Sublime

fragmentation of the social sense-making and collective action capacity

Je crains un homme mis à la forme d’un outil, d’une fonction ; c’est pourtant ce qu’une certaine lecture de la neuroergonomie, du transhumanisme3 ou de l’homme augmenté semble nous recommander aujourd’hui.

These are the scales of modern human networks, and it’s Dunbar’s number multiplied by millions. In these large-scale communities, standards and self-governance can’t be maintained by people simply running around and talking to each other. Instead, the builders of these networked products must create features that nudge the interactions in the right

And they are instantiated as a distributed processing system on human beings. They don’t particularly care about human beings. Their motives are inscrutable, to the extent that they have any, except that they’d like to get bigger. They’ve run on people. They’re implemented on people. But they are not people. They are not persons in any meaningful s

Polis shows the clusters of opinion that exist and highlights statements that bridge them. This approach facilitates both consensus formation and a better understanding of the lines of division.