Why note-taking apps don't make us smarter by [[Casey Newton]]

Newton takes a thin view of the eternal question of information overload and whether or not AI might improve the situation. No serious results...

for - paper review - Hard Problem and Free Will: An Information-Theoretical Approach - Giacomo Mauro D’Ariano & Federico Faggin

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5:54 - what is awareness (or consciousness)? - it is the "feeling of the information processing

for - David Chalmers - hard problem of consciousness - citation - Federico Faggin - Giacomo Mauro D'ariano - Hard Problem and Free Will: An Information-Theoretical Approach

Comment - Federico Faggins, in other talks emphasizes that - consciousness is not an epi-phenomena of materalism, but rather - consciousness is a foundational experience and materialism is derived from it -

for - private inner world - quantum information theory explanation - Federico Faggin and Giocomo Mauro D'Ariano

for - Giocomo Mauro D'Ariano - Federico Faggin - Hard Problem and Free Will: An Information-Theoretical Approach - consciousness research

reference - youtube discussion of this paper by Giocomo Mauro D'Ariano - https://via.hypothes.is/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDb1XyS8gTo

for - quote - classical physics supervenes on quantum physics, which supervenes on quantum information, which supervenes on consciousness - Federico Faggin - Giocomo Mauro D'Ariano

for - definition - quantum-information panpsychism - Federico Faggin

definition - quantum-information panpsychism - Federico Faggin - The idea that consciousness is fundamental for information and physics supervening on quantum information

for - squeezing down and re-expanding - Michael Levin

1:07:30 The mind prioritises emotional information.

46:00 Social anxiety as "disordered attention" (HealthyGamer) where we fixate on certain signals too much. It warps incoming information. Positive signals are filtered out and attention is fixated on negative information.

54:00 "Distorting the flow of information" (also see Mihaly jump) Information is internal based rather than external (because attention is internally directed rather than externally).

Reminds me of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi his notion of psychic entropy where consciousness is essentially disordered. One can say that social anxiety contributes to entropy.

for - Federico Faggin - quantum physics - consciousness

summary - Frederico Faggin is a physicist and microelectronic engineer who was the developer of the world's first microprocessor at Intel, the Intel 4004 CPU. - Now he focuses his attention on developing a robust and testable theory of consciousness based on quantum information theory. - What sets Frederico apart from other scientists who are studying consciousness is a series of profound personal 'awakening'-type experiences in which has led to a psychological dissolution of the sense of self bounded by his physical body - This profound experience led him to claim with unshakable certainty that our individual consciousness is far greater than our normal mundane experience of it - Having a science and engineering background, Faggin has set out to validate his experiences with a new scientific theory of Consciousness, Information and Physicality (CIP) and Operational Probabilistic Theory (OPT)

to - Frederico Faggin's website - https://hyp.is/JTGs6lr9Ee-K8-uSXD3tsg/www.fagginfoundation.org/what-we-do/j - Federico Faggin and paper: - Hard Problem and Free Will: - an information-theoretical approach - https://hyp.is/styU2lofEe-11hO02KJC8w/link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-85480-5_5

for - definition - Consciousness Information and Physicality (CIP) - definition - Operational Probabilistic Theory (OPT)

for - quantum-information-based-panpsychism - consciousness - relationship - quantum information - to consciousness

consciousness - relationship - quantum information - to consciousness - classical physics supervenes on quantum physics - quantum physics supervenes on quantum information - quantum information supervenes on consciousness

for - Hard Problem and Free Will - an information-theoretical approach - consciousness research - Federico Faggin - Giocomo Mauro D'Ariano

This person argues that one should cultivate a personal library, the tangibleness of the physical, to safeguard knowledge and prevent information control from falling to a single institution or person, so that they may never control the past.

I think he should go deeper into his argument, I do not fully understand what he means.

for - neuroscience - memories - reconstructed in the present - with new information - Indyweb - talking to our old selves - memories

for - search - google - high resolution addressing of disaggregated text corpus mapped to graph - search results of interest - high resolution addressing of disaggregated text corpus mapped to graph

search - google - high resolution addressing of disaggregated text corpus mapped to graph - https://www.google.com/search?q=high+resolution+addressing+of+disaggregated+text+corpus+mapped+to+graph&oq=high+resolution+addressing+of+disaggregated+text+corpus+mapped+to+graph&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOTIHCAEQIRigATIHCAIQIRigAdIBCTMzNjEzajBqN6gCALACAA&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

to - search results of interest - high resolution addressing of disaggregated text corpus mapped to graph - A New Method for Graph-Based Representation of Text in - The use of a new text representation method to predict book categories based on the analysis of its content resulted in accuracy, precision, recall and an F1- ... - https://hyp.is/H9UAbk46Ee-PT_vokcnTqA/www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/10/12/4081 - Encoding Text Information with Graph Convolutional Networks - According to our understanding, this is the first personality recognition study to model the entire user text information corpus as a heterogeneous graph and ... - https://hyp.is/H9UAbk46Ee-PT_vokcnTqA/www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/10/12/4081

for - Indyweb information page - Open Collective Indyweb

from - Paper Review - Participatory Systems Mapping - https://hyp.is/FSRodE0QEe-Z26cIILK6sw/journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1356389020980493

Note to self: - Transient = Fading - Non-Transient = Permanent

Johns, Adrian. The Science of Reading: Information, Media, and Mind in Modern America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2023. https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/S/bo183629196.html

for - climate crisis - disconnect between - levers of power - and information of what is happening

climate crisis - disconnect between - levers of power - and information of what is happening - there is an abundance of scientific information available to political leaders, yet - they are failing to make the necessary decisions - why?

secondary sources are great sources of quality interpretation.

makes me think of roundups or curation

Comment by chrisaldrich: "Information" is another word that might fit into this group of over-saddled words.

for - AI - inside industry predictions to 2034 - Leopold Aschenbrenner - inside information on disruptive Generative AI to 2034

document description - Situational Awareness - The Decade Ahead - author - Leopold Aschenbrenner

summary - Leopold Aschenbrenner is an ex-employee of OpenAI and reveals the insider information of the disruptive plans for AI in the next decade, that pose an existential threat to create a truly dystopian world if we continue going down our BAU trajectory. - The A.I. arms race can end in disaster. The mason threat of A.I. is that humans are fallible and even one bad actor with access to support intelligent A.I. can post an existential threat to everyone - A.I. threat is amplifier by allowing itt to control important processes - and when it is exploited by the military industrial complex, the threat escalates significantly

• to - YouTube - 4 hour in-depth interview with Leopold Aschenbrenner on the disruptive and existential impacts of A.I. super-intelligence
  • https://hyp.is/zk8hdjEoEe-EIHtdo3U81w/www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdbVtZIn9IM

for - key insight - low security at top AI labs - high risk of information theft ending up in wrong hands

https://niklas-luhmann-archiv.de/bestand/literatur/item/shannon_weaver_1949_communication

Overlap of Claude Shannon and Niklas Luhmann

for - adjacency - open source - Stop Reset Go complexity mapping - objective - Nora Bateson comment on more information - diversity - Indyweb/Indranet - progress trap mitigation

adjacency - between - Nora Bateson comment - Stop Reset Go complexity mapping<br /> - open source - progress trap mitigation - Indyweb/Indranet

• adjacency relationship
  • When Nora talks about the
    • oversimplified,
    • reductionist
  • problem-solving approach that most of modernity employs to tackle wicked problems,
  • it boils down to oversimplification.
  • There are usually far more causes and conditions to a problem than are known to construct the solution
  • In Deep Humanity praxis, this is how we get into progress traps, the shadow side of progress
    • https://jonudell.info/h/facet/?max=100&expanded=true&user=stopresetgo&exactTagSearch=true&any=progress+trap
  • The Stop Reset Go complexity mapping system is designed to reveal greater information by
    • creating a space for diverse perspectives to systematically engage in addressing the same wicked problem
  • This system must be open source in order to create the space for maximum diversity
  • The Stop Reset Go process is specifically designed as a workspace for diversity for the purpose of
    • mitigating progress traps and
    • helping find more effective ways to address wicked problems
  • This is done by using Trailmark Markin notation within the Indyweb/Indranet people-centered, interpersonal software ecosystem

ref: Charles F. Richardson, The Choice of Books (New York: American Book Exchange, 1881), 6. The publication estimate came from a librarian, F. B. Perkins.

04:00 Maurits says that information is everything. It differentiates those who make it versus those who don't.

think-pair-share

Résumé de la vidéo [00:00:00][^1^][1] - [00:26:04][^2^][2]:

Cette vidéo est un webinaire gratuit qui traite des informations préoccupantes (IP) et des signalements concernant la protection des personnes vulnérables. Les intervenantes, Karine TEP et Elsa Bertanio, psychologues spécialisées, discutent des modalités d'adressage et des enjeux pour les professionnels face aux mineurs en danger.

Points forts: + [00:00:00][^3^][3] Introduction au webinaire * Présentation du sujet et des intervenantes * Importance de la protection des personnes vulnérables + [00:03:00][^4^][4] Définitions et procédures * Distinction entre signalement et information préoccupante * Processus d'écriture et destinataires des signalements + [00:10:00][^5^][5] Maltraitance et signalement * Caractéristiques de la maltraitance familiale * Importance du signalement pour prévenir les violences + [00:15:00][^6^][6] Levée du secret professionnel * Obligations légales et déontologiques des psychologues * Conditions pour rompre le secret professionnel + [00:20:00][^7^][7] Cas spécifiques et soutien professionnel * Particularités de l'inceste et des adultes vulnérables * Ressources et soutien pour les professionnels en libéral Résumé de la vidéo [00:26:06][^1^][1] - [00:51:20][^2^][2]:

Cette vidéo est un webinaire qui traite des informations préoccupantes (IP) et des signalements en France, en se concentrant sur les aspects légaux et les responsabilités des professionnels de santé, notamment les médecins et les psychologues. Elle aborde la délicate question du secret professionnel face à l'obligation de signaler les cas de violence, en particulier ceux impliquant des mineurs et des situations de violence conjugale.

Points forts: + [00:26:06][^3^][3] Secret professionnel et obligation de signalement * Discussion sur la levée du secret professionnel pour signaler des violences * Jurisprudence établissant que les psychologues sont également soumis au secret professionnel + [00:27:29][^4^][4] Protection des mineurs et conséquences d'un signalement * Importance de la protection des mineurs et risques associés au signalement * Cas d'une psychologue assassinée après avoir signalé des abus + [00:30:00][^5^][5] Recommandations de la commission indépendante sur l'inceste * Nécessité de croire les victimes et de se positionner à leur côté pour une protection efficace * Critique de la culture professionnelle et judiciaire actuelle + [00:37:01][^6^][6] Procédures suite à un signalement * Différentes réponses possibles du parquet à un signalement * Importance de l'évaluation de l'urgence et du danger pour l'enfant + [00:39:02][^7^][7] Stratégies pour les professionnels face aux signalements * Conseils pour ne pas rester isolé et pour gérer les émotions liées au contre-transfert * Utilisation du 119 et autres ressources pour les professionnels en cabinet libéral + [00:43:01][^8^][8] Unité Coralis et prise en charge des victimes de viol * Présentation de l'unité Coralis à la Maison des Femmes de Saint-Denis * Procédure pour les victimes de viol pour obtenir des preuves sans réquisition de la police Résumé de la vidéo [00:51:21][^1^][1] - [01:05:23][^2^][2]:

Cette partie du webinaire aborde les procédures relatives aux Informations Préoccupantes (IP) et aux signalements en France, en particulier dans le contexte de la protection de l'enfance. Les experts discutent des situations où il est nécessaire de protéger les mineurs, notamment en cas d'inceste ou de danger imminent, et de la manière de communiquer avec les autorités judiciaires pour assurer la sécurité des enfants.

Points forts: + [00:51:21][^3^][3] Protection des mineurs * Importance de la protection immédiate en cas de danger * Communication avec la justice pour la sécurité des enfants * Signalement au procureur dans un langage adapté à l'âge de l'enfant + [00:52:40][^4^][4] Cas de pensées suicidaires * Évaluation des envies suicidaires et prise de décision éclairée * Différenciation entre les diverses causes de pensées suicidaires * Importance de la protection et de l'intervention en cas de risque vital + [00:56:17][^5^][5] Dilemmes institutionnels * Difficultés rencontrées par les professionnels face à des institutions réticentes * Droit et devoir de signaler indépendamment de l'avis institutionnel * Importance de la collaboration et du soutien entre professionnels

Die rohölproduktion in den USA wird in diesem Jahr ein Rekord-Hoch erreichen Etwa 25% der US-Emissionen werden durch Öl und Gas verursacht, das auf Bundesterritorien gefördert wird. Die New York Times zeigt ausgehend von einem Beispiel im Golf von Mexiko, warum es angesichts der Mehrheitsverhältnisse in Repräsentantenhaus und Senat und des konservativen obersten Gerichtshofs für die für die Biden-Administration extrem schwierig ist, die Zusage, dort keine weiteren Bohrungen zuzulassen, umzusetzen.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/28/climate/biden-drilling-leases.html

07:30 At the root of cybernetics and Chris his research lies the question of communication. This combines his interests of mnemonics, orality, cybernetics, et al. (literacy, indigenous people)

08:12 Even music and dance can be used to transmit information from one generation to the other.

In Myanmar wurde ein Journalist zu 20 Jahren Gefängnis verurteilt, weil er über die Folgen des Zyklons Mocha im Mai berichtet hatte. Der Sturm hatte mindestens 148 Todesopfer gefordert. Die Schäden trafen vor allem die Minderheit der Rohingya. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/07/myanmar-journalist-jailed-for-20-years-for-cyclone-coverage

In 1983, at the dawn of the personal computer age, Apple Inc. in promotional film entitled "Lisa Soul Of A New Machine" touted their new computer, a 16-bit dual disk drive "personal office system", as something that would do away with "the cluttered desk, index cards, file folders, the in-out basket, [and] the calculator." (00:01)

Some of these things moved to the realm of the computer including the messy desk(top) now giving people two messy desks, a real one and a virtual one. The database-like structure of the card index also moved over, but the subjective index and its search power were substituted for a lower level concordance search.

30 years on, for most people, the value of the database idea behind the humble "index card" has long since disappeared and so it seems here as if it's "just" another piece of cluttery paper.

Appreciate the rosy framing of the juxtaposition of "past" and "future" jumping over the idea of the here and now which includes the thing they're selling, the Lisa computer. They're selling the idealized and unclear future even though it's really just today.

in ¶90-96 he provides some advice about selection and discrimination of reading sources and materials for indexing as a means of cutting down on the information overload problem

Some of his factors include: - relying on experience in a field/area to narrow down - limiting one's scope of activity - staying away from reference books (dictionaries, encyclopedias - discriminate in favor of the specific versus the general - don't admit duplicative literature (unless one is working syntopically—though he doesn't admit this caveat), and prefer the most authoritative sources - prefer authoritative authors, when given, but make space for new writers who may be more careful in their writing and argumentation - discriminate by style and composition and in particular stay away from pernicious advertising-related material (today he might advocate away from listicles, content farms, etc.)

The root problem of information overload.

Everything he highlights here is still present over a century later and only amplified to the nth degree.

A quote from 1908 about information overload, though not as heavy-handed as other examples, but still complaint-like in nature.

This is the reasoning for why we'll want an indexed system. The vast wealth of information may be overwhelming, but with the ability to organize and control it (by writing it down and indexing it) we can turn it into something useful.

While using different verbiage, Kaiser is talking about the idea of information overload here and providing the means to tame it by appropriately breaking it up into pieces upon which we might better apply our energies to turn it into something.

Part of Luhmann's practice in looking up ideas to place in his zettelkasten first was a means of preventing duplication of ideas. If an idea is repeated, that can be noted on the extant card as evidence that others see the idea too or one can compare the potential subtle differences as a means of expanding the space.

Eliminating duplication also assists in the ratchet effect of collecting information and connecting it.

Note Kaiser's repeated use of "control" within the book as an ongoing theme. He, like many is looking to overcome information overload, but frames it within a system which provides readers and knowledge workers with control over it.

He doesn't mention information overload as a phrase, but hints at it in earlier portions. (where? find an example)

First, ask yourself if the item is actionable. Then, series of stuff you might do: throw away, reference, someday/maybe, incubate (calendar/tickler)

Hartlib Papers 30/4/47A, Ephemerides 1640, Part 2.

In extolling the Ark of Studies created by Thomas Harrison, Samuel Hartlib indicated that the combinations of information and the potential links between them created the "argumentative part" of the system. In some sense this seems to be analogous to the the processing power of an information system if not specifically creating its consciousness.

1:35:00 The gap effect or spacing effect as time interleaved wherein information is processed. Embracing boredom and taking none stimulative breaks aids in this.

Listened to [[Jorge Arango]] in Alex Wright on Informatica from 2023-08-13

Burke, Colin B. Information and Intrigue: From Index Cards to Dewey Decimals to Alger Hiss. History and Foundations of Information Science. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2014. https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262027021/information-and-intrigue/

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Résumé de la vidéo [00:00:03][^1^][1] - [00:23:44][^2^][2] : Ce webinaire présente le guide d'évaluation pour les enfants en danger ou risque de danger, élaboré par la Haute Autorité de Santé en France. Il explique l'importance d'une approche pluridisciplinaire et interactive dans l'évaluation, en mettant l'accent sur les besoins fondamentaux de l'enfant et la capacité des parents à y répondre.

Points forts : + [00:00:03][^3^][3] Introduction du webinaire * Présentation des intervenants et du sujet + [00:01:31][^4^][4] Contexte de l'élaboration du guide * Réponse aux difficultés identifiées dans divers rapports + [00:02:09][^5^][5] Objectifs du guide * Améliorer la qualité des évaluations et harmoniser les pratiques + [00:03:02][^6^][6] Structure du guide * Trois livres avec un préambule et une boîte à outils + [00:04:23][^7^][7] Le Livre 3 : Guide d'accompagnement à l'évaluation * Destiné aux professionnels évaluant la situation d'un enfant + [00:18:12][^8^][8] Construction de la conclusion * Caractérisation de la situation et établissement des préconisations Résumé de la vidéo [00:23:47][^1^][1] - [00:50:32][^2^][2]:

Cette partie de la vidéo aborde le guide d'évaluation pour les enfants en danger ou risque de danger, soulignant l'importance des formations, l'application des recommandations et la collaboration entre professionnels pour une évaluation efficace.

Points clés: + [00:24:01][^3^][3] Formation et appropriation * Importance des formations continues * Appropriation des recommandations par les professionnels + [00:25:00][^4^][4] Guide d'évaluation et loi * Distinction entre recommandations et obligations légales * Les recommandations visent à accompagner les professionnels + [00:26:24][^5^][5] Santé et évaluation * La santé est centrale dans l'évaluation * Recommandation d'une approche binôme avec un professionnel de santé + [00:31:01][^6^][6] Antécédents et situation familiale * Évaluation globale incluant les antécédents familiaux * Importance des événements passés dans l'évaluation actuelle + [00:37:23][^7^][7] Compétences parentales * Définition et exemples de compétences parentales * Impact des compétences sur les besoins fondamentaux de l'enfant + [00:39:27][^8^][8] Organisation de l'évaluation * Gestion des situations avec parents résidant dans différents départements * Stratégies pour une évaluation coordonnée et efficace Résumé de la vidéo [00:50:35][^1^][1] - [00:58:51][^2^][2]: La vidéo aborde l'évaluation des enfants en danger ou à risque, en mettant l'accent sur la collaboration interdisciplinaire et l'importance de l'implication des acteurs territoriaux. Elle souligne également l'accessibilité du guide d'évaluation pour tous les professionnels et la nécessité de l'accord parental pour échanger avec l'enfant.

Points forts: + [00:50:35][^3^][3] Évaluation des enfants * Importance de la collaboration * Implication des acteurs territoriaux + [00:53:18][^4^][4] Accessibilité du guide * Utile pour tous les professionnels * Accord parental nécessaire + [00:57:31][^5^][5] Suivi et retours d'expérience * Comité de suivi pour le cadre de référence * Retour d'expérience prévu dans 18 mois

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fxh-T7QfoUc

09:00 Body and identity disappears — how I feel, what other people think — when in flow/ecstasy. We can't process more information when we are fully engaged with one task. "Existence is temporarily suspended"

08:00 New information gives dopamine. Distraction arises from too many information that is goal irrelevant.

Lima, Manuel. The Power of Networks. RSA ANIMATE, 2012. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJmGrNdJ5Gw.

Software and applications for creating visualizations of zettelkasten contents: - Tinderbox (Mac) - Apple's Freeform (app) - Obsidian Canvas - Excalidraw (plugin for Obsidian) - Scrintal - Heptabase - Card Buddy (Mac) - AFFiNE (https://github.com/toeverything/AFFiNE)

https://forum.zettelkasten.de/discussion/2797/an-app-to-represent-a-zettelkasten-or-parts-of-it-visually

https://incompetech.com/graphpaper/

Reminder: is there a GitHub project that has LaTeX layouts like these?

Combating disinformation with literacy

For better or for worse—whether the driver was an idealistic view of the world or the effect of an experimental network that got bigger than anyone could imagine—the internet is a permissive technology. The intelligence of the network is built into the edges...the center core routes packets of data without understanding the contents. I think Cerf is arguing here that the evaluation of content is something best done at the edge, too...in the minds of the internet participants.

Does information overload prevent us from using knowledge more effectively? Are we distracted by the mundane?

https://web.archive.org/web/20231228181017/https://www.historyofinformation.com/index.php large resource on the history of information, presented in timelines. Useful for finding earliest examples of certain artefacts (not methods though)

Shannon, Claude E., Norbert Wiener, Frances A. Yates, Gregory Bateson, Michel Foucault, Friedrich. A. Hayek, Walter Benjamin, et al. Information: A Reader. Edited by Eric Hayot, Lea Pao, and Anatoly Detwyler. New York: Columbia University Press, 2021. https://doi.org/10.7312/hayo18620.

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Noticing after starting to read that this chapter is an abridged excerpt of the original, so I'm switching to the original 1945 version.

See: https://hypothes.is/a/dZRmapquEe66Ehf7Emie3Q

Is it possible that in this paper we'll see the beginning of a shift from Adam Smith's "invisible hand" (of Divine Providence, or God) to a somewhat more scientifically based mechanism based on information theory?

Could communication described here be similar to that of a fungal colony seeking out food across gradients? It's based in statistical mechanics of exploring a space, but looks like divine providence or even magic to those lacking the mechanism?

Hayek, Friedrich A. “The Use of Knowledge in Society.” The American Economic Review 35, no. 4 (1945): 519–30.

See also, notes at abbreviated version in Information: A Reader (2021). (@Shannon2021)

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The mind holds a set of goals. It either discards or integrates incoming information based on these goals.

• see ZK on goals and projects as information filters

1:04:00 Build information capital and social capital

Zedelmaier, 1992). All the same, a range of figures have tracked and critiqued the trajectory of the ‘noble dream’ of historical and scientific ‘objectivity’ (Appleby, Hunt and Jacob, 1994: 241-70; Daston and Galison, 2007; Novick, 1988).

Lustig categorizes scholarship on card indexes into two modes: understanding of information overload tools and the "trajectory of the 'noble dream' of historical and scientific 'objectivity'".

O’Byrne, W. Ian, Doug Belshaw, and Laura Hilliger. “Promoting Informed Citizenship in a Connected World: Advancing Media and Information Literacy.” Google Docs, November 10, 2023. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ztAJGD-6KooF3ligI0H9DChpBdc-ROBdCLXJDbaTJm4/edit.

Many confidence games rely on information imbalance in the gaps between old and new ways of doing things.

This was certainly true in the 19 C. as well as with technology changes in the 20th and 21st C.

https://theinformed.life/

Hosted by Jorge Arango (https://jarango.com/)

https://jarango.com/

One of the primary problems with note taking in most of the mid-twentieth century (and potentially well before, particularly as framed in most educational settings) was that students would take notes, potentially review them once or twice for a test, but then not have easy access to them for later review or reuse.

People collected piles of notes without any ability to reuse or review them. Perhaps we should reframe the collector's fallacy as this: collection without reuse has dramatically decreasing returns. Certainly there may be some small initial benefit in writing it down as a means of sense making, but not reviewing it past a short period of two weeks or even several months and not being able to reuse it in the long term is a travesty, especially in a world of information overload.

Advancing media and information literacy Bryan Alexander interviews Laura Hilliger, Ian O'Byrne, and Doug Belshaw

With discussion of Promoting Informed Citizenship in a Connected World: Advancing Media and Information Literacy preprint version available at: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ztAJGD-6KooF3ligI0H9DChpBdc-ROBdCLXJDbaTJm4/edit

https://soundcloud.com/tao-of-wao/sets/season-8

Podcast of the We are Open co-op<br /> https://blog.weareopen.coop/

https://ailiteracy.fyi/

Doug Belshaw joint

• for: MET, MST, MCT, FET, MET - information, MST - information, Amanda N. Robin, major evolutionary transition, major system transition, facilitating evolutionary transition

• Title:Major Evolutionary Transitions and the Roles of Facilitation and Information in Ecosystem Transformations

• Author: Robin et al.

• Date: 2021

• Abstract

  • A small number of extraordinary “Major Evolutionary Transitions” (METs) have attracted attention among biologists.
  • They comprise novel forms of
    • individuality and
    • information,

  • and are defined in relation to organismal complexity, irrespective of broader ecosystem-level effects.

  • This divorce between

    • evolutionary and
    • ecological consequences

  • qualifies unicellular eukaryotes, for example, as a MET although they alone failed to significantly alter ecosystems.

  • Additionally, this definition excludes revolutionary innovations not fitting into either MET type

    • (e.g., photosynthesis).
  • We recombine
    • evolution with
    • ecology
  • to explore how and why entire ecosystems were
    • newly created or
    • radically altered

  • as Major System Transitions (MSTs).

  • In doing so, we highlight important morphological adaptations that spread through populations because of

    • their immediate, direct-fitness advantages for individuals.

  • These are Major Competitive Transitions, or MCTs.

  • We argue that often
    • multiple
      • METs and
      • MCTs

  • must be present to produce MSTs.

  • For example, sexually-reproducing, multicellular eukaryotes (METs) with

    • anisogamy and
    • exoskeletons (MCTs)

  • significantly altered ecosystems during the Cambrian.

  • Therefore, we introduce the concepts of Facilitating Evolutionary Transitions (FETs) and Catalysts as

    • key events or agents that are insufficient themselves to set a MST into motion,
    • but are essential parts of synergies that do.

  • We further elucidate the role of information in MSTs as transitions across five levels:

    • (I) Encoded (Genetic);
    • (II) Epigenomic;
    • (III) Learned;
    • (IV) Inscribed; and
    • (V) Dark Information.

  • The latter is ‘authored’ by abiotic entities rather than biological organisms.

  • Level

    • IV has arguably allowed humans to produce a MST, and
    • V perhaps makes us a FET for a future transition that melds
      • biotic and
      • abiotic life
    • into one entity.
  • Understanding the interactive processes involved in past major transitions will illuminate both
    • current events and
    • the surprising possibilities that abiotically-created information may produce.

Indyweb / Indranet citations - Michael Levin, Roy Baumeister, Adam Omary youtube conversation - specifically, the question about whether a social superorganism of global human civilization / society / culture constitutes a new Major Evolutionary Transition of Individuality - https://hyp.is/rQgvZn2hEe6-TF8HFSS9mg/docdrop.org/video/UfoVTA0ilsY/

13:00 the right flow of information is sweetspot between overwhelm and being bored (too little information)

16:00 balancing consumption and creation is sweetspot

only partial match: the most important thing is the information (more than presentation/formatting)

19:00 Managing information flows is one of the best habits in this time

07:00 structuring the mind with information (away from entropy), via setting a vision, which you break down further into goals, projects, tasks

06:30 focus on info (input/output) as building identity

04:30 education business as scam (bec information is not tangible)

• information and knowledge, historically speaking, is fundamental to society and culture

https://aboard.com/

A card-based collaboration tool that leverages information visualization. Pinterest for collaborative teams with expandable data.

Looks interesting and I've got a beta invite, but not sure if it fits any of my needs, particularly with an eye toward note taking.

• for: definition, definition - fusions, definition - information leap, organismal complexity, fusions, information leap, traditional METs

• paraphrase

  • there are two classes of adaptations that qualify as gains in organismal complexity and constitute traditional METs:
    • definition start: fusion
      • a process whereby independently reproducing entities are incentivized into combining into higher, integrated levels of obligate reproductive cooperation, due to factors such as:
        • selective advantages of division of labor and mutual dependence.
        • maximization of inclusive fitness
        • ability to punish cheaters
    • definition end
    • definition start: information leap
      • novel forms of information storage or transmittal across individuals, ranging from
        • genes
        • symbolic writing
    • definition end

Bill Atkinson had an idea about the freedom to associate knowledge not by what comes next on the list but by the links that are associated with it. This means that information can be organized in a non-linear fashion, allowing for connections to be made between seemingly unrelated ideas. By expanding on this idea, we can create new and innovative ways of storing and accessing information, potentially leading to breakthroughs in fields such as artificial intelligence and data analysis.

as place of information exchange (breaking down social barriers)

• also see point on coffee as aiding protestant work ethic (combining information exchange, and mentally stimulating effects of coffee)

Shalini Misra, Patrick Roberts, Matthew Rhodes. (2020). Information overload, stress, and emergency managerial thinking. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction Volume 51, December 2020, 101762 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2020.101762

I love this image:

Via Bryan Mathers at https://bryanmmathers.com/education-work/

The data of the past is congruent with the current psychological trends that face the education system of today. Developmentalists have charted how children construct and revise intuitive theories. In turn, a variety of theories have developed because of the greater use of statistical information that supports probabilistic contingencies that help to better inform us of causal models and their distinctive cognitive functions. These studies investigate the physical, psychological, and social domains. In the case of intuitive psychology, or "theory of mind," developmentalism has traced a progression from an early understanding of emotion and action to an understanding of intentions and simple aspects of perception, to an understanding of knowledge vs. ignorance, and finally to a representational and then an interpretive theory of mind.

The mechanisms by which life evolved—from chemical beginnings to cognizing human beings—are central to understanding the psychological basis of learning. We are the product of an evolutionary process and it is the mechanisms inherent in this process that offer the most probable explanations to how we think and learn.

Bada, & Olusegun, S. (2015). Constructivism Learning Theory : A Paradigm for Teaching and Learning.

Framing of his book as a remedy to the speed reading fad in the 1970s...

What did those books at the time indicate that their purpose was? Were they aimed at helping people consume more (hopefully with greater comprehension?) while there was a continuing glut of information overload building up in society?

Which is better, more deep understanding of less or more surface understanding of more? How does combinatorial creativity effect the choice?

Some may not realize it yet, but the shift in technology represented by ChatGPT is just another small evolution in the chain of predictive text with the realms of information theory and corpus linguistics.

Claude Shannon's work along with Warren Weaver's introduction in The Mathematical Theory of Communication (1948), shows some of the predictive structure of written communication. This is potentially better underlined for the non-mathematician in John R. Pierce's book An Introduction to Information Theory: Symbols, Signals and Noise (1961) in which discusses how one can do a basic analysis of written English to discover that "e" is the most prolific letter or to predict which letters are more likely to come after other letters. The mathematical structures have interesting consequences like the fact that crossword puzzles are only possible because of the repetitive nature of the English language or that one can use the editor's notation "TK" (usually meaning facts or date To Come) in writing their papers to make it easy to find missing information prior to publication because the statistical existence of the letter combination T followed by K is exceptionally rare and the only appearances of it in long documents are almost assuredly areas which need to be double checked for data or accuracy.

Cell phone manufacturers took advantage of the lower levels of this mathematical predictability to create T9 predictive text in early mobile phone technology. This functionality is still used in current cell phones to help speed up our texting abilities. The difference between then and now is that almost everyone takes the predictive magic for granted.

As anyone with "fat fingers" can attest, your phone doesn't always type out exactly what you mean which can result in autocorrect mistakes (see: DYAC (Damn You AutoCorrect)) of varying levels of frustration or hilarity. This means that when texting, one needs to carefully double check their work before sending their text or social media posts or risk sending their messages to Grand Master Flash instead of Grandma.

The evolution in technology effected by larger amounts of storage, faster processing speeds, and more text to study means that we've gone beyond the level of predicting a single word or two ahead of what you intend to text, but now we're predicting whole sentences and even paragraphs which make sense within a context. ChatGPT means that one can generate whole sections of text which will likely make some sense.

Sadly, as we know from our T9 experience, this massive jump in predictability doesn't mean that ChatGPT or other predictive artificial intelligence tools are "magically" correct! In fact, quite often they're wrong or will predict nonsense, a phenomenon known as AI hallucination. Just as with T9, we need to take even more time and effort to not only spell check the outputs from the machine, but now we may need to check for the appropriateness of style as well as factual substance!

The bigger near-term problem is one of human understanding and human communication. While the machine may appear to magically communicate (often on our behalf if we're publishing it's words under our names), is it relaying actual meaning? Is the other person reading these words understanding what was meant to have been communicated? Do the words create knowledge? Insight?

We need to recall that Claude Shannon specifically carved semantics and meaning out of the picture in the second paragraph of his seminal paper:

Frequently the messages have meaning; that is they refer to or are correlated according to some system with certain physical or conceptual entities. These semantic aspects of communication are irrelevant to the engineering problem.

So far ChatGPT seems to be accomplishing magic by solving a small part of an engineering problem by being able to explore the adjacent possible. It is far from solving the human semantic problem much less the un-adjacent possibilities (potentially representing wisdom or insight), and we need to take care to be aware of that portion of the unsolved problem. Generative AIs are also just choosing weighted probabilities and spitting out something which is prone to seem possible, but they're not optimizing for which of many potential probabilities is the "best" or the "correct" one. For that, we still need our humanity and faculties for decision making.

Shannon, Claude E. A Mathematical Theory of Communication. Bell System Technical Journal, 1948.

Shannon, Claude E., and Warren Weaver. The Mathematical Theory of Communication. University of Illinois Press, 1949.

Pierce, John Robinson. An Introduction to Information Theory: Symbols, Signals and Noise. Second, Revised. Dover Books on Mathematics. 1961. Reprint, Mineola, N.Y: Dover Publications, Inc., 1980. https://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Information-Theory-Symbols-Mathematics/dp/0486240614.

Shannon, Claude Elwood. “The Bandwagon.” IEEE Transactions on Information Theory 2, no. 1 (March 1956): 3. https://doi.org/10.1109/TIT.1956.1056774.

We may also need to explore The Bandwagon, an early effect which Shannon noticed and commented upon. Everyone seems to be piling on the AI bandwagon right now...

http://classify.oclc.org/classify2/

info filters niet meer ingebouwd in het systeem; dat moeten we nu zelf zien te creëeren, of deze worden anders voor ons gemaakt (zie bijvoorbeeld algoritmes, enzo)