But in the cognitive dark forest, the most dangerous actor is not your peer. It’s the forest itself.
对刘慈欣“黑暗森林”法则的绝妙重构。宇宙黑暗森林中的威胁是其他猎手(同级竞争),而认知黑暗森林中的最大威胁是环境本身(中心化AI平台)。你无法通过击败某个对手获胜,因为整个生态都在以你为食,这构成了更深的系统性绝望。
But in the cognitive dark forest, the most dangerous actor is not your peer. It’s the forest itself.
对刘慈欣“黑暗森林”法则的绝妙重构。宇宙黑暗森林中的威胁是其他猎手(同级竞争),而认知黑暗森林中的最大威胁是环境本身(中心化AI平台)。你无法通过击败某个对手获胜,因为整个生态都在以你为食,这构成了更深的系统性绝望。
Cephalosporins or extended-spectrum penicillins are commonly used (eg, cephalexin, 0.5 g orally four times daily for 7–10 days; see Table 35–6). Trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole (two double-strength tablets orally twice daily for 7–10 days) should be considered when there is concern that the pathogen is MRSA (see Tables 35–5 and 35–6). Vancomycin, 15 mg/kg intravenously every 12 hours, is used for patients with signs of a systemic inflammatory response.
cephalexin, dicloxacillin, penicillin VK, amoxicillin/clavulanate, or clindamycin (for penicillin-allergic patients). [1-2] These beta-lactam antibiotics provide excellent coverage against streptococci and methicillin-susceptible S. aureus (MSSA
The system you are exhausted by was never designed to produce what you are hungry for. It was designed to exploit the two lies.
In systems engineering, a machine's output is the exact and predictable result of its structural design. The secular corporate environment often operates as an extractive mechanism, utilising the friction of the 'not enough' and 'not loved' wounds as perpetual energy sources for productivity. You are not failing to thrive in this environment; the system is simply functioning at peak efficiency, successfully harvesting your internal dissonance to generate its intended output.
It is a formation pattern, a deeply grooved response built over years of operating inside a broken system.
In structural engineering, when a material is repeatedly subjected to the same stress vectors, it develops a 'memory' or a permanent groove, fundamentally altering its physical shape and load-bearing capacity. Similarly, human behavioural patterns operate as closed-loop systems. When you operate continuously inside a contaminated environment, the repeated friction of defending yourself engineers a deep, automated groove. Your reactions cease to be conscious choices and instead become a predictable mechanical oscillation—a system doing exactly what its environment designed it to do.
Diagnosis: Systemic Oscillation.
The Systemic Explanation: In control systems engineering, "oscillation" occurs when a system continuously overcorrects, swinging wildly between extremes without ever finding equilibrium. When you lack a stable centre ("Ground"), you operate like an undamped pendulum. The anxiety of passive disengagement (Drift) eventually forces you into a panic of hyper-performance (Force), which inevitably leads to a crash, sending you back to Drift. Breaking this cycle requires a "dampener"—a grounding mechanism that absorbs the chaotic kinetic energy and settles the system into a stable, sustainable third state.
The fatigue you feel is your soul’s way of pulling the emergency brake.
The "Husk" Diagnostic Fatigue is usually a signal to sleep. But "Extraction Fatigue" is different—it is a signal to Disconnect. If you sleep while still connected to the "IV drip" of the feed, you will wake up tired because your subconscious is still being mined.
The "Emergency Brake" is a tactical interrupt. You must distinguish between Physical Exhaustion (requires sleep) and Systemic Depletion (requires silence).
Lisabeth’s central argument is that popular, prescriptive style guides like The Elements of Style are "emblematic of the under-interrogated systemic racism of standardized English". She argues that classrooms using these guides are participating in "constructing English as White property" and implicitly underwriting "White Supremacist language" by valuing it as the only correct form.
A predicament is a situation where, as you try to solve problems, you lack a holistic understanding because you’ve been reductionistic and ignored parts of the interdependencies and you end up creating other problems. The attempt to create a solution creates other problems because of the interdependencies.
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some layer of systemic trust.
We also need to fund a way to create a currency which also has at least the same level of systemic trust as money
Mapping issues and envisaging futures: An evolutionary scenario approach
It was mid-afternoon on Friday, March 11, 2011 when the ground in Tōhoku began to shake. At Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, it seemed like the shaking would never stop. Once it did, the reactors had automatically shut down, backup power had come online, and the operators were well on their way to having everything under control. And then the tsunami struck. They found themselves facing something beyond any worse-case scenario they imagined, and their response is a study in contrasts. We can learn a lot from the extremes they experienced about finding happiness and satisfaction at work.
n her fantastic book, thinking in systems, we are given great tools to pick apart the situation using systems thinking. Meadows introduces the stocks and flows.
From Donella Meadows' Thinking in Systems. In this case, the "stock" is safety and "flows" are actions that make the reservoir of safety go up (more rigorous review of the aircraft design) or down (increased focus on the bottom line over engineering concerns).
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DrPH, M. D. H., M. D. (2022, January 11). The Folly of School Openings as a Zero-Sum Game. The American Prospect. https://prospect.org/api/content/4a1fc36e-7263-11ec-9e7d-12f1225286c6/
Relating Systems Thinking and Design (RSD)
Shared by Curt McNamara with the Trimtab Book Club.
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Depression, anxiety or attention deficit disorders are now regarded by researchers and clinical practitioners alike as products of neuro-chemical dysregulation in interconnected systems of neurotransmitters. They are therefore treated with substances that intervene either directly or indirectly in the regulation of neurotransmitters.
Our tools and the systems that surround us have a direct effect on our brain structure but psychopharmacology places the burden of fixing systemic issues on the individual by medicating those that do not fit the systemic mold. The drugs are basically the system subduing any individual that might bring out the contradictions in the "machine" and so the simplest approach is to "subdue" them with drugs.
This all seems pretty sinister and inhumane to me.
They were the very people communities would have turned to first to help recover from the pandemic: entrepreneurs who were also employers; confidants like coaches, pastors and barbers; family men forced into a sandwich generation younger than their white counterparts, because their parents got sick earlier and they had to care for them while raising kids of their own.
We often think of systemic racism and inequality in more concrete terms and ways — policing, schooling, access to money and power. What ideas about systemic inequality can you draw from this sentence and paragraph?
complexity in financial innovations is itself an important risk factor for systemic failure in the financial sector
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Coping with the Crisis | Introduction. (n.d.). The Innovation in Politics Institute. Retrieved July 18, 2020, from https://innovationinpolitics.eu/en/coping-with-the-coronavirus-crisis/introduction/
Méndez, P. F. (2020). Blue uncertainty: Warding off systemic risks in the Anthropocene – Lessons from COVID-19 [Preprint]. SocArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/z2br5
Because of persistent economic segregation in this country, low-income young people may only have access to those who are in similar economic circumstances as themselves (Albright & Hurd, 2017). Additionally, adolescents tend to only have access to social capital garnered through their relationships with their parents, parents' network, neighbors, and teachers (White & Glick, 2000). Low-income adolescents' access to social capital is thus restricted by their economic segregation, the homogeneity of their parents' network, and their limited access to other relationships(Putnam, 2015). Low-income youth have a clear disadvantage concerning the growth of social capital. An informal mentor, specifically one from outside the young person's community, thus, may play an important and unique role in expanding an adolescent's social capital by compensating for these limitations.
Challenges economically challenged youth face
An individual's access to social capital, the total number of resources garnered through social relationships, is determined largely by their socioeconomic status and racial ethnic makeup
Social capital influenced by socioeconomic status
A young person's neighborhood context is associated with their chance of being mentored and their chance of being economically mobile. Young people living in under-resourced neighborhoods are also unlikely to be upwardly mobile (Chetty & Hendren, 2016a; Chetty, & Hendren, 2016b; Chetty, Hendren, Kline & Saez, 2014b; Goldsmith, Britton, Reese, & Velez, 2017). Low-income children are more likely to live in neighborhoods with higher crime and drug use (Abelev, 2009). Young people from these neighborhoods are more likelytohave lower tests scores (McCullock & Joshi, 2001), drop out of high school, and be unemployed (Ainsworth, 2002). This neighborhood effect is cumulative: the more time spent in under
Cumulatively, these studies suggest that the potential influence of informal mentors on mobility may be most pronounced for those youth who are facing a disadvantage of some kind (family structure, income, etc.) and/or are a racial ethnic minority. Concerning the focus of the present study, this literature would suggest that informal mentoring may be more strongly associated with upward mobility for low-income youth than for middle-or higher-income youth for whom informal mentoring is
Suggests a stronger influence on disadvantaged or racial ethnic minority youth
Persistent immobility also disproves the idea of the U.S. being a land of equal opportunity. Since the term "the American Dream" was first coined in 1931, it has become a persistent cultural ethos, a wish list of sorts, with a consistent main tenet being the idea that each generation can achieve more than their parents (Samuel, 2012). Yet we know this tenet of the American Dream is no longer true: the chances that a child earnsmore than their parents has decreased in the past 40 years, especially for low-income families
chances of earning more than parents has decreased in past 40yrs for low-income families
systemic therapy included supplemental inspired oxygen therapy and pressurized oxygen treatment
Once products and, more important, people are coded as having certain preferences and tendencies, the feedback loops of algorithmic systems will work to reinforce these often flawed and discriminatory assumptions. The presupposed problem of difference will become even more entrenched, the chasms between people will widen.
In my case risk relates to the potential sacrifice of privilege. By demanding that education be the practice of freedom I risk rocking what is, for the most part, an extremely comfortable boat. The truth is, I don’t ever have to do anything to combat oppression, and my life will be just fine. However, for anyone marginalised by systemic oppression, incurring risk is an unfortunate but necessary element of speaking truth to power. On the daily.
Castro’s commitment to fighting racism in Cuba wasn’t as much an explicit mission as it was a convenient byproduct of adopting the Soviet model of governance — when you start to eliminate private property, mechanisms of systemic racism are rendered impotent.
I love this paragraph.
Second, this is a false dichotomy right out of the gate.
Amen. Systemic vs. individual approaches to improving education are absolutely both necessary.