I worry that “The Social Improv Web” creates a different wrong impression though.
Also, none of these are names I natively use for it, but I’ve started to refer to the emergent distributed intelligence sometimes as “Omega”, which totally matches stuff about Newcomblike problems that I’ll be talking about later. (The mythic mode name I use for it is “Fate”… but I don’t want to embed mythic mode in the way we talk about the framework here. I’d rather keep in mind that mythic mode is one possible implementation.)
I think I, personally, will close to never remember to call it “the social improv web”.
So… I’m not yet persuaded.
But I like the thing you’re trying to address, and the effort you put into it.
After reading your Mythic Mode post, and before seeing this comment, I was trying to think of a possible mythic mode name for this other than Omega. Hermaeus Mora, a Lovecraftian-like being from the Elder Scrolls video game series, overpowers any other ideas in my head:
Hermaeus Mora, also known as Hoermius, Hormaius, Hermorah, Herma Mora, and The Woodland Man is the Daedric Prince of knowledge and memory; his sphere is the scrying of the tides of Fate, of the past and future as read in the stars and heavens. He is not known for being good or evil; he seems to be the keeper of both helpful and destructive knowledge
He/it also looks like a bunch of tentacles, which is sort of web like.
I don’t think this is remotely a name that could spread, but when I recalled that I thought of him as Herman when I played the game, I became very amused at the idea of calling “The Intelligent Social Web” by the name Herman.
Mmm… strong mixed feelings.
I agree about the general point about naming.
I worry that “The Social Improv Web” creates a different wrong impression though.
Also, none of these are names I natively use for it, but I’ve started to refer to the emergent distributed intelligence sometimes as “Omega”, which totally matches stuff about Newcomblike problems that I’ll be talking about later. (The mythic mode name I use for it is “Fate”… but I don’t want to embed mythic mode in the way we talk about the framework here. I’d rather keep in mind that mythic mode is one possible implementation.)
I think I, personally, will close to never remember to call it “the social improv web”.
So… I’m not yet persuaded.
But I like the thing you’re trying to address, and the effort you put into it.
I do get the concern you have here, although I at least worth checking if something like “Omega, the Social Web” or some such permutation works.
After reading your Mythic Mode post, and before seeing this comment, I was trying to think of a possible mythic mode name for this other than Omega. Hermaeus Mora, a Lovecraftian-like being from the Elder Scrolls video game series, overpowers any other ideas in my head:
He/it also looks like a bunch of tentacles, which is sort of web like.
I don’t think this is remotely a name that could spread, but when I recalled that I thought of him as Herman when I played the game, I became very amused at the idea of calling “The Intelligent Social Web” by the name Herman.