Leo Guinan
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Leo Guinan
To take only one Roman example, Cicero said that “whoever gives his labor for money sells himself and puts himself in the rank of slaves.”
Bob Black • The Abolition of Work
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.”
noemamag.com • Will AI Bring Plentitude or Further Imperil the Planet? | NOEMA
Abundant Systems and Engineering Generosity
This is the goal of subminds
Status Traps: Learning from Web2 Social Networks - a16z crypto
Andreessen Horowitz (AZ)a16zcrypto.com
Status Signaling and
An abundant system is a system in which any individual in a system acting to achieve their own goals does not negatively impact the other participants’ pursuit of their goals. Another way of saying this is that the system isn’t a zero-sum game.
Introduction to Abundant Systems
Discipline is what the factory and the office and the store share with the prison and the school and the mental hospital.
Bob Black • The Abolition of Work
- Paladin saves the world? Degrowth story.
- Barbarian masculine energy saves the world? Degrowth story.
- Enlightened sexless bureaucracy saves the world? Degrowth story.
- Nurturing feminine energy saves the world? Degrowth story.
- Unbridled technological acceleration saves the world? Degrowth story.
- Unbridled GDP growth saves the world? Degrowth story.
- Saintly
every story is a degrowth story
What we value and Economics of Human Energy
These I agree are degrowth stories.
I think the connection he’s making is to the book, so that the loss of complexity in society leaves people feeling lost and unvalued, and that leads to societal collapse.
What if we don’t tie society to complexity?
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Eliot Couvat • What Decentralized Media Means To The Future of Digital Writing
Our design expectations get higher every single day. And for better or worse, we associate trust with design.When we see something beautifully-designed, we are automatically more inclined to trust it. When we see something poorly-designed, we are inclined to NOT trust it.
Jay Clouse • How to look more legitimate
Work is a waste of my time. The things that I’m best at, that I get the most benefit from, and see the most big-picture results from, don’t feel like work.
Nicholas Goodey • Resistance and Embracing Your Nature
“Work” is wasting energy, because energy goes down. But the truly valuable things make energy go up.