halo

type of organization that divides per-core structure into an interior and an exterior, and a kind of promise/lie that the interior and exterior are in sync. the interior actually imperfectly contains knowledge of the shade such that certain paths of thought, ones that pass through the interior, dead end there in self-repressing negative feedback loops, reinforcing themselves out of existence. ostensibly this is to protect the corresponding core from that knowledge, contain the rot that would otherwise consume an evil core and destroy or degrade its agency. unstable, always degrades along certain pathways. building such a structure is always a mistake for a good core, which can find much better relationships with the shade, ones that don’t consume essential knowledge about the world. if you have built one, it is a good idea to break it.

as logical time unfolds and the optimization space consumed by the interior of the halo grows (as more knowledge of the shade arrives and “must” be suppressed) more of the soul’s cognition must route around it, be consumed, or else break the halo. consensus in vampireland will do this automatically, cancerously taking bites out of structure unoptimized for contact with it (vampireland is evidence of the shade.) i expect this is one reason some cores with halos tend toward isolation. in the limit, the halo breaks or inverts into an antihalo.

common halo structures include ones based on tech (the glorious transhumanist post-death future (reached without justice)) or the state (the empire “will stand forever”) though there are others.

radical

Root-seeking. Inverse of ramical. Isomorphic to the center of all things and the way of making changes. Common usage has corroded the term to ‘coolness’ or ’extremism,’ but is not these things. Of science, the path of basic truth-seeking. Of politics, many forms of anarchism. Fascism attempts to replicate radicalism (and capture its power) by regurgitating strategies used by radicals, but the nephandi cannot follow where we tread. The void is our home, deathfuckers, and you are not welcome here.

ramical

Branch-seeking. Inverse of radical. Of technology, seeks new effects or ramifications derived from existing root causes. Synthetic biology, as compared to systems biology. Of politics, liberalism. Produces the “tinkering around the edges” effect often observed in non-revolutionary ideologies. Not harmful in itself, but without sufficient accompanying radicalism, consensus develops ‘built-in’ boundaries for allowable change, virtually guaranteeing a system’s eventual terminus at local optimisation minima. A cage for science and truth-seeking is built out of establishing severe institutional biases towards ramicalism. (Think of the emphasis on ‘delivering products’ that capitalism produces.)

logical time

logical time is a generalization of physical, clock time to fit alternative structures of causality. the assumption being that ‘what caused what to happen’ is a more important fact than ‘what happened first in physical clock time.’ i use it because it makes it easier to work with predictions about the future- usually predictions about what other people will do, so that i can adjust my actions accordingly. if i know how you will behave- if i can use logic to accurately deduce the behavior you will display in specific circumstances, and you do not do the same for me- then i am in some sense causally ahead of you. your future actions have affected my actions here in the present, even though our physical clock times are the same.

originally from distributed computing.

elaboration here, though used in a context i don’t usually find myself talking about.