jordan (green)hall

intrigue –

decentralization

fractal models

permission-less systems where everyone contributes

[michel]

how to get the masses?

literally redefine school – no? [if equity is everyone getting a go every day.. redefining public education becomes revolution of everyday life.. aka: global equity]

[tanja]

cognitive toolkit, collective & individual, don’t throw away any of it – just becomes increasingly disfunctional

1:24 – mars colony – or social fiction ..

1:28 – michel – how can we experiment so that it’s possible to change

ie: cure ios city.. everyday.. next experiment

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jordan on crisis into opp

jordan on defund (redesign) everything

jordan on civium project

jordan on jubilee

jordan on (limiting) scale of possibility

jordan on web3

jordan on dao

jordan on thinking

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convo where into’d to Jordan:

Remarkable Reinventor

This Roundtable’s Network Reinventors

(people from original intro to Jordan): Tanja Aitamurto; Michel Bauwens; Bret Weinstein; John Robb; Jake Dunagan; Jim Rutt; David Hodgson; Peter Leyden

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sept 2014 – via ello meet swarm

https://medium.com/@jordangreenhall/ello-meet-swarm-3bf74b6a8c25

• Every day every member of the community receives X units of inactive currency into their account. This is how the currency is created into existence. Inactive currency has a demurrage rate — some percentage of all inactive currency sitting out unused in accounts “evaporates” or is pooled back into some commons pool. More on this later.

nice on that.

everyday anew ness.. equitably.

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nov 2014:

the coming great transition

https://medium.com/emergent-culture/the-coming-great-transition-e50d62da77d4 

For the long history of our current system — really up until the middle of the 19th Century, the idea that some would have and some would not was largely uncontroversial. It was a law of nature that someone was going to go hungry. The only question was who.

But by the turn of the 20th Century in the Western world and the middle of the 20th Century in the world at large, important things started to shift. Many scarce resources began to become less scarce. By the early part of the 1900’s, the United States produced more than enough food for every American to have enough to eat. By the late 1960’s, the world produced enough food for everyone on the world to have enough to eat. Hunger was no longer a simple function of lack — it had become a function of our system. It had become a consequence of human choice rather than natural law.

Challenge 1: We are all going to be unemployed

Challenge 2: We don’t need everyone anymore

It means that the great conservative fear of the 19th and 20th Centuries is no longer relevant. People can become free to pursue their lives the way that we want to and if only a fraction use their time to contribute to the common wealth, everything will be OK. If 85% of the population doesnothing, the system doesn’t skip a beat — because the innovative wealth created by the other 15% is more than enough.

Challenge 3: The obsolescence of the carrot and the stick

The abundance economy is the fulfillment of this evolution. It recognizes that when people are freed from the fear-based necessity of contributing their time to unfulfilling and increasingly needless tasks, they can focus on doing what interests and has meaning for them. What they love. And when they do this, they are perfectly positioned to be more creative and more innovative. To put it very simply: creative people create. If all we do is make it easy for them and get out of the way, they need no motivation other than their own passion and curiosity.

short ness

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nov 2014:

reinvent everything

https://medium.com/emergent-culture/reinvent-everything-556860b63308

what if the grid of needs is simplified to two.. still satisfying your 5 hypotheses.

Our construction of a New Society is as much a consequence of necessity as opportunity. The longer we wait the more the balance will move from opportunity to necessity.

indeed.

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jan 2015:

kickstarter for a new civilization

http://emergentbydesign.com/2015/01/14/kickstarter-for-a-new-civilization/

2 fears – change & chaos..

new sensemaking apparatus

basic income – debt jubilee – moral jubilee (David Graeber)

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feb 2015 – sensemaking – constructing a new narrative:

https://medium.com/emergent-culture/constructing-a-new-narrative-6b717b566fc4

Every experience leaves a trace. Enough similar experiences leave a mark. Enough similar marks leave a groove.

There are two real challenges at this level: bad mappings and supernormal stimuli.

A big part of maturing and becoming capable of effectively navigating the world is the process of identifying and resolving your inherited set of bad mappings. – (links to Venessa)

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feb 2015

Jordan intro’s Daniel on fb

talking global systemic change

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2013 – Complexity in Governance – Government Futures Lab, Reconstitutional Convention

via Bruce K on fb

we have to free ourselves of that tool kit

if you’re building something that requires a transcendent institution to solve those governance problems you’re prob doing something wrong… has to be decentralized.. imminent inter lockatory feed back loops to enable emergence of structure when and if necessary..

stigmergy ness

architecture is politics

if you’re building a machine that works in spite of incompetent individuals.. you’re f-d cause that’s what you’ll get… has to be fault tolerant to incompetent individuals but fundamental oriented toward building capable individuals at edge – empower individuals

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@bkunkel3

(1600s) notion that there is no better system.. i don’t know.. but probably (was) true.. (but) no longer the case.. no longer in a circumstance where we have to use a system that we know is designed to create winners and losers.. because ..

we are in a circumstance where simultaneously we can create a system where there are no losers. and we must.

..the constant process of competition/development/struggle that was implicit in the genius of the previous system has led us to where we are now. that doesn’t work anymore.

trying to accomplish some system where we can provision individual well-being that is generative via our collectable.. while not inhibiting

short answer – take into account of really powerful fundamental of what happened in late 60s early 70s….up till then primary problem extraction and distribution of scarce – depletable goods.. information is not rivalrous in nature.. we can make it feel rivalrous.. by using patent and copyright and shit like that.. et al.. we have an economic model that can deal with rivalrous goods..

nonrivalrous

movement toward non rivalrous – hp, yahoo, google

creativity not motivated by carrots and sticks actually destroyed by carrots and sticks.. creativity enabled by mastery/meaning/autonomy – personal and collective because that’s the way human beings are wired..optimal for generating non rivalrous goods..

ni ness – re:wire

things necessary for human beings to achieve fulfillment turn out to be precisely the source of things that max our generation of non rivalrous phenomenon also max our ability to coordinate with each other.. with exponential growth rate

let’s do this first – for max – energy 

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nov 2015

the tpp and need to reclaim

Tinkering with the policy is a distraction.

we need to identify the root of the problem and act at that level.

a nother way – deep/simple/open enough

The first deep problem is that intellectual property is a state-granted (and protected) monopoly.

these high returns represent the beginning of a particularly pernicious feedback loop

feedback loop is broken

the early winners are able to change from adapting their strategy to the market to changing the market to fit their strategy.

perpetuating not us ness

We are talking serious money here, and the key to this vault is guarded exclusively by the scope of copyright provided by law.

rushkoff os law – deeper than ip, money/b

This is bad. But the problems here go even deeper.

Intellectual Property and the Corruption of Sense

The problem is not how we implement intellectual property. The problem is the idea itself.

our entire economic and legal model is built around rivalrous things. Rivalrous, as in, we can rival each-other for their possession. If I have it, you can’t and if I consume it, it is gone forever. Food, water, energy. For ten thousand years the creation, distribution and control of rivalrous goods and services was the raison d’etre of most of social organization.

For the anti-rivalrous, if I have it, you can also have it without my losing it and the more people who have it, the more powerful and valuable it becomes. Language, math, music, ideas.

We can see intellectual property is an effort to use legal legerdemain to make the anti-rivalrous quasi-rivalrous and, therefore, “work” in an economic and legal system fundamentally designed for a rivalrous world.

In the anti-rivalrous world, the more people who have experienced something, the more valuable and powerful it becomes. If we slap a price on a copy, even a very low price, then some people won’t or can’t access it.

it is clear that, if it has not already happened, for the first time in human history we will soon be in a world where the anti-rivalrous is much more important than the rivalrous. The shift from a rivalrous to an anti-rivalrous economy necessarily implies and requires a fundamental shift in everything about how we go about “doing economy”.

i propose the following: A Universal Basic Income. As I have mentioned several times, I consider this to be “baked in” to at least the transition to an “Abundance economy”. It is conceivable that within a generation or two of shifting to an Abundance framework, we will no longer have need of a Basic Income — but for the immediate term, it is the best answer. Ideally, I think that the UBI should empower actual autonomy — it should be no-strings attached and provide enough resources for an individual to live a reasonable life with no additional income.

radical econ – as you say.. temporary tokens

A core component of an anti-rivalrous economy is reputation. When we say that creativity is intrinsically motivated, we mean that it is motivated by a rich mix of deep human needs. Things like esteem, access, collaboration and inspiration. In order to ensure that these “social currencies” flow in the right directions, it is of utmost importance that the actual creators behind the best ideas and expressions are reliably and accurately identified.

i don’t know. i don’t get this. like obligation ness..

i think just a and a.. no labels/reputation.. because of stuff like: danger of a single story et al.. on the need to trust everyone. hold everyone in esteem.

In addition, and perhaps more importantly, an attribution architecture is necessary in order for us to maximize collective intelligence.

i think we max collective intelligence (eudaimoniative surplus) by harnessing tech (chip) to listen (w/o agenda/judgment) – and then do its thing: connect-us/search/leave-a-trail..

so how to create/uncover an operating system that can facilitate that.. mechanism simple enougn – grounding/facilitating the chaos of 7 billion set free to eudaimonia – 100%/singularity ness/third way ness.

The notion is this. Imagine that everyone is issued a “digital wallet” and that every month $500 of a special kind of digital money is automatically deposited into everyone’s wallet. What makes this money special is that it can’t be spent. Instead it can only be pledged. Specifically, it can only be given to “creative projects” that commit to sharing all of the results of their work into the public domain. Once the money is transferred, it becomes “unlocked” and converts into regular old money that can be spent freely.

I would like to suggest that pursuing a major dismantling of intellectual property and the reclaiming of the world of ideas is one of the most important places we could focus our energies in the coming decade.

for (blank)’s sake

do this first: free art ists

a nother way

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SFI presentation on the fundamental nature of currency (AKA a transdisciplinary/complexity view of currency).

presentation starts ten minutes in.

a transdisciplinary look at currency – mechanism independent..

12 min – sense making agent.. input.. process.. output

signal.. sensen -> significance..

significance … feed/forward/back -> currency

13 min – currency is a signal that facilitates the coherent coordination of two (or more) sense making agents

currency landscapes: stigmergy.. language… money (as a special case)

14 min – a convivium – new agent on the system..

16 min – bandwidth constraints turn out to be very important… ie: evolution of the brain.. expands portfolios of currencies and the complexities of currencies

17 min – human being as the dunbar sensemaker.. ie: 150 max (soft limit) bandwidth capacity to effectively use set of currencies associated with our level of convivia/organization..

jo freeman ness – structure less ness

this is a very complex currency.. ie: body language, facial expression et al .. meaningless for a cat/bug..

18 min – as humans.. seem to have ability to feedback effectively and  to take over and take ownership over bandwidth capacity and currency system..  so new kinds of currency space.. ie: arts and language…. and accounting.. which leads us to our modern idea of money..

20 min – stealing from David Graeber‘s debt… the narrative economists..myth.. but rather immeshed in social currency..  over time.. externalize social currencies into artifacts.. changed bandwidth capacity..changed convivia we could operate in.

21 min – ledger: origin of money.. ability to record debts.

make it occur externally..

tally stick: also to externalize social currency.. break in half.. combine when debt was settled..

22 min – big move – decontextualization and tokenism… appears primary driver was scale: 1\ population (beyond dunbar) 2\ geographic (hard over space) 3\ kinds of transactions (no longer related to deep social context..

23 min – 3 variables: complexity, bandwidth, scale.. ie: simplify to grow, complexify to profit

24 min – sensemaking agent: the firm

25 min – 1\ trust: sometimes trust is the currency.. externalize.. moves to institution.. further and further.. to token/bitcoin get a trustless environment.. 2\ fetishism/hypertrophication.. begin to optimize for the sign, ie: gdp… 3\ signal jacking/debasement

28 min – current state – emerging currencies… ie: yelp, blogger, vimeo, twitter, … reviews, ratings, …

hierarchy to horizontal convivia, ie: uber… delivers drive a reputation score… so w/in hierarchy via blockchain

33 min – decentralized/autonomous orgs, ie: crypto tokens, ethereum – smart contracts, backfeed – reputation currencies… used to generate a whole new form of human organization..

collective intelligence.. and us as a convivium… gigantic increase in some portion of our bandwidth capacity but not symmetrical.. much more coming in than our dunbar number… ie: for each of you.. 6 convos in this room you should have but don’t have capacity for… so imagine if each person gets a watson..

36 min – q&a – feedback loop in uber.. 1\ reputation ledger allows uber to scale.. unlimited.. 2\ your relationship as rider.. very little consideration w/individual driver..  so trusting the brand..

38 min – 5 for 5.. in uber.. i’ll give you a 5 if you give me a 5

41 min – selling these to fica scores.. emergence of whole cluster of reputation currencies.. and those will then replace fica.. and around will emerge new sets of behaviors.. ie: vouching for people… i could tag you with my virtual vouch.. and you could use in encounters w/others

oh my.

43 min – q: on uber’s motive for reputation currency.. to gain riders.. we don’t see emergence of robust..ness .. so then on blockchain taking on uber like uber took on taxis..

44 min – a: we are making current monetary system.. how to do that deliberately.. to get what we want.. very talked about in blockchain community

48 min – so different space of trusting math/cryptography + cryptographers..

50 min – q: on overarching platform – a: flat out unknown..

ethereum‘s Gavin claiming that… no?

51 min – i’m a seed investor in uber

55 min – hope is to expand bandwidth/capacity… to make highly contextual/rich – that is w/in dunbar level.. scalable..

57 min – anthropology rather than tech of bitcoin.. developed by many people allergic to trust.. didn’t trust govt.. others.. so a deep implication the decontextualization.. and exploring language space….

1:03 – q: wikipedia as ie of currency system de coupled from current systems.. a: relationships between editors and subtribes.. using currencies..  higher order.. relationship of rest of us.. based on diff set of currencies.. movements around debasements of that currency.. to signal jack.. required innovation of new set of tech… and now big pharma has jacked that

1:09 – q: on decentralizing scaling of currencies.. getting many diff kinds.. a:

1:15 – nature of new world… need to get comfortable with being freaked out..

1:16 – bottom line: we have to get a whole lot smarter.. and the way we do is understand collective intelligence… then actual solutions will emerge from that.

perhaps that just comes from slowing down.. listening.. to the rhythm.. we already have.. in each one of us. no?

1:18 – post singularity problem..

1:19 – comment (by jeffrey) on dunbar number… there isn’t a dunbar number there’s a sequence of dunbar numbers… ie: 5 (people you love/hate); goes up by factors of 3…  at same time connectivity currency flow decreases… so like a fractal hierarchy.. ; 15, 45/50 .. that’s why center for institute is 50.. next is 150… which is the one you’ve referred to.. the next is 500, then next is 1500 before it completely dissipates…  we shouldn’t focus on sensemaker as a fixed number of 150…

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dec 2015 – calling for a global jubilee [https://medium.com/emergent-culture/it-is-time-for-a-global-debt-jubilee-part-i-901cd0ec305d]

View at Medium.com

This is because our current monetary system is extraordinarily fragile. And this is because the core of our current monetary system is debt

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This bank created money is at the very center of our monetary system and our economy. Depending on how you measure it, bank created “debt-money” represents somewhere between 85% and 97% of our entire money supply. This is the core of the whole thing.

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Whether as a result of default or merely by being paid off, when the debt goes away, so does the money in the money supply.

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This means that our productive activities are biased in the directions preferred by debt, such as the production of tangible things like houses and factories. The result here is the unhealthy combination of chronic overcapacity .. and chronic overconsumption ..

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Our monetary system and all that is constructed upon it is based on a single premise: that almost everyone will continue to try to pay their debts. The moment this premise is no longer valid — the moment that enough of us *commit* to washing away all debts — the entire global monetary system will come crashing down. …. it won’t really even take that many of us. I estimate that somewhere between 15 Million and 30 Million Americans making a clear and compelling commitment to a global debt jubilee would be enough.

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….. review, evaluate and revise them all the way down to their very roots.

While in general we can pretend that the workings of our social structure are simply “the way it is,” there are moments in history where we must wake up to the reality of our responsibility and reclaim our power.

indeed.

are we not at a time where we could make money irrelevant…? jubilee .. great. let’s wipe out money as well.

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feb 2016

View at Medium.com

Bitcoin is a self-organizing collective intelligence. As such, what it becomes is entirely a function of what it can do — that is, it is a function of the capacity of its collective intelligence to overcome the challenges that it encounters in its environment.

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Every “movement” or “scenius” (to use Brian Eno’s ingenious term for “collective genius”) is a form of self-organizing collective intelligence.

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The basic dynamics of a SOCI is as follows. It begins as some sort of attractor — some aesthetic sensibility or yearning — that is able to grab the attention and energy of some group of people. Generally one that is very vague and abstract. Some idea or notion that only makes sense to a relatively small group.

? really..? or is that what we thinking it is.. again – i’m seeing Louis‘ magnets pulling the puck.. and wondering.. why the puck..?

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In the end, the development of a SOCI is defined by the challenges it faces, its capacity to surmount those challenges, and the consequences of its solutions on its own further development.

perhaps.. i don’t know. but if so.. how do we know the challenges we keep encountering aren’t manufactured/perpetuated because of our misunderstanding of self-organizing.. (ie: what if it has little to do with attracting others.. but rather facilitating/coordinating the connections of ie: curiosities that already are.. in each person)

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• It solves motivation, reward and collective action problems through an architecture that is responsive to nuanced and changing value landscapes without being bottlenecked by concentrated (and, therefore, intelligence reducing) decision-makers.

whoa. motivation, reward, collective action, .. 3 things that seem irrelevant to being human.. (assuming collective action here is referring to puck like.. action)

their ability to connect with, motivate and apply the attention and energy of their communities is either very narrow

?

To get a better sense of what I mean here, consider Bitcoin as an extremely early prototype of how this kind of motivational architecture can work.

whoa. motivational architecture.. that’s not what we need. we have the motivation already w/in each one of us.. ie: curiosity. what we need is a means to coordinate that.

motivating anyone who could appreciate and act on this invitation to figure out how they could best give their value to the Bitcoin SOCI in exchange for increasingly valuable coins.

motivating.. to give so you could get..?

The limitations of Bitcoin’s approach to motivation and collective action are well understood and new technical layers like Ethereum’s smart contracts and Backfeed’s distributed governance system magnify the potential intelligence of this kind of SOCI at least as much as the neocortex magnified the intelligence of the mammalian brain.

whoa. smart contracts.. govt system.. is our goal/optimisation.. with capabilities 1\ we already have w/in each one of us 2\ of tech today

I really wish the reality and importance of this new frontier were more broadly understood.

me too.

And whoever gets there first will “win” in a fashion that is rarely seen in history.

it has to be all of us.. or it won’t work. there’s no first for a win.

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money\less

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@bkunkel3

We can restore Democracy by disrupting politics. Here is how.” by @jgreenhall medium.com/@jordangreenha…

Fortunately, the money power has repeatedly been shown to have one major weakness that it has not yet reliably patched: it is slow to react to technical innovation. This seems to be particularly true with technical innovation that undermines and disrupts the power structures that it relies on for control — like say the media and the electoral system. Thus, if we can design and implement a technology-based initiative that radically changes the balance of power around both media and elections, we might catch the money power off balance and have window of opportunity.

But remember, this is David and Goliath stuff. David didn’t go toe-to-toe with Goliath. Neither can we. We are likely to get one shot at this. It needs to fly straight. And if it lands, it needs to be terminal. It needs to be the kind of shot that so radically changes the game that the money power is eliminated from the game completely.

yes.. for (blank)’s sake…

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doing nothing is likely to be much worse. So our challenge is to find an approach that will simultaneously unseat the money power, re-establish effective governance (adequate to deal with our many challenges) and do so without pushing us into crisis.

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his suggestion – liquid democracy – So liquid democracy allows everyone to “proxy” their vote to other people — who can exercise their sovereignty on their behalf.

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So with liquid democracy, what you have a fluid “swarm” of governance that forms clusters of expertise around *given issues and concerns — expertise that is identified not by credentials or graft, but by real “chains of trust” all the way back down to the individual citizens from whom all sovereignty extends. Rather than a slow moving bureaucracy made up of easy to exploit single points of failure (“representatives”) that change hands only once every few years, you have a platform that can update in realtime and “flow” power and attention where it is needed. In other words, a platform for a resilient and adaptive collective intelligence.

perhaps better – a nother way.. that makes most of these *given issues/concerns irrelevant..

ie: hosting-life-bits – rather than proxy ing or liquifying…

then he goes on to explain how liquid democ party would work.. and the story in my head is that it sounds very much like the charter schools .. allowed to make their own policies… but if a district has 500 policies… they have to match them.. replace each one.. so.. perhaps.. kinder B.. but still b..

2. Ignore all forms of the legacy system (e.g., stop watching TV, stop reading newspapers, become indifferent to debates and conventions) — focus all of your attention on *getting more people signed up to and on the platform. There is only one goal: getting people on and engaged with the platform.

love the idea of getting rid of irrelevants.. but would have to say.. getting people signed up on a liquid democ platform would also be an irrelevant..

(Party members) are rewarded for signing people up, for contributing valuable technique to the wiki, for creating new software that works, etc., etc. The Party must be a crowdsourced collective intelligence.

collective intelligence.. won’t happen via rewarding coercion.. manufacturing consent.. et al..

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situational assessment 2017 [https://medium.com/deep-code/situational-assessment-2017-trump-edition-d189d24fc046#.c0h81uefk]

Front One: Communications Infrastructure.

All modern warfighters know that the first step of any conflict is to disrupt the enemy’s communications and control infrastructure.

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deleuze war machines

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This war is about much more than ideology, money or power. Even the participants likely do not fully understand the stakes. At a deep level, we are right in the middle of an existential conflict between two entirely different and incompatible ways of forming “collective intelligence”.

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Their intent is not to play with or even dominate the legacy media — but to eliminate them from the field entirely and to replace them with something else altogether.

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Front Two: The Deep State

In ordinary politics, an elected candidate is expected to integrate with and make relatively small fine-tuning changes to the existing state apparatus and the mass of career bureaucrats that make up most of the actual machinery of government (AKA the “deep state”).

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Let’s take a look at the “fake news” meme for example. This has all the earmarks of a Deep State initiative. Carefully planned, highly coordinated, coming from all authoritative directions, strategically targeted. My read is that this was a Deep State response to the Communications Infrastructure fight.

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I cannot overstate how deeply dangerous this fight is. Classically, when a long-standing hegemony (cf “Pax Americana) is weakened and distracted by intra-elite conflict, rivals like Russia and China will see an opportunity to move from a hegemonic to a multi-polar world and can be tempted into adventurism. In these conditions, even the slightest mistake can push the system into nearly catastrophic conflict.  (trump impeachment as disaster)

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Front Three: Globalism

Anti-globalist rhetoric was one of the most enduring and central features of the Trump campaign. Indeed, if Trump clearly stood for anything, resisting the “false song of globalism” was it. And all evidence in the post-election environment is that the Trump Insurgency will indeed be actively anti-globalist.

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The Globalists have an odd connection to power. Generally, they must move through influence and threat to elites, with a non-trivial amount of mass level propaganda to smooth the way.

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By moving quickly and decisively against the Deep State allies of globalism at home and erecting nationalist resilience to global institutional influence (e.g, high tariffs and protectionist monetary policy), combined with shaping a narrative that points all bad economic news directly at globalists, the Insurgency might well be able to cut most globalist power off at the knees.

Notably, even large multi-national corporations — until recently appearing to be pulling the strings of political policy — seem to be rapidly capitulating to the Insurgency. The two major globalist forces that have not yet been publicly tested are the energy companies and the banks.

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Perhaps what is most clear is this: the period of transition as globalist forces struggle to maintain power while nationalist forces are not yet in any form of stable equilibrium with each-other is a moment (possibly lasting years) of extreme danger.

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Front Four: The New Culture War

Last week, Reddit user notjafo expressed something important. It is worth reading his entire post, but the gist is this: the left won the culture war of the 1960’s — 1990’s. And the Trump Insurgency does not represent “the next move” of the old right in that old war. It represents the first move of an emergent new culture. One that is directly at war with the “Blue Church” on the ground of culture itself.

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This Culture War will be unlike anything we have ever seen. It will take place everywhere all at once, constrained less by geography than by technical platform and by the complex relationship between innovation and power on an exponential technology curve. It will be a struggle over not just the content, but the very sense and nature of identity, meaning and purpose

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The War for Collective Intelligence

tldr, it is this: we live in a non-linear world, stop thinking linearly.

Once you have accepted this as the task, you will eventually come to an important conclusion: you can’t. By yourself, you can’t think non-linearly.

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 In this environment, for the first time ever in history, the ability to innovate is decisively superior to the ability to deploy power. Prior to today, the rule of “the battle goes to whoever gets there the first with the most” was a decent rule of thumb.

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The conflict of the 21st Century is about forming a Collective Intelligence that can outwit and out innovate all of its competitors. The central challenge is to innovate a way of collaborating and cohering individuals that

? the conflict is to quit having competitors – none of us if one of us

Or is there *a different timeline where one of the “children of Blue” discovers an approach that is more intelligent still — one that is more fit to ride the wave of exponential technology and global scale crisis? One that is more fully in line with the true nature of inter-subjective consciousness?

 *god i hope.. a nother way.. for all of us.. ie: collective intelligence doesn’t work if it’s not all of us.. a part\ial dance doesn’t really dance.. to me.. that’s why we have yet gotten to global equity.. not because we haven’t figured out how to win a war..

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feb 2017 – 18 min video – Politics Decentralized: A new paradigm of governance

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3OlG4OmczI]

john robb – network tribes.. open source surgeons

wholesale disruption.. only once every 1000 yrs..

eagle and condor ness

if we drop the ball.. could be something we never recover from…. in a historical moment..

7 min – dave snowden model… diff kinds of ordered systems..

9 min – whole tool kit for complicated systems don’t work for complex systems.. we keep trying to treat complex like complicated

10 min – governance as a concept.. complicated.. starting off on wrong foot.. to manage complex human life..

11 min – what might be an authentically complex approach to managing human social org.. collective intelligence.. founded upon meshwork of collab enhancing sovereignty (agency)..

12 min – the problem of collective intelligence is very deeply related to the problem of sovereignty

14 min – challenge: on not knowing how to scale past dunbar number.. things like ie: trust, responsibility, healing..

opp to present w new architecture (now people not trusting).. if they adopt/use/scale.. solves biggest problem…

15 min – i think parameters.. 1\intrinsically resilient to capture control… so deeply de centralized  2\sensitive to.. *down regulate bad faith discourse.. propaganda et al (**probably thru some variety of tokens.. currencies….)  3\id and de cohere master narratives.. what we need is ***your authentic experience.. your perspective.. second thru some other lens is how we get echo chamber..

*gershenfeld sel

**not tokens/currencies.. we can’t keep measuring transactions et al.. that’s a compromise we can’t keep risking/perpetuating

***self-talk as data.. as the day [aka: not part\ial.. for (blank)’s sake…]..   via hosting-life-bits

18 min – things have habit of going from absolutely impossible to completely inevitable..in most surprising ways

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and fear no darkness – mar 2017

https://medium.com/emergent-culture/and-fear-no-darkness-7079dc86d5f4#.bdrz2o6fm

I was introduced to Strauss and Howe’s stuff back in ’08 by Peter Turchin in the context of a Santa Fe Institute examination of Big History and historical analysis. While the standard academic critiques of the Fourth Turning are accurate (it does lack rigor; it does ‘over fit’ the data

santa fe inst – Sam Bolwes

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Reality is not bound by the architectures of narrative. It is only our understanding that feels satisfied with a good story

language ness (very bottom via Jon)

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What we mean by crisis can be stated simply: “A crisis is a process of transformation where the old system can no longer be maintained.”

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From the point of view of the old system, the crisis is death. This is why the old system always struggles like hell to stave off the crisis.

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The instinct to preserve the old system at all costs is almost always an adaptive instinct.

Almost. Except when the old system can no longer be maintained.

Hence the crisis.

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If we really are in a crisis; if the old system, birthed over seventy years ago in the aftermath of the last great crisis, is really in its death throes, then what should we expect?

Why war of course.

Why We Fight

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the nature of crisis war. It all comes back to a notable human frailty: that we cannot learn from other people’s mistakes.

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Knowing this and thinking through the lens of Generational theory, it is reasonable to conclude that a great war is all but inevitable. Anyone who fails to look this possible future square in the eyes is delusional. And here is the kicker. If you are the United States and the West and you think that a fight for survival is brewing, then something else becomes clear: there is no better time for that fight than right now.

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I am not an optimist. I do not think that our collective chances of making it through the 21st Century are good. Certainly below 50/50. …. If one wants peace, one must first make peace with war.

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We are stuck. On the one hand, the natural direction of the world as we know it is a cascading collapse from a thousand directions. On the other hand, as soon as anyone recognizes that a bottleneck is coming and starts racing for the door, the resulting struggle will rapidly spend the remaining sand in the hourglass. History has us trapped.

As absurd and improbable as it might sound, for any of us to survive, we must find a way out of history. Not just the fifty thousand year history of civilization. We must find a way to escape the logic of our genes and find a way out of the billion year history of evolution itself. Soon, very soon if I read my indicators right, a critical mass of people are going to have to come together and help us all level up.

a nother way

deep/simple/open enough for all of us

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fb share by Jon – on blue church

(https://medium.com/deep-code/understanding-the-blue-church-e4781b2bd9b5)

*Coherence is one of the most important concepts in the **management of complexity.

*googled: 1\the quality of being logical and consistent 2\the quality of forming a unified whole.

1\ idio sync jaron ness – illogical but consistently authentic/you  2\ sync ness of one ness

perhaps more a decoherence:

when a quantum system is not perfectly isolated, but in contact with its surroundings, the coherence decays with time, a process called quantum decoherence….the loss of information from a system into the environment..Viewed in isolation, the system’s dynamics are non-unitary (although the combined system plus environment evolves in a unitary fashion)

When you take two systems (two paddles) and synchronize them, you *radically simplify the complexity of the overall system. By getting two paddles into coherence, you are able to turn two paddles that you can’t manage into one big paddle **that you can manage……..Decoherence represents a challenge for the practical realization of quantum computers, since such machines are expected to rely heavily on the undisturbed evolution of quantum coherences. Simply put, they require that coherent states be preserved and that decoherence is managed, in order to actually perform quantum computation.

perhaps our problem is thinking we have to manage some computation.. no? we are not computers.. not programmable.. computational.. strategizeable.. measureable.. definable.. manageable.. if we want to remain awake/alive..

complexity ness

*? – less complex or more complex..

**? – manage..?

Fortunately, humans are pretty good at this too. Like dancers or musicians playing together, we have a lot of bandwidth for small group synchrony. Getting into flow together takes some doing, but with a little practice we can manage this complexity.

thinking of Bobby McFerrin‘s sync already in us ie of large audience – could say he’s saying managing (he even says.. watch me play the audience) .. .. and/or .. people holmgren indigenous listening..?

Now add another ten people into the boat. This is a real problem. The complexity of this overall system exceeds the natural control capacity of “group flow”. Try as you might, it is darn near impossible for a group of twelve people to “self organize” into an effective rowing team.

i don’t know.. thinking of swarms.. and ant feeling the proximity of each other.. and thinking of jo freeman: not that it’s impossible.. just need to org differently..  so ie: org fro better listening.. org sans consensus (or missing some voices) ..org based on trust – isn’t the manager like the 10 day care center law..?

org to free up artisis (aka: all of us) to self-org

Unless you put someone in charge.

or is it.. when you put someone in charge..  we do need them.. because then we all stop listening deeply.. to us

Add someone to the front of the boat whose job is nothing but synchronizing the whole team (“stroke!”) and reduce everyone else’s job to responding to the signal coming from that leader (“stroke!”) and *suddenly the system comes back into control

*back into or back under control.. thinking why we haven’t yet

These are the core concepts to understand the Blue Church. The complexity of the system. Our ability to simplify the system. The control bandwidth available to manage the simplified system

The forms of social control that had been used to get us to the 19th Century were inadequate to the levels of novelty and complexity of the 20th Century. *Society cannot function without a regulatory structure adequate to its level of complexity.
The Blue Church was the emergent solution to this problem.

*so .. stigmergy/trust/antifragility/uncertainty ..emergence as structure..

Technology is not neutral.

are we sure.. or have we just not let it be yet

thinking it can listen w/o agenda – at least way better than we can.. ie: listen to self talk and just take it for what it is.. use it as data to connect us..

As Marshall McLuhan wrote, when we innovate technology, “we become what we behold. We shape our tools and then our tools shape us

what if it’s… we shape our tools/mech and our tools set us/shape-ness free

I recommend Understanding Media: the Extensions of Man.

the formal core of the Blue Church: it solves the problem of 20th Century social complexity through the use of mass media to generate *manageable social coherence.

our fear .. if we let people be free to think for themselves.. that unbridled.. 7bn fold curiosity.. will be chaotic.. so.. design the mech to facil the chaos.. not to manage the people

Once you grasp the basic shape of the Blue Church control structure, you begin to see it everywhere. There is a basic bi-directional flow. In the upwards direction there is the flow of “credentialed authority.” The “experts” who are authorized through some legitimizing process to be permitted to form and express their opinions through some form of broadcast media. In the downwards direction, these “good opinions” which anchor and place boundaries around our collective social coherence

in academia: Regardless of the specific subject matter, every class is a lesson in how to play the Blue Church game

Don’t get me wrong. I’m not saying that the academy is propaganda or bullshit. In fact, in many ways, the opposite. It works. This *process of academic credentialization has proven to be a powerful engine for filtering out nonsense and searching for truth.

*oy.. perhaps it’s taken us to our deepest nonsense: not us ness

thinking:

 Joey Ayoub (@joeyayoub) tweeted at 4:51 AM – 23 Mar 2017 : I genuinely don’t understand what people talk about when they say ‘our way of life’ when I see so many homeless people in London. (http://twitter.com/joeyayoub/status/844864172756119557?s=17)

While there have been a lot of digressions (string theory) and inappropriate authorizations (economics), in the main, the 20th Century expertise machine has been the crown jewel of *civilization.

*are we sure civilization is.. what our souls crave..

What I am pointing to here is the formal structure. Broadcast. Asymmetry. An architecture that enables a scalable division of labor for *social sensemaking and decision making. No one could possibly try and understand even a small fraction of what is going on in the world. So we break the problem up into bits, hand the smaller problems up the expertise hierarchy where they are processed and reduced to simple **shared “good opinion” which is then broadcast down and out to the whole population.

*what if those are the things we need to let go of..

because **public consensus always oppresses someone

This gets us *good answers to hard problems and, more importantly, gets us all more or less on the same page. And *this* enables us to **run a modern society.

*hmm.. don’t think it’s gotten us good answers yet.. ie: don’t think it’s gotten us to the roots of healing yet.. or you could say it has gotten us good answers to hard problems.. just not problems deep enough to resonate/heal all of us..

**if that’s our goal.. oy

then ie: is traffic.. which is so not us anyway..

Similarly, as long as we all agree that “free trade is a good idea”, or that “borders should be protected,” or that “healthcare is a human right,” or that “people should be treated equally,” or that “carbon emissions lead to global warming” then the still enormously difficult job of designing and implementing policies based upon these assumptions and frameworks can be managed and the ship of state moved forward. (“Stroke!”)

i would say none of those are deep enough.. see maté basic needs as deep enough.. let’s use that as framework..  or a stroke.. if we must

ie: short bit

Going deeper, the actual playing out of the Blue Church control structure is influenced by three characteristics of human beings:

1. We are a pack animal constantly trying to make sure we have high status within the pack;
2. We have a really hard time distinguishing between “having attention” and “deserving attention;”
3. We principally learn by doing and emulation (not by thinking).

don’t think these really fit with human nature.. they do fit with science of people though

#3 – learn by doing is good.. emulation: effort to match or surpass a person or achievement, typically by imitation.reproduction of the function or action of a different computer, software system, etc… not so much

This social dynamic means that good opinion is self-reinforcing. There is no need for a top-down thought police or such. Once enough people are coherent around good opinion, natural human social dynamics will kick-in to maintain that coherence.

graeber ness on violence – from rev in reverse (i think)

The downside result of this social reinforcement, of course, is the echo chamber where opinions that violate good opinion are removed from discourse — even when they are valuable and important. And the contemporary Blue Church has definitely developed into an echo chamber.

what about the opinion that money is our os.. even though it’s made up.. and .. killing us by perpetuating a measuring ness about us

just saying.. we can see in .. the blue church.. because it’s in us

The habit of seeking authority is not merely a product of Blue Church training. It is, in fact, one of the more hard wired aspects of being human. …our hardwired “attention allocation” functions, we discover that human beings use a pretty simple model: pay attention to the people who other people are paying attention to.

As a society, we are obsessed with who has attention, and conspicuously less interested in whether it is deserved.

as a society.. a civilized society.. but .. i don’t think it’s our nature

In a broadcast world, merely being “on camera” is to be credentialed. Regardless of your actual capabilities, insight, or character, if you can somehow manage to get on camera you are granted actual audience *and* social authority (Kim Kardashian).

actually.. good explanation of our warped credentialing obsession.

Here is the kicker. Being on camera gives you authority even if you aren’t real.

not us.. perpetuating our broken feedback loop.. why maté basic needs are so key

Yes, we humans can discern between real people and fictional characters.

can we…? have we…?

the level of complexity of the 21st Century is simply outside of the control capacity that is possible within the form of the Blue Church. Unless we abandon the Church and move to a new approach, our race into the future will be increasingly out of control.

However, and this is a profoundly important point, we currently know of no form of control structure that is adequate — even in principle.

control structure..? why control structure..?

and maybe we do.. a nother way

The fundamental problem is at least threefold:

1. Our entire approach to managing complex systems like our environment is flawed. Until the late 20th Century we could get away with this flaw because we weren’t powerful enough to matter. This has changed and as Joe Brewer has been writing about beautifully, we need to level up quickly. We need to *switch from trying to manage complex systems with complicated control structures and invent entirely new techniques for intrinsically up regulating the complex systems that make up our natural world. We don’t yet know how to do this.
2. Complex systems that include human beings are different. Unlike atmospheres and nitrogen cycles, people can forecast, strategize and adapt hyper-rapidly to our environment. Dave Snowden calls this anthro-complexity. We have to **innovate an entirely new approach to governance that is adequate to the challenging set of problems posed by anthro-complexity. We really don’t know how to do this.
3. Finally, we have to come to terms with the real nature of technology, the difficult to predict feedback loops of how we affect technology and how it affects us. And then we have to ***figure out how to navigate the actual consequences of exponential technology — on ourselves and on our lived world. Most people aren’t even prepared to think about how to do this.

*we do.. it’s in us.. just listen deeper.. ie: a nother way via 2 convos

**from dave‘s post:

Social complexity now has more specific meaning in academic circles and I don’t want to be confined by that. Cognitive complexity has the human aspect in it, but again it is a little limiting. I’ve also used naturalising sense-making and still do. ..More recently I have been thinking about anthro-complexity (or anthrocomplexity) as being the most accurate label, and possibly the least confining.

and again.. if we listen deep enough.. we do.. this is back to your celebrity ness with a mic.. the attention grabber.. the shiny.. that assists us in our missing it ness

maybe we don’t know how to get there.. but i think this would work.. the key being.. we all already have the means with in us.. to paddle at the right time

***luckily.. people don’t have to think about how the tech is doing it.. that’s beauty.. we spend our days like this..  instead of this..  aka: zinn energy law

.Addressing these challenges is going to require the innovation of an *entirely new approach to how we collectively make sense of and act in the world.

*exactly.. and why we keep missing it.. we keep trying to go partial.. ie: new approach.. but still based on measuring things..

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fb share by Michel:

Another contribution from Jordan Greenhall. This post originally appeared on Medium. Jordan Greenhall: There have been a lot of conversations about Bitcoin over the years. Is it a currency or an equity or a commodity? Is it a store of value? Is it a “settlement mechanism”? Is it not money at all, but merely an example of a decentralized application on the Blockchain? [ 1,963 more word ]

https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/lets-get-straight-bitco…/…/16

This is no ordinary SOCI. The deep importance of Bitcoin is that it represents the first example of an entirely new SOCI organism in our landscape. One that clearly represents a new kind of power and capability.

? – it’s a phenom of the shiny.. by people who aren’t themselves.. perpetuating man-made money that measures transactions.. and thus.. continues to compromise us..

1) It is intrinsically global. More to the point, it is geographically unconstrained, and, therefore able to take advantage of any attention and energy anywhere in the world.

as shiny does

2) It is intrinsically virtual. In other words, it is able to connect with resources anywhere with minimal lag and at minimal cost.

These two features combine to mean that in principle this new form of SOCI can attract and *utilize the total collective intelligence of the human species almost instantly. While in practice this level of concentrated collective intelligence isn’t likely to happen the potential of tapping into and connecting precisely the girl in Phuket and the team in Slovenia when where and how they are needed is flat out revolutionary.

rather *perpetuate the compromise of humanity

And, most importantly,

3) It solves motivation, reward and collective action problems through an architecture that is responsive to nuanced and changing value landscapes without being bottlenecked by concentrated (and, therefore, intelligence reducing) decision-makers.

?.. holy cow

Bitcoin-like SOCI use the technical capabilities of the blockchain, crypto-tokens and smart-contracts to provide *a motivational architecture that can be highly adaptive to the real needs of the SOCI without bottlenecking through some concentrated control structure.

rather *motivational architecture  ie: 2 convos via daily curiosities of 7 bn people.. nothing to do with measuring transactions..

 I really wish the reality and importance of this new frontier were more broadly understood.

me too.. we’re so missing it

And whoever gets there first will *“win” in a fashion that is rarely seen in history.

*sign of missing it ness

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first intro’d to Jordan Peterson when Jordan was trying to connect with him….re intro’d/intrigued via Greenhall’s fb post here

Seems it is time to prune the old friends tree. I’ve increasingly noticed that Jordan Peterson is a pretty darn good filter. I’m not a strong on Jordan Peterson as David Fuller appears to be, judging from his new Medium post (https://medium.com/…/the-man-for-the-times-of-chaos-jordan-…), but I’m easily a 4 out of 5 on Mr. Peterson.

Some folks really, really dislike him. If you are a 1 or a 2 on JP (roughly ranging from “evil misogynist homophobe” to “narcissistic buffoon”) and you are my friend, we should part ways. Ideally amicably.

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If someone forms a very negative impression of someone based on a single exposure . . . ? We are getting down to the nitty-gritty and *I can only play with grown-ups.

notes from post on Pederson‘s page.. (initial thought.. dang elitest.. hope i’m wrong).. and *whoa Greenhall

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garden of eden – the transition – complex dynamics – july 2017

[https://www.facebook.com/TheGardenofEdenEvents/videos/1295895083856801/]

jordan – from dave snowden 10 yrs ago (1\ simple  2\ complicated  3\ complex  4\ chaos)

..simple enough for kid to get  

indeed.. simple enough ness.. a nother way book – 2 convos as the day graphic

becoming experts and managing complicated systems.. that no single person could.. frames what we do.. what we are good at doing

complicated vs complex.. complicated: although phase space very large it doesn’t change.. in complex system.. things do change.. all the stuff we really care about are complex..

and a big part of the game we’ve been playing last 15000 yrs.. has been trying to use complicated stuff to manage complex stuff.. impossible..

in a complex system.. things that are causation.. are almost impossible to figure out.. can’t make prediction with precision

one of big problems.. when you have a complicated system.. trying to manage the complex system.. as the complex system changes.. the complicated system has to become more complicated..

till it becomes so complicated you can’t manage it.. till it does something dave snowden calls: takes a journey thru chaos..

and chaos is the 4th kind of system.. and we don’t like chaos.. but how it works.. have to break down and go thru chaos to come back into authentic complexity

perhaps our job right now is twofold:

1\ figure out how to position ourselves so that we can in fact endure the chaos.. possibly even be antifragile to the chaos and use the chaos to build something very positive..

2\ do what we can now to envision what a future looks like that embraces complexity authentically..

daniel: more complicated blueprints are not going to get us there.. our motivational tool kit has to change.. as long as homeless ness is ok.. and killing is ok.. is it fair to call that civilization yet.. maybe not aspired to it yet..  maybe birth of civilization is what is on the other side if we navigate towards that..

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[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjRBa91qjBU]

1\ the wild type.. (nature) adapted for nature.. survival in nature.. developed tool kit of consciousness (synergistic value of several human beings working/convo-ing together – culture is produced by consciousness).. capacity to use a way of working together as group.. that enables them to enter into and become predator of any natural niche..  culture adapted to the niche.. when niche shifts from being nature to being consciousness/culture itself.. happens when wild groups enter into conflict.. emerges to..

2\ the domesticated type.. (conscousness and culture) has ability to coord much larger groups of people.. taking consciousness and culture and simplifies them.. while allowing them to maintain synergistic.. but to scale.. something informal.. becomes less formal.. and narratives.. no longer you having ult authority.. ie: official legal narrative becomes toolkit.. allow to grow at scale.. past dunbar limits.. mechs that allow to scale.. policing narrative.. effectively distinguishes wild life

3\ the feral (in a wild state, especially after escape from captivity or domestication.) type.. narrative and society).. defection.. loses connection w nature.. sees society as reality.. society as first and foremost authority.. vertical hierarchy.. justice (good acts not rewarded.. bad acts not punished) is no longer happening.. developing a niche for some smaller group.. can get away w stuff and not be punished.. eats at essence of what holds domestication together

wild type able to thrive/survive under complex/chaotic circumstances..

domesticated type moves complexity into complication.. enormous control structure to maintain complication.. but by so doing.. as control structure broken down .. by ferality.. causes control structure to break down.. to chaos..

feral type re coheres.. and wild type 2 emerges.. massive control structure.. eats integrity of system.. system collapses.. whoever is able to revert back to wild type.. tool kit for cycle to begin again

civilization ness killing us.. because of our fear (?) of chaos.. well.. now we have the means to facil that chaos.. at any.. scale..

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[Deep Code Experiment] Episode 2: The Rivalrous and the Anti-Rivalrous

nonrivalrous ness

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEEV6gJIb7g]

think this may be most important one out there

rivalrous: not shareable.. entropic..how do we most effectively generate and distribute rivalrous goods

anti rivalrous: can all have it.. w/o taking away from others.. and more that have it.. increases its value

1\ a lot of deep concepts we apply and use in rivalrous.. don’t work at all in anti rivalrous.. ie: supply/demand..

price function ends up being appropriate for individual deciding where to focus *attention.. also serves as great **motivation.. orthodox econ..

*attention ness and **incentive ness

doesn’t work at all in anti rivalrous.. we’ve tried to shoe horn rivalrous into anit rivalrous.. ie: intellectual property

intellectual property

ie: calculus.. the more that know it the greater it’s value.. so makes sense for you to pay me to learn calc

ugh

so anti rivalrous is how we create new innovative regimes

why is this (anti-riv) the crown jewel..? it is the thing that causes the exponential to show up at all.. ie: once one person has developed the calc curric.. others can use it.. combine this with .. today entire framework is designed for rivalrous.. so if could design new framework designed for anti rivalrous.. should expect to see a dramatic increase in anti riv generation.. expo/massive..

infra: 2 convos

ie: hlb via 2 convos that io dance.. as the day..[aka: not part\ial.. for (blank)’s sake…]..  a nother way

so an appropriately designed.. anti rivalrous civilization toolkit reaches escape velocity.. via sum total of all rivalrous civilizations..

? not sure what you mean here.. but.. leaping would expo us to the max..  for (blank)’s sake…

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simulated thinking

On Thinking and Simulated Thinking | Deep Code Experiment: Episode 6

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOA_BZdG4X8]

4 min – danger when habit mode (vs explore mode) shows up as thinking.. actually running some kind of script.. often one that wasn’t theres.. malware.. as it were.. simulated thinking is that kind of thing

5 min – simulated thinking out competes real thinking in certain environs.. esp in stasis.. feedback loop as capacity to maintain a niche.. by making use of scripts effective and thinking ineffective..

9 min – (in debate) the primary utility is besting someone in a social convo.. when someone shows up trying to engage in collab thinking.. debater will show up as winning.. at least to those who are watching closely.. and thinker will show up as being often times.. rather stupid..

12 min – the more that the niche was constructed.. that moderation was imposed by agency.. the more novelty will rush in.. a lot like relationship between the complicated and chaos..

14 min – where we find ourselves now.. where has been great moderation.. selection for simulated thinking.. against thinking.. at same time.. novelty has been building up behind the damn.. so niche is shifting.. simulating thinking is showing up as error

same via text

[https://medium.com/deep-code/on-thinking-and-simulated-thinking-5e434e92cf86]

broadly speaking, we have become stuck in “simulated thinking”.

This is extremely dangerous. In fact, I’d like to invite you to consider that this might be the central problem of the moment.

this emphasis was stronger in text.. and i think that emphasis is important

no matter how complicated a game is, it is ultimately no more than merely “complicated.” Unlike nature, which is fundamentally “complex”, every game can be gamed.

It is a rare student who doesn’t learn (and, sadly, this lesson is probably an example of real learning) that their job is not to think. It is to listen attentively to find out what the pre-fab set of inputs are and then to carve the correct responses into a nice habit

these are both huge.. and maybe i missed them in the audio..

And nearly everyone has experienced blissful moments of real learning in school. It is possible to create authentic learning environments. We just, broadly speaking, haven’t done so as a society.

i think this is huge.. not only because this is probably a major space (school) where we are taught to do ‘simulated thinking’ but also because .. to me.. that we have to say ‘create authentic learning environments’ is a huge red flag we’re doing it wrong.. (assuming we’re designed to learn if in a safe/free environ) .. so the key is to let go..  ie: quit putting people in places (work, school) with some agenda .. as their day..

The result is that precious few of our social relationships (particularly during childhood and adolescence) are generative of real learning and thinking. Instead, most of our time is spent “gaming social groups”. Figuring out how to “fit in” by becoming sensitive to “good opinion” and how to craft and simulate an identity that works for the ephemeral social group that we happen to be swimming with. When you have reached the point that “keeping it real” is itself a performative simulation, you have a pretty good idea where you are.

yeah. that.

If you are not demonstrating good opinion and responding correctly to the right signals, you won’t show up as being part of the in group.

Thus, as you become more capable of real thinking, you also become more capable of real collaboration. Of real community and of real relationships. And, thence, of real thinking. It is a virtuous cycle.

indeed.. why focusing on 2 needs could cure/detox us..

my thinking.. if you want to do just one.. i’d say the text..  and if it’s something really important.. maybe to add emphasis/clarity.. and maybe to catch people who prefer audio.. i’d do both.. and maybe.. be ok w the audio not being as complete.. more like a trailer .. and so.. maybe make it shorter.. focus on a couple of your most important messages from text.. people could use it to decide if they want/need to read the text

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convo w Josh Zelem on daostack – march 2018

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“The Next Phase of the Human Experiment” by Daniel Thorson https://t.co/Uhd1ky1zgU

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/jgreenhall/status/970386182260609029

“Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.”― Arundhati Roy

I’ve felt it for a long time, but I could never explain it.

This is now changing. The world that wants to be born has entered into a new trimester; we can, if we look closely, see it’s form taking shape

What follows is a list of individual perspectives that I see as translationsofvarious aspects of the human experience into and through fluid mode consciousness. These perspectives grew up in isolation, but are increasingly beginning to enter into conversation with each other. Here I want to name them and point in their direction, and let those who see this breadcrumb trail follow what they are called to follow:

Distributed Autonomous Organizations and Holacracy are expressions of the fluid mode embodied in organizational structure

dao & holacracy

Ido Portal’s approach to movement is an expression of the fluid mode embodied in movement practice..movement as perspective

Rob Burbea’s teachings on the Imaginal is an expression of the fluid mode embodied in contemplative practice and spirituality.

Tiago Forte’s ‘Building a Second Brain’ is an expression of the fluid mode embodied in the domain of personal productivity

hosting-life-bits

The Listening Society is an expression of the fluid mode embodied in political theory.

Those of us with eyes to see and ears to hear must together discover and create more expressions of this understanding.

ie: model the infra so all can join in.. now ..

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Listen to “jordangreenhall” by Emerge  https://t.co/j0PM9N7hNZ

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/bkunkel3/status/986753607256096768

Sovereignty, Resonance, and Liminality • Apr 17

9 min – what is something that is able to be both human and nature

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27 min convo via jordan fb share – sept 2018

w https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akira_the_Don

Rebel wisdom decided to film a conversation in my media room with a gentleman named “Akira the Don”. It starts a bit abruptly, but as you get into about minute 8 or 9, it begins to smooth out.

Yes this is pretty much what my conversations are all like. Well, usually with less interesting accents.

Key quote: “Wholesomeness is the new punk.”

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EL_S0p9UVcM]

the envelope in which we’ve been held.. the institutions.. are dying

akira: those aspects of the system are dying

2 min – what’s happening now.. is gigantic chunks of what we have thought of as being the world.. this weird model.. that the notion when you’re 6 you go to kindergarten then you toil thru primary school then hs then college then get a job.. is the world.. and it’s not .. and that’s going away..t

god i hope.. moten abolition law..

the people are perceiving.. because it’s becoming increasingly obvious.. that all these artifacts of the way that we’ve gone about doing civilization.. in all the diff ways.. pick your poison.. doesn’t really matter because they’re all kind of tied together..  are breaking down and failing in a way that is no longer easy to pretend isn’t happening.. so as a consequence.. this triggers a deep visceral sense.. and that’s a good thing..  this visceral sense is the return to the liminal .. they mystery.. the state

deep enough

3 min – how we deal w that.. we drop the parts of us that wants to stay where we are.. we allow the sadness/danger of change to occur.. at same time acclimates in us the call to consciousness.. the call to gather together.. to actually become thinking in a group

find who you are and get deeply good at it.. find how to build real relationships w people around you..

2 convos

and the other end is paradise.. i think on the level.. that we get to go to mars

4 min – akira: but it’s a whole nother level.. a god level.. minus the shit we were just dealing w before because we just thought that was what the world was.. and it won’t be there anymore

a nother way

6 min – for me the real key insight is this.. prior to 1948.. couldn’t end it all.. but in 48.. bombs could do that

16 min – 2 ways to do the right thing  1\told it’s the right thing  2\ because you’re actually wholesome.. builds up from bottom.. natural

17 min – how do we find other people we can collab and coord with

2 convos

akira: nuclear annihilation is better than dying alone in an old folks home

completely alienated from human ness

18 min – how can we help the baby boomers (born 54-64) get across that threshold.. the world they helped build is not one they want to grow old and die in.. it’s not yet available.. we don’t have those things yet in place to allow them to have.. full life to death.. i think we can all see that in the depth of our bones

we could.. ie: short bp

19 min – a: the potential ending of the boomers is the saddest ending there is

it’s so interesting .. because it’s just down to a choice

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deep code learning how to learn episode

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I strongly recommend the entire Awakening from the Meaning Crisis series by John Vervaeke. It is the best thing that I’ve come across in many years.

We are now 19 hours (19 episodes) in and about half of the way though. My sense is that if you haven’t fully imbibed this work you won’t be empowered to truly collaborate on the future.

[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLND1JCRq8Vuh3f0P5qjrSdb5eC1ZfZwWJ]

1\ i’m thinking red flag if we all have to take this in – ie: no train

2\ perhaps it’s the ‘collab on the future’ part.. if that’s what you really mean.. vs collab..  reading weinberger’s everyday chaos now.. and wondering how much we really need to be focused on and collab ing on the future

i don’t know.. i’ll try to watch them.. or at least take john in.. maybe it’ll change my mind

episode 19

22 min – augustine explains how christianity puts it all together in a story for us.. to interpret a world view.. in a sophisticated and compelling fashion

more compelling if that story.. is already in us.. which i believe it is.. it can’t be that we need 19 episodes or manuals.. that wouldn’t be equity (everyone getting a go everyday).. to me.. if we think we need training.. to me that’s a sign that we’re missing it

25 min – what if i could offer you the most profound.. sound.. healing.. et al .. would you not want this.. so.. why don’t you have it.. we know from science.. that’s what you want.. we know from history culture built it for us.. why don’t we have it.. is it irredeemably los

culture didn’t build it..

but we are lost/shell less.. and not lost forever.. ie: almaas holes law

we know..all.. but we still don’t know why it all comes apart.. we need to better understand the process/genealogy of loss

well.. try this: ie: supposed to’s.. of school/work making us like whales in sea world .. but we really don’t need to know that.. we just need to be set free (w detox embed) and trust our inter

on how long for standard of living to be recovered

that’s not the deeper issue.. dang

john

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via michel fb share

decentralized collective intelligence – 10 min clip – [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uREHw5j0YmA]

6 min – the process of collab that’s available to us now.. because we’re all connected to each other.. is unprecedented.. and that has the capacity to solve all the problems we’re dealing with

the potential is unprecedented.. but we’re not all connected to each other now.. it/we won’t work unless it’s all of us..

the unprecedented thing is a means for it to be all of us

which has the capacity to render most of the problems we’re dealing with .. irrelevant

that kind of collective intel with highly discerning.. clearly expressing individuals

which again.. has to be all of us..

let go of it being some select few

7 in – you want flying cars and soaring to the stars.. this will get you there

dang.. not what our souls crave

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John and Jordan aug 1 2019 – part 2? – 1 hr – Vervaeke & (Green)Hall: Bullshit & Simulated Thinking

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tg0CaCplHjs]

4 min – v: can’t really lie to yourself.. but we bs ourselves.. attention has this org capacity.. can deceive self by not paying attention how you are paying attention

8 min – g: distinction i try to make between simulated/real thinking.. based between habit/explore mode..particular form of habit mode that pretends as seeking mode.. then in simulated thinking

10 min – v: ie: confirmation bias – look like exploring.. but actually habit thinking.. this drives echo chambering..  so also.. an instance of bs

12 min – g: tainter’s work – collapse of complex societies.. 2 drivers.. 1\ s curves w habits of innovation – exploring for a while

14 min – v: same when study insect problem solving

g: 2\ difficulty of getting access to resource.. and 3\ making resource more fundamental to society

16 min – g: move from seeking to

20 min – g: gets into math and human predictability – ie: calculating w s curves et al.. when humans change their minds

ugh – they seem to be perpetuating habitual modes of thinking.. w all their calc references et al..

24 min – v: on addiction

27 min – v: they look like they’re exploring.. but what they’re actually doing is this process of intensifying the reciprocal narrowing of who they are and what their world can be

g: yes.. very good

sound like you guys.. just now

29 min – v: i think that you are trying to enact the reverse.. the reciprocal opening

g: exactly

oy

55 min – v: you try to notice what you’re not changing across all the failures.. notice what’s invariant.. gives you good place to try for real change

what’s not changing.. we keep trying to rationalize/math-ize/predict/know/verbalize everything

58 min – g: john and i now are willing to take risks.. publicly.. and now recklessly.. hard to do

59 min – v: we need to do this together and we have to be participating in distributed cognition.. not just talking about it

won’t happen if we keep making it so verbally academic.. begs 2 convers as infra

1:00 – g: i experienced this a decade ago.. in conversation.. the building up of an insight.. leading to scary consequences.. individual goes thru shift.. limbic stronger.. so triggers part ready to change.. and reboots (habitual thinking)

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If I could impress one concept more deeply into the broader consciousness, that concept would be “systemic fragility”.

This is the thing. Take Covid-19 (aka the Wuhan coronavirus). The medical risk is real but is superficial. Even at its worst, the real threat comes from its systemic implications and the consequences of systemic fragility. The implications for global supply chains – and the implication of the evolution of those supply chains towards efficiency optimization and fragility – are profound. As are the implications for global financial systems – which have also become more and more fragile for the past half century. As are the implications for global political systems.

And this is the real insight of the concept of systemic fragility: each of these fragile systems feed back on each-other. Financial instability “pushes” on the political system. And, if allowed to do so, pushes it into more fragility. But a fragile political system lacks the sensemaking and choicemaking to respond to an event like Covid-19 – making us even more fragile there.

If I were able to promote one concept into the public mind, it would be this one.

the real fragility isn’t so much that ie: financial/political/health.. systems are fragil.. rather.. comes from thinking we have to have them.. we need to let go of any form of measuring/accounting.. all the things that coerce/blind us into robotic/defense/fragile mode..

sensemaking and choicemaking are like you say.. a response.. so a defense.. we need to wake up and realize life could be so much more

if we would just focus on and facil daily curiosity  ie: cure ios city.. we would all (as one) be/become anti fragile

carhart-harris entropy law

fromm spontaneous law

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It occurs to me that one of the highest and best possibilities of this meta-crisis is that they never turn the schools back on.

Hear me out.

Our schooling system is and has long been a mess. Zak Stein lays it out chapter and verse in his book Education in a Time Between Worlds.

The biggest problem with school reform has always been the inertia of the system. It is an enormous system with many different massive interest groups. Moving it around is like trying to steer the Titanic away from the iceberg.

But suddenly that inertia is gone. The entire educational function is in a liminal zone. I understand that there is a good possibility that many/most/all school systems are going to be closed for the remainder of the school year.

Think about that. Effectively half a school year lost.

OR half a year opportunity to build a new infrastructure with a population who no longer are bound to the old one. An opportunity to impress on the consciousness of tens of millions of kids and parents that schooling as we knew it isn’t just “reality” but is a choice. And that we can (and at least for the moment must) make different choices.

To be sure, we will need to solve *both* the education and the daycare aspects of school. But I’m hopefully imagining right now that this can be done.

And that would be a heck of a good thing.

what we need to let go of.. is the idea that we need to teach people things.. let’s build an infra (2 convers as infra) for that (then the ed, daycare, meals, med, work, ..aspects of school ness all become irrelevant).. all of us (has to be everyone).. in the city.. as the day..

let’s let go enough to just facil daily curiosity  ie: cure ios city

via tech as it could be..

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jordan fb share:

Highest priority. The next wave that is coming that we can do something about is the mental heath crisis (aka spiritual crisis). If you have capacity and in particular if you have meta-capacity to address this wave, get on it. [meta= building platforms that allow these kinds of things to scale and become widely available]

ie: cure ios city

with 2 convers as infra

via as it could be..

a) Supporting people in being able to stay sovereign in the context of now. Things like meditation, stoicism, decentralized dance parties, p2p grief counseling, group calls for just having relationality, etc. etc.

b) Supporting people in being able to “do” in the context of the now, in particular education. Lots of people can take this time as an opportunity to learn – ideally to learn how to learn.

c) Supporting groups in this context, particularly families. Unfortunately, our old lives kept us distracted and separated. Kids at school so over burdened with bullshit that they never had free time. Parents same just replace school with work. So we don’t have habits or skills on how to suddenly be together. And of course now we are isolated in our homes, amidst a huge crisis.

Choosing addiction will be common (Netflix and FB likely foremost among them) and hazardous. Help people find ways to effectively choose health.

This is an opportunity for a massive upgrade in our individual and collective capacity for meaning.

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Jordan Hall dissects decentralized sensemaking and decentralized agency during this Covid-19 crisis, in his: Situational Assessment: Right Now – Deep Code – Medium https://t.co/SDvlJII7FR
“The scope of our decentralized agentic capacity is enormous.”
Original Tweet:https://twitter.com/mbauwens/status/1249680434180521986

10 min post from march 2020

So what do we get to / need to learn?

Systemic Fragility. Trading fragility for efficiency is a bad trade.. Decentralized Sensemaking. Decentralized Agency.

from theory to practice: Practical realtime solutions are being worked on by tends of thousands of people right now. First order is to try and point the right people to the right problems, then to point the right people to the right developing solutions, then to orient everyone to the resources they need.

These are just a few of the projects that I am personally aware of. There are many others and will be more on a daily basis. I’ll update this document as more structure emerges to share..t

let’s just focus on that

ie: 2 convers as infra

because what we need most is the energy of 8b alive people

and right now.. we aren’t listening deep enough for that.. missing the opp/capacity of the moment

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It seems that every fourscore years we have a Big Shift.

1620 The Mayflower Compact.
1689 The Glorious Revolution and the 1689 Bill of Rights
1776-87 The Constitution 
1860-65 Emancipation/Reconstruction
1933-39 The New Deal
2020 ????

We are fourscore and seven years from the beginning of the New Deal.

Its probably time for us to make our next Big Shift. Maybe this time if we act deliberately and intentionally we won’t require a war to make the Big Shift happen.

If you were to nominate someone you know to participate in crafting a New Covenant for the American Republic, who would you select?

comments:

Bruce Kunkel I would nominate the class of the underserved

j: You need to nominate an actual person who you know. Perhaps someone who is a member of that class in wholesome standing?

Bruce KunkelJordan Halloverlooked, non-sexy, the others who’s authentic perspective is never solicited ~ hard to know them

j: Hard to get a Covenant written with an abstract class. Need to find someone who can at least hold a conversation.

maybe we don’t need a written covenant.. maybe this is an opp to get away from that.. (ie: literacy and numeracy both elements of colonialism.. we need to calculate differently and stop measuring things)

maybe what we need is an infrastructure (ie: 2 convers as infra) that can hear and facilitate conversations of all the people (as it could be.. ie: can you hear me)

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via jordan fb share on ooda ness:

Once you’ve grasped the absolute centrality of OODA, you might find yourself contemplating the next question: is there a way to specify the design for a “maximum OODA” in principle?

It turns out, the answer is yes.

Moreover, it turns out that if you can follow me this far, we are on the same team. Intrinsically. We just need to improve our network architecture and tune our position in the network.

perhaps notice dream connect do.. would tune it more..

ie: curiosity over decision making keeps us more tuned.. to fittingness

thinking deciding et al has more to do with (above) military/business strategy, winning, et al (counter to your non rivalrous ness)

best strategy/defense/offense/safety/et-al: gershenfeld something else law

from comments:

Jason Hughes That is a great ideal for developing a system anew. What I’m seeing to oppose this is lots and lots of sunk cost fallacy happening.
In short, once a decision is made their is an emotional attachment to that decision which inhibits further observation and course correction.

Jordan Hall Precisely. But as of *right now* all of that sunk cost is heading to “zero gravity”.

m: what if decision making is the thing we need to let go of – esp in a time of potential ‘zero gravity’

j: In zero gravity, decision making is at maximum, not minimum.

m: what if max isn’t what we think it is.. more like approaching infinity.. as it would be if we focused on curiosity rather than decision making

j: What if curiosity is a kind of decision making?

m: right.. kind of what i’m saying.. but we haven’t yet let go of our obsession with decision making (the way we’ve been doing/seeing it).. to see

m: in extremes.. perhaps decision making is a defensive mode and curiosity is more like offense

m: in curiosity.. the finite set of choices of decision making.. approaches infinity.. et al

imagining that decision making us puts us in a rivlarous framework (fighting people).. curiosity puts us in a non rivalrous framework (alive people)

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another post from jordan – w/in minutes:

In Complicated systems, sense then analyze, then respond.

In Complex systems, probe, then sense, then respond.

In Chaotic systems, *act* then sense then respond.

Covid has all at once blown us from a complicated system struggling with complexity into a chaotic system.

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jordan’s recommend of sand talk via fb:

Highest recommendation. More fundamental than Tainter or Baudrillard.

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I was today reminded of an old presentation I gave at the Santa Fe Institute in 2015 entitled “A Transdisciplinary Approach to Currency”. It contains some additional context on some of the notions I’ve been playing with and I don’t think is has been publicly shared.

https://youtu.be/nBm_SFN6iME?t=589

13 min – significance and feedback – currency

a currency is a signal that facils the coherent coordination of two (or more) sense making agents

let’s coord via curiosity

14 min – so classic stigmergy is clearly a currency as designed.. as are various languages.. and finally as a special case.. money..

15 min – currency.. degree to which something makes sense.. makes tighter/looser current..

16 min – sense making agent and bandwidth constraints..

thinking.. giorgios and cornelius – perpetuating the problem.. by not getting out of the assumed limits

17 min – referring to human beings as the dunbar sensemaker.. have limit of high quality social relationships.. 150.. max capacity to use set of currencies before tapped out.. so as expand number of human beings .. don’t have bandwidth.. this is very complex currency..

18 min – humans seem to have ability to feedback to environ and have ownership over bandwidth and currency capacity.. ie: emergence language/accounting opens it up

and closes it – language as control/enclosure

19 min – from graeber’s debt.. says modern money not from barter but from .. recording debts.. goes to ledger and not on social level.. to externalize social currencies.. ie: tokens..

tokens et al

23 min – appears primary driver for the evolution was scale.. dunbar tapped out .. then ledger tapped out.. then geography .. then expansion in kinds of transactions

marsh exchange law et al

24 min – simplify to grow.. complexify to profit..

so.. to me right now.. sounds like trying to doughnut econ us.. out of a mess.. thinking giorgios and cornelius again

25 min – in certain situations.. trust is the currency

yeah.. i don’t think legit trust works that way

27 min – on separating signal for significance.. fetishize.. signal jack.. debasement – to decoherence of the convivium

and/or.. the signal-ing (defining) it in the first place is the killer

28 min – emerging currencies: google, youtube, yelp, twitter, fb, .. that enable us to all make sense together

wondering if we might focus on curiosity over sense making [ie: sense making implies an answer.. curiosity implies a question]

imagine if we just focused on listening to the itch-in-8b-souls.. first thing.. everyday.. and used that data to augment our interconnectedness.. we might just get to a more antifragile, healthy, thriving world.. the ecosystem we keep longing for..

what the world needs most is the energy of 8b alive people

ie’s: uber, collective intelligence

intellect ness

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jgreenhall (@jgreenhall) tweeted at 10:40 AM on Tue, Aug 18, 2020:
Pay attention to DeFi (decentralized finance)
(https://twitter.com/jgreenhall/status/1295762552446545920?s=03)

what a distraction.. time/energy suck

graeber f&b same law

let’s try paying attention to ie: cure ios city

what the world needs most is the energy of 8b alive people

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