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Designing and navigating various contextual arrangements with an enigmatic sense of hope. #wayfinder
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Good protocols, in short, manage to catalyze good enough outcomes with respect to a variety of contending criteria, via surprisingly limited and compact interventions.
Venkatesh Rao • The Unreasonable Sufficiency of Protocols
As Anaïs Nin wrote, “When we go deeply into the personal, we go beyond the personal. We achieve something that is collective.”
Suleika Jaouad • The Book of Alchemy
Artificial Intelligence and Humans In The Loop
Real thinking is to an AI like waves are to a lattidue line.
In an AI, there is genuinely no one home. It’s all model. No reality.
the map is not the territory; but neither is the model
Like physics, futures studies are also intrinsically embracing uncertainty as it is emphatically underlined by Amara’s three laws of futures (Amara, 1981): (1) the future is not predetermined, (2) the future is not predictable, and (3) the future outcomes can be influenced by our choices in the present. […]
Patrick Tanguay • Expanding the Futures Cone’s Concept of the Futures and the Pasts ⊗ Reading as Counter-Practice ⊗ A Bot that Watched 70,000 Hours of Minecraft Videos
Seven thoughts on ritual:
Rituals are the feedback loops we construct to construct ourselves.
Rituals shape the medium of time.
Rituals orient us.
Rituals are protocols.
Ritual is a form of play.
Rituals take place in a world set apart.
Rituals make meaning.
We need ritual technology. Technology designed for ritual use. Why? Most of the software we use daily is designed to engagement-max. Social media feeds, loot boxes, compulsion loops, gang gang yes yes yes ice cream so good. You’re caught in a feedback loop with the algorithm, and you are the squishiest part of that loop. Ritual technology operates on a different timescale. Underneath the fast twitch of compulsion loops is the slow thrum of ritual. Elder feedback systems. An antidote to algorithmic engagement addiction?
“Communication is not what has been said. It is what it is possible to say— and that is guarded by the implicit messages inherent in the relationships.” - Nora Bateson, Combining
“The change before the change suggests that perhaps indescribability is, in itself, an evolutionary condition, a built-in extra budget of possibility for unfamiliar formations. I suspect it is, and this indescribability offers the challenge of how to communicate this unseen, submerged process. One is to accentuate the lateness of responding to
... See moreI think that web3 can be a playground for the third freedom: the freedom to shape entirely new social realities, or shift back and forth between different ones.