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the Bodhisattva vow can be seen as a method for control that is in alignment with, and informed by, the understanding that singular and enduring control agents do not actually exist. To see that, it is useful to consider what it might be like to have the freedom to control what thought one had next.
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quote: Michael Levin
- the Bodhisattva vow can be seen as a method for control that is in alignment with, and informed by, the understanding that singular and enduring control agents do not actually exist.
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- adjacency between
- nondual awareness
- self-construct
- self is illusion
- singular, solid, enduring control agent
- adjacency statement
- nondual awareness is the deep insight that there is no solid, singular, enduring control agent.
- creativity is unpredictable and spontaneous and would not be possible if there were perfect control
- adjacency between
- example - control agent - imperfection: start - the unpredictability of the realtime emergence of our next exact thought or action is a good example of this
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example - control agent - imperfection: end
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triggered insight: not only are thoughts and actions random, but dreams as well
- I dreamt the night after this about something related to this paper (cannot remember what it is now!)
- Obviously, I had no clue the idea in this paper would end up exactly as it did in next night's dream!
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- spontaneous thought
- unintended consequences - AI
- creativity - spontaneity
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- quote - self as control agent
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- quote - Michael Levin
- spontaneous action
- triggered insight - singular and enduring control agent does not exist
- adjacency
- adjacency - illusory self - full control
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- Aug 2023
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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.”
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- 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
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Technological change is an accelerant and acts on the social ills like pouring gasoline on a fire
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- 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.
- the explosion in technologies over the past 30 years has only
- 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.
- characterized by
- 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.
- In an uncontrolled hyper-capitalist society,
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with new technologies come new crimes and criminals – opportunities for all!
-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
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Experts Predict More Digital Innovation by 2030 Aimed at Enhancing Democracy
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- 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:
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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.
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- 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.
- tribalism driven by gossip and the ability of anybody to inform anybody else about anything,
- 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.
- What won’t change is people’s tendency toward gossip,
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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
- 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
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Can our fundamental human need for close community be restored or will we become more isolated, anxious and susceptible to manipulation?
- 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
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