Leo Guinan
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Leo Guinan
As Brian Merchant argues in his book, Blood in the Machine , the rebellion was more nuanced than we realize, standing “not against technology per se but for the rights of workers above the inequitable profitability of machines.”
Our Centaur Future - A RADAR Report
Economics of Human Energy and Abundant Systems
This is what abundant systems recognize. It’s not about the machines or the data, it’s about the humans. When we build abundantly, we ensure that everyone is taken care of, because that builds the best possible long-term future.
truth.
I like the term economism . It describes how economic thinking and practice have become ingrained into all sorts of aspects of our lives, even non-economic ones. In today’s world governed by economism , everything seems to need to be measured by economic logic: am I using my time efficiently?
Rabbit Holes 🕳️ #78
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.
Doubtless we all need a lot more time for sheer sloth and slack than we ever enjoy now, regardless of income or occupation, but once recovered from employment-induced exhaustion nearly all of us want to act.
Bob Black • The Abolition of Work
Sloth isn’t the default state; it’s the state that is a result of energy sucking activities.
This viewpoint may be overly ambitious, and may even — horrors! -- be somewhat wrong, but I have observed that many good ideas start out by claiming too much territory for themselves, and eventually, when they have received their fair share of attention and respect, the air clears and it emerges that, though still grand, they are not quite so grand... See more
Douglas R. Hofstadter • Analogy as the Core of Cognition
Need to remember this
Unions and management agree that we ought to sell the time of our lives in exchange for survival, although they haggle over the price.
Bob Black • The Abolition of Work
Damn. Bars.
You don’t need to wait until your curiosity is automatically triggered. Make space for exploring, learning, wondering and mind wandering. Make curiosity a habit.
Anne-Laure Le Cunff • Tweet
Making space is so important
What is the value of work in a world on the cusp of automation, and how will humans redefine their relationship with it?
Our Centaur Future - A RADAR Report
Work isn’t valuable. People are. People can set a value on the work that is done, therefore, they are the most valuable piece of the equation. Work for the sake of work has no value.
Good use of attention up the chain of society is rewarded. Bad use of it is punished. This system creates “sustainable marketing pathways”, a kind of information highway.
How do we bootstrap the Open Research Institute?
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.