02-08-2020, 09:54 PM
If urgency is presumed, then go with what you've got. It's not like the VMs is newly discovered; much is known about it, much more has been discarded.
Assemble a team: The VMs ninjas already are a sort of casual team. What other team is there?? But better coordination could improve performance. A diverse team is important for the variety of perspective, as long as everyone is serious-minded. One person may see what others do not. If one thing is known, it is that the whispy ideas of 'ivory-tower' investigators do not stand up to general scrutiny.
Rather than being handed some misguided, idiosyncratic pronouncement, in multiple iterations, the VMs solution needs to be built from the ground up by an informed consensus of the team, examined and verified step by step.
If this is an attack on the VMs, what are the targets? Where are the areas that are most promising for further investigation? A consensus identification of the more promising lines of investigation would promote the development of working groups. It sort of happens now, in the forums, but rarely gets out of first gear.
Further investigation of libraries has been suggested. Library discoveries have provided some interesting potential interpretations. But what more will new discoveries provide when little credit is given to those already known? If there are problems involving Melusine, which is a patent, historical fact, what about other lost traditions or examples of a more ambiguous representation?
IMO there are two significant problems: glyph identity and language determination. In combination, they present a very difficult situation.
Assemble a team: The VMs ninjas already are a sort of casual team. What other team is there?? But better coordination could improve performance. A diverse team is important for the variety of perspective, as long as everyone is serious-minded. One person may see what others do not. If one thing is known, it is that the whispy ideas of 'ivory-tower' investigators do not stand up to general scrutiny.
Rather than being handed some misguided, idiosyncratic pronouncement, in multiple iterations, the VMs solution needs to be built from the ground up by an informed consensus of the team, examined and verified step by step.
If this is an attack on the VMs, what are the targets? Where are the areas that are most promising for further investigation? A consensus identification of the more promising lines of investigation would promote the development of working groups. It sort of happens now, in the forums, but rarely gets out of first gear.
Further investigation of libraries has been suggested. Library discoveries have provided some interesting potential interpretations. But what more will new discoveries provide when little credit is given to those already known? If there are problems involving Melusine, which is a patent, historical fact, what about other lost traditions or examples of a more ambiguous representation?
IMO there are two significant problems: glyph identity and language determination. In combination, they present a very difficult situation.