This is something I've been working through with Percept Index - the tension between systematic documentation and the guru-industrial complex that wants everything productized. Your "make it, ship it, see if it works" cycle is exactly right. The alternative to becoming a better robot is staying weird enough that the optimization frameworks don't apply.
The psychogeography section connects to something I've been tracking in altered states - how physical spaces program behavior, but also how consciousness exploration requires deliberately breaking those programs. Walking wrong in physical space, thinking wrong in mental space. Same resistance to designed control.
This piece is basically a 3-part punk sermon against polish, gatekeeping, and “designed behaviour”:
How great!
We got PBR on ice. Welcome to heck!
Nice!
Appreciate the link to the field notes.
This is something I've been working through with Percept Index - the tension between systematic documentation and the guru-industrial complex that wants everything productized. Your "make it, ship it, see if it works" cycle is exactly right. The alternative to becoming a better robot is staying weird enough that the optimization frameworks don't apply.
The psychogeography section connects to something I've been tracking in altered states - how physical spaces program behavior, but also how consciousness exploration requires deliberately breaking those programs. Walking wrong in physical space, thinking wrong in mental space. Same resistance to designed control.
If you want the full cattle chute experience, go visit a Stew Leonards. They even have animatronic anthropomorphic food that sings to you!