This post gave me an important set of intuitions and things to be on a watch for. What stands out the most clearly in my mind are:
The notion of the social web acting as an agent in its own right, and being on a watchout for things which might violate existing scripts
The thing where, after your role is explained to you, you try to act based on that new information… while still continuing to re-enact your same role, as you don’t really know how else to act.
I do think that these things were not explained with as much rigor as might have been good: but then, explaining these things in a really rigorous way is hard, and in the absence of a more legible model it can be better to just point at your observations and hope that some of your readers will try the things on.
I do think that much of what Valentine described in this post can be explained more rigorously in subagent terms. For example, the notion of scripts which people keep executing, in my view corresponds to subconscious schemas, some of which filter out all incompatible information. I have a lot to say here, but it takes a while to work my way up there; but the fact that I even realized that I should be looking in that direction, was in part due to this post pointing me the way.
This post gave me an important set of intuitions and things to be on a watch for. What stands out the most clearly in my mind are:
The notion of the social web acting as an agent in its own right, and being on a watchout for things which might violate existing scripts
The thing where, after your role is explained to you, you try to act based on that new information… while still continuing to re-enact your same role, as you don’t really know how else to act.
I do think that these things were not explained with as much rigor as might have been good: but then, explaining these things in a really rigorous way is hard, and in the absence of a more legible model it can be better to just point at your observations and hope that some of your readers will try the things on.
I do think that much of what Valentine described in this post can be explained more rigorously in subagent terms. For example, the notion of scripts which people keep executing, in my view corresponds to subconscious schemas, some of which filter out all incompatible information. I have a lot to say here, but it takes a while to work my way up there; but the fact that I even realized that I should be looking in that direction, was in part due to this post pointing me the way.