Leo Guinan
@leoguinan
Leo Guinan
@leoguinan
The only winning move is not to play

Friendship quote resonated.
Beauty and
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Haven’t heard this term before, but I think it follows from the collapse of things into measurements. We started with measuring money as a collapse of information, and that led to collapses of other aspects of the world as a proxy for money where money isn’t available to measure value.
Memetic Foundations of Human Value and Reactions to Defender
The problem with this system is that it can be self-referential and lead to people who are trying to use attention well not being able to capture enough attention to bring resources to fix a large problem. We need better recognition systems instead of self-reporting ones.
“Language doesn’t just make things—it assembles, cobbles together, entire worlds and all the relations within.”
Language is a mechanism of assembly
Balance must be maintained between the old and the new. Neither can exist without the other.
AI is aggregated human intelligence. So it’s better to call it collective intelligence than artificial intelligence.
Emphasizing the collectivity (something built on the commons) over the artificiality (a feat of technology) gives us an entire new way to see, perceive and relate to the technology.
-via Holly Herndon, in conversation with Ezra Klein
This is exactly what abundant systems try to do. It takes the individual efforts as part of the collective, not in isolation.