7410425.html
This is a great idea. But ONLY if we think of it as a "remedy", not as a
"remediation". I would always argue for the minimalification of latinate
suffixes.
But it really is a great idea.
Nick
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I asked a (non-rhetorical) question:
>But you might think it is, so I ask you, do you? If not, how might it
>be remediated (practically or impractically)?
It occurred to me that maybe this is something that could be investigated
using ... AGENT BASED MODELING! (Indeed, maybe it has
been.) That is, what qualities of an asynchronous distributed network of
agents, passing messages about a changing collection of
diverse-but-usually-though-not-always-somewhat-aligned topics (or maybe more
specifically goals) are conducive to "rigorous conversation" (however that
may be modeled), which qualities are neutral to it, and which qualities are
anti-conducive to it?
Anyone up to the challenge of investigating a toy example?
(Alternatively, anyone know where in the literature the whole thing has been
done, or shown to be undoable?)
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