Thus my addictive quest for “absolute clarity,” which is at bottom a quest for a clarification of my being that can never really be achieved.
for - new meme - addictive quest for absolute clarity - This is an instance of what David Loy calls the intrinsic sense of lack in modernity that needs to be filled, but can never be - sense of lack - David Loy - https://hyp.is/WuaFQCKZEfCFA-eSTwduzg/www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWRA4cUCid8
One moment you’re flying high and everything is as clear as it can be. You’re experiencing a surge of unadulterated pleasure, a burst of sheer delight. But then, all of a sudden, the situation flips and you’re down in the dumps feeling the nagging necessity for another game, another sweet, another hit, another shot.
for - adjacency - cyber ghosts - hungry ghosts - the hunger is temporarily satisfied, but the hunger pangs start again - cycling in samsara - consumerism - David Loy - inability for consumerism to fill our sense of lack - https://hyp.is/WuaFQCKZEfCFA-eSTwduzg/www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWRA4cUCid8
I crave sweet closure and am averse to uncontained ambiguity, there are those moments of proprioceptive insight that can bring the bittersweet flavor and “contained uncontainment” of the soul.
for - proprioception - adjacency - proprioception - contained uncontainment - bittersweet (w)holeness - Zen Koan - The elbow does not bend backwards
adjacency - between - proprioception - contained uncontainment - bittersweet (w)holeness - nonduality - Zen Koan - The elbow does not bend backwards - adjacency relationship - These ideas of proprioception, contained uncontainment, bittersweet (w)holeness - bring to surface the Zen Koan that the elbow does not bend backwards - There is freedom in limitation - Every morphic form of a living organism's body constrain it to be adapted to a specific environment - Every human cultural artefact that we produce, for instance in engineering, constrains its use - Yet there is a freedom in that limitation - The nondual includes the dual itself
It is through embodied proprioception that we can make the transition to the more fulfilling interactions of a cybernetic reality that is not merely virtual but actual.
for - proprioception - quote - proprioception - It is through embodied proprioception - that we can make the transition to the more fulfilling interactions of a cybernetic reality that is not merely virtual but actual. - question - proprioception - need more clarity
The experiencing “subject” and the “object” experienced thus enter an intimate circulation, revolving around each other in interpenetrating proximity like opposing sides of a Moebius strip that continuously twist together while yet remaining apart.
for - question - embodying paradox - writing - Is he saying that I am alternating between subject and object?
Dwelling in the open-ended ambiguity, holding the paradox without resolving it in favor of one pole or the other, leaves me feeling unrewarded, frustrated, and distressed.
for - embodying paradox
embracing the reality of embodied paradox.
for - question - book - Embracing Paradox, Evolving Language - Is the title inspired by Steven M. Rosen's writings?
I believe the digital age simply makes obvious the virtual nature of what we have long taken as reality, so that now, its lack of genuine substance is no longer deniable. And this is what drives us into addiction. For, no virtual substance, no one-sidedly artificial affirmation or negation, can fill in for the paradoxical actuality of our fleshly being.
for - question - lack of genuine substance drives us into addiction - need more clarity on this
sudden reduction of complexity to simplicity
for - progress trap - reducing complexity to simplicity - A very human trait, it's why we make models, which lead to progress traps
In addictions as diverse as cocaine abuse and gambling, the evidence indicates the presence of dopamine, a neurotransmitter associated with heightened attention to complex or ambiguous stimuli that hold the promise of rapid and clear-cut resolution.
for - addiction - produces contrived simplicity - artificial clarity
one morning, with the errant press of a button, I overwrote the file that had contained my work and weeks of toil were simply obliterated. Not a catastrophic fire or an explosion, but the innocent stroke of a key had annihilated what I had previously put so much of myself into for so many days. This led me to radically doubt the weight of that work.
for - accidentally deleting a file - emphemeral - reflections - This has happened to me a number of times as well. - My reflection of this is that everything is transient, our lives, our work are all footprints in the sand, washed away with the next incoming wave - How important are ideas, these combinations of words that we prize above other combination of words? - Humans value things, nature has no such intrinsic value. - Evolution can wipe out an entire species without batting an eyelash, a meteor can wipe out all life on a planet, it doesn't matter to reality because reality does not pass judgment - good and bad, ethics is not inherent in nature, only in human nature
the ephemerality of cyberspace can prove to be downright frightening, as I have personally discovered.
for - quote - emphemerality of cyberspace can be downright frightening - Steven M. Rosen - Indyweb leverages IPFS CID (Content Identification) addressing to combat emphermerality through the affordance of provenance
Here inscriptions seem readily reversible; traces can be destroyed and created with equanimity in the virtual spaces of cyberworld
for - IPFS and Indyweb provenance implies that the traces cannot fully be effaced.
According to Bohm, information is defined as “a form that literally ‘informs’ (i.e., forms from within) an ‘unformed’ energy to give rise to a corresponding determinate activity.”
for - information - in form - form from within - David Bohm
for - proprioceptive dialogue
for - homepage - Steven M. Rosen - spatiosubobjectivity - from - book - Embracing Paradox, Evolving Language - Lisa Maroski - https://hyp.is/YLmtOCE4EfCXSA-i4OzEpg/ipfs.indy0.net/ipfs/bafybeihk6dcr7dfruu65z5e5ze2rkeiydkmgbbpadhyulckm4afnqbtdgy
for - David Loy - youtube - David Loy - Awakening from the illusion of separation - sense of lack - intrinsic emptiness - consumerism cannot fill the emptiness
Spatiosubobjectivity pertains to the commingling or fusion of subject, object, andspace.35 Rosen characterizes it as a dynamic process, or dialectical interplay, oneevident even at microdimensions. It is not an amalgamated “thing.” It is notlike me or you in a box with some other people or things. Rather, it embodiesthe inherent paradoxical movement of Möbial and Kleinian surfaces.
for - definition - spatiosubobjectivity - Steven M. Rosen - a dynamic fusion of subject, object and space as a unified psychophysical reality - adjacency - Llisa's experience - spatiosubobjeectivity - Tibetan true nature of mind teaching - Deep Humanity BEing journey - spatiosubobjectivity BEing journey to induce a gestalt switch - to - wikipedia - Steven M. Rosen - https://hyp.is/twLEciIKEfCh2fulOW4D8A/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_M._Rosen - to - homepage - Steven M. Rosen at CUNY - https://hyp.is/48yh8CJxEfCReN_MXjnJ4w/embodyingcyberspace.com/
adjacency - between - Lisa's experience - spatiosubobjectivity - Tibetan True Nature of Mind - adjacency relationship - Lisa's experience and the word "spatiosubobjectivity" that it led to remind me of Tibetan teachings on the true nature of mind - It says essentially the same thing, that the totality of phenomena is the true nature of mind. That is, - the subject (inner) - the intervening space, and - the objects (outer) - together constitute the true nature of mind
similar to how a television screen reconfigures the pixels moment bymoment.
for - gestalt switch - metaphor - pixels of the screen changing - Deep Humanity BEing journey - gestalt switch to include space
And yet it wasn’tlike hugging myself either. As I said, it’s hard to describe. These words, so rootedin separateness, do not convey simply by stating the concept of nonseparatenesswhat the experience of it was like. It was orders of magnitude different andmore profound than any flow state I have experienced. I was simultaneously
for - Lisa's indescribable experience - gestalt switch - perspective switch
comment - Lisa talks about finding it difficult to describe this experience - When we have entirely new experiences that are radically different from anything we've had before, - we have no reference system to describe it, the words don't exist, while the novel experience does. - This becomes an invitation to extend language, knowing however, that language itself is always dualistic and symbolic
I had a profound experienceof oneness. Although I am not sure that this description is “accurate” in anyobjective sense, it conveys my experience.
for - Lisa's profound meditative experience - gestalt switch - perspective switch - no words to describe the experience - novel experience, no words exist to describe
comment - Lisa talks about finding it difficult to describe this experience - When we have entirely new experiences that are radically different from anything we've had before, - we have no reference system to describe it, the words don't exist, while the novel experience does. - This becomes an invitation to extend language, knowing however, that language itself is always dualistic and symbolic
Itoccurred to me that as long as I feel separate from space itself, I am not experi-encing on
for - key insight - excluding space is excluding self - as long as "I" feel separate from "space", I cannot experience oneness
a Möbial relationship between consciousnessand language might help us live out a different type of relationship with Gaia,that is, with Earth as a living organism.
for - relationship between - language and consciousness - intertwingled
Hubbard made the possibility of evolving language real for me, with an urgencyto do something
for - influence - Barbara Marx Hubbard
theBaldwin Effect suggests that learned behaviors that are adopted by a group(not simply an individual) can affect evolution’s trajectory, since those wholearn to adapt to changes in their environment live to pass on their genes.37
for - definition - Baldwin effect - learned behavior can be passed on through evolution
When I look around myyard, I’m not seeing the tree-in-itself. I’m seeing the photons that bounce offthe surface of the tree as filtered through my perceptual organs and as madesense of by my conceptual structures. Photons are a 20 th -century conception;in the future we might have a different way of explaining perception.
for - insight - perception and conception - physiosphere and symbolosphere
comment - concepts help us to organize our perceptions - but since concepts are continuously changing - making sense of the world is in continuous flux - Hence, do not attach to them or take them too seriously, as they will change again in the future
Imagine moving your arm up. You are the mover and you are the arm andyou are the space. Your arm is simply space configured a certain way. Asthe unbounded subject choosing to move your arm, you are space reconfig-uring yourself so that first “the arm” was down here and now it is up here.
for - meditation exercise - This part of the meditation exercise is more accessible to people
With your consciousness, move into a cell of one of your organs, such asyour heart.
for - critique - meditation exercise - envisioning cells and subcellular structures
comment - Such visualization exercises are actually very abstract and linguistically contextual - A person who has not become familiar with these sophisticated, constructed and highly abstract scientific ideas would find the visualization exercise meaningless - As a BEing journey, it would only be suited to those familiar with these concepts, and even then, the experience itself would be far from compelling
there is a difference between being a facet and being the diamond, there is adifference between being the divine and being one with the divine. Findingyour connection to the divine enables the power of the divine to flow throughyou. It is not your power
for - ego and selflessness - If it was your power, you would still be identifying with a separate ego
the holy placeis secret becauseit isso close
for - ubiquity BEing journey - Fish do not know of water
Both roots and lungs internalize elements from the environment that arenecessary for life.Perhaps tree : earth :: humans : air. Is one of the lessons the coronavirustaught us that we are connected to each other through air, through the verysubstance that seems to enable us to perceive our “separateness?”
for - similarity - other examples - See David Suzuki story of connectedness - https://hyp.is/wX0a4hIVEfCMFXfYYI59ag/www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wtUMM8SDws - including Harlow Shapley story about connectedness through air - https://hyp.is/D2oQhhIZEfCsoYcIvR8Ang/www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wtUMM8SDws
Let’s deepen this ability to hold paradox. Consider holding multiple physicaland temporal layers in mind simultaneously—when you eat lunch, such as aspinach salad, consider the connectedness of you, the spinach you’re eating,and the ground from which it grew. When you eat the spinach, it is no longe
for - example - inviting paradox - hold multiple layers simultaneously - you are what you eat - Deep Humanity - individual / collective gestalt - physiosphere - ingest and excrete - solids - liquids - gases - symbolosphere - input and output - input idea of others - output your ideas to others
Although humans and Earth seem to be noncontiguous,perhaps we are contiguous in a way that we have not yet learned to perceive.
for - 3 types of psychological separation / othering - definition - multi-scale biotic compositional separation - individual multi-cellular human psychologically separated from individual living cells within the same human's body - definition - social separation - individual human psychologically separated from other individual humans - definition - biotic / abiotic separation - individual human psychologically separated from the environment
to be able to hold a paradox in mind, or at least a set of polarities—for example,that one is both unique (distinct) and not-separate. Stem and flower are spatially
for - ecstasis and accepting paradox
Manytechniques exist, from meditation and prayerto extreme sports; there are many ways toenter ecstasis. 28 Such techniques alone mightnot be sufficient to elicit a global shift inconsciousness, but if enough of us practicethem, perhaps we could create a field or shift
for - definition - ecstasis - similarity - ecstasis - Deep Humanity BEing journey - similarity - ecstasis - epoche - https://jonudell.info/h/facet/?max=100&expanded=true&user=stopresetgo&exactTagSearch=true&any=epoche
how do we shift fromseeing ourselves at the center of our existence to seeing ourselves as part ofcompletely interconnected existenc
for - transition - perspectives - from - anthropocene - to - symbiocene
comment - our constant othering shows that we do not even appreciate the anthropocene - we have to gain insight into our habit of othering other humans first, and co-emerge a unified humanity, before we attempt the greater task of not othering all the other species - OR we can tackle our general sense of separation of both other humans and individuals of other species
Symbiocene
for - references - hypothesis - symbiocene - https://jonudell.info/h/facet/?max=100&expanded=true&user=stopresetgo&exactTagSearch=true&any=symbiocene
comment - I thought the name Glenn Albrecht sounded familiar!
he coined manyneologisms to cover the array of positive and negative emotions we do feel orcould feel. 26 “Coming to intimately know a place as home is at the same timea way of achieving heart’s ease,” he says to introduce the term “solastalgia
for - definition - solastalgia - heart ease - Glenn Albrecht
participation mystique
for - definition - participation mystique - infant-mother-nonseparation - synonym - nondual
I envision a time when we are present to both our unitedness and ouruniqueness, similar to the way in which our own body’s many different typesof cells function togeth
for - multi-scale competency architecture - Michael Levin
If we stopped focusing on our separateness and focused instead on ouralready-always connectedness, how might we experience separateness differently?
for - similarity - separateness vs connectedness - Deep Humanity tree metaphor - Just as the many separate branches of the tree can all be traced back to a common trunk, - similarly, all the aspects that separate one person from another can be traced back to a common affective, cognitive and linguistic basis, - otherwise, communication would be impossible
Eventually that sense of nonseparateness is disrupted,and we experience her as a different being with a separate center of agency.
for - individuation - This is a good way to articulate individuation - experiencing the mother as a being with a separate sense of agency
Why is it so easy, relatively speaking, to become one with inanimateobjects, like spinnakers, and so difficult to become one with fellow humanbeings?
for - question - why is is easier to become one with inanimate objects than to become one with another human being?
When one realizes one’s interconnectedness, what have seemed like one-wayenergy flows are seen to be two-way flows, that is, a recursive flow that goesout and comes back in, regardless of the perspective taken
for - othering - feedback loops - When we are othered, it triggers us to other as well - and vice versa - This could also be an excellent candidate for an Othering BEing journey
Iwasn’t unfriendly, but I wasn’t friendly either. Eventually I realized that whenI decided that he was “mean,” I had become mean. I treated him meanly. Myjudgment of another showed me my own meanness, a shadow part of me that
for - Deep Humanity Being journey - bringing our shadow to consciousness - Question - How could we construct shadow awareness BEing journeys?
Given differentcircumstances, we all have the possibility of being X, whatever X is.
for - similarity - Deep Humanity - principle of Empathy
similarity - Deep Humanity - principle of Empathy - This is similar to Deep Humanity principle of Empathy, which holds that the degree of empathy we can develop - depends on our ability to experience and imagine the conditions of the other - Almost every one of us is capable of both the greatest good and the greatest evil, depending on the circumstances we developed under - In a very real sense, the great diversity of human behavior we see enacted in the world and our lives is a reflection of the great diversity of circumstances people can find themselves in - Some Deep Humanity empathy BEing Journeys can be crafted leveraging awareness of the life circumstances of the other
“I’m not... [fill in the blank].” Those are the shad-ows that you are disowning, the aspects of yourself that you have “othered.”
for - insight - adjacency - disowning - self othering
Iam suggesting that we add new types of parts to tinker with—parts that aremore complex, more dynamic. Let’s find ways to melt the parts of languageso
for - adjacency - tinkerability - language - Indyweb - The indyweb is designed for tinkerability
McLuhan’s thesis that our newelectronic media have shifted the message can be recursively applied to itselfto suggest that these new media are also enabling us to develop new types of
for - language innovation - digital media - Indyweb
Just as Jobs had an intuition that more was possible for the humble tele-phone, I have a similar sense that something more is possible not just for thetechnological media by which we convey meaning—but for language itself.
for - futuring - language technology
Lao Tze saidthis about seeing the hole:Thirty spokes are joined together in a wheel,but it is the center holethat allows the wheel to function.We mold clay into a pot,but it is the emptiness insidethat makes the vessel useful.We fashion wood for a house,but it is the emptiness insidethat makes it livable.We work with the substantial,but the emptiness is what we use.—from the Tao Te Ching, translated for public domain by j. h. mcdonaldIt’s easier to critique something that exists than to create from nothing.
for - Lao Tze - quote - the value of emptiness
The Swiss philosopher and poet Jean Gebser provides broader terminol-ogy than Kuhn does, by describing what is happening in society as a shift inconsciousness. 20 Whereas a paradigm shift affects a particular field of study,
for - comparison - consciousness shift (Jean Gebser) vs Paradigm shift (Thomas Kuhn)
In the past, our ancestors faced a similar type of shift in their consciousness,one which seems obvious to us today: they shifted from thinking the Earthwas flat to thinking the Earth is round. Today we are faced with a similarbut qualitatively different shift—from thinking that we are each separatefrom one another and from our environment to thinking that we are alreadyalways interconnected
for - duality / nonduality - ancestors / modernity - irony - It's ironic that many of our ancestors felt the interconnectedness more strongly than we do today in modernity - The layer of manufacturing a separate human world has created a new social norm of separation that did not exist for our ancestors
caterpillars when theylose their form and become imaginal cells before they transform into butter-
for - transformation - caterpillars to butterflies - see Michael Levin's research
In the 1200s, gendered nouns were simplified out of English.14
for - etymology - gendered nouns - removed from English in 1200's
Deutscher explains that languages tend to shift from being morecomplex to less complex
for - language evolution - trend - simplification
The word thus began as referring to a type of person, a woman-person,and not a type of man. Over time, the ‘f’ in ‘wif’ fell away and the resultwas a word we now pronounce as ‘wimmin.’ There was no ‘woman.’ Yet. Thesingular ‘woman,’ as opposed to the plural ‘women,’ came about in MiddleEnglish
for - etymology - woman - interesting that the word "man" at one time referred to a person of either male or female sex - essentially a person, - and how hoistory has modified it to mean a person of male gender.
evolution ofthe term “woman” reveals that the “wo” affix was not simply an addition to“man.” The linguist John McWhorter explained that “the word ‘woman’ didnot begin as a reference to a ‘wo-’ kind of man or male person. In Old English
for - etymology - woman - quite interesting to know the history of woman and that at one time, "man" actually meant both sexes.
The Unfolding of Language, Guy Deutscher describes the evolution oflanguage
for - follow up - book - The Unfolding of Language - to - internet archive - The Unfolding of Language - https://hyp.is/UksPQBtgEfCEqneUXW_HOA/archive.org/details/guy-deutscher-the-unfolding-of-language-an-evolutionary-tour-of-mankinds-greatest-invention
Why isthere no systematic way to integrate opposites in Western languages?
for - question - language - nonduality
for - from - book - Embracing Paradox, Evolving Language - https://hyp.is/YLmtOCE4EfCXSA-i4OzEpg/ipfs.indy0.net/ipfs/bafybeihk6dcr7dfruu65z5e5ze2rkeiydkmgbbpadhyulckm4afnqbtdgy
he life on the planet is not in danger anyway it's a very anthropocentric issue
for - critique- claim - Anthropocene is no threat to life on earth - I have to disagree with him on this point - By definition, a sixth mass extinction implies that much of life on the planet is at risk - If he means life will continue to evolve, that is certainly true
the anthroposin makes sense less as a geoplanetary period than an historical period relating to humans is very anthropocentric issue and that means that Social science must be uh uh at the core of the challenges and the issue of the uh uh uh anthroposine uh question
for - key insight - social science must be at the core of the challenges of the Anthropocene
for - youtube - Anthropocene - We are already emerging from the Anthropocene - Eric Mace, Bodora University - youtube - presentation - Anthropocene
Summary - This presentation makes 6 points about the Anthropocene in question / answer format: - Q1 - Is the Anthropocene a new geoplanetary era? - It doesn't matter, regardless, it is a definite and important anthropocentric issue (anthropos-kainos) - Q2 - Is the Anthropocene an evidence-based reality? - Yes, it's a catastrophic anthropogenic pressure on planet earth - Q3 - Is the Anthropocene an unprecedented moment in the whole human history? - absolutely - Q4 - What is the relationship between the Anthropocene and Western modernity? - Since the 16th century, the Western modernity IS the Anthropocene and vice versa - Q5 - If it is possible to determine the historical moment of entry into the Anthropocene, can we determine the historical moment of exit from the Anthropocene? - Yes, probably during the 21st century, due to a massive decrease in anthropogenic pressure - Q6 - Do we already know how we shall exit from the Anthropocene? - It depends on social relationships of power
it's a presentation a six point presentation six questions and six answers and as there is no suspense I will give the answer uh from the beginning so there will have no suspense
for - anthropocene - 6 points
f you take your credit card and you go shopping and you run up a large credit card debt you're running a trade deficit with all those shops now it would be pretty strange if you then blamed all the shop owners for having sold you all those things you're ripping me off you're ripping me off you're ripping me off i'm running a trade deficit that is the level of understanding of the president of the United States
for - quote - Trump's misunderstanding of trade deficit and tariffs - Jeffrey Sachs
quote - Trump's misunderstanding of trade deficit and tariffs - Jeffrey Sachs - If you take your credit card and you go shopping and you run up a large credit card debt you're running a trade deficit with all those shops - Now it would be pretty strange if you then blamed all the shop owners for having sold you all those things - "you're ripping me off, i'm running a trade deficit!" - That is the level of understanding of the president of the United States!
for - youtube - Trump tariffs - analysis - Jeffrey Sachs
Summary - Jeffrey Sachs provides very good analysis of Trump's tariffs and its consequences
for - book - The Unfolding of Language - An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention - author - Guy Deutscher
The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention
for - internet archive - book - The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention
for - report - America's Superintelligence Project - definition - ASI - Artificial Super Intelligence
summary - What is the cost of mistrust between nation states? - The mistrust between the US and China is reaching an all-tie high and it has disastrous consequences for an AI arms race - It is driving each country to move fast and break things, which will become an existential threat to all humanity - Deep Humanity, with an important dimension of progress traps can help us navigate ASI
A domestic superintelligence project would have a huge energy footprint that we wouldn’t be able to conceal from adversaries
for - ASI project - energy consumption - gWatt
we may be tempted to conduct our own activities aimed at introducing trojans or backdoors into adversary models. This could end up being necessary, but it could also trigger dangerous loss of control behaviors and runaway escalation.
for - progress trap - ASI - introducing trojan and backdoors in adversary ASI - can backfire
AI containment
for - definition - AI containment - progress trap - AI containment
former Mossad cyber operative warned, “The worst thing that could happen is that the U.S. develops an AI superweapon, and China or Russia have a trojan/backdoor inside the superintelligent model's weights because e.g. they had read/write access to the training data pipelines
for - ASI scenario - adversary with trojan backdoor access
example
for - example - AI unpredicted behavior
AI alignment researchers estimate less than a 10% chance that we lose control of superintelligent AI once it’s built. More typical estimates range from 10-80%, depending on who you ask.
for - stats - chances of losing control of ASI - 10 to 80%
highly capable and context-aware AI systems can invent dangerously creative strategies to achieve their internal goals that their developers never anticipated or intended them to pursue.
for - progress trap - ASI - progress trap - AGI
as we get closer to superintelligence, it will be seen more and more as an enabler and driver of weapon of mass destruction (WMD) capabilities, if not as a WMD in and of itself. Direct calls for a “Manhattan Project for AGI” are already starting.
for - quote - AGI - Weapon of Mass Destruction
quote - As we get closer to superintelligence, - it will be seen more and more as an enabler and driver of - weapon of mass destruction (WMD) capabilities, - if not as a WMD in and of itself. - Direct calls for a “Manhattan Project for AGI” are already starting.
To this day, if you know the right people, the Silicon Valley gossip mill is a surprisingly reliable source of information if you want to anticipate the next beat in frontier AI – and that’s a problem. You can’t have your most critical national security technology built in labs that are almost certainly CCP-penetrated
for - high security risk - US AI labs
AI is already augmenting important parts of the AI research process itself, and that will only accelerate
for - quote - AI - AI is accelerating AI research itself
at any given time, the CCP may have a better idea of what OpenAI’s frontier advances look like than the U.S. government does.
for - AI - Chinese know more than US government about latest US frontier AI research
Many in Silicon Valley believe we're less than a year away from AI that can automate most software engineering work
for - progress trap - AGI - one year away from automating software work
an AI-powered denial capability is useless if it behaves unpredictably, and if it executes on its instructions in ways that have undesired, high-consequence side-effects.
for - progress trap - AGI
The "move fast and break things" ethos of Silicon Valley is incompatible with the security demands of superintelligence
for - progress trap - AGI - Silicon Valley move fast and break things strategy - incompatible with security of AGI
for - conlanger - language creator - from - book - Embracing Paradox, Evolving Language - homepage - David J. Peterson
If a dollar is valued at a lower level, then there will be specific sectors of the American economy that may be more competitive on global markets. Right. But everyone is hurt by a weaker dollar because also all of us in the United States are paid in dollars.
for - weaker US dollar tradeoffs - lower cost for foreign buyers BUT higher cost for domestic US consumers
there are people in the Trump administration orbit who actually view the dollar's role as the world's reserve currency, as bad for the U.S. economy, not an exorbitant privilege, but something that undermines our export competitiveness
for - adjacency - US reserve currency - Some in Trump admin see it as a bad thing - question - Does Trump admin want to intentionally devalue US dollar and US reserve currency status?
comment - They want to devalue the US dollar so that US goods are more competitive - lower cost
the lion's share of American federal outlays every year are in things like Medicare, Social Security, entitlement programs that Americans rely on. Yeah, I think Elon Musk has brought that to attention many times over the last couple of months when talking doge
for - balancing the budget - Doge - cutting the US deficit - Doge - US deficit - mostly due to medicare and social security
Treasury yields have gone up as the dollar's value has actually weakened as normally you'd expect as Treasury yields go up, that the dollar would strengthen because there would be more demand for American assets.
for - why - increase in treasury yields normally strengthens US Dollar - Gemini AI gives a good explanation - Yes, it's generally expected that when U.S. Treasury yields increase, the value of the US dollar will strengthen. - This is because higher yields attract more foreign investment, increasing demand for the dollar to purchase those assets. - Higher yields ( higher interest rate) mean more attractive returns: - When Treasury yields rise, the returns on U.S. government bonds become more appealing to investors, both domestic and foreign. - Increased demand for US dollars: - As investors from other countries seek to buy these higher-yielding U.S. assets, they need to first convert their local currencies into US dollars to make the purchase. - This increased demand for dollars strengthens its value. - Safe-haven status: - During times of economic uncertainty, investors often flock to safe-haven assets like U.S. Treasuries. This further boosts the demand for the US dollar, as it is the currency used to hold these assets. - Currency Valuation - A strong currency indicates a healthy economy and can attract more foreign investment. This creates a positive feedback loop, as a stronger dollar can further boost investor confidence and lead to even higher demand for US assets.
The way that we plug that deficit, the way that we we finance the spending that doesn't come from American taxpayers is through issuing debt that then is in the form of U.S. Treasuries.
for - US treasury bonds - balances 7% annual budget deficit
the flip side of a trade deficit is that we have, you know, financial asset financing that's coming into the United States. Right? We have other countries who are investing in American assets. Right. So that is, you know, why you need a you know, the current account in the capital account have to balance out a current account deficit will mean a capital account surplus. Right?
for - investigate - flip side of trade deficit is financial surplus
Explain that. Carry that out for people who would be like, I'm not making the connection because I think so much of what's happened in the last week and a half, we have to understand how this all connects,
for - question - clarify for the audience how the US dollar as reserve currency, the decrease in demand for US treasury bonds and the US national debt are related to Trump's tariffs?
comment - The interviewer asks a great question on behalf of the audience as she understands that a lot of people don't understand the significance of Trump's tariff on the US national debt, treasury bonds and the US reserve currency. - She asks him to connect the dots and reveal the salient adjacencies
what would it mean for the dollar to lose its position as the world's reserve currency?
for - question - what would it mean for the dollar to lose its position as the world's reserve currency? - answer - if nobody buys US treasury bonds because it is no longer seen as a safe haven, and even begin liquidating them, then they can no longer compensate for the annual interest payment of the US national debt - The US would be forced to actually balance its budget
he dollar as role as the world's reserve currency is necessary for the way that we run our political economy,
for - impacts - of US dollar losing role as world reserve currency - can no longer fund US deficit and must balance the budget - lose geopolitical leverage of sanctions
real concerns that the dollar may be losing some of its safe haven status.
for - US dollar - losing safe haven status - de-dollarization - selling off US treasury bonds
America is something like 10% of global trade and 90% of foreign exchange transactions involve the dollar. So the dollar is being used in transactions that have nothing to do with U.S. goods being traded from one country to another.
for - quote - US reserve currency - used for 10% of global trade - and 90% of foreign exchange - stats - US reserve currency - used for 10% of global trade - and 90% of foreign exchange
everything being dollar denominated, that means in order to transact right, it's got to go through dollars. And basically we have control over dollar denominated assets and those points throughout the financial system.
for - explanation - sanctions - chokepoints - US reserve currency
explanation - sanctions - chokepoints - US reserve currency - If a country is sanctioned, it means that they can no longer use the US dollar for trading for goods (like weapons) - If a sanction country tries to buy a weapon, then it must transact with US dollars because that is the currency everyone uses to trade with - Either that country has enough paper US dollars to trade, or they must do it electronically - However, if the country is sanctioned, those US dollar transactions are monitored by the US government and will be disallowed - So it is the electronic means of surveillance of US dollar transactions which make sanctions effective
the US financial system is the most important choke point in the global economy
for - chokepoint - US financial system is most important - example - chokepoint - US sanctions
Choke Points
for - book - Choke Points - author - Edward Fishman - to - youtube search - Edward Fishman Chokepoint - https://hyp.is/F-UD3hqSEfCR80u-O1akrQ/www.youtube.com/
for - adjacency - US reserve currency - treasury bonds - US national debt - Trump tariffs - youtube - Bloomberg - Trump presses China to Make Tariff Offer to Calm Trade War
adjacency between - US reserve currency - treasury bonds - US national debt - Trump tariffs
Summary - Professor Edward Fishman gives a very good explanation about the relationship between the US national debt, treasury bonds, US reserve currency and the Trump tariffs. - Watching youtubes on these topics recently has been quite enlightening and primed me for this video - I really appreciated the interviewer asking the question on behalf of the viewers
for - youtube search - Edward Fishman - Chokepoint - from - youtube - Bloomberg podcast - Edward Fishman interview - https://hyp.is/8b1HCBqQEfC6rq8Li2CsRw/www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjDC9tEYFIA
for - history - reserve currencies
for - explainer video - US national debt - treasury bonds - youtube - US national debt - A good explainer video on the US national debt and treasury bonds
for - Cross scale translation of earth system boundaries - Cross scale translation of earth system boundaries - Bill Baue - Medium - article- cross scale translation of earth system boundaries - Bill Baue - adjacency - cross scale translation of earth system boundaries - global thresholds and allocations
canadians have a different expression for American farmers welfare recipients
for - Trump - farmer vote - welfare recipients
Really had a laugh at the farmers that think that they produce the best quality and have the strictest regulations
for - US agriculture - food quality - poor - but US farmers in a bubble - silos - effects of - US agriculture
for - SRG complexity mapping and sensemaking
SRG - This format of on-the-ground interviews along with feedback is good to map using SRG mapping tool
It's amazing how this farmer sees the demands that other people make with regards to climate change and renewables as demands from other people when climate change will hit farmers and already does harder than anyone they should be demanding it from themselves not feel like it's being forced upon them by others
for - climate change - agriculture - farmers attitudes - responsibility
the main reason consumers are buying the cheapest food rather than the best healthiest is because they are not being paid a living wage
for - inequality - oligarchy - effects on consumerist habits - buying the cheapest - suggestion - migrate from corporation to cooperation model - private company to cooperative - new meme - corporation to cooperation
they need to regulate big egg just as they need to regulate big pharma big insurance etc
for - oligarchy - Trump supports big ag over small ag
big egg indust industry
for - stats - big ag takes 30% of profits - small farmers take 5%
also voted to deport their workers lol yeah farmers as a whole voting Republican voted with an anti-migrant um workforce they voted to literally deport their own workforce work sources so again how is that helping them it's not
for - US agriculture - politics - farmers voted to deport their own workers
for - mayor system - China - responsible for rapid change
A conclusion I came to is that these men feel like most people (including the “mass media”) don’t take the time—or have no interest in taking the time—to understand them or where they come from.
for - liberal woman dates conservative men - they feel unheard
they still felt like they were getting left behind. Many of their ideologies seemed to be built on this perceived rejection and a desire to revert back to how “things used to be.”
for - MAGA men - rejection - dream of the old days
It became clear to me that he truly loved Trump not just because he identified with Trump the politician but because he identified with Trump the person being considered “bad” by progressive standards.
for - cosmopolitan magazine - liberal woman dated conservative MAGA men - insight
insight - Interesting insight about how deeply he identified with Trump on a personal level, He projected all the criticism Trump receives as his own.
He clearly had no idea he was out with someone he once threatened to kill.
for - quote - liberal woman dated conservative men - He clearly had no idea he was out with someone he once threatened to kill.
I went to dinner with a man who had sent me death threats
for - liberal woman dating conservative MAGA men - dating a man who sent her death threats. Wow.
From May to November, I would match with a total of 60 men across a wide conservative spectrum
for - stats - liberal dated 60 conservative, MAGA men in a year
I Spent Nearly a Year on a Conservative Dating App as a Liberal—Here’s What I Learned
for - from - youtube - CNN - This woman dated only far-right men for a year. "They were so insecure" - https://hyp.is/hb0ylhkbEfClNFdGidxvdA/www.youtube.com/watch?v=92iotrec96g
This is Vera Papa Sova. She spent the last year dating far right men in New York City for a story for cosmopolitan magazine. They're the most insecure men I've ever sat down with. It was really difficult to have some of these days because they were so insecure, because they don't really know who they are, and they don't know how to figure that out.
for - quote - manosphere - most insecure men I've ever sat down with - Vera Papisova - Cosmopolitan magazine - news - liberal dating conservative men for a year - youtube - CNN - This woman dated only far-right men for a year. "They were so insecure" - to - Cosmopolitan magazine - article - Vera Papisova - I Spent Nearly a Year on a Conservative Dating App as a Liberal—Here’s What I Learned - https://hyp.is/HNRDRBkdEfCBit8g4X4cAg/www.cosmopolitan.com/sex-love/a63679179/political-beliefs-dating-app-experiment/
for - undercover report - manosphere - insecure-osphere - cnn report - undercover in the manosphere
for - Trump tariffs - youtube - CNN - Orgy of corruption
for - dimensionality reduction - UMAP - SRG mapping tool
for - t-SNE - youtube - t-SNE - high dimensionality space
for - t-SNE - youtube - t-SNE explanation - high dimensionality space - dimensional reduction
open sourcing all of this as part of TensorFlow so that anyone can use these tools to explore their data.
for - tensorflow - data visualization of words - question - tensorflow - for SRG tool?
for - data visualization - words in high dimensional space - Google tensorflow - open source data visualization - of words
words are treated as high-dimensional data points.
for - words - high dimensionality data points
for - chalmers university - digital twin cities centre - from - youtube - urban data visualization using mixed reality - https://hyp.is/ptvO5BexEfC063-4BZXD-A/www.youtube.com/watch?v=tN2_TJ1ZYhQ
for - doughnut economics - digital twin cities - planetary boundaries - urban planning - chalmers university - digital twin cities
for - mixed reality 3d graph data visualization - skyrails - gelphi
for - Ripple Effect Mapping - youtube - Ripple Effect Mapping - like - SRG mapping
for - youtube - The New Denialism - Kevin Anderson 2025 - climate crisis 2025
adjacency between - Kevin Anderson - true scale of required decarbonization - climate justice - colonialism justice - polycrisis - intersection of climate and colonialism justice - social constructs - Douglas Rushkoff on Weirdness - understanding Deep social construction - Oliver Sacks - Deep Humanity - BEing Journeys - 2 level tree structure - MAGA shallow socially constructed story - stops at birth of the US but before colonialism - omit the story of the genocide and enslavement of indigenous genocide on two continents - in the Americas and Africa - myth of "money buys happiness" - new story - true happiness does not depend on any material
adjacency relationship
Summary - Kevin explains the true scale of decarbonization required - It is basically the same argument he has been making for decades but updated for 2025
SSI: our dystopian nightmare
for - SSI: our dystopian nightmare - progress trap
move fast and break things
for - adjacency - Move fast and break things - progress trap - antonym of "Move fast and break things" - "Move slow and make things"
As Buckminster Fuller anticipated in ‘I Seem to be a Verb’[23] ... who I am encompasses a constant flux of informational diffusion and intermixing, interfacial constructions and experiences, continuously revised narratives, arrangings and organizings.[24]
for - human INTERbeCOMing (etymology) - Deep Humanity evolution of this term: - Human being (noun) to - Human INTERbeing (still a noun - relational - Thich Nhat Hahn) to - Human INTERbeCOMing (verb process - Deep Humanity)
Earth system impacts of the European arrival and Great Dying in the Americas after 1492
for - paper - Earth system impacts of the European arrival and Great Dying in the Americas after 1492 - authors - Alexander Koch - Chris Brierley - Mark Maslin - Simon L. Lewis - adjacency - genocide - native americans - colonialism - Little Ice Age - adjacency - great dying - little ice age - colonialism - from - youtube - The death of 55 million indigenous people after colonization - https://hyp.is/go?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DYlDdzj1nx3U&group=world - The Great Dying - Little Ice Age
for - Trump tariffs - How much pain? - article How much pain will new tariffs bring - and for how long? - author - Justin Wolfers
for - youtube - carbon inequality - Tax the Rich - Kevin Anderson - wealth2well - Deep Humanity - Deep Education
question - decarbonization - redistribution - is there any research with concrete decarbonization rates that are just across the entire class spectrum?
wealth2wellth - Deep Humanity Wealth2Wellth program advocates Deep education of the elites to voluntarily share their economic and carbon wealth with the 99%
Thomas Mo's Maxim that silence silence means consent
for - quote - Silence means consent - Thomas Moore - context - fossil fuels
for - colonialism - impacts - Americas - little ice age - cause - genocide of indigenous people in 17th century - abandoned fields - stats - colonialism - genocide - 55 million people - cooling of planet - MAGA - How to make the Americas great again - colonialism - justice - to - paper - Earth system impacts of the European arrival and Great Dying in the Americas after 1492 - https://hyp.is/fHnyIBL3EfCpcmfnGW26DA/www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277379118307261
comment - The MAGA movement needs to deeply reflect on this - They claim national pride but do not go further back in history than the establishment of the United States - They need to recognize how the US was established on genocide in order to live in cultural truth - This reality creates a contradiction to their entire theme of white national power - It makes the elimination of DEI hypocritical as indigenous peoples have a far more legitimate claim than they do
for - futuring - Maarten Hajer - youtube - Techniques of futuring: On how imagined futures become socially performative - to - paper - Techniques of futuring: On how imagined futures become socially performative - https://hyp.is/pCJ_iA42EfC_9C-RJoo6wQ/journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1368431020988826
comment - meme - Gien - past - present - future - quote - Gien - past - present - future - When the future becomes the present, - memories will remind us of imaginations in presents past
they also run scenarios they run the SSP scenarios and now it's very interesting to look into what is allowed into these scenarios how they construct the political in this in these scenarios
for - to - Wikipedia - Shared Socioeconomic Pathways - https://hyp.is/2PTbRA_3EfCinhc0DATxiQ/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shared_Socioeconomic_Pathways
science defines the future in environmental politics
for - quote - science defines the future in environmental politics - Maarten Hajer
why is it that Extinction Rebellion where predominantly young people and actually all older people are so concerned that they take to the street and lie down that that is met with violence why is that well I think because they they strike a nerve of something about the inaction of the political that that there needs to be police it needs to be taken off as illegitimate
for - example - dramaturgy of environmental politics - excludes Extinction Rebellion - illegitimate
in environmental politics you see a confinement of the political and and the confinement is that it is created in a theater in which ecological modernization still is the language
for - dramaturgy of environmental politics - confined in a theatre of ecological modernization
Dermatology of the environmental political is problematic in itself because it is a confined space in which particular Futures can be legitimately brought to the fore and others are excluded
for - key insight - dramaturgy of environmental science - biased to some futures and excludes others
political dramaturgies
for - political dramaturgies
dramaturgical analysis
for - definition - dramaturgy - invoking drama for presenting the self in different context - dramaturgical analysis - to - Wikipedia - dramaturgy - https://hyp.is/5ueHGA_0EfCaiB8s4MiYfQ/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dramaturgy_(sociology)
the point of futuring is that you need to connect facts and fictions because that is how this these future Visions become socially performative
for - meme - futuring - connect - present facts - to - future fictions - quote - The point of futuring is that you need to connect facts and fictions because that is how this these future Visions become socially performative - Maarten Hajer
if you imagine a banker I mean how would a banker choose whether or not to give a loan to to an entrepreneur without having what against Becker school a fictional expectation
for - example - futures - bankers give loans based on fictional future story of the loanee
talk about Futures in the plural because it is always about Choice
for - futures - plural to indicate choice of possible realities
it is an activity so futuring makes the future into a verb so the what we study is how you future how you are actively working on on Futures
for - futuring - a verb - actively working towards a specific future
featuring I would then argue is the attempt to shape the space for action by identifying and circulating images of the future a process by which relationship between past present and future are enacted
for - definition - futuring - the attempt to shape the space for action by identifying and circulating images of the future (in the present) - a process by which relationship between past, present and future are enacted - Maarten Hajer
the imaginary is a sort of collectively held image of a possible future
for - definition - the imaginary - a collectively held image of a possible future
the future is obviously a strange topic to study right it is not there so how can you study it so that's but you can of course because it's very active in terms of the images of the future in the present and these can be studied empirically we cannot study the future but we can study claims about the future in the in the present
for - quote - the future is a strange topic - we cannot study the future but we can study claims about the future in the present - Maarten Hajer
there's a particular paper in which we try to position our work on futuring in the social theoretical journals which is just to test whether it would hold whether people would accept that you can make sense of the future
for to - paper - Techniques of futuring: On how imagined futures become socially performative - https://hyp.is/pCJ_iA42EfC_9C-RJoo6wQ/journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1368431020988826
for - youtube - Ecology or Economics? - David Suzuki - humans and nature - nondual relationship - humans and nature - intertwingled
Summary - David Suzuki gives a great talk on the relationship between ecology ad economy - In particular, the standout for me is the story of intertwingledness and nonseparation he learned from the Haida people. - See the annotations below to find the part of the talk when he has the epiphany that we are not separated from nature, and he learns this from the Haida people's nondual relationship with nature
What is it that delivers the air that we can breathe? Guess what? It's all the green things on the planet. Surely that should-- does that have a value in our economic system? Guess what? Economists call that an externality. And what I found out is, they don't care about that. It's considered so vast it's irrelevant to our economy.
for - quote - air is a resource so vast has no value in the economy - David Suzuki
the challenge is to reduce our circle within that planet. We've got to reduce and get back down to a size that makes sense. And within that circle, which is us, is a much smaller circle, which is the economy. That should be the way that we look at it. The biosphere, our species, and the economy,
for - economy is within ecology - David Suzuki
if you're going to talk about a shift in our paradigm, it is to recognize what indigenous people have always known, that we are created out of the elements of Mother Earth. And those should be our greatest responsibility, to protect them for ourselves and the rest of life on Earth.
for - quote - intertwingledness of living beings and the earth - David Suzuki
quote - intertwingledness of living beings and the earth - David Suzuki - if you're going to talk about a shift in our paradigm, it is to recognize what indigenous people have always known, - that we are created out of the elements of Mother Earth. - and those should be our greatest responsibility, to protect them for ourselves and the rest of life on Earth.
We are animals. And as animals, our most important need is a breath of air. Without air for more than three or four minutes, you're either brain damaged or dead. So surely to goodness, air ought to be, as a society, our highest priority. The protection of the quality of air should come before anything else. We are water. Go without water for more than a few days, you're dead. Have to drink contaminated water, you're sick. So surely, water, like air, should be one of our society's highest priorities. And we are created out of the food that we eat. So protecting the soil that gives us our food should be one of our highest priorities. And protecting the photosynthetic capacity of the planet is in our highest self-interest.
for - quote - we are animals - protect - air - water - food - David Suzuki
We want air to be free, and we forget what a sacred substance it is.
for - the sacred - example - air - David Suzuki
There's this wonderful thought exercise Harlow Shapley, an American astronomer, did many years ago. He said, what happens to one breath of air?
for - BEing Journey - argon gas - Gedanken - thought experiment - Harlow Shapley - intertwingledness - David Suzuki
Think about what is the most important thing that we needed the moment every one of us left our mother's body. Well, of course, it was a breath of air. That first breath was to announce our arrival on the planet and inflate our lungs. And from that moment on to the last breath you take before you die, you need air 15 to 40 times a minute.
for - example - intertwingledness - nonduality - non-separation - story of breathing air - David Suzuki
There is no environment out there and we are here. We are literally created by the elements that come from what they call Mother Earth. And Mother Earth isn't some poetic or metaphoric way of speaking. They mean it literally.
for - example - individual / collective gestalt - Haida story - example - self / other gestalt - Haida story
What Guujaaw was saying was, we Haida don't end at our skin or our fingertips. To be Haida means to be connected to the land, that the air, the water, the trees, the fish, the birds, all of that is what makes us Haida. The land embodies our history, our culture. The very reason why Haida are on this earth is told to them by their connection with the land. Destroy those elements, and you destroy what it is to be Haida.
for - quote - story of non-separation - intertwingledness - nonduality - Haida Gwaii - David Suzuki
quote - story of non-separation - intertwingledness - nonduality - Haida Gwaii - David Suzuki - What Guujaaw was saying was: - We Haida don't end at our skin or our fingertips. - To be Haida means to be connected to - the land, - the air, - the water, - the trees, - the fish, - the birds, - all of that is what makes us Haida. - The land embodies our history, our culture. - The very reason why Haida are on this earth is told to them by their connection with the land. - Destroy those elements, and you destroy what it is to be Haida.
I believe that we've framed the problem the wrong way. And for me, the big change happened in the late 1970s, when I became aware that there was a battle raging in our westernmost archipelago, what were once called the Queen Charlotte Islands, but are now called Haida Gwaii.
for - progress trap - turning point - David Suzuki - Haida Gwaii
Geoengineering is about the human arrogance that we have screwed up the atmosphere so bad that we're now going to take over for nature, and we're going to engineer the atmosphere so that it doesn't create more catastrophic climate change
for - progress trap - geoengineering - David Suzuki
We need technology, much of it to solve the problems that we've created with technology in the first place. But since our ignorance is so vast, how could we possibly develop new technologies that wouldn't in turn create more technologies-- more difficulties that we hadn't anticipated? And you see it in spades right now.
for - progress trap - David Suzuki
by the time Rachel Carson published Silent Spring, we knew there were ramifications we didn't-- couldn't have anticipated, the most amazing being biomagnification. When eagles began to disappear in the United States, scientists tracked it down to the fact that DDT sprayed at low concentrations would be amplified up the food chain. So by the time you get to the fatty glands and the fat tissue and the shell glands of birds and the breasts of women, DDT was concentrated hundreds of thousands of times beyond what we had sprayed it at. By the 1960s, women's breast milk was considered too toxic to feed to babies.
for - progress trap - DDT - David Suzuki
Who would have imagined that high up above the Earth, CFCs would be hit by ultraviolet light, breaking off chlorine free radicals, which scavenge ozone. Nobody could have anticipated that consequence when we began to use it.
for - progress trap - CFC's - David Suzuki
we gave the man who discovered the insecticidal properties of DDT, Paul Muller, he got a Nobel Prize for it in 1948
for - history - DDT - inventor received Nobel Prize
proposals to drill for oil in Hecate Strait between Haida Gwaii and the mainland
for - David Suzuki - oil drilling proposal - Hecate Straits - Haida Gwaii
one result of the objections to Amchitka was the birth of Greenpeace in Vancouver. Greenpeace was a made in Canada organization that I'm very proud to say has exploded and become a force around the world.
for - Greenpeace - origin story - David Suzuki
she said is, yeah, you scientists are clever. You can make powerful compounds like DDT, but you don't know enough to anticipate all of the consequences. Because, first of all, the lab is not a replica of the real world. The lab is an artifact, something that has very little to do with the real world out there. In the real world, everything is connected to everything else, and we don't know enough to anticipate the effects of what we do with our powerful technologies.
for - quote - progress trap - David Suzuki - quote - Indra's net of jewels - David Suzuki
quote - progress trap - David Suzuki - What she (Rachel Carson) said is, - Yeah, you scientists are clever. You can make powerful compounds like DDT, but you don't know enough to anticipate all of the consequences. - Because the lab is not a replica of the real world. The lab is an artifact, something that has very little to do with the real world out there. - In the real world, everything is connected to everything else, and we don't know enough to anticipate the effects of what we do with our powerful technologies.
in 1962, Rachel Carson published Silent Spring. And you cannot-- the young people in the audience cannot imagine the impact of that book, which was all about the unexpected effects of pesticides.
for - progress trap - Rachel Carson - Silent Spring - book - pesticides
I'm a banana. I'm yellow on the outside. I'm white on the inside.
for - banana - David Suzuki
my exhortation to my fellow elders is get the hell off the golf course or the couch and get on with the most important part of your lives.
for - quote - retirement - David Suzuki - idling resource - elders
for - Team Human - Weirdness - Trump - Douglas Rushkoff - Team Human - Weirdness
Summary - Rushkoff provides good reasons why we should question the social constructs we accept as absolute truths all around us - He brings up the possibility that the Trump government and all the florry of surrounding chaotic activity may be an indicator of the end of 4 centuries of a pathological social construct that has alienated most of humanity
THE PROBLEM IS, RON VARA DOESN'T EXIST. HE NEVER HAS. THE ECONOMICS EXPERT THAT PETER NAVARRO HAS LONG CITED TO EXPLAIN WHY HE'S SO GUNG HO ON TARIFFS. THIS PERSON, RON VARA, IS A MADE UP PERSON. HE IS A FICTIONAL PERSON. PETER NAVARRO INVENTED RON VARA AS HIS EXPERT SOURCE, SO HE COULD QUOTE THIS EXPERT SOURCE OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN IN HIS CRACKPOT BOOKS. WHO IS RON VERA? RON VERA IS AN ANAGRAM OF NAVARRO, WHICH IS HIS LAST NAME.
for - Trump Tariff's - based on Ron Vara
If an American President, head of the Green Party of the USA, were elected with a mandate to slash emissions
for - Trump tariffs - lowering carbon emissions?
for - from Global Regeneration CoLab - Wasabi Network - Regneration pollination zoom speed dating - April 4, 2025
wealthier countries owe US$36 trillion to African countries in climate debt
for - stats - climate justice - climate debt - Global North owes Global South 36 trillion USD
The Action Aid report calculates that rich countries achieved up to 70% of their economic growth by using more than their fair share of the climate budget.
for - report - Action Aid - climate justice - stats - 70% of economic growth of global North - unequal carbon budget
atmospheric appropriation
for - definition - atmospheric appropriation
for - climate justice - Africa - article - The Conversation - Wealthy nations owe climate debt to Africa - funds that could help cities grow - author - Astrid R.N. Haas
climate debt
for - definition - climate debt
China, however, can be expected to return fire. Already it has halted imports of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from the US for 40 days – a move attributed to trade tensions. This may seem like good news for emissions reduction. However, China, like all other nations, needs energy. With less gas from the US, it may resort to burning more coal – which generates more CO₂ when burnt than gas.
for - adjacency - tariff - substitution - coal for LNG - higher carbon emissions
supply of components and materials vital to the energy transition was disrupted.
for - adjacency - economic slowdown - renewable energy - supply chain shortages
The COVID experience provides a cautionary tale. The unstable economic outlook and higher interest rates meant banks were more cautious about financing some renewable energy projects. And according to the International Energy Agency, small to medium-sized businesses became more reluctant to invest in renewable energy applications such as heat pumps and solar panels.
for - adjacency - economic slowdown - COVID - less investment in renewables
nations focus on making goods where they have a competitive advantage – in other words, where they can manufacture the item more cheaply than other nations can. That includes making them using less energy, or creating fewer carbon emissions. If the US insists on manufacturing everything it needs domestically, we can expect many of those goods to be more emissions-intensive than if they were imported.
for - adjacency - higher carbon emissions - made in US
In the short-term, any decline is likely to have a positive impact on emissions reduction. We saw this effect during the COVID-19 pandemic, when global production and trade fell.
for -adjacency - economic slowdown - carbon emissions - Trump tariffs
The move has prompted fears of a global economic slowdown. This might seem like a positive for the climate, because greenhouse gas emissions are closely tied to economic growth. However, in the long term, the trade war is bad news for global efforts to cut emissions. It is likely to lead to more energy-intensive goods produced in the US, and dampen international investment in renewable energy projects.
for - carbon emission impacts of Trump tariffs
for - climate crisis - impacts of Trump tariffs - carbon emission impacts of Trump tariffs
comment - I'm surprised that not one analyst has commented on the potential slowdown of a possible recession due to lower consumer activity due to the tariffs - Remember the significant lowering of carbon emissions during COVID? - Of course it wouldn't be durable and carbon emissions could rise after Trump and tariffs may no longer be in place but now is a good time to strategize how to decarbonize strategically
BREAKING: Copenhagen plans to burn 4,464,760 tons of CO₂ – voluntarily.
for - progress trap - construction - Denmark
for - Wikipedia - SSP - Wikipedia - Shared Socioeconomic Pathways - from - youtube - Maarten Hajer - On how the imagined future becomes socially performative - https://hyp.is/8mXOWA_3EfCXhe8CC1TpwA/www.youtube.com/watch?v=ch_zS6Hc0LM
for - Wikipedia - dramaturgy - from - youtube - Maarten Hajer - Techniques of futuring - On how imagined futures become socially performative - https://hyp.is/5DP6_A_zEfC90FvH6DzXOw/www.youtube.com/watch?v=ch_zS6Hc0LM
Particular expert-based claims about the climate future, for example, rely on an epistemic trust in numbers (Ezrahi, 1990; Porter, 1996) and computer models that solidified over decades (Edwards, 1996, 2010).
for - climate futures - based on numbers - alienate a large percentage of the population - become ineffective