Leo Guinan
@leoguinan
Leo Guinan
- Over time, plenitude is a process in which more and more goods and services are provided to more and more people, as technologies advance and costs come down to grant new free ‘indulgences’ every year.
from Will AI Bring Plentitude or Further Imperil the Planet? | NOEMA by noemamag.com
I love this idea
You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help enough other people get what they want.” ~ Zig Ziglar.
Give before getting
- scarce systems do what is most likely to succeed right now, because tomorrow isn’t guaranteed. Abundant systems assume that tomorrow will be there, so it’s ok to focus on longer term goals.
from Introduction to Abundant Systems
System timelines - short-term scarcity vs long-term abundance
- a scarce system is one in which there are limited resources and one person in the system getting those resources means that everyone else can’t have those same resources. A zero-sum game.
from Introduction to Abundant Systems
- The chief challenge, as Lee sees it, is how to make AI smarter without just throwing more data and computing power at it. His hope rests on the iterative tweaking of algorithms that improve the performance of AI at a “geometric pace.”
from Will AI Bring Plentitude or Further Imperil the Planet? | NOEMA by noemamag.com
This is the goal of subminds
- Ultimately, the non-transactional thing works on the basis of trust. You have to have trust first, before you can get that virtuous cycle going, because you have to start by giving and not knowing what you'll get back. It's something like an abundance mindset, trust in the community. But at the same time, if you give and you don't get meaningful va... See more
from Building Capacity for Exit to Community by Divya Siddarth
Trust
In a you-or-me world, reciprocity and collaboration don’t fit.
from The Soul of Money: Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Life by Lynne Twist
Competition ruins collaboration
In a gift economy, wealth is understood as having enough to share, and the practice for dealing with abundance is to give it away. In fact, status is determined not by how much one accumulates, but by how much one gives away. The currency in a gift economy is relationship, which is expressed as gratitude, as interdependence and the ongoing cycles o
... See morefrom The Serviceberry: An Economy of Abundance – Robin Wall Kimmerer by Emergence Magazine
- Each technology not only unlocks a new state of expanded acceleration (that will be hardcoded into our lives as the new basis for our survival), but will also be used as the basis for new technologies to continue that process. The vast majority of people do not experience this technology as ‘liberating’ them. Rather, they experience it as something... See more
from Our Centaur Future - A RADAR Report
Because we don’t think about valuing the work to be done in the future, only the work to be done now, we don’t give people space to explore what the future holds. Instead, we stress people out by giving them vague possibilities of an uncertain future with no time to explore them. By giving people the time, space, and freedom to explore what the future might hold, they will find abundant futures that are bright and exciting. Those are the futures they will work to actively create.