I feel like there’s an assembly theory component as well. If ideas are assemblages of analogies linking nouns, for example.

This thought reminds me of a CoCo seminar on work that used KL divergence to measure differences in vocabularies: vimeo.com/760084001.

This might be a natural entry point to further exploration: doi.org/10.1177/0018.... The bit that made me think of your work was in How Institutions Think. It has a chapter titled "Institutions Are Founded on Analogy." I thought it might be a sort of parallel pursuit.

Have you played expedition 33 yet? People keep recommending it to me.

… and now I’m wondering if @melaniemitchell.bsky.social has seen Mary Douglas’ work on institutions and analogies.

Yes, embrace your true calling.

Would they be less prone to bias if they genuinely analogized?

“The White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, also asserted in a statement that the federal courts “have no jurisdiction” over the president’s conduct of foreign affairs or his power to expel foreign enemies.”

MSFT stuck on B-sides and pleading for mercy.

Of course we all live in our own constructed realities. They do not seem to realize this, however.

It did not occur to me they would mess with NIST and I find this revelation profoundly upsetting.

😦

I continue to feel very fortunate with my choice of graduate schools. We recently were newly considered a “public ivy” and now we demonstrate resilience to uncertainty. Definitely one of my better investments. Especially seeing that other schools are withdrawing graduate acceptances.