SpaceXponential
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Conscientious Questioner
SpaceXponential
This new game encouraged dishonesty and mob dynamics: Users were guided not just by their true preferences but by their past experiences of reward and punishment, and their prediction of how others would react to each new action. ... The newly tweaked platforms were almost perfectly designed to bring out our most moralistic and least re... See more
The Atlantic • Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid
We are unable to act ethically towards that which we have not first attended to; this includes other humans, but also the non-human other. The art of attention requires, among other things, an openness to being moved and transformed, the development of language, and the resistance of algorithmic life.
Jasmine Wang • attending to the other
Mountain climbers educated in the Alps discovered the vertical walls of granite in Yosemite in the 1930s and began to scale these monoliths. By 1941 climbers occupied a new permanent camp set up in the north side of Yosemite Valley, Camp 4. ... the geography of this scenius is unremarkable. Camp 4 is a nondescript, bland, dusty campground. Bui... See more
Kevin Kelly • Scenius, or Communal Genius
The notion of epistemic sanctions clarifies what we might really mean by “consensus” in the context of public discourse — universal mutual listening , rather than universal agreement.
“Universal mutual listening” happens when publishers compete on the basis of trustworthiness, instead of on the basis of ‘facts.’
Competing on the basis of ‘facts’ most
... See moreMike Elias • Epistemic Reserve Notes
TRUSTING A TRUSTLESS NETWORK. The Paradoxes of Trust in Blockchain Technology
JENA MARIE ESPELITAassociazioneblockchain.it
+ Network effects of success — When a record is broken, a hit happens, or breakthrough erupts, the success is claimed by the entire scene. This empowers the scene to further success.
Kevin Kelly • Scenius, or Communal Genius
Quoting Krishnamurti: " I want to do a certain thing in the world and I am going to do it with unwavering concentration. I am concerning myself with only one essential thing: to set man free. I desire to free him from all cages, from all fears, and not to found religions, new sects, nor to establish new theories and new philosophies."
Charles Broskoski • Bohm Dialogue
