david on left-to-own-devices ness
david graeber on left to own devices ness
from 1 min video clip from graeber vs theil on future:
if you simply gave people a basic income support it would mean that you are trusting them to decide how they want to contribute to society
‘in undisturbed ecosystem ..the avg individual.. left to its own devices.. behaves in ways that serve/stabilize the whole’ –dana meadows
we keep disturbing the ecosystem because we can’t seem to let go enough to see/try the unconditional part of left to own devices ness
via tweet [https://x.com/Graeber_social/status/1858721949439938789] and bluesky [https://bsky.app/profile/davidgraeberinst.bsky.social/post/3lbbkmbzdak2g]:
The UK’s strong welfare state led to people creating some of the greatest musical trends in history. Could Universal Basic Income do the same and more?
same talk w thiel where i got graeber min\max law:
graeber min\max law: to max unexpected breakthroughs.. get a bunch of people give them resources they need.. leave them alone; to min unexpected breakthroughs.. take same people tell them they won’t get any resources unless they spend the majority of their time competing to prove they already know what they’re going to create.. one thing not scarce in world.. is imaginative people w possible solutions to intractable problems.. david graeber
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legit freedom will only happen if it’s all of us.. and in order to be all of us.. has to be sans any form of measuring, accounting, people telling other people what to do
how we gather in a space is huge.. need to try spaces of permission where people have nothing to prove to facil curiosity over decision making.. because the finite set of choices of decision making is unmooring us.. keeping us from us..
ie: imagine if we listened to the itch-in-8b-souls 1st thing everyday & used that data to connect us (tech as it could be.. ai as augmenting interconnectedness)
need to try the unconditional part of left to own devices ness..
there’s a legit use of tech (nonjudgmental exponential labeling) to facil the seeming chaos of a global detox leap/dance.. the unconditional part of left-to-own-devices ness.. for (blank)’s sake.. and we’re missing it
ie: whatever for a year.. a legit sabbatical ish transition
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from of flying cars:
That pretty much answers the question of why we don’t have teleportation devices or antigravity shoes. Common sense suggests that if you want to maximize scientific creativity, you find some bright people, give them the resources they need to pursue whatever idea comes into their heads, and then leave them alone. Most will turn up nothing, but one or two may well discover something. But if you want to minimize the possibility of unexpected breakthroughs, tell those same people they will receive no resources at all unless they spend the bulk of their time competing against each other to convince you they know in advance what they are going to discover.
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be you. 