Leo Guinan
@leoguinan
Leo Guinan
- 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
- it's important we don't rush.
from Building Capacity for Exit to Community by Divya Siddarth
Things need to evolve on the timelines that information is returned.
- Cooperation is the winning strategy in the Great Online Game.
from The Cooperation Economy 🤝 by Packy McCormick
This is the key to abundant systems - it’s the optimal strategy.
- We can't change the world by focusing only on dismantling, we have to really build up the alternative and show that it can work in a different way, and radicalize people, not through convincing them of the rightness of an ideology, but through their lived experience of true participation, of the collective power of livelihood in a non-capitalist pa... See more
from Building Capacity for Exit to Community by Divya Siddarth
Better systems win. Don’t need to destroy existing systems, build better ones and the others will die in time.
- Algorithms are simply subsystems of the companies that create them, so when we want to examine the systems we use and are a part of, it is an extremely helpful lens to use.
from Introduction to Abundant Systems
Algorithms can be analyzed through the lens of systems
There is a whole lot of goodness out there when the right systems are in place.
- 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.
But you can’t optimize systems in a context that’s changing, especially if it’s changing in unpredictable ways. Removing inefficiencies when circumstances are as anticipated means that there isn’t much slack in the system to respond when the unanticipated happens. Optimization is intrinsically brittle , because it’s about closely matching the outpu
... See morefrom Against Optimization by Mandy Brown
Optimization of scarce systems is about past measurement. Optimization of abundant systems is about future outcomes.
- And more than anything, it feels particularly, uncomfortably, acutely uncertain.
from Our Centaur Future - A RADAR Report
The biggest thing we can do is give people a sense of a secure present from which to explore potential abundant futures.