From d1e0862a9646553870e6fb56f23045890ca25baa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nathan Schneider Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2025 18:21:23 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Removing dummy entry --- readings/bicorder-2025-11-25T18-12-35Z.json | 274 -------------------- 1 file changed, 274 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 readings/bicorder-2025-11-25T18-12-35Z.json diff --git a/readings/bicorder-2025-11-25T18-12-35Z.json b/readings/bicorder-2025-11-25T18-12-35Z.json deleted file mode 100644 index 4e5fca7..0000000 --- a/readings/bicorder-2025-11-25T18-12-35Z.json +++ /dev/null @@ -1,274 +0,0 @@ -{ - "name": "Protocol Bicorder", - "schema": "bicorder.schema.json", - "version": "1.1.0", - "description": "A diagnostic tool for the study of protocols", - "author": "Nathan Schneider", - "date_modified": "2025-11-21", - "metadata": { - "protocol": null, - "analyst": null, - "standpoint": null, - "timestamp": "2025-11-25T18:07:21.486Z", - "shortform": false - }, - "diagnostic": [ - { - "set_name": "Design", - "set_description": "How the protocol is created and remembered", - 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"term_left_description": "Addressed to a global audience", - "term_right": "particular", - "term_right_description": "Addressed to a specific community", - "value": null, - "notes": null, - "shortform": false - }, - { - "term_left": "durable", - "term_left_description": "Designed to be persistently available", - "term_right": "ephemeral", - "term_right_description": "Designed to vanish when no longer needed", - "value": null, - "notes": null, - "shortform": false - } - ] - }, - { - "set_name": "Entanglement", - "set_description": "How the protocol relates with participant agents", - "gradients": [ - { - "term_left": "macro", - "term_left_description": "Operates at large scales involving many participants or broad scope", - "term_right": "micro", - "term_right_description": "Operates at small scales with few participants or narrow scope", - "value": null, - "notes": null, - "shortform": false - }, - { - "term_left": "sovereign", - "term_left_description": "A distinctive operating logic, not subject to any other entity", - 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Round it to the nearest integer. That is the 'value' here.", - "automated": true, - "value": null, - "notes": null - }, - { - "term_left": "polarized", - "term_left_description": "The analyst tended toward more extreme high or low readings", - "term_right": "centrist", - "term_right_description": "The analyst tended toward readings at the middle of the gradients", - "instructions": "Take all the 'value' fields in the gradients above. Assess their degree of polarization. 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