We are seekers of truth, not possessors of truth. We are possessed by truth; we do not possess truth. God is the owner of truth; the only owner of the whole truth.

“Do We Mistake Our Passion for Truth with Its Possession?” Reuven Kimelman 3.4.2020

Jordan Hall Game A Problems 4.4.2021

1.Game A Governments and toolkits can’t handle complex problems.

2. Complicated systems don’t have enough computing power to bound complex systems.

3. Complicated models of complex systems rely on rounding errors that lead to black swans.

4. Tainter Boundary Problems:

A. Regenerative capacity of complex natural syste... See more

This piece [about journalism] misses the main point of only writing about what is worth investigation.

Example, reporting on a single accident is useless info for readers. Launching an investigation on a section of dangerous road is very valuable to local readers.

@JordanHedberg May 28, 2021

Inside the Trump machine: the bizarre psychology of America’s newest political movement Gwynn Guilford 4.1.2016

1. Hitler’s melancholia-paranoia-megolamania rhetorical style, and Trump’s class kinship (he says what they believe & gives them permission to be themselves.)

2. Roger Money-Kyrle: The people seemed gradually to lose their individuality an... See more

It’s inadequate to remain in individual-focused frameworks; e.g. neither guns nor people are responsible for gun violence, but rather the gun-person assemblage they form together.

Katherine Hayles “Cognitive Nonconscious: Enlarging the Mind of the Humanities” Critical Inquiry 42:4 (2016): 783-808

Technical systems can be fully cognitive, even if they aren’t fully alive. Cognition is the process of interpreting information within contexts that connect it with meaning.

Katherine Hayles “Cognitive Assemblages: Technical Agency and Human Interactions” Critical Inquiry 43:1 (2016): 32-55.

When we design, implement, and extend technical cognitive systems we are redesigning ourselves.

Katherine Hayles “Cognitive Assemblages: Technical Agency and Human Interactions” Critical Inquiry 43:1 (2016): 32-55.

Cognitive capabilities (i.e. flexibility, adaptability, evolvability) mean cognitive technologies are ethical actors in the assemblages they form with biological life forms.

Katherine Hayles “Cognitive Nonconscious: Enlarging the Mind of the Humanities” Critical Inquiry 42:4 (2016): 783-808

You can have an article that’s completely correct with all the facts it cites, but that leaves out so much other stuff and so much other context that you’re getting a completely deceptive understanding of what’s occurring, even though nothing has been said that’s factually incorrect, and none of the fact checkers will have any problems with it.

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