me on social.coop - https://social.coop/@marku
Regarding #ToolsForThought, I'm particularly interested in discussing & co-creating tools, platforms and protocols that are informed by 4E Cognition and/or Indigenous Knowledge Systems.
...perhaps leading to #ToolsForActionLearning 🤔
Given that framing, currently working on the #WayFinderPlatform -
Digital Campfires & Story Networks
A look at how access permissions work in #StoryKeeper - elegant simplicity or complicated mess!? 🤔
https://wayfinders.network/blog/campfires-story-networks/
#WayFinderPlatform #Sensemaking #Multiplayer #ToolsForThought
@harold that is sad news Harold. I also was stimulated by his thinking and approaches.
This deck on AI Snake Oil from @randomwalker is a few years old but remains *excellent.* One of my takeaways, which I find generally hopeful: People and social situations are just way less predictable than we might think! https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~arvindn/talks/MIT-STS-AI-snakeoil.pdf
The Peer Review beta is now live. Peer Review is an open access, open source academic publishing platform. It allows for crowdsourced reviews of academic papers using a Github/Google docs like interface and a StackExchange like reputation system.
Check it out!
I'm looking for new projects and potentially even something long-term for 2023
Background/interests/etc all in this new blog post. Please do share with friends if you read something that would resonate with them. Thanks!
Stuck in a socio-cultural state of "frenzied stasis"...
https://areomagazine.com/2023/01/18/the-great-reboot-in-memoriam-mark-fisher/
Exploring the types of content you might find on a WayFinder Canvas...
https://wayfinders.network/blog/exploring-wayfinder-canvas/
The distinctive content icons and easy filtering can assist in surfacing group/community dynamics such as:
- lots of talk, but little action and experimentation
- lack of safety to share authentic personal stories (which are important for growing relational quality)
#WayFindersNetwork #WayFinderPlatform #StoryKeeper #ToolsForThought #Sensemaking #Multiplayer #SpatialCanvas
"Networked technology that mediates so much of our lives is social engineering — which is to say that deciding how it works is politics. If we want any hope for these politics to result in a world worth wanting, we need to build our Internet according to sound institutional principles."
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"we need transnational topic-specific governance systems that interact with one another wherever they connect and overlap but that do not control one another, and that exercise subsidiarity to one another as well as to more local institutions. Yes, it will be a glorious mess — a Cambrian mess — but we will be collectively smarter for it."
"If complex systems are inherently unpredictable and if the right institutions for a planetary civilisation aren’t governable from the top, how can we build governance for the ungovernable? It takes a blend of understanding the principles we aim for, of having a decent intuition for where we want to go, and of concrete action on specific issues in specific arenas addressed to match these principles and intuition."
"Polycentric governance involves similarly overlapping and intersecting institutions that act independently from one another, typically with local knowledge (essentially “using the world as its own model,” which contrasts with bureaucratic legibility), and interact in ways that are typically more robust and (empirically) more effective."
"It is the neatness of the hierarchical matryoshka that I think is wrong: the only way to delegate isn’t up. It is wrong, I believe, in the same way that our understanding of intelligence is wrong. [...] there is no representation and in fact no shared global state — no legibility of the world at the top. There is a real form of subsidiarity, but it isn’t vertical — delegation is networked and horizontal."
"For anything complex, and particularly for problems that require significant local knowledge, large centralised organisations aren’t just unpleasant — there are reasons to believe that they are less intelligent and they have a documented habit of failing to improve the human condition"
"Neither society nor human life nor natural environments are optimisation problems, and if they were they wouldn’t be tractable. [...] When it comes to control, at the end of the day, building *for* everyone but not *by* and *with* everyone, irrespective of intentions, is just totalitarianism"
"We tend to imagine governance systems as neatly, even naively, nested: countries, provinces, counties, cities, districts… all forming a nice matryoshka pyramid. From an empirical perspective, this simplistic view is incorrect. It also leads us to conflate global and central."
"A centralized approach to optimizing coordinating control is possible when a central unit has access to all measurements and can decide for, and direct, all the elements of the ensemble"
"Overall, a coordination mechanism that enables collective action such that it has the information-processing capacity to solve ever more difficult problems is properly an institution, whether it is supported by information technology or not."
"Any planetary governance worth its salt has to aim for a governance ecosystem that fosters the requisite collective intelligence. We need to develop a sense for what that looks like."
"For our purposes, institutional capacity, a society’s problem-solving ability, or collective intelligence are all enough of the same thing which we could define as 'the difference in performance between what can be achieved by the group of individual agents, and what can be achieved by the individuals on their own, where performance accounts for trade-offs and tensions.'"
"the problem we have is that:
- the Internet has made greater institutional capacity possible, but
- it has also made our world more complex in ways that require an increase in institutional capacity to happen and
- it has broken some of our established institutions, actually causing a decrease in institutional capacity, and
- we are not yet using the new governance capabilities that the Internet made possible anyway"
"The way in which we manage complexity and essentially improve society’s ability to maintain complex capabilities is through better, more effective governance which is to say through better institutional arrangements (of all kinds, formal or informal, local or global, etc)"
"The complexity of a society can and does vary over time. When complexity drops sharply in a society, that is known as collapse. The idea of societal collapse evokes Mad Max futures but the historical reality of societal collapse (which has happened repeatedly across history) doesn’t have quite as cool a soundtrack. Collapse isn’t inherently bad, in fact it’s adaptive..."
