Community Wisdom Gardening —2022-11-01

Douglas Engelbart (computer scientist)

What are your reflections on “The Mother of All Demos”?

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Heterarchy is emerging as an important concept with respect to globalization and national and international governance.

A heterarchy possesses a flexible structure made up of interdependent units, and the relationships between those units are characterized by multiple intricate linkages that create circular paths rather than hierarchical ones.

Heterarchies are best described as networks of actors—each of which may be made up of one or more hierarchies—that are variously ranked according to different metrics. Etymologically speaking, the term is made up of the Greek words heteros, meaning “the other,” and archein, meaning “to rule.”

separation of the Idea into parts by dividing it at the joints as nature directs, not breaking any part in half as a bad carver might

gathering of scattered particulars into one Idea so that everyone understands what is being talked about;

“two principles” about defining Ideas (in the Phaedrus)

Platonic, and perhaps oversimple and overrestrictive

instance definer and producers”.

Lisp-like dynamics to do experiments with “differential programming” (meaning: various ways to accomplish “this is like that except”).

All relies on the cleanliness of mind of programmers (and even the most clean of these often just do things they need when in the throes of debugging).

the mechanism itself let too many semantically different things to be “done” (aka “kluged”) by the programmer

What does Alan Kay think about inheritance in object-oriented programming?

While pondering these ideas in the late 60s, I found that the “real AI” (I have to use this term today yikes!)

What did Alan Kay and Steve Jobs talk about at the 2007 iPhone keynote?

Every user runs the application on their own device, creates and stores their own data, and talks directly to other users.

The security of the application is supported by both cryptography and peer accountability

open-source application development framework and peer-to-peer networking protocol

described each record as an ‘action’,

Holochain takes distributed apps beyond DeFi and NFTs to address coordination at scale with self-owned data and peer accountability.

This palpable, active, ongoing grief is a non-negotiable part of this period of immense change. Grief is one of the most beautiful and difficult ways we love. As we grieve we feel our humanity and connection to each other. Building the path from this heartbreaking present to a future where we center our collective existence in love and care is where we come in. We are the ones shining light on the lies and inconsistencies in our current reality, and we are the ones dreaming up, remembering and practicing mutual ways of being in community with each other. We are learning how to grieve without disappearing, and we are refusing to normalize this terror. We are scholars of belonging and accountability, releasing ourselves from the reductive protocols of punitive culture. We are protesting injustice wherever we find it, while forging the pathways to a justice we cocreate. We are releasing either/or thinking, and we are outgrowing every construct meant to divide and disempower us. We understand that this is an extinction point, and we are not just interested in survival – we want a just world for future generations and for the earth. Each day, we are the ones creating more possibilities. We at ESII see how this community is showing up to hold each other, to grieve, to care for each other, to practice the future together. We love you, we trust you, we grieve with you, and we change with you.

adrienne maree brown 'The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.' – camus…documenting my liberation

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attempting continually to transcend the flawed thing that you currently are and what's so interesting about that is that the meaning in life is to be found in that pursuit

have enough humility to set the bar properly low then you could be better tomorrow than you are today you might say well what's the right way of being in the world if there is such a thing

life is bounded by 00:02:55 mortality but that doesn't mean that you don't get out there and contend and you develop by contending and you minimize the net amount of suffering in the world and that's something man that's something to do

it's a luxury to pursue what makes you happy it's a moral obligation to pursue what you find meaningful

should be more afraid of staying where you are if it's making you miserable

no faith and no courage and no sacrifice in doing what is expedient

willing  to align our expectations with nature’s speed

According to Taoist philosophy,   we can either embark on the flow of nature and  navigate through life more effortlessly or swim   00:04:35 against the flow, expending copious amounts of  energy in exchange for low returns

Taoist concept of  wu wei

(1) The natural flow

dirty water to Buddha.” 

based on the acceptance of what  is. As Oxford Languages defines it: “The capacity to accept or  tolerate delay, trouble,   or suffering without getting angry or upset.”

Impatience is the  unwillingness to live life at the pace it   actually happens; we wish for the universe  to bend to our will. We want things now.   We want things to change in an instant. But in  reality, external circumstances are not up to us:   00:02:51 no matter how much we wish that to be  the case.

why patience is power.

Viktor Frankl once stated: “When we are no longer able to change a  situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.”

It is the hypothetical source of/evidence for its existence is provided by: Sanskrit pari "around, about, through," parah "farther, remote, ulterior," pura "formerly, before," pra- "before, forward, forth;" Avestan pairi- "around," paro "before;" Hittite para "outside of," Greek peri "around, about, near, beyond," pera "across, beyond," paros "before," para "from beside, beyond," pro "before;" Latin pro "before, for, on behalf of, instead of," porro "forward," prae "before," per "through;" Old Church Slavonic pra-dedu "great-grandfather;" Russian pere- "through;" Lithuanian per "through;" Old Irish ire "farther," roar "enough;" Gothic faura "before," Old English fore (prep.) "before, in front of," (adv.) "before, previously," fram "forward, from," feor "to a great distance, long ago;" German vor "before, in front of;" Old Irish air- Gothic fair-, German ver-, Old English fer-, intensive prefixes.

*sta- *stā-, Proto-Indo-European root meaning "to stand, set down, make or be firm," with derivatives meaning "place or thing that is standing."

Proto-Indo-European root forming prepositions, etc., meaning "forward," and, by extension, "in front of, before, first, chief, toward, near, against," etc.

persist (v.)"continue steadily and firmly in some state or course of action," especially in spite of opposition or remonstrance; "persevere obstinately," 1530s, from French persister (14c.), from Latin persistere "abide, continue steadfastly," from per "thoroughly" (from PIE root *per- (1) "forward," hence "through") + sistere "come to stand, cause to stand still" (from PIE *si-st-, reduplicated form of root *sta- "to stand, make or be firm"). Related: Persisted; persisting.

persistence (n.)1540s, "steady or firm adherence to or continuance in a state, course of action, or pursuit that has been entered upon, especially if more or less obstinate," from French persistance, from persistant "lasting, enduring, permanent," from Latin persistentem (nominative persistens), present participle of persistere (see persist). In 16c. often spelled persistance, but the classical spelling prevailed. Meaning "continuance of an effect after the cause which gave rise to it is removed" is from 1862. Related: Persistency.

perseverance (n.)mid-14c., perseveraunce "will or ability to persevere, tenacity," from Old French perseverance "persistence, endurance" (12c., Modern French persévérance) and directly from Latin perseverantia "steadfastness, constancy," from perseverant- past-participle stem of perseverare "continue steadfastly" (see persevere). From late 14c. as "quality or state of continuing or enduring."

persevere (v.)"to persist in what one has undertaken, to pursue steadily a design or course," late 14c., perseveren, from Old French perseverer "continue, persevere, endure" and directly from Latin perseverare "continue steadfastly, persist," from persevereus "very strict, earnest," from per "very" (see per) + severus "serious, grave, strict, austere," which is probably from PIE root *segh- "to have, hold," on the notion of "steadfastness, toughness." Related: Persevered; persevering.

The Death Of Computer Languages,The Birth of Intentional Programming

The Meaning of Decentralization

If you migrate to a different server, then all existing links to your content continue to work and you keep your social graph without needing to tell anyone your new host. It's magical. Compare this to changing email, where you must tell all your contacts about your new address.

Martin Kleppmann@martinklFolks moving to Mastodon are swapping a service run by a capricious egomaniac for one where the admin of your home instance controls everything about your account. And you probably don't know what your server admin is like when you sign up. Is this really much better?

A Template is a pre-configured Space which you can use as is, or change according to your needs.

is freely connectable to any other part of the workspace

Fibery isn’t a project management app, it’s a constructor.

In a perfect world you’d have The Perfect App, created by talented designers and developers just for you. But that’s not happening (sorry). There are apps that combine a dozen of tools and promise a complete, integrated workspace.

How to Build Your Company's Brain with Fibery

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It’s All Greek Borrowed Words and their Histories Alexander Tulloch

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This is just wrong since the knowledge and work management dichotomy does not exist in reality. It’s an artificial construct.

Hypertext tools from the 80s

Andrew Padilla@AndrewPadilla1Replying to @mdubakov and @codexeditor@TrailMarks looks like something you’d be interested in. fyi @AlanMorrison

HUMAN’20 – “A Live Demo of the Intermedia Hypertext System” (Norman K. Meyrowitz) 718 views 1 year ago Visual Analytics Research Team Visual Analytics Research Team 41 subscribers

“a set of interlinked and open-source technologies spanning hardware, software, networking and applications that support a more secure, private, accessible and ultimately what we hope to be equitable digital infrastructure.”

Unpacking “The Convergence Stack” with Outlier Ventures’ CEO Jamie Burke

Cogency is a coalition of content makers, designers and builders who run projects that have meaningful impact

Web3 Foundation@Web3foundationInterested in the future of media in Web3? Learn more about the Cogency Project, launching in partnership with Web3 Foundation, and bringing together news publishers and technologists, to help solve complex problems using the Web3 technology: https://cogencylab.com

The Tao Theme ofWu Wei — Non-action

Tao Themes Introduction Tao — The Way Te — Virtue Sheng Jen — The Sage Wu Wei — Non-action Moderation Ruling War

The Tao Theme of Ruling

Some critics of Occam’s razor, however, state that the principle is an oversimplification of the complexities of real life and often rules out creative thinking

Occam’s razor

best course of action is to choose the solution with the fewest assumptions

The Occam’s Razor In A Nutshell

"If a sign is not necessary then it is meaningless. That is the meaning of Occam's Razor."

"simpler hypotheses are generally better than the complex ones"

"entities should not be multiplied beyond necessity"

The Subtle Knife of the book's title is a knife that is capable of cutting windows between worlds.

Intent-Based Networking - Concepts and Definitions

autonomic networks are intendedto exhibit "self-management" properties,

RFC 9315Intent-Based Networking - Concepts and Definitions

“Distribution of this memo is unlimited”

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TREE-META was instrumental in the development of the oN-Line System and was ported to many systems including the Univac 1108, GE 645, SDS-940, ICL 1906A, PERQ, and UCSD p-System.[2][3]

TREE-META

Meta-IV (specification language)

Propagating Organization, Neo-Duality and Materialand Non-Material Emergence

The real web3 of One Big Graph without all the inhibitions of incumbency is there for the taking–if we want to fight hard enough for it.

give in and take the bigger paychecks in legacy markets rebranded as new.

challenge innovators face today is to maintain their integrity and continue to progress despite the temptations

reborn as….cloud monoliths, with cloud software suites and SaaS and duplicated data sprawl and all the other modern dilemmas.

dearth of .edu coursework on the commonalities of content, data, and knowledge graphs that should all be treated as one…

slightly different enough not to interoperate

It’s the Software Wasteland

The installed base in software implies technical debt and inertia on a giant, monolithic scale.

collaboration could scale at a much more rapid and dynamic clip than it has

one automated file system for all.

sidestep the disadvantages of databases (such as their inherent siloing, centralization and feature bloat).

link rot may become a thing of the past.

Web3 as an Evolution of P2P Networking + Shared File Systems

a new form of agility – the ability for individuals and organizations both to skate along edges to different industry nodes of value they hadn’t been able to pursue or capture before.

dynamic, machine-assisted, human-in-the-loop inter-organizations–what IDC called the Innovation Graph five years back

meta-organizations and inter-organizations

supports serendipitous discovery and rapid community building

advantages of an open, boundary-free web – shared, intricately connected, automatically extensible infrastructure with fewer hassles, more built-in advantages, and no inherent siloing.

have a bunch of people having to share a conversation which is very kernel-esque indeed and that's why 00:08:32 it's been a useful resonance um then just on the process note during this conversation a lot of threads are probably going to arise 00:08:43 and I'm sure people have so many useful things to add on one hand will have the recording which we can consider how to utilize and also importantly we'll have the um 00:08:58 note-taking document with different resources and links out with that

get it all out there on the page synthesize and integrate uh their 00:08:19 visions and just collaborate

example of stigmergy and collaborating on digital 00:08:07 documents to improve the ability for even incipient teams to be able to get it all out there on the page synthesiz

catechism is a way for a group to find alignment in a project

curation sense making publishing token economics can we build around on top of what these this open source attention Corpu

Mark each other and think and collections come out of that

humans marking humans and we're sort of thinking of it as you know a marks B where a mark is a verb and then you might have modifiers this is all open to discussion of course but you 00:02:13 know what does it mean to Mark Mark each other in meaningful ways

Stig People ~ Kernel Conversation ~ October 21, 2022

nothing you can do but you can learn to be you in time

I'm an old aging hippie

the thing that's been getting learned is not just learned while you're sitting there with the book with the teacher it's learned through all the whole day it's in everything

David Ing

Input Crowd, Output MeaningPolis is a real-time system for gathering, analyzing and understanding what large groups of people think in their own words, enabled by advanced statistics and machine learning.

Supporting Standards

Horizon scanning, technology watch, and technology foresight: How we support with unique global data and insights

have this content addressability content addressability which handy you mentioned It's Magic it 01:06:36 is Magic it is you you can come from the world just by knowing a string of numbers you can just ask for it from the world and it comes together and you know you have it for real that means that you don't have to depend on the provenance 01:06:50 of the where you got it from you can get it from anywhere

ontology for sharing bibliographic data

An ontology is an explicit specification of a conceptualization. The term is borrowedfrom philosophy, where an Ontology is a systematic account of Existence

A widely citedweb page and paper [3] associated with that effort is credited with a deliberate definition ofontology as a technical term in computer science. The paper defines ontology as an "explicitspecification of a conceptualization," which is, in turn, "the objects, concepts, and other entitiesthat are presumed to exist in some area of interest and the relationships that hold among them."

[3] Gruber, T. R., Toward Principles for the Design of Ontologies Used for Knowledge Sharing.International Journal Human-Computer Studies, 43(5-6):907-928, 1995

An ontology specifies a vocabulary with which to makeassertions, which may be inputs or outputs of knowledge agents (such as a software program).

Toward Principles for the Design of Ontologies Used for Knowledge Sharing

Original abstract: Recent work in Artificial Intelligence is exploring the use of formal ontologies as a way of specifying content-specific agreements for the sharing and reuse of knowledge among software entities. We take an engineering perspective on the development of such ontologies. Formal ontologies are viewed as designed artifacts, formulated for specific purposes and evaluated against objective design criteria. We describe the role of ontologies in supporting knowledge sharing activities, and then present a set of criteria to guide the development of ontologies for these purposes. We show how these criteria are applied in case studies from the design of ontologies for engineering mathematics and bibliographic data. Selected design decisions are discussed, and alternative representation choices and evaluated against the design criteria.

The result of the human-machine collaboration is a superior design that neither machine nor human could create on their own.

John Markoff calls this IA, or Intelligence Augmentation

to augment human intelligence, directly or in collaboration with them. Tom has devoted his work in AI along the latter path. He calls it Humanistic AI.

What Is Humanistic AI? Artificial Intelligence (AI) is about making machines that can do intelligent things. Today, this powerful technology can rival human abilities on many fronts, with the potential to do amazing things and as well as the risk of things not turning out as we wish. How can we guide the application of AI in achieving its greatest potential while avoiding unintended consequences? It is worth starting with an examination of why people are building and advancing this technology. We find that there are two basic philosophies on the purpose of AI: to create machine intelligence that automates what humans do (and therefore competes with humans), or to augment human intelligence, directly or in collaboration with them. Tom has devoted his work in AI along the latter path. He calls it Humanistic AI.

from social media platforms that optimize for human attention over human welfare

Giving is sacred.

Develop the means to mean

Scale ability.

For something fixed there must be.

With such reasoning men can easily get so far as to know (where they do not, it is owing to the want of education—but the Sophists were very well educated) that if arguments are relied upon, everything can be proved by argument, and arguments for and against can be found for everything; as particular, however, they throw no light upon the universal, the Notion. Thus what has been considered the sin of the Sophists is that they taught men to deduce[369] any conclusion required by others or by themselves; but that is not due to any special quality in the Sophists, but to reflective reasoning. In the worst action there exists a point of view which is essentially real; if this is brought to the front, men excuse and vindicate the action. In the crime of desertion in time of war, there is, for example, the duty of self-preservation. Similarly in more modern times the greatest crimes, assassination, treachery, &c., have been justified, because in the purpose there lay a determination which was actually essential, such as that men must resist the evil and promote the good. The educated man knows how to regard everything from the point of view of the good, to maintain in everything a real point of view. A man does not require to make great progress in his education to have good reasons ready for the worst action; all that has happened in the world since the time of Adam has been justified by some good reason.

But this diversity in philosophical systems is far from being merely an evasive plea. It has far more weight as a genuine serious ground of argument against the zeal which Philosophy requires. It justifies its neglect and demonstrates conclusively the powerlessness of the endeavour to attain to philosophic knowledge of the truth. When it is admitted that Philosophy ought to be a real science, and one Philosophy must certainly be the true, the question arises as to which Philosophy it is, and when it can be known. Each one asserts its genuineness, each even gives different signs and tokens by which the Truth can be discovered; sober reflective thought must therefore hesitate to give its judgment.

Stand surety, and evil awaits thee” (ἐγγύα, πάρα δ̓ ἄτα).

“innocence” means ignorance of evil.

Two elements therefore enter into our investigation: first, the Idea, secondly, the complex of human passions; the one the warp, the other the woof of the vast tapestry of world history. Their contact and concrete union constitutes moral liberty in the state. We have already spoken of the Idea of freedom as the essence of Spirit and absolutely final purpose of history. Passion is regarded as something wrong, something more or less evil; man is not supposed to have passions. “Passion,” it is true, is not quite the right word for what I wish to express. I mean here nothing more than human activity resulting from private interest, from special or, if you will, self-seeking designs – with this qualification: that the whole energy of will and character is devoted to the attainment of one aim and that other interests or possible aims, indeed everything else, is sacrificed to this aim. This particular objective is so bound up with the person’s will that it alone and entirely determines its direction and is inseparable from it. It is that which makes the person what he is. For a person is a specific existence. He is not man in general – such a thing does not exist – but a particular human being. The term “character” also expresses this uniqueness of will and intelligence. But character comprises all individual features whatever – the way in which a person conducts himself in his private and other relations. It does not connote this individuality itself in its practical and active phase. I shall therefore use the term “passion” to mean the particularity of a character insofar as its individual volitions not only have a particular content but also supply the impelling and actuating force for deeds of universal scope. Passion is thus the subjective and therefore the formal aspect, of energy, will, and activity, whose content and aim are at this point still undetermined. And a similar relation exists between individual conviction, insight, and conscience, on the one hand, and their content, on the other. If someone wants to decide whether my conviction and passion are true and substantial, he must consider the content of my conviction and the aim of my passion. Conversely, if they are true and substantial, they cannot help but attain actual existence.

recognized the 00:02:08 limits of discursive reasoning in his own words I was an undergraduate looking for some kind of Truth and philosophy and not finding it I was very bored with Western philosophy

he whole structure of the western thought 00:03:54 they had been studying was completely wrong-headed Western man he said has been long used to looking at reality in a conceptual indirect way always knowing about it but never really knowing it

Gates Foundation upregulates Hans rossling and Stephen Pinker

I can make any argument I want with rigorous facts and so this is basically how mainstream journals lie

decontextualizing them

Lake Hoff framing which is not a fact or non-fact right it's adding moral valence or aesthetic valence to the thing by cherry picking the stats

uncertainty and complexity can also be weaponized

unwarranted certainty

the word justify

a lot of public speaking both of us are working with the concept of how do we potentially make the changes we need to make to keep 00:01:28 our species and several others around

the dominant Narrative of a culture is the apologism for the power structure of the culture

information Warfare

narrative Warfare

she wasn't looking for justification

plausible deniability if we're doing whatever the you want

to be in uncertainty you have to be comfortable but not too comfortable

comfortable 01:39:08 with uncertainty and also comfortable with relatively better certainties that can inform choice

the greatest learning happens in these moments when we begin to perceive our own perception

we lack the wisdom of Gods but we have this great technology how do we attain the wisdom of gods or the wisdom needed to give technology the 01:24:17 right direction yeah so it seemed like uh a thing that you both touched upon was paying attention uh and then that seems to be an important thing and occurred to me that one one of our fundamental 01:24:35 one of the fundamental things that we do as human beings is to pay attention uh and is it worth paying attention to how we pay attention is that a skill that can be taught in isolation or is 01:24:47 this something that just happens uh alongside other activities

how can we bring forth that innate learning capacity that every child is born with

all of our institutions are dysfunctional

the grown-ups are incapable of dealing with it

given the fact that half the population of the world is now under the age of 20

ended up studying with a world-class mathematician while they were young

Dalai Lama if they had that tutoring but that's you can't democratize that

super Geniuses were almost all the result of aristocratic tutoring

Richard Feynman said he thought he would be the last generation of great physicists

polymathic Super 01:11:47 Genius

kids just become much more voracious Learners

Curiosity driven system means

specifically because they didn't have 01:10:14 formal curriculum

llow these next Generations to actually perceive the world differently so they can respond differently so they can actually help make it different in ways that 01:09:37 actually I don't know that we can even generate the ideas for

the global village marks the triumph of capitalism as a “global spectacle” that shatters the “unity of the world, and the gigantic expansion of the modern spectacle only expresses the totality of this loss”