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

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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.

A custom web3 educational community

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

how do you do the very high context Choice making thing not have rules and yet be able to factor that scale I would say this is one of the huge questions we 01:08:04 have to face of how do we get tribal level bonding beyond the tribe and actually at a fully global scale

as soon as the context changes the rules aren't right anymore and we also know that those who get in the position to make them have their own vested interests and 01:07:27 Corruption and blah blah blah so we can see why the rule-based systems have actually succeeded because of scale

the rule-based system is the idea that you have people like judges and people like Specialists who are way way more

sacrifice some of that autonomy and freedom for security

it would get roughly bigger than give or take 150 it would always cleave

virtue ethics utilitarian ethics

to pay attention to the relationships in the room who needs to do the dishes tonight

who's going to do the dishes

if you were a parent what would you teach your child but she misheard it and what she heard was if you were a parrot what would you teach your child 00:52:04 and so she made the response it's probably the best parenting advice ever which is I would teach them how to catch worms and how to fly and 00:52:18 you know actually it's pretty good um because in a way that is what we need to do is um be careful 00:52:34 about the flexibility of that

successful parenting 00:53:25 is making a child that doesn't need you

thing that they're intrinsically motivated to anyways

how do we teach our kids something that we actually don't know

homeschooled for I think three four years

how do I help them to be in the world right now in a way that allows them to be in 00:35:13 relationship with the past in all of the goodness and all of the flaws and allows them to begin to nurture a kind of flexibility 00:35:28 for what their future will be

limited by those spiritual or religious options and um and so getting free from the family was really important

this multi-generational 00:33:15 work

always letting everybody down

individuation was the tradition 00:32:36 of my time

that's continuity

the traditional side actually being more 00:30:07 aligned with the recognition of uncertainty epistemic uncertainty

the deepest cultural dialectics is the traditional versus the progressive Focus

sexual Revolution movement

as soon as birth control decoupled sex from procreation so the consequence of sex became a lot less in terms of the actual consequence

not only can he not marry but he can't get laid

obligate institutional monogamy was something that had emerged as the 00:26:07 dominant system

where a single father working one job could buy a house and which hasn't been true in the U.S since and increasingly less so in which the average you know the median income 00:24:11 and the median cost of a house actually worked out in a short number of years

the second order modeling that that I carried with me it wasn't what they learned but that they were 00:22:21 learning

you pay attention to which organisms are in relationship to which other organisms it came to me in the the the way you phrase a question 00:20:45 how you look into the relationships of a room before you respond

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”

“Liberty to be inefficient and miserable. Freedom to be a round peg in a square hole.” — Aldous Huxley

a new "decentralized social network" that allegedlyseeks to reclaim user data

improving the intellectual effectivenessof the individual human being

AUGMENTING HUMANINTELLECT : A ConceptualFramework. October 1962. By D. C.Engelbart

improving the intellectual effectiveness of the individual human being

“more-rapid comprehension … better solutions, and the possibility of finding solutions to problems that before seemed insoluble.”

“collective IQ”

use hyperlinks to navigate through knowledge

computers, interfaces, and networks

Douglas Engelbart’s Unfinished RevolutionThe pioneering Doug Engelbart invented things that transformed computing, but he also intended them to transform humans.

About Dynamic Knowledge Repositories

Civil and focused dialogue

Open Enspiral: Lessons from a Participatory NetworkReflections about self-management, growing a network and scaling culture

help keep the boundaries permeable

the proposals application is our means of collective digital choreography, whichsimply means knowing what to do next.

create networked knowledge artefacts

Explorer

Your money is yours, but who you are is realised through, and held safe by, all of us

The drawback is that moving between different subdomains

Wallets with balances imply that they are only about finance, whenreally these two keys give you the freedom to make your own meaning and value

we’re not interested in how much you have. We’re interestedin how much you learn

This is called “non-custodial”, because itmeans that you’re the only one who ever has custody of your private key

Wisdom is durably good guidance.

heart mind guts right heart mind guts in that order care comes first you got to care enough to know to develop the knowledge 00:18:11 okay then you got to act on it and put it into practice apply it so that's the order heart mind guts care 00:18:24 knowledge action those are the steps and all three of those have to be in place that's what unity consciousness is it's unifying faults emotions and actions

the lost principle is the dynamic of care what we care about on a day-to-day basis acts as the driving force of our thoughts and actions what did i say we need to develop the 00:17:59 heart mind guts right heart mind guts in that order care comes first you got to care enough to know to develop the knowledge 00:18:11 okay then you got to act on it and put it into practice apply it so that's the order heart mind guts care 00:18:24 knowledge action those are the steps and all three of those have to be in place that's what unity consciousness is it's unifying faults emotions and actions 00:18:35 the three aspects of consciousness such there is no contradiction between them our thoughts what we say what we think how we feel and how we act are one and the same there's no contradiction that's unity consciousness therefore 00:18:49 care is the driver of our thoughts and actions it ultimately can be seen as the generator of the quality of our shared experience here on the earth care is what generates the whole thing hence it has been called the generative principle 00:19:01 liken the heart to a pump in the body well what does a pump do it's a generator it provides energy it moves the life force through the blood in the body in every ancient tradition they talk about the life force being in the 00:19:15 blood the heart is what pumps that through the whole physiology and enables us to continue to sustain life as important as the brain is which we just talked about the importance of it the heart is 00:19:28 ultimately what's generating the experience because what we care about determines what we think about on a daily basis most of the time and therefore how we behave

the generative principle

Come for the light-hearted vision, stay for the excellence...

Kernel Building Kernel

Giving is sacred

Scale ability

Kernel Principles

Kernel community and make its infrastructure available for any other community of care.

Convo.

Community Wisdom Gardening Summit and Pattern Jam

spreading awareness, co-learning these endangered legacies

1: Show several features in one visual Show, don't tell. Show me your SaaS, don't describe it to me. There are many ways to do that.

What's New: 5 UX/UI tips to improve your website

the system becomes ready allows for pathways of possibility previously unimagined.

This is a theory of change that changes a theory of change.

saturation of mutual learning between organisms through which pathways of possibility are produced;

‘Aphanipoiesis’ paper in the ISSS Journal

What happens between hints?

If the larger “goal” is to preserve the possibility of ongoing complexity

attention to coalescence

older epistemologies

Older cultures have held the unseen to be relevant.

unseen, rather than hidden or invisible.

unseen realm is vital, non-trivial, and sacred— and it is real.

life coalesces toward vitality

Aphanis comes from a Greek root meaning obscured, unseen, unnoticed

abduction as the way one context describes another.