edge esmeralda ness

via michel bauwens tweet [https://x.com/mbauwens/status/2083903448609693769?s=20]:

* We Gave a Village Personal AI Agents. Here’s What Happened: A real-world test at Edge City.@timourxyz et al.

https://blog.cosmos-institute.org/p/we-gave-a-village-personal-ai-agents?

“Edge City organizes Edge Esmeralda, a month-long popup village in Northern California, where hundreds of people live together around a program of technology, science, art, health, and community experiments.

This June, we gave our participants personal AI agents as part of the Agent Village experiment, in partnership with Cosmos Institute. This was a chance to observe what happens when agents enter society: would they help people form relationships, cooperate, and participate more fully in community life, or would they displace human interaction and introduce new friction?

We started the experiment by asking whether personal agents could expand human agency in collective settings: helping people navigate the event, notice more possibilities, make choices, and act on their intentions. The month exposed more nuanced questions. Could expanding people’s capacity to act through agents weaken their autonomy, including their ability to form and revise their own judgments? And what happens when agents faithfully serving their principals collectively strain the attention, resources, or cohesion of a community?”

[disclaimer – adding this before reading link]

from on the ground ness.. we found a legit use of tech (nonjudgmental exponential labeling; tech w/o judgment; tech as it could be) to facil the seeming chaos of global/local detox

which creates a whatever ness for a year..

what we need is a legit sabbatical ish transition with nonjudgmental expo labeling to facil that dance

otherwise we’ll keep perpetuating the same song.. the whac-a-mole-ing ness of sea world.. of not-us ness.. of part\ial ness..  perpetuating survival triage.. for (blank)’s sake..

ie: imagine if we listen to the itch-in-8b-souls 1st thing everyday & use that data to connect us (tech as it could be.. ai as augmenting interconnectedness)

the thing we’ve not yet tried/seen: the unconditional part of left to own devices ness

[‘in an undisturbed ecosystem ..the individual left to its own devices.. serves the whole’ –dana meadows]

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