Sublime

Dans Métamorphoses du travail puis dans Capitalisme, socialisme, écologie41, il plaide dans le sillage de l’économiste Karl Polanyi (1886-1964)42, pour le « réencastrement » de l’économie – et de la technique qui la sert – dans la société. Concrètement, il s’agit pour Gorz dans ces années, non pas de supprimer la logique du marché, mais de restrein

they experiment, they explore, they adjust, they readjust, but not just in terms of having some wondrous mathematical model of the situation and updating a parameter. They form a hypothesis, maybe they have multiple hypotheses or ideas about the situation they are in, and they put more belief in the ones that work over time and throw out hypotheses

There is an additional element of importance: these systems usually generate implicit internal models of their environments, models progressively revised and improved as the system accumulates experience. The systems learn.

so deeply uncomfortable saying, “I don’t know” or “it depends,” especially in finance.

McManus, though, adds a third perspective: “Play.” McManus and his colleagues at Autodesk believe, as do we, that humans are driven to create, explore, communicate, and learn through the acts of making and play. When we putter around making things without a clear and direct utilitarian need, often we are learning. Jazz, improvisation, analogy, meta

Engineers often have a particular mindset. The Los Alamos director J. Robert Oppenheimer was a highly principled man. But above all else he was a curiosity-driven problem solver.

postliberalism views human beings as relational and freedom as a balance between autonomy and self-restraint.

a subject of active development is how systems like Polis and Community Notes could be extended with modern graph theory and GFMs.