• Notes 11/18/25: It’s Not Just About Certainty, It’s About Pruning Possibility

    In my analysis of online ideological communities, I’ve frequently discussed the Triumvirate—the structural backbone of Temporal (always), Logical-Evidential (proves), and Quantifier (everyone) operators that creates a “hardening” of discourse. But looking closer at the transition fingerprints in r/collapse and r/conspiracy, it turns out the Triumvirate doesn’t work alone The data reveals a complete ecosystem of…

  • Language is a Complex Adaptive System, Redux

    Language is a Complex Adaptive System, Redux

    The connection my paper has to the lineage of bridging language and complexity at SFI. Starting with the 1989 workshop titled: “The Evolution of Human Language,” then moving to the 2007 workshop titled “The Continued Study of Language Acquisition and Evolution,” I explain how we finally have the tools to continue what they started.