Zettel title from Christian Tietze<br /> found in https://forum.zettelkasten.de/discussion/comment/18549/#Comment_18549

• for: quote, quote - Pacific Northwest heatwave, extinction, biodiversity loss, climate departure
• quote
  • the total number of marine invertebrates killed was almost certainly in the billions.

• for: Canada's future, climate future - Canada, climate communication, polycrisis communication
• quote
  • What follows is a portrait of Canada in a world warmed by two degrees. This is not what our country will look like if the world fails to reduce emissions—this is our future even if we do.
• author: Anne Shibata Casselman
• date: Aug, 2023
• source
  • https://macleans.ca/society/environment/canada-in-the-year-2060/

• for: quote, quote - Isaac Newton, quote - spirituality and science, quote - science and religion, quote - spirituality - science, quote - religion - science
• quote
  • • for: quote, quote - Isaac Newton, quote - spirituality and science, quote - science and religion, quote - spirituality - science, quote - religion - science
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  • When I wrote my treatise about our system
  • I had an eye upon such principles as might work with considering men for the belief of a Deity;
  • and nothing can rejoice me more than to find it useful for that purpose..
• author: Isaac Newton
• reference
  • Isaac Newton, Principia, ed. Stephen Hawking (Philadelphia: Running Press, 2002), 426–27.
• author: Isaac Newton
• reference
  • Isaac Newton, Original letter from Isaac Newton to Richard Bentley, 189.R.4.47, ff. 4A-5, Trinity College Library, Cambridge, UK; found on the Newton Project website: http://www.newtonproject.sussex.ac.uk/view/texts/normalized/THEM00254; spelling and punctuation modernized.

• for: quote, quote - Isaac Newton, quote - spirituality and science, quote - science and religion, quote - spirituality - science, quote - religion - science
• quote
  • This Being governs all things,
    • not as the soul of the world,
    • but as Lord over all.
  • . . . The Supreme God is a Being eternal, infinite, absolutely perfect
  • . . . and from his true dominion it follows that the true God is a
    • living,
    • intelligent, and
    • powerful Being.
  • . . . He is not
    • eternity and
    • infinity, -but
    • eternal and
    • infinite;
  • he is not
    • duration or
    • space,
  • but he
    • endures and
    • is present.
• author: Isaac Newton
• reference
  • Isaac Newton, Principia, ed. Stephen Hawking (Philadelphia: Running Press, 2002), 426–27.

• for: quote, quote - Isaac Newton, quote - spirituality and science, quote - science and religion, quote - spirituality - science, quote - religion - science
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  • Does it not appear from phenomena
  • that there is a Being
    • incorporeal,
    • living,
    • intelligent,
    • omnipresent,
  • who in infinite space
  • sees the things themselves intimately, and
  • thoroughly perceives them, and
  • comprehends them wholly.
• author: Isaac Newton
• reference
  • Isaac Newton, Opticks, 4th ed. (London: William Innys, 1730), 344; spelling and punctuation modernized.

• for: quote, quote - Isaac Newton, quote - spirituality and science, quote - science and religion, quote - spirituality - science, quote - religion - science
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  • Whence is it that Nature doth nothing in vain?
  • And whence arises all that order and beauty which we see in the world?
  • Was the eye contrived without skill in optics?
  • And the ear without knowledge of sounds?
• author: Isaac Newton
• reference
  • Isaac Newton, Opticks, 4th ed. (London: William Innys, 1730), 344; spelling and punctuation modernized.

• for: definition, definition - mentalism, hermetic philosophy
• definition: Mentalism
  • things are created from and expand from the mind
• paraphrase
• quote
  • There are different ways that you can interpret this,
    • but in its simplest form it means that
    • everything that we do in life begins with a thought or a feeling.
  • The thought or feeling always precedes the action. / Comment: This is part of the philosophy of Deep Humanity that entangles inner transformation with outer transformation /
  • Therefore the inner world, the spiritual world, drives the physical world. It is a mirror. / Comment: A Deep Humanity way to express this is to say that the outer world is a reflection of the cumulative inner world's of humanity/
  • Everything that humans have ever done throughout our entire history
    • has begun as thoughts and feelings,
    • which then manifested as actions in the physical world.
  • Our society is therefore shaped by the interaction between
    • our inner worlds and
    • the laws of nature.
  • We cannot change the laws of nature
    • and so if we want to change the world,
    • we must focus our attention inwards. / Comment: Again, this is reflected in the Deep Humanity phrase: A stimuli occurs, the heart feels, the mind thinks, the body acts and an impact appears in our public, shared reality/

• for: quote, quote - spirituality, quote - Tom Greenwood, triple bottom line, spirituality and business

• paraphrase

• quote

  • spirituality is not even a fourth pillar of sustainability,
    • but is instead the foundation upon which the pillars of
      • people,
      • planet and
      • profit
    • must be constructed.
  • To succeed on the triple bottom line,
    • we must build a strong spiritual foundation.
  • To do that, we must look inwards.

• comment

  • We could express this succinctly in a new phrase:
    • The bottom line of the triple bottom line is spirituality

• for: quote, quote - dogma, quote - wonder, quote - spirituality, quote- Tom Greenwood
• quote
  • I think if we stripped away
    • the social stigma and
    • stereotypes,
  • we would find that most people have some personal beliefs about
    • life,
    • death and
    • the universe
  • that could be considered spiritual.
  • In fact, I would bet that
    • the number of people who never wonder about any of these things would be close to zero.
  • Spirituality then, is really the exploration of the other half of life
    • that our society isn’t comfortable exploring.
  • And that’s where it gets interesting.
• author: Tom Greenwood
• date: aug. 23, 2023

• for: quote, quote - dogma, quote - wonder, quote - spirituality, quote- Tom Greenwood
• quote
  • The problem is that in rejecting the dogma,
  • we too have created dogma.
  • A dogma that shuts down our natural human inclination to explore the mysteries of life,
    • of our own inner worlds and
    • of our deep connection to nature and each other.
• author: Tom Greenwood
• date: aug. 23, 2023

• for: definition, definition - spirituality
• definition
• paraphrase
  • spirituality is simply
    • the process of exploring the mysteries of the self and the universe, and
    • believing that there is more to life than material survival,
    • even if we don’t know what.
    • If the material world is what we can observe with our five physical senses,
    • the spiritual world is everything else.
• author: Tom Greenwood

• date: Aug. 23, 2023

• comment

  • Tom'w working definition is similiar to neuroscientist David Eangleman's definition of possibilian and possibilianism
• reference
  • David Eagleman's Possibilian website:
    • https://hyp.is/go?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.possibilian.com%2F&group=world

• for: insight, insight - spirituality - business, quote, quote - spirituality and business
• adjacency
  • spirituality
  • business
  • comfortable
• quote
  • I have to admit that it feels uncomfortable even writing this. Somehow we need to get comfortable talking about spirituality.
• author: Tom Greenwood
• date: Aug 24, 2023
• source
  • https://tomgreenwood.substack.com/p/is-spirituality-the-missing-pillar?r=wsvz&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

• for: quote, quote Satish Kumar, quote - spirituality
• quote
  • all good regenerative businesses are built on four pillars: ecological, social, spiritual and financial
• author: Satish Kumar

• for: human DOing, Deep Humanity, DH, quote, quote - DH, quote - Deep Humanity, quote - human DOing
• quote
  • I've been wondering if we are too focused on systems and actions
    • that we can do, rather than on ourselves as human beings and
    • what we can be.
• comment
  • this is aligned to the Deep Humanity notion of the difference between:
    • human DOing vs
    • human BEing

• for: spirituality, defintion, definition - possibilian, defintion - possibilanism, possibliian, possibilianism, David Eagleman, philosophy, quote, quote - David Eagleman, quote - possibilian, quote - possibilianism
• definition
• paraphrase Possibilianism is a philosophy which rejects
  • both
    • the idiosyncratic claims of traditional theism and
    • the positions of certainty in atheism
  • in favor of a middle, exploratory ground.
  • The term was first defined by neuroscientist David Eagleman in relation to his book of fiction Sum.
  • Asked whether he was an atheist or a religious person on a National Public Radio interview in 2009, he replied
  • quote
    • I call myself a Possibilian: I'm open to ideas that we don't have any way of testing right now.
  • end quote
  • In an interview with the New York Times, he expanded upon this:
  • quote
    • Our ignorance of the cosmos is too vast to commit to atheism, and yet
    • we know too much to commit to a particular religion.
    • A third position, agnosticism, is often an uninteresting stance in which a person simply questions whether his traditional religious story
      • (say, a man with a beard on a cloud) is true or not true.
    • But with Possibilianism I'm hoping to define a new position
      • one that emphasizes the exploration of new, unconsidered possibilities.
    • Possibilianism is comfortable holding multiple ideas in mind;
    • it is not interested in committing to any particular story.
  • end quote

• for: misinformation, disinformation, fake news, quote, quote - Greg Shatan, quote - misinformation, progress trap - misinformation, progress trap - digital technology, indyweb - support
• quote
  • The instinctual BS-meter is not enough.
  • The next version of the ‘BS-meter’ will need to be technologically based.
  • The tricks of misinformation have far outstripped the ability of people to reliably tell whether they are receiving BS or not
• author: Greg Shatan
  • lawyer, Moses & Singer LLP
    • not to mention that it requires a constant state of vigilance that’s exhausting to maintain.
  • I think that the ability and usefulness of the web to enable positive grassroots civic communication will be harnessed,
    • moving beyond mailing lists and fairly static one-way websites.

• for: gig economy, progress trap, unintended consequence, quote, quote - unintended consequence, quote - progress trap, quote James Mickens
• quote
  • the gig economy is enabled by technology;
  • technology finds buyers for workers and their services.
  • However, given the choice between
    • an economy with many gig workers and
    • an economy with an equivalent number of traditional middle-class jobs,
  • I think that most people would prefer the latter.
• author: James Mickens
  • associate professor of computer science, Harvard University

• for: progress trap, quote, quote - progress trap, unintended consequence, quotation - unintended consequence
• quote
  • Technology and social innovation intended to overcome the negatives of the digital age
    • will likely cause additional negative consequences. Examples include:
      • the decentralized web,
      • end-to-end encryption,
      • AI and machine learning,
      • social media.
• author: Larry Masinter -internet pioneer, formerly with Adobe, AT&T Labs and Xerox PARC, who helped create internet and web standards with IETF and W3C

• for: quote, quote - David Bray, quote polycrisis, indyweb - support, People-centered Internet Coalition, polycrisis
• quote
  • I believe we are arriving at multiple simultaneous breaking points.
  • The most obvious is of course the climate crisis, but also consider the mounting levels of
    • inequality,
    • of pollution and of
    • despicable charlatanry exhibited by those in positions of power.
  • These simply cannot go on if we are to survive as a civilization.
  • Since civilization is resilient, the odds are that we develop tools to support a saner society and bring those tools to bear.
  • I’m not prescient enough to enumerate them, but it seems that the single most useful technology would be one that
    • clearly distinguishes
      • verifiable truth from
      • agitprop
    • in an unavoidable and unambiguous way.
  • This is a necessary but not sufficient condition for making progress on any of the key issues we face.
• author: David Bray
  • executive director, People-Centered Internet Coalition

• for: TPF, crowdsource solutions, climate crisis - commons, polycrisis - commons, quote, quote - crowdsourcing solutions, quote Miles Fidelman, Center for Civic Networking, Protocol Technologies Group, bottom-up, collective action
• quote
  • At best, we will see new forms of collaboration among large numbers of people toward beneficial ends.
  • The most obvious example is the changing nature of responses to largescale natural disasters.
  • Perhaps we will see this spirit of volunteer and entrepreneurial cooperation emerge to address such pressing issues as climate change
    • e.g., maybe, the Green New Deal will be crowdsourced.
• author: Miles Fidelman
  • founder, Center for Civic Networking
  • principal, Protocol Technologies Group

• for: progress trap, quote, quote - progress trap, quote Brian Southwell, Science in the Public Sphere Program, RTI International

• quote

  • We are likely to make some gains in personal health, are likely to face some collective concerns in terms of environmental health and
  • are not likely to cope with the alienation and despair that is a part of a life lived largely online.
  • In the latter case, there is a disconnect between the long period of evolution that honed our humanity and
  • the short period of rapid technology change we are facing.

• author: Brian Southwell

  • director, Science in the Public Sphere Program, RTI International

• for: quote, quote - Jason Hong, quote - health apps, health care app, idea spread through social network, mental health app, physical health app, transform app
• quote
• paraphrase
  • Health care is an area that will likely see many innovations. -There are already multiple research prototypes underway looking at monitoring of one’s
    • physical and
    • mental health.
  • Some of my colleagues (and myself as well) are also looking at
    • social behaviors, and how those behaviors
      • not only impact one’s health but also
      • how innovations spread through one’s social network.

• for: smart cities, doughnut cities, cosmolocal, downscaled planetary boundaries, cross-scale translation of earth system boundaries, TPF, community data, local data, open data, community data ownership, quote, quote - Garth Graham, quote - community owned data
• quote
• paraphrase
  • Innovation in the creation and sustainability of social institutions acts predominantly at the local level.
  • In the Internet of Things, for those capacities to emerge in smart cities, communities need the capacity to own and analyse the data created that models what they are experiencing.
  • Local data needs to be seen as a common, pool resource.
  • Where that occurs, communities will have the capacity to learn or innovate their way forward.
  • So far, smart city systems are being set up to appropriate and commercialize individual and community data.
  • So far, communities are not waking up to the realization that a capacity they need is being stolen from them before they have it.
• author: Garth Graham
  • leader of Telecommunities Canada

• for: quote, quote - Artur Serra, quote - labs, quote - innovation, quote - internet labs
• quote
  • Four billion people are now connected to the same infrastructure, the internet, that we the science and technology community put in place just decades ago.
  • This is creating the conditions for an explosion of open creativity and innovation never seen before.
  • A huge wave of labs of all kinds,
    • living labs,
    • fablabs,
    • social labs,
    • edulabs,
    • innovation spaces and
    • policy labs
    • citizen labs
  • is emerging as the new kind of groups and communities of the digital era.
  • We are moving from the net to the lab.
  • On the 2030 horizon, many of these labs will gather and agree in generating the first universal innovation ecosystems in regions and countries.
  • https://www.ecsite.eu/activities-and-services/news-and-publications/digital-spokes/issue-45
• author: Artur Serra
  • deputy director of I2CQT Foundation
  • research director, Citilab, Catalonia, Spain

• for: quote, quote - Alejandro Pisanty, quote -human conduct vs tech, Alejandro Pisanty
• quote
  • We are wasting valuable time for humankind when we focus on
    • technology and platforms,
    • or even in privacy and control over data,
  • and not on conduct
  • A whole chain of conduct
    • from the active subject of a possible manipulation
    • to the harms suffered by others and society
  • occur as a consequence of manipulation and other abuses.
  • It’s not that tech is not important; it is that we overlook what goes on around it.”
• author: Alejandro Pisanty
  • professor at the National University of Mexico

• for: quote, quote - Douglas Rushkoff, quote - bottom-up, bottom-up action
• quote
  • The primary means of social and civic innovation will occur as people go offline and reconnect with their local communities.
  • So, I don’t see so much positive change occurring from the top down,
    • through policies and
    • regulation
  • even though it would be nice to try.
  • I do think government and corporations can be pressured to respond to widespread,
    • bottom-up social activism and
    • changes in citizen and consumer behavior.
• author: Douglas Rushkoff
  • media theorist
  • author
  • professor of media, City University of New York

• for: quote, quote - Prateek Raj, quote - internet regulation, quote - reducing misinformation, fake news, indyweb - support
• quote
  • We lived in a relatively unregulated digital world until now.
  • It was great until the public realized that a few companies wield too much power today in our lives.
  • We will see significant changes in areas like
    • privacy,
    • data protection,
    • algorithm and
    • architecture design guidelines, and
    • platform accountability, etc.
  • which should reduce the pervasiveness of
    • misinformation,
    • hate and visceral content
  • over the internet.
  • These steps will also reduce the power wielded by digital giants.
  • Beyond these immediate effects, it is difficult to say if these social innovations will create a more participative and healthy society.
  • These broader effects are driven by deeper underlying factors, like
    • history,
    • diversity,
    • cohesiveness and
    • social capital, and also
    • political climate and
    • institutions.
  • In other words,
    • just as digital world is shaping the physical world,
    • physical world shapes our digital world as well.
• author: Prateek Raj
  • assistant professor in strategy, Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore

• for: quote, quote - Lee McKnight, quote - corporate social responsibility
• quote
  • Thomas Jefferson’s aphorism ‘Do well by doing good’ is timely and trendy in a way it hasn’t been for centuries.
  • Because that ethos for technology entrepreneurs is increasingly recognized as the only way many people will expect firms offering technology innovations to approach them:
    • humbly and
    • with a broader social mission and
    • accounting not just as a corporate social responsibility afterthought, but -as a core value of the products and companies themselves
• author: Lee McKnight
  • associate professor, Syracuse University School of Information Studies

• for: quote, quote - Warren Yoder, quote platform monopolies, internet - regulation, indyweb - support

• quote

  • Much social and civic innovation is possible if the GAAF platform monopolies (Google, Amazon, Apple, Facebook) are broken up or regulated appropriately.
  • I believe that will happen, and I hope it will happen in appropriate ways.
  • Done right, it will release a torrent of innovation, including social and civic changes.
  • I trust that the general level of competence is growing among digital citizens.
  • So, I am modestly hopeful we can sort out the helpful from the harmful changes for a net positive gain.

• author: Warren Yoder

  • Director of Public Policy Center of Mississipi

• for: quote, quote - Byron Reese, quote - digital communities, quote - online communities, indyweb - support
• quote
  • Our first attempts at building community online have had both good and bad outcomes.
  • We know them all. But would we have expected otherwise?
  • We are new at digital communities and are inventing them as we move forward.
  • Of course we aren’t going to get it right the first time. But the key question is whether these technologies help us form social bonds or not.
  • Anyone who has posted a question in a forum and received an answer from a stranger knows firsthand that they bring us together.
• author: Byron Reese
  • futurist
  • author of "The Fourth Age: Smart Robots, Conscious Computers and the Future of Humanity"

• for: quote, quote - Sam Adams, quote - social media
• quote, indyweb - support, people-centered
  • I do expect new social platforms to emerge that focus on privacy and ‘fake-free’ information, or at least they will claim to be so.
  • Proving that to a jaded public will be a challenge.
  • Resisting the temptation to exploit all that data will be extremely hard.
  • And how to pay for it all?
  • If it is subscriber-paid, then only the wealthy will be able to afford it.
• author: Sam Adams
  • 24 year IBM veteran -senior research scientist in AI at RTI International working on national scale knowledge graphs for global good
• comment
  • his comment about exploiting all that data is based on an assumption
    • a centralized, server data model
• this doesn't hold true with a people-centered, person-owned data network such as Inyweb

• for: quote, quote - Janet Salmons, quote - online communities, quote - social media, indyweb - support
• paraphrase
  • Will members-only, perhaps subscription-based ‘online communities’ reemerge instead of
  • ‘post and we’ll sell your data’ forms of social media?
  • I hope so, but at this point a giant investment would be needed to counter the mega-billions of companies like Facebook!

• for: quote, quote - Janet Salmons, quote - human cooperative brain networks, indyweb - support
• quote
  • Extreme bad behaviour from governments and private companies – GAFAs [Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon] and the like in China – will create a social and civic innovation to compensate and/or to contribute to an innovation jump. I hope for development of human cooperative brain networks.
• author: Caroline Figueres
  • strategic consultant

• for: quote, quote - Stowe Boyd, quote - progress trap, quote - unintended consequences, unintended consequences, progress trap, cultural evolution, technology - futures, futures - technology, progress trap
• quote:
  • Technological change is an accelerant and acts on the social ills like pouring gasoline on a fire
• author: Sowe Boyd
  • consulting futurist on technological evolution and the future of work
• paraphrase
  • In an uncontrolled hyper-capitalist society,
    • the explosion in technologies over the past 30 years has only
      • widened inequality,
      • concentrated wealth and
      • led to greater social division.
    • And it is speeding up with the rise of artificial intelligence,
      • which like globalization has destabilized Western industrial economies while admittedly pulling hundreds of millions elsewhere out of poverty.
  • And the boiling exhaust of this set of forces is pushing the planet into a climate catastrophe. -The world is as unready for hundreds of millions of climate refugees as it was for the plague.
  • However, some variant of social media will likely form the context for the rise of a global movement to stop the madness
    • which I call the Human Spring
  • which will be more like
    • Occupy or
    • the Yellow Vests
  • than traditional politics.
  • I anticipate a grassroots movement
    • characterized by
      • general strikes,
      • political action,
      • protest and
      • widespread disruption of the economy
    • that will confront the economic and political system of the West.
  • Lead by the young, ultimately this will lead to large-scale political reforms, such as
    • universal health care,
    • direct democracy,
    • a new set of rights for individuals and
    • a large set of checks on the power of
      • corporations and
      • political parties.
  • For example,
    • eliminating corporate contributions to political campaigns,
    • countering monopolies and
    • effectively accounting for economic externalities, like carbon.

-for: quote, quote - Jennifer Jarratt, quote - progress trap, progress trap, unintended consequences, technology - unintended consequences, quote - unintended consequences, cultural evolution, technology - futures, futures - technology, progress trap - quote: with new technologies come new crimes and criminals – opportunities for all! - author: Jennifer Jarratt - co-principal of Leading Futurists LLC

• for: democracy - by device, quote, quote - Barry Chudakov, quote - democracy by device
• quote
  • We are in the midst of a remarkable social and civic experiment, democracy by device
• author: Barry Chudakov

• for: quote, quote - Robert Epstein, quote - search engine bias,quote - future of democracy, quote - tilting elections, quote - progress trap, progress trap, cultural evolution, technology - futures, futures - technology, progress trap, indyweb - support, future - education
• quote
  • The big tech companies, left to their own devices , have already had a net negative effect on societies worldwide.
  • At the moment, the three big threats these companies pose
    • aggressive surveillance,
    • arbitrary suppression of content,
      • the censorship problem, and
    • the subtle manipulation of
      • thoughts,
      • behaviors,
      • votes,
      • purchases,
      • attitudes and
      • beliefs
    • are unchecked worldwide
• author: Robert Epstein
  • senior research psychologist at American Institute for Behavioral Research and Technology
• paraphrase
  • Epstein's organization is building two technologies that assist in combating these problems:
    • passively monitor what big tech companies are showing people online,
    • smart algorithms that will ultimately be able to identify online manipulations in realtime:
      • biased search results,
      • biased search suggestions,
      • biased newsfeeds,
      • platform-generated targeted messages,
      • platform-engineered virality,
      • shadow-banning,
      • email suppression, etc.
  • Tech evolves too quickly to be managed by laws and regulations,
    • but monitoring systems are tech, and they can and will be used to curtail the destructive and dangerous powers of companies like Google and Facebook on an ongoing basis.
• reference
  • seminar paper on monitoring systems, ‘Taming Big Tech -: https://is.gd/K4caTW.

• for: progress traps, progress, unintended consequences, technology - unintended consequences, unintended consequences - technology, unintended consequences - digital technology, progress trap - quotations, quote, quote - progress trap
• title: Experts Predict More Digital Innovation by 2030 Aimed at Enhancing Democracy
• authors: emily A Vogels, Lee Rainie, Janna Anderson
• year: June 30, 2020
• description: a good source of quotations on progress traps / unintended consequences of digital technology from this Pew Research 2020 report on the future of the digital technology and democracy.
  • the Pew Research Center interviewed a lot of experts in the field
  • in particular, section 5 of the report entitled
    • "Tech causes more problems than it can solve" is quite salient for the topic of progress traps
  • The Indyweb actually addresses many of these problems:
    • https://opencollective.com/open-learning-commons/projects/indy-learning-commons

• for: quote, quote - Barry Chudakov, quote - progress trap, progress trap, cultural evolution, technology - futures, futures - technology, progress trap, indyweb - support, future - education
• quote
• paraphrase
  • Technology’s greatest contribution to social and civic innovation in the next decade
  • will be to provide
    • accurate, user-friendly context and
    • honest assessment of
      • issues,
      • problems and
      • potential solutions / comment - indyweb /
  • We are facing greater accelerations of
    • climate change,
    • social mobility,
    • pollution,
    • immigration and
    • resource issues.
  • Our problems have gone from complicated to wicked.
  • We need
    • clear answers and
    • discussions that are
      • cogent,
      • relevant and
      • true to facts.
  • Technology must guard against becoming a platform to enable targeted chaos,
  • that is, using technology as a means to
    • obfuscate and
    • manipulate.
  • We are all now living in Sim City:
  • The digital world is showing us a sim,
    • or digital mirror,
  • of each aspect of reality.
  • The most successful social and civic innovation I expect to see by 2030
  • is a massive restructuring of our educational systems based on new and emerging mirror digital worlds. / comment: This bodes well for Indyweb for education/
  • We will then need to expand our information presentations to include
    • verifiable factfulness that ensures any digital presentation faithfully and
    • accurately matches the physical realities.
  • Just as medicine went from
    • bloodletting and leeches and lobotomies to
    • open-heart surgery and artificial limbs,
  • technology will begin to modernize information flows around core issues: urgent need, future implications, accurate assessment.
  • Technology can play a crucial role to move humanity
    • from blame fantasies
    • to focused attention and working solutions.”

• for: corporate power, technology - capitalism, capitalism - exploitation, Danah Boyd, progress trap
• paraphrase
• quote
  • technology in the U.S. is caught up in American late-stage (or financialized) capitalism
    • where profitability isn’t the goal;
    • perpetual return on investment is.
  • Given this, the tools that we’re seeing developed by corporations
  • reinforce capitalist agendas.
  • Innovation will require pushing past this capitalist infrastructure to achieve the social benefits and civic innovation that will work in the United States.
  • China is a whole other ball of wax.
  • If you want to go there, follow up with me. But pay attention to Taobao centers.
  • We haven’t hit peak awful yet.
  • I have every confidence that social and civic innovation can be beneficial in the long run
    • with a caveat that I think that climate change dynamics might ruin all of that
  • but no matter what, I don’t think we’re going to see significant positive change by 2030.
  • I think things are going to get much worse before they start to get better.
  • I should also note that I don’t think that many players have taken responsibility for what’s unfolding. -Yes, tech companies are starting to see that things might be a problem,
    • but that’s only on the surface. -News media does not at all acknowledge its role in amplifying discord,
    • or its financialized dynamics.
  • The major financiers of this economy don’t take any responsibility for what’s unfolding. Etc.
• author: Dana Boyd
  • principal researcher, Microsoft Research
  • founder, Data & Society

• for: progress trap, unintended consequence, unintended consequence - digital technology, quote, quote - progress trap, quote - Doc Searls
• quote
  • What won’t change is people’s tendency toward gossip,
    • tribalism driven by gossip and the ability of anybody to inform anybody else about anything,
      • including wrongly.
  • The only places where news won’t skew fake will be localities in the natural world.
  • That’s where the digital and the physical connect best.
  • Also expect the internet to break into pieces, with
    • the U.S.,
    • Europe and
    • China
  • becoming increasingly isolated by different value systems and governance approaches toward
    • networks and
    • what runs on them.

• for: progress trap, unintended consequence, unintended consequence - digital technology, quote, quote - progress trap, quote - David Weinberger
• quote: I see no reason to think that the current situation will change:
  • Tech will cause problems that require innovative solutions and
  • tech will be part of those solutions.
  • Machine learning (ML) is right now an example of this
• author: David Weinberger
  • senior researcher at Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society

• for: progress trap, unintended consequence, unintended consequence - digital technology, quote, quote - progress trap, quote - Jonathan Grudin
• quote: Can our fundamental human need for close community be restored or
  • will we become more isolated, anxious and susceptible to manipulation?
• author: Jonathan Grudin
  • principal researcher, Microsoft

• for: quote, quote - Esther Dyson, quote - progress trap, quote - progress traps, progress trap,
• quote: "If tech doesn’t contribute to solving some of the problems it creates, we are doomed"
• author: Esther Dyson
  • internet pioneer
  • journalist
  • entrepreneur
  • executive founder of Way to Wellville

• for: quote, quote - Ethan Zuckerman, quote - fragmentation and polarization, Indyweb - support, MIT Center for Civic Media, Global Voices
• quote
  • We need mass innovation in design of social tools that help us
    • bridge fragmentation and polarization,
    • bring diversity into our media landscapes and
    • help find common ground between disparate groups.
  • With these as conscious design goals,
    • technology could be a powerful positive force for civic change.
  • If we don’t take this challenge seriously and assume that we’re stuck with mass-market tools,
    • we won’t see positive civic outcomes from technological tools.”
• author
  • Ethan Zuckerman
    • director of MIT’s Center for Civic Media and
    • co-founder of Global Voices

• for: search engine manipulation effect, SEME, voting, voting - bias, voting - manipulation, voting - search engine bias, democracy - search engine bias, quote, quote - Robert Epstein, quote - search engine bias, stats, stats - tilting elections
• paraphrase
• quote
  • In our early experiments, reported by The Washington Post in March 2013,
    • http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/could-google-tilt-a-close-election/2013/03/29/c8d7f4e6-9587-11e2-b6f0-a5150a247b6a_story.html?ref=hackernoon.com
  • we discovered that Google’s search engine had the power to shift the percentage of undecided voters supporting a political candidate by a substantial margin without anyone knowing.
  • 2015 PNAS research on SEME
    • http://www.pnas.org/content/112/33/E4512.full.pdf?with-ds=yes&ref=hackernoon.com
    • stats begin
    • search results favoring one candidate
    • could easily shift the opinions and voting preferences of real voters in real elections by up to 80 percent in some demographic groups
    • with virtually no one knowing they had been manipulated.
    • stats end
    • Worse still, the few people who had noticed that we were showing them biased search results
    • generally shifted even farther in the direction of the bias,
    • so being able to spot favoritism in search results is no protection against it.
    • stats begin
    • Google’s search engine 
      • with or without any deliberate planning by Google employees 
    • was currently determining the outcomes of upwards of 25 percent of the world’s national elections.
    • This is because Google’s search engine lacks an equal-time rule,
      • so it virtually always favors one candidate over another, and that in turn shifts the preferences of undecided voters.
    • Because many elections are very close, shifting the preferences of undecided voters can easily tip the outcome.
    • stats end

• for: search engine bias, google privacy, orwellian, privacy protection, mind control, google bias
• title: Taming Big Tech: The Case for Monitoring
• date: May 14th 2018

• author: Robert Epstein

• quote

• paraphrase:
  • types of search engine bias
    • the Search Suggestion Effect (SSE),
    • the Answer Bot Effect (ABE),
    • the Targeted Messaging Effect (TME), and
    • the Opinion Matching Effect (OME), among others. -
  • Effects like these might now be impacting the
    • opinions,
    • beliefs,
    • attitudes,
    • decisions,
    • purchases and
    • voting preferences
  • of more than two billion people every day.

• for: climate change - evolutionary causes, cultural evolution - unsustainability, unsustainability
• definition: Anthroecological theory (AET)
  • This theory proposes that the ultimate cause of anthropogenic environmental change is multi-level selection for niche construction and ecosystem engineering

• for: polycrisis, Trumpism, Chaos, distraction, climate crisis, climate communication, complexity, adjacency climate change fossil fuel industry, adjacency climate change big oil, adjacency climate change politics big oil, quote adjacency climate change fossil fuel industry, quote adjacency climate change big oil
• key insight
  • claim
    • One big reason that big oil is funding GOP to keep the chaotic Trump story as the main headline is to foster distraction from climate change impacts
    • big news story in the US is Donald Trump and the election, climate change impacts of extreme weather is minimized
    • the distraction of politics from a chaotic GOP is perfect distraction for the masses to ignore climate change and for big oil to continue BAU
• paraphrase
• quote
  • when you take a step back and look at that part of the distraction and the chaos that Trump and these GOP trolls deliver
  • it's it's a wonderful Boon for the oil and gas industry and the Koch brothers and the guys that fund these campaigns and the federal Federalist Society that's owning the Supreme Court
  • they want to keep doing business as usual and the easiest way to do that is
    • to have this big chaotic GOP that ignores climate change and
    • to play into what they want
      • the mainstream media not focusing more on climate change let alone making those two connections
    • a lot of mainstream media is scared to make that connection because oil companies are paying the bills of CNN and every other network
• author
  • Noel Casler

• for: cosmolocal, quote, quote - cosmolocal
• paraphrase
  • acting locally with knowledge is how we bring about systemic change

• for: open source, indyweb, open learning commons, radical collaboration, individual / collective entanglement
• paraphrase
• quote
  • to live for the common good is a very good purpose but
  • purpose is a gift and the purpose of our life here on Earth is to change the environment which we met for something better because there is always an opportunity for something better
• author
  • Obiora Ike
• quote
  • I would urge us all to be in a learning mode and
  • we when we know things to be in a teaching mode also
  • that is propagating what we know
  • sharing it with others and
  • making this knowledge open source for the world and
  • especially to help train a young generation of new leaders who are going to be the ones that grapple with these problems
• author
  • Jeffrey Sachs

• for: extinction, hope, futures, radical collaboration, indyweb, TPF, SRG
• quote
  • people from all different aspects
    • all different kinds of business people
    • in governments
    • not just the finance people
    • but the environmental section and so on
  • they need to get together and discuss
    • calmly and
    • productively
  • what we can do to creating a new mindset
  • and we can only work out a future economy if people come in from these different sectors and
  • talk together
    • not in a controversial way but
    • in a way of we must find a solution
  • because humanity is not exempt from extinction
• author
  • Jane Goodall

• for: individual / collective entanglement, ubuntu M2W, human interbeing, quote, quote - John Mbiti, quote - human interbeing
• paraphrase
  • professor John Mbiti will always say "I am because we are since we are therefore I am:
• so my being is not just my being alone and being the richest in the world and owning everybody
  • my property has no meaning my wealth has no meaning
    • if it's not of service to the community
  • so if you come to my Village and many other villages in the African continent and someone says is a wealthy person but is not bringing his wealth to
    • Advanced education
    • Advanced roads and infrastructure
    • train people
    • support agriculture
  • people don't care he's not respected
  • but once you bring your wealth and no matter how poor you are that you are contributing to the society
  • you are considered great so these are the values we think we can start discussing in the International Community

• for: W2W, TPF, stats, inequality, wealth redistribution, wealth tax, quote, quote - wealth tax, quote - inequality, stats, stats - inequality, stats - wealth tax
• quote
• stats
  • An annual wealth tax of just 5% on multi-millionaires and billionaires
  • could raise US $1.7 trillion a year
  • enough to lift 2 billion people out of poverty
• author Institute for Policy (2023)
• comment
  • that breaks down to approximately $US 1,000 per person for 2 billion people from the 1% elites
  • this is pretty reasonable
  • W2W can begin with this simple VOLUNTARY ASK
  • if the multi-millionaires and billionaires do just this consistently, then it is so little from their coffers and they could avoid a wealth tax by simply stepping up voluntarily
  • Could W2W motivate them to?

• for: indyweb, silos, emptiness - example, entanglement - example, progress trap
• paraphrase
• quote
  • all the problems I've mentioned are being tackled by groups of people
  • sad thing is those people are often operating in silos just concerned to solve their particular problem
    • not realizing that if they don't have the whole picture they may solve their problem
    • and cause problems in other places
• author
  • Jane Goodall
• comment
  • the Indyweb and SRG strategy is designed specifically to mitigate progress traps through radical collaboration built into the communication and information system itself.

• for: TPF, cosmolocal, community as building block, city as building block, W2W, quote, quote - Brian Wong, citizen assemblies, bottom-up strategy
• paraphrase
• quote
  • the victims that suffer under over consumption over depletion and environmental degradation don't really have a say
  • so we want a fair World
  • At Large we need to start with Fair countries
    • and with Fair countries the prerequisite is
    • fair cities
  • what's needed here too is direct mechanisms by which
    • the people can have their voices heard
    • can hold Elites accountable and
    • fundamentally have an opportunity to partake in the designing of
      • the rules of the institutions and
      • of the outlying sort of overarching structures of their cities and therefore
    • we move from cities to countries and
    • from countries to the World At Large

• for: extinction, climate departure, Jane Goodall, quote, tapestry, thread,
• quote
  • we humans depend on the natural world
  • but what we depend on is healthy ecosystems that are made up of a complex mix of plants and animal species
  • each one has a role to play and I see it as like a beautiful living tapestry and as an animal or plant species disappears from that ecosystem it's like pulling out a thread
  • and if enough threads are pulled then the tapestry will hang in tatters and the ecosystem will disappear
• author
  • Jane Goodall

• for: quote, quote - W2W, quote - inequality, quote - jane goodall
• quote
  • there's the unsustainable lifestyle of so many of us
  • and I include myself
  • I have far more than I need and
  • some people take this to excess and they have way way way more than they could ever possibly need and
  • this is something that somehow we have to change
• comment
  • this supports the need for the W2W program

• for: stats, quote, stats - homophobia - war, quote - homophobia - war, evolution - homophobia, homophobia - war
• quote
• stats
  • estimates indicate that nearly 20-30% of our male ancestors died in intergroup conflicts
• comment
  • wow!

for: quote, art, quote - art, Adam Philips - quote - if the art legitimates cruelty, I think the art is not worth having. - author - Adam Philips

• for: collective interest,
• paraphrase
  • When the tribe is not a cohesive group but an assemblage of thousands or millions whose only commonality is the place they call home,
    • what exactly does the “collective interest” even mean?
  • By contrast, the interests of individuals and groups within the larger goup, such as
    • unlicensed gun owners,
    • protesters of various stripes, or
    • hate-mongers on social media
  • are pretty easy to delineate.
  • No surprise then that the dysfunctional courts often choose
    • personal interests over
    • an amorphous and undefinable “collective interest”.
• insight
  • reason why the judicial system often sides with a definitive, but often harmful group, over a vague but beneficial group
• quote
  • modernity has hollowed out the word "collective interest
• author
  • James Gien Wong
  • Stop Reset Go

• for: community, loss of community, alienation, separation, anonymous neighborhoods, representative democracy, unrepresentative democracy, together alone
• adjacency
  • community
  • representative democracy
  • anonymous neighborhoods
• comment
  • makes me think of this article:
    • https://hyp.is/go?url=https%3A%2F%2Finthesetimes.com%2Farticle%2Findustrial-agricultural-revolution-planet-earth-david-korten&group=world
  • I've long felt that modernity has hollowed out the original meaning of "community"
• quote
  • modernity has hollowed out the word community
• author
  • James Gien Wong
  • Stop Reset Go

• for: system change, institutional change, paradigm shift
• quote
  • "Human institutions are purely human creations.
  • Their only legitimate purpose is to serve the people on whom their existence ultimately depends.
  • If institutions fail to serve us, then it is our right to eliminate or transform them."
• Author
  • David Korten

• for: caste system, caste, inequality, carbon inequality,

• quote

  • "The surplus of life’s labor
  • is not sufficient to continue bearing the burden of a caste system
  • devoted to controlling the many so a few can indulge in egotistical displays of privilege on a dying Earth. -The more of humanity’s labor we devote to maintaining the system of domination (by the few),
  • the less that is available to secure life’s wellbeing (for all) and the more rapid the living system’s collapse."
• Author
  • David Korten

• parantheses

  • Stop Reset Go

• new adjacency

  • articulating inequality as a caste system

Kernighan’s law

• for: quote, truth, beauty
  • beauty is how truth feels

• for: inner/outer transformation, inner transformation, rapid whole system change
• quote
  • I think that there needs to be some kind of religion-scale energy or quality to the way in which human beings confront this problem
• author
  • Timothy Morton

• for: progress trap
• definition
• quote
  • progress trap
    • A progress trap is the condition in which we find ourselves when science, technology and industry create more problems than they can solve. Often inadvertently.
• author
  • Dan O'Leary
• source
  • https://www.progresstrap.org/2010/02/12/the-progress-trap/

• for: progress trap
• quote
  • Since humanity is a small product of nature, he can by definition not control nature. To believe that he can is a delusion.
• Author
  • Dan O'Leary

• key insight
• quote
  • if we want to end up with a world that is shaped by the best of us, rather than very often the worst of us,
    • we have to think carefully, we have to engineer a system.
    • think of the worst person for the job position you are hiring for
    • design the system to
      • screen that person out
      • if they do manage to get in, have oversight that can eliminate them from the post
      • have a system in place that looks upwards to the top position to scrutinize them and hold them accountable

• quote
  • power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely
• Author
  • Lord Acton
• Context
  • Lord Acton coined the term to whiitewash the brutality o Spanish Inquisition

• Quote
  • I try to remember that it's not me, John Seed, trying to protect the rainforest. Rather I'm part of the rainforest protecting myself. I am that part of the rainforest recently emerged into human thinking."
• Author
  • John Seed (in Macy, 1991: page 184)

• Quote

• quote
  • “If we want to continue to enjoy our rivers ‐ to swim in them,
    • walk beside them,
    • even drink their water ‐ we have to adopt the non‐dual perspective.
  • We have to meditate on being the rivers so that we can experience within ourselves the fears and hopes of the rivers.
  • If we cannot feel
    • the rivers,
    • the mountains,
    • the air,
    • the animals, and
    • other people
  • from within their own perspective,
  • the rivers will die and we will lose our chance for peace”
• comment
  • Thich Nhat Hahn's quote reflects
    • perspectival knowing
    • situatedness
    • dissolving dualistic barriers to achieve nondual integration and empathy
• Author
  • Thich Nhat Hahn

• quote
  • "“We will prosper in the pursuit of life, or we will perish in the pursuit of money. The choice is ours.”
• Author
  • David Korten

• quote
  • "We see virtually no prospect that the Wall Street system will transform itself from within.
  • Change depends on citizen’s working from outside the establishment
    • to create from the bottom up a New Economy based on new values and institutions."
• Author
  • David Korten

你循著空虛去尋找源頭，但那裡空無一人。 你終於意識到：從沒有誰處心積慮地制造了這一切﹐而是思想脫離了思想者，在我們無力反抗的維度反客為主。 它們肆無忌憚地蔓延，以至於無所不包。每當我們欲以批判去超越它們，批判就又成為新的養料。

很不幸，時間的流逝永遠不會停止。 時光如箭，你的過去在不停增多，你的未來在不斷減少，未知的可能性只會越來越少，而無法改變的後悔在累積成山。 你明白了嗎？ 口 我明白了 口 保持忽略

意義就是不被解析的，只在過程中有些意思，一旦得知真相就化為荒謬。 歸根結底，沒有任何意義，意義就是欺騙自己生活下去的謊言。 —那麼，謊言本身也是謊言嗎？

虛無主義的審視不解決什麼，將一些現象下個定義起個名字再去反對它也只是聊以自慰。 但切實問題是，我們在太多的信息下失去了實現自我價值的機會，看到永遠不會屬於我們的一切後，我們不再滿意了。

無彊——

命運的寵兒

正因為他總是抗爭

所以命運總是垂青

不斷將苦厄災難加諸其身.

並殷切盼望著他崩潰

• Third great separation

  • industrial agricultural revolution

    • Farming was a community affair, by necessity.
    • Nearly everyone in the United States lived on a farm, had lived on a farm, or knew someone who lived on a farm.
    • There was still a sense of connectedness to the land, the earth, through food and farming.
    • But ​“times changed” in rural America.

    • The industrialization of agriculture removed the necessity for community-based farming.

    • Farmers eventually lost their sense of connectedness to

      • their land,
      • to each other and
      • to their communities.
    • Consumers no longer know
      • who produces their food,
      • where it was produced, or
      • how it was produced.
    • What happens to food between the earth and the eater has become largely a mystery.
    • Food for family gatherings and religious holidays are of economic importance to the food industry,
      • but have little social or spiritual significance beyond following cultural traditions.
    • The dependence of humanity on the Earth for food is no less than during the early times of hunting and gathering,
      • but the sense of connectedness between the eater and the Earth has been lost.

• quote

  • Farming was a community affair, by necessity
  • What happens to food between the earth and the eater has become largely a mystery.

• quote
  • 2029 - AI will surpass human intelligence
  • 2049 - AI will be one billion X more intelligent than us

• quote
  • "There is a greater danger from artificial intelligence if we allow it to become self-designing for then it can improve itself rapidly when we may lose control"
• author
  • Stephen Hawking

• quote
  • "“Pandemic or not, I will still lie awake each night with the persistent and unpleasant thoughts of my certain death, but I will choose not to smother this existential dread or anxiety. Instead, I want to explore it, befriend it. I have learned that the only way to conquer the darkness is to venture through it,”
• Author
  • Jenna Lasky

• quote
  • "For many, Covid-19 was the rude awakening that death was not a long-distance relationship so much as a close neighbor."
• Author
  • Allison Hope

• quote -“If you can’t read or understand the ‘peer-reviewed science’ then you are open to being intimidated into fearful silence by those who can, or claim they can. And those people - drawn, as all green ‘thought leaders’ are, from the upper strata of society - will bring with them a worldview which treats the mass of humanity like so many cattle to be herded into the sustainable, zero-carbon pen.”

• comment

  • The problem can be extrapolated into language itself
  • Any word is just an abstraction and oversimplifies a complex reality
  • if we generalize this argument, it leads to the general claim that
    • abstraction leads to harmful conclusions as well

• quote
  • "paper enforces single sequence and there's no room for digression"
• author
  • Ted Nelson
• comment
  • Ted is alluding to the fact that our written text reflects SPOKEN text
  • Since spoken text is phonetic and produced by our vocal cords, and our vocal cords inherently only produce one sound at a time,
    • any written language that is built upon spoken language will reflect the same linear, sequential, temporal structure
  • with the advent of computing, and especially HTML, this becomes an UNNECESSARY LIMITATION

• quote
  • "when I was a teen, it seemed to me that paper was a prison"
• author
  • Ted Nelson

translation of diderot's antistrophe by user xocet

• "if we reverse this

  • if we have the best of us take charge
  • the best of us will tell AI
    • don't try to kill the the enemy,
      • try to reconcile with the enemy
    • don't try to create a competitive product
      • that allows me to lead with electric cars,
        • create something that helps all of us overcome global climate change
    • that's the interesting bit
      • the actual threat ahead of us is
        • not the machines at all
          • the machines are pure potential pure potential
        • the threat is how we're going to use them"

• comment

  • again, see Ronald Wright's quote above
  • it's very salient to this context

• comment
  • the machines are only coded to do what we tell them to do
  • Ronald' Wright's quote is very salient here
    • https://hyp.is/6Lb6Uv5NEe2ZerOrftOHfA/www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/321797-a-short-history-of-progress

• quote
  • "If we give up on human connection, we give up on the remainder of humanity"

• quote
  • "with great power comes great responsibility. We have disconnected power and responsibility."
    • "With great power comes great responsibility
    • We have disconnected power and responsibility
    • so today a 15 year old,
      • emotional without a fully developed prefrontal cortex to make the right decisions yet this is science and we developed our prefrontal cortex fully
      • and at age 25 or so with all of that limbic system emotion and passion
      • would buy a crispr kit and modify a rabbit to become a little more muscular and
      • let it loose in the wild
    • or an influencer who doesn't really know how far the impact of what they're posting online
      • can hurt and cause depression or
      • cause people to feel bad by putting that online
  • There is a disconnect between the power and the responsibility and
  • the problem we have today is that
    • there is a disconnect between those who are writing the code of AI and
    • the responsibility of what's going about to happen because of that code and
    • I feel compassion for the rest of the world
    • I feel that this is wrong
    • I feel that for someone's life to be affected by the actions of others
      • without having a say "

• quote
  • "what went wrong in the 20th century is that we have given too much power to people that didn't assume the responsbility"

• quote
  • "this is an arms race"

• Quote worthy
  • "“Protracted immaturity and dependence on paternal care
    • is not an unfortunate byproduct of our evolution
    • but instead a highly adaptive trait of our species,
    • which has enabled human infants to
      • efficiently organize attention to social agents and
      • learn efficiently from social output,”
  • “The evolutionary goal of altricial species is
    • not to become highly competent as quickly as possible
    • but rather to excel at learning over time.”
• Authors
  • Michael Goldstein,
  • Katerina Faust,
  • Samantha Carouso-Peck
  • Mary R. Elson

• the beauty of perceptual immaturity in altricial species is that
• it makes learning easier by reducing the complexity of the world,” the researchers wrote.
• Parents are key to altricial learning, Goldstein said,
  • forming a two-way system of feedback.
• Far from being passive recipients, he said,
  • infants of many species can change the behavior of their parents
  • in ways that actively shape their own developments.

• Quote worthy
  • "“Rather than requiring hard-wired, innate knowledge of social abilities, evolution has outsourced the necessary information to parents”
    • Authors
      • Michael Goldstein,
      • Katerina Faust,
      • Samantha Carouso-Peck
      • Mary R. Elson

• Title
  • The Origins of Social Knowledge in Altricial Species,
• Journal
  • The Annual Review of Developmental Psychology, - -
• Publication Date
  • Dec, 2021
• Authors
• Michael Goldstein,
• Katerina Faust,
  • Samantha Carouso-Peck and
  • Mary R. Elson

• quote worthy
  • "we already have a whole generation of young people
  • who are already hybrid cyborgs
  • They live half their life on the internet"
    • host quoting Elise Bohan from her book

• Comment

  • This gets to the core of the contention of the humanist vs the transhumanist

• Quote Worthy

  • " I think to me there's a tragic quality to that
  • which we just have to embrace and
  • we have to lean into
    • the The Human Condition is in the sense
    • a tragic one and
    • trying to argue our way out of that via technology
    • is hubris which as the Greeks would suggest to us from a long time ago ends up with Nemesis"
  • Mary Harrington

• Comment

  • Elise says
    • "there is this growing Chasm between
      • our Paleolithic brains and
      • what we're designed for and
        • the niches we're built to inhabit and this new technologically infused world that we're living in
    • We have changed our environment so rapidly and so radically and we have not kept pace with that change
      • so either we keep changing the environment or
      • we change ourselves to fit the environment and
      • I think the fact that we're consistently making these commodified decisions in which
        • we do expunge more and more of our of our Humanity in favor of profit
        • in favor of short-term decisions i
        • n favor of such abysmal thinking when it comes to complex systems like the human body
      • it is a testament to the fact that these brains are not built for this world and
      • we are not going to be adequate stewards of this system
        • that is now so complex that to keep it held together
      • you actually need a new form of intelligence beyond what we are"
  • Elise Bohan' statements perfectly echo Ronald Wright's famous quote on the nature of progress traps
    • “To use a computer analogy, we are running twenty-first-century software on hardware last upgraded 50,000 years ago or more. This may explain quite a lot of what we see in the news.”
    • https://hyp.is/go?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.goodreads.com%2Fwork%2Fquotes%2F321797-a-short-history-of-progress&group=world

• comment

  • I think, however, that Wright would agree more with Mary and less with Elise in Elise's contention that
    • we need a new form of intelligence beyond what we are
    • applying progress to our own cognitive abilities
      • may create the biggest progress trap of all

• quote worthy

• "far from delivering Utopia

  • what it mostly delivers is a commodification of the human body
  • that disproportionately benefits those who already have power and privilege."

  • Mary Harrington

  • I don't think we can put this back in its box in that again

  • I agree with you but to my eye the proper response to this era is
    • not stamping our foot on the accelerator but
    • two-fold resistance and a two or perhaps even just a two-fold note of caution
      • firstly in retaining a humanist anthropology in defiance of all those currently sawing away at the branch we're sitting on and
      • secondly in mounting a vigorous defense of those without power
        • now increasingly at the sharp end of biotech's unacknowledged glass politics

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  • "you'd have to be wildly optimistic to think we can blithely Market marketize over greater swathes of our embodied selves without opening new Vistas for class asymmetry and exploitation and it makes no sense to argue that we will stay well protected against such risks by moral safeguards at least not within a transhumanist paradigm because transhumanism itself requires an all-out assault on the humanist anthropology that underpins those moral safeguards you can't have transhumanism without throwing out humanism "
  • Mary Harrington

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  • “To use a computer analogy, we are running twenty-first-century software on hardware last upgraded 50,000 years ago or more. This may explain quite a lot of what we see in the news.”
  • Ronald Wright

• This is how wealthy individuals or corporations
  • translate their economic power
  • into political and cultural power
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• Quote
  • "Assembly theory was developed to capture my intuition that complex molecules can’t just emerge into existence because the combinatorial space is too vast,"
  • Author
    • Lee Cronin

Tom Perrotta

Jillian Weise

Ernest Hemingway

John Gardener

P.D. James

Meg Wolitzer

“Don’t Write What You Know,” by Bret Anthony Johnston

Nathan Englander

Quote - Let us remember that - our knowledge of the world begins - not with matter - but with perceptions. - I know for sure that - my pain exists, - my ‘green’ exists, - and my ‘sweet’ exists - … everything else is a theory. - Later we find out that our perceptions obey some laws, <br /> - which can be most conveniently formulated - if we assume that there is some underlying reality - beyond our perceptions. - This model of the material world obeying laws of physics - is so successful - that soon we forget about our starting point and say - that matter is the only reality, - and perceptions are only helpful for its description.

Author Andrei Linde - https://www.scienceandnonduality.com/article/universe-life-consciousness-by-andrei-linde

Quote - Our argument for a mental world does not entail or imply - that the world is merely one’s own personal hallucination or act of imagination. - Our view is entirely naturalistic: - the mind that underlies the world - is a transpersonal mind behaving according to natural laws. - It comprises but far transcends any individual psyche…. - The claim is thus that the dynamics of all inanimate matter in the universe - correspond to transpersonal mentation, - just as an individual’s brain activity - which is also made of matter - corresponds to personal mentation.

Author - Henry Stapp - Bernardo Kastrup - Menas C. Kafatos - https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/coming-to-grips-with-the-implications-of-quantum-mechanics/

Quote - AI Gedanken - AI risk - The Paperclip Maximizer

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  • carbon inequality stat
    • 1% of the world's population is responsible for 50% of emissions from commercial air transport

yacht stats - 2021: 5245 superyachts of lengths 30-180m - 1990: 1090 superyachts of lengths 30-180m - stats - yachts - quote - yachts

Quotable carbon inequality stats: - the top 1% responsible for 17% of total emissions, - the top 10% for 48%, - the bottom 50% for12% - stats carbon inequality - quote carbon inequality - 2019

// A key question is also this: - what are individuals using those carbon emissions for? - is it being used just for luxury consumption - or is it being used to develop and actionize scalable low carbon strategies? - if it is the later, it could be seen as a de-carbon investment

Yacht stats: - close to two thirds of the overall carbon footprint of those billionaires owning yachts is caused by yacht-ownership. - Carbon footprint is - 6500 times greater than the global average of 4.5 t CO2 per person per year, - 300,000 times greater than the poorest, at 0.1 t CO2 per person and year - stats - carbon inequality - quote - carbon inequality

Quotable carbon inequality stats: - top 0.01% emit more than 2300 t CO2-e per capita in 2019, - global average is 6 t CO2-e - therefore, the top 0.01% emit 2300/6 = 383x more than the global average. - quote - carbon inequality - stats - carbon inequality

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  • A hundred years ago, the robber barons built libraries. Today they build spaceships.
  • Author Quinn Slobodian

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