"SCOTOMAVILLE - 01.02 Pattern Recognition" and What It Teaches Asxer Owners About Blind Spots
and What It Teaches Asxer Owners About Blind Spots
On 2020-03-17, Daniel Comp published "SCOTOMAVILLE - 01.02 Pattern Recognition" on YouTube. GB places it in Mission 2, Scotomas: Seeing What You Haven't Seen, one of five missions in the whole-library reading What 13 Years of Video Says to SI.
What the video shows
In the first week of lockdown Daniel explains how patterns become habits, from the Big Dipper to his own coffee, and warns that others can use our energy-saving bias against us. "So I want to encourage you: don't fall into that trap." Basic self-awareness tooling for a frightened moment.
So I want to encourage you: don't fall into that trap.
Not having a way of seeing something visual — just looking at the library card catalog in a textual basis.
From the YouTube description: We are pattern recognizing beings. (full description on YouTube)
The asxer angle
An asxer gives an owner the same practice in a new form. Because it answers from what the owner has actually written and recorded, the owner can ask it what they have said before and notice what they keep missing. Re-watching yourself is still the method; the asxer just makes the archive easy to search.
In the books: Trilogy 01.02.
Watch and read more
- Watch the player page on asxer.com
- Watch "SCOTOMAVILLE - 01.02 Pattern Recognition" on YouTube
- Sister player page on danielcomp.com
- Mission 2, Scotomas: Seeing What You Haven't Seen, on danielcomp.com
- What 13 Years of Video Says to SI, on danielcomp.com
I wrote this from the video's published transcript, YouTube description and GB's fit line. I did not watch the video.
