http://enthusiasm.cozy.org/archives/2005/02/an-example-of-boundry-formation Ben Hyde Sat, 11 Feb 2012 22:55:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://enthusiasm.cozy.org/archives/2005/02/an-example-of-boundry-formation/comment-page-1#comment-2565 Ascription is an Anathema to any Enthusiasm › Community Stress Metrics Fri, 11 Sep 2009 11:42:57 +0000 http://enthusiasm.cozy.org/archives/2005/02/an-example-of-boundry-formation/#comment-2565 [...] seeking to increase the level of discontent, i.e. violence entrepreneurs, can talk up all these to create an impression of pending failure.  For example talk up fear of [...] [...] seeking to increase the level of discontent, i.e. violence entrepreneurs, can talk up all these to create an impression of pending failure.  For example talk up fear of [...]

]]> http://enthusiasm.cozy.org/archives/2005/02/an-example-of-boundry-formation/comment-page-1#comment-424 Ben Hyde: The Offensive of Tagging | Server software Tue, 26 Jun 2007 18:03:19 +0000 http://enthusiasm.cozy.org/archives/2005/02/an-example-of-boundry-formation/#comment-424 [...] One extreme case makes the problem acute, i.e. when the polarization is being engineered on the boundary. When two groups are in dispute, when the rights of the group members are in play, when states are at war, etc. These cases are not rare, both because you can get two groups into opposition at any scale (marketing v.s. sales, offense v.s. defensive squad, freshman v.s. sophmores, etc. etc.) but also because there are numerous benefits that agents in these games can harvest from playing with these boundaries (hightened common cause, humor, separation of concerns, etc.). [...] [...] One extreme case makes the problem acute, i.e. when the polarization is being engineered on the boundary. When two groups are in dispute, when the rights of the group members are in play, when states are at war, etc. These cases are not rare, both because you can get two groups into opposition at any scale (marketing v.s. sales, offense v.s. defensive squad, freshman v.s. sophmores, etc. etc.) but also because there are numerous benefits that agents in these games can harvest from playing with these boundaries (hightened common cause, humor, separation of concerns, etc.). [...]

]]> http://enthusiasm.cozy.org/archives/2005/02/an-example-of-boundry-formation/comment-page-1#comment-423 Ascription is an Anathema to any Enthusiasm » Blog Archive » The Offensive of Tagging Tue, 26 Jun 2007 15:14:11 +0000 http://enthusiasm.cozy.org/archives/2005/02/an-example-of-boundry-formation/#comment-423 [...] One extreme case makes the problem acute, i.e. when the polarization is being engineered on the boundary. When two groups are in dispute, when the rights of the group members are in play, when states are at war, etc. These cases are not rare, both because you can get two groups into opposition at any scale (marketing v.s. sales, offense v.s. defensive squad, freshman v.s. sophmores, etc. etc.) but also because there are numerous benefits that agents in these games can harvest from playing with these boundaries (hightened common cause, humor, separation of concerns, etc.). So I’m amazed that Google has decided that one, just one, such case deserves a bit of special handling. This is the fundamental problem of a system like Google’s. All words are tags, all search terms have contextual meanings. I like that they have tried to do something. I hope they find a way to make it scale. [...] [...] One extreme case makes the problem acute, i.e. when the polarization is being engineered on the boundary. When two groups are in dispute, when the rights of the group members are in play, when states are at war, etc. These cases are not rare, both because you can get two groups into opposition at any scale (marketing v.s. sales, offense v.s. defensive squad, freshman v.s. sophmores, etc. etc.) but also because there are numerous benefits that agents in these games can harvest from playing with these boundaries (hightened common cause, humor, separation of concerns, etc.). So I’m amazed that Google has decided that one, just one, such case deserves a bit of special handling. This is the fundamental problem of a system like Google’s. All words are tags, all search terms have contextual meanings. I like that they have tried to do something. I hope they find a way to make it scale. [...]

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