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Shifting our linguistic habits towards ecological communication would require learning to pay attention to “motion and mystery of the interrelatedness and entanglement of everything” which entails deactivating the old habits and reactivating “capacities that have been exiled by these habits.”
for - rapid whole system change - salience of shifting language habits - planetary emergency - salience of shifting language habits - question - shifting language habits
question - shifting language habits - from industrial, goal oriented - to ecological - how? Watch Great Simplification Interview
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relationship to language and how it might lead to miscommunication
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Vanessa Andreott
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Rex Weyler
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while our predicament is eco-logical (“let it live”), our thinking remains techno-logical (“fix it”). The monoculture's fixation on what I call algorithmic rationality (linear, sequential, goal-oriented problem-solving),
for - adjacency - ecology of communication - progress traps - intentionality - language
adjacency - between - ecology of communications - progress traps - intentionally - language - emptiness - adjacency relationship - human intentionally focuses it attention on only a few select aspects of the entire gestalt of any moment of our phenomenological reality - It creates our salience landscape - What we choose to focus on and know more about it always coupled with and complimented by a vast ignorance of what we choose NOT to know - Indeed, the use language itself is the telling of a very specific story - Of all the stories we can tell, - Of the infinite stories we can construct now, -we settle on one - So the use of language already betrays the complexity inherent in each and every one of our ecological moments - We plant the seeds for progress traps as soon as we - manifest an intention - attempt to communicate - Hence, it is not avoidable and the best we can do is - recognize our situation - manage it - It is the relationship between - human nature (perceived as limited) - nature nature (infinite) - What springs to mind if the Zen koan - The elbow does not bend backwards
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The question entails the recognition of unintended consequences of any action informed by the insufficient linear first-order thinking of many wannabe world-improvers
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ecology of communication'
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monoculture of communication
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speak with an awareness that our words "land in multiple contexts" determined by various discourses that other people live in.
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- definition - ecology of communication
- definition - monoculture of communication
- Rex Weyler - ecology of communication
- language - miscommunication
- progress traps - intentionally
- book - Hospicing modernity - author - Vanessa Andreotti - Dean of education - U of Victoria
- planetary emergency - salience of shifting language habits
- Indyweb / Indranet - symmathesetic fingerprint
- rapid whole system change - salience of shifting language habits
- question - shifting language habits - how?
- adjacency - ecology of communication - progress traps - intentionality - language + emptiness
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for - Indyweb dev - large language model for - constructing causal loop diagrams - System Dynamics Bot - large language model - constructing causal loop diagrams
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according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) 6th Assessment Report (AR6), US$384 billion has so far been spent on climate action in urban areas, representing just 10% of what is necessary to build low-carbon and climate-resilient cities.
for - stats - planetary emergency - 2024 - still low investment in cities
stats - planetary emergency - 2024 - still low investment in cities - IPCC 6th Assessment Report - US $384 billion invested globally in urban areas - This is 10% of what is necessary to build low-carbon and climate resilient cities
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urban policy common sense now increasingly sees dense urbanism as the more sustainable choice.
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Ernest Callenbach’s influential novel Ecotopia (2009 [1975]
for - book - Ecotopia - Ernest Callenbach - 1975 - 2009 - futures dismantling capitalist-driven growth and suburban sprawl
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two decades ago, the influential environmentalist Herbert Girardet (1999) was still posing the relationship between the two as a potential ‘contradiction in terms’. What happened? Why does everyone think cities can save the planet, and why now?
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- book - Ecotopia - Ernest Callenbach - 1975 - 2009 - futures dismantling capitalist-driven growth and suburban sprawl
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- uestion - can cities save the planet? - a critical analysis
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we know from previous large transitions in history that you never change the world by having everyone on board. You change the world by having large enough minorities that can tip quite inert majority to move in the right direction
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quote - social tipping points - Johan Rockstrom - (see below) - We know from previous large transitions in history that - You never change the world by having everyone on board.. - You change the world by having large enough minorities<br /> - that can tip quite inert majority to move in the right direction. - When you look at the world of sustainability. - in many societies in the world, we are actually a double digit penetration - on sustainable solutions, - on people's awareness, - on willingness to even politically vote for green or, sustainable options. - So we're very close to that positive tipping point as well. - and that's another reason why it's not the moment to back down. - Now is the moment to just increase momentum.
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the number one issue is to get world leaders immediately to sit down together and, recognize that we need to urgently get back into the safe space of planetary boundaries.
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So, not only is it on our generation's watch that everything has occurred, it's on our generation's watch that we will determine the future. So, so it's, in our hands. to now determine the future for humanity on earth. So yes, it's an intergenerational justice, fundamentally.
for - quote - our generation caused the problem and must solve it - Johan Rockstrom
quote - Our generation caused the problem and must solve it - Johan Rockstrom - (see below) - So, not only is it on our generation's watch that everything has occurred, - it's on our generation's watch that we will determine the future. - So it's in our hands to now determine the future for humanity on earth. So yes, it's intergenerational justice, fundamentally.
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So either you're back into the future in a dead end, and you hit the wall, and it gets dark. or you transition towards this more attractive future. And I think we need to start talking about that attractive future
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often I get the question, what should we do? And they expect me to talk about um, mobility and, um how to reduce flying and all forms of consumer choices. And they get surprised when I say that the number one issue is talk to your friends.
for - planetary emergency - Johan Rockstrom - advice - top leverage point - talk to people about the emergency - quote - planetary emergency - Johan Rockstrom - top advice - top leverage point - talk about it
quote - planetary emergency - Johan Rockstrom - top advice - top leverage point - talk about it - (see below)
- The advice I give to all my students, they are, often I get the question, what should we do?
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- all forms of consumer choices.
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- the number one issue is talk to your friends.
- Talk to your friends. Get the dialogue going.
- Speak to your, parents,
- your friends anytime you have a chance.
- Talk about the planet,
- Talk about 1. 5.
- If you go out to the street here in Potsdam, nobody will know what you're talking about if you say 1.5 is the most important number we have in the world today.
- So I think it's really important to keep the buzz going. We need a momentum here.
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the conclusion must of course be, okay, so this is the risk assessment we have. Let's, then we have to apply precaution. Precautionary principle. Exactly. Uncertainty in science, which will always be there, should in my view, always be. connected with a risk assessment.
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adjacency - between - precautionary principle - risk assessment - progress trap - adjacency relationship - Precautionary principle is really stating that we don't have enough knowledge and there can be a high risk - Even if there is low probability of occurrence, we must apply precautionary principle to avoid a progress trap
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we go from not understanding it to apathy in the span of an afternoon which is another issue. Um, so so what should we do?
for - question - planetary emergency - ignorance or apathy - what should we do?
question - planetary emergency - ignorance or apathy - what should we do? - Johan Rockstrom advocates for three simultaneous internventions that must be executed in order to achieve the following impacts: - Legally binding global governance regimes must be implemented: immediately - Paris Agreement - biodiversity agreements - Internalize all externalities - Implement a global price on carbon emissions of at least 100 USD / ton - Stop all expansion of human activity into intact nature
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The challenge and the problem is that emergency to our neural ancestral wiring meant a saber toothed tiger or something like that. And these risks are complex. They're in the future. They're abstract. There are no easy solutions. the famous people on TV aren't talking about them. so it's, really difficult.
for - planetary emergency - psychological factors - the 5 Ds
planetary emergency - psychological factors - the 5 Ds - Nate brings up the psychological challenges. These are summarized nicely by Per Espen Stokes interview on the Al Jazeera documentary below, where he discusses the 5 Ds:
reference - Per Espen Stokes psychological factors that make climate action difficult - the 5 Ds - https://hyp.is/UgWKRlNcEe-sPqcIvC-9Aw/www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqXys5VluIQ
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we have to challenge the world to understand that we are in this generation, Us, in charge today, sitting in the cockpit of planet Earth, putting the entire stability of the planet at risk in this generation.
for - quote - we are in the cockpit of planet earth - Johan Rockstrom
quote - we are in the cockpit of planet earth - Johan Rockstrom - (see below)
- We have to challenge the world to understand that we are in this generation, us, in charge today, sitting in the cockpit of planet earth,
- putting the entire stability of the planet at risk in this generation
- We have to challenge the world to understand that we are in this generation, us, in charge today, sitting in the cockpit of planet earth,
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if we lose the Green and Ice Sheet, or the AMOC, it would be a complete disaster. So, you cannot measure it economically, it's an infinite parameter. So then, if the probability, even if the probability is low, if you multiply a low probability with an infinite impact, then risks are also infinitely high.
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planetary emergency - risk analysis - risk = probability x impact - If impact is high, then even low probability x high impact means high risk - If AMOC or Greenland icesheet melts, the impact is so high that it is not even economically measurable
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I don't think we have scientifically any reason to hesitate at all to say, not only do we have a climate crisis, we are in a planetary emergency.
for - quote - planetary emergency - Johan Rockstrom
quote - planetary emergency - Johan Rockstrom - (see below) - Emergencies is when you have<br /> - unacceptable risks and - running out of time. - That's a combination: - Unacceptable risk and - time is running out. - Emergency means time is short. That's what is the definition of an emergency.
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if these tipping points are crossed in the Arctic, then they can cascade through domino effects and hit the Amazon, and then Rainforest and Hit Antarctica
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example - cascading tipping points via AMOC - As Arctic system melts faster, it releases more freshwater into the North Atlantic - This is happening on the southern tip of Greenland, for example and the lower density of water slows down the AMOC current - Warm saline water flows from the Southern Ocean up into the North Atlantic - When it reaches the southern tip of Greenland, the heat is radiated into the atmosphere and heats up Europe - When the freshwater meltwater from Greenland mixes with this AMOC current, the AMOC water is less heavy and sinks slower - This pushes monsoons further south, which can explain why there are more droughts and fires in the Amazon rainforest - The slowdown of the AMOC leaves more saline water stuck in Antarctica, potentially contributing to the faster melting of Antarctica glaciers
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there are other tipping points, like for example, lakes. that can flip over from, you know, oxygen rich, fish rich, clear water lakes into these murky, algal bloom dominated, anoxic states, dead states, based on nutrient loading and overfishing, and that is a Oh, not from climate or temperature. Not anything, no, has nothing to do with climate or temperature, it's just a, mismanagement,
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if we get a bird flu mutation causing a human to human viral mutation that, that could cause also a catastrophic outbreak of a pandemic that would exceed, you know, by far what we experienced with COVID 19.
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interactions between biodiversity, land, And climate
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one cannot exclude that he's right the challenge is that the science is, really not is very inconclusive on, the cocktail risks of chemicals in the biosphere, but that is why we have it as one of the planetary boundaries, that we have enough evidence to say that the loading of, for example, endocrine disruptors PFAS, persistent organic pollutants all forms of, of um, chemical long lasting chemical products.
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Jeremy Grantham. He was on my podcast and as worried as he is about climate change and has been for a long time, he actually thinks that endocrine disrupting chemicals may be a bigger risk to human futures and other animals than climate, which is a pretty strong statement.
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we are at an urgency point. I mean, we know we need to cut global emissions by half within the next five years, by 2030, and we're not near to that.
for - stats - climate crisis intervention - urgency - reduce emissions by 50% in 5 years!
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World Economic Forum, we're working very closely. They're also integrating planetary boundaries in, their global economy kind of policy agenda
for - World economic forum - integration planetary boundaries into their strategy
Concern - unintended consequence - The WEF is perceived by many to be an elitist organisation - who do not have the best interest off the people in mind - This could lead to potential reputational damage to the planetary boundary framework thru their association with it
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, the World Business Council for Sustainable Development
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what makes me doubly frustrated is that not only do we have all this evidence of, you know, potentially unmanageable risks. But we also have so much evidence that solving them is not a sacrifice.
for - quote - Johan Rockstrom - 2024 - double frustration - allowing situation to deteriorate - while there is no sacrifice
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What should make us really concerned is the lack of leadership, is the lack of efforts of acting on that evidence. So if there's anything that all this leads for
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we can produce what you can think of as a control room for the whole planet, like a situation room for planet Earth, with nine global numbers and nine high resolution maps based on satellite data, mapping all, basically measuring the planet, and measuring against the safe boundaries. And that is urgently needed. We have the technologies, And we are aiming to do that now. So, so we're, calling this the Planeter Boundary Health Check, and that requires not only massive funding, but also partnerships around, around the world.
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on land, we use net primary production as an indicator for biodiversity, so basically, the richness of all biomass on land, but the ocean is also a control variable. a massive food web of net primary production from phytoplankton to the, you know, the big sharks and whales. And, we, we, need to be able to, represent scientifically what are the, minimum levels of keeping intact food webs in the ocean to keep the ocean functioning. Oxygen levels, as you mentioned as well,
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We don't have a control variable for ocean biology, and we don't have a control variable for the big ocean conveyor belt system, which holds the big potential tipping point systems
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COP30, which is when Brazil hosts the climate negotiations, not this year, but next year in 2025, in Belen, in the Amazon rainforest. Brazil.
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the biodiversity and the intact forest systems in particular that are buffering this.
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even if we were successful in phasing out fossil fuels, we would still fail. on the climate boundary. We would still breach the 1. 5 degree Celsius boundary if we do not come back into the safe space on the biosphere boundaries. Because biodiversity, freshwater, land, and nutrients will determine the ability of the planet to buffer
for - quote - Johan Rockstrom - successful phase of of fossil fuels - is a necessary but not sufficient condition for station under 1.5 degree Celsius
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if I was President Lula da Silva, I would say, Dear humanity, I'm willing to provide this service to humanity of keeping the Amazon rainforest intact. That is a service, is a global commons, it's a service to humanity and therefore you should compensate me for this.
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during these 250, 000 years, as fully modern humans, I mean, basically, with the physical intellectual capacity you and I have,
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it's only in 2023, it's only last year, that we for the first time quantify all the nine,
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this transition phase is like a gauntlet. It's very jumpy, it's very turbulent, you have winners and losers
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- planetary health check
- quote - planetary emergency - Johan Rockstrom
- planetary emergency - Johan Rockstrom - advice - top leverage point - talk to people about the emergency
- answer - planetary emergency - Johan Rockstrom - immediately implement global binding governance agreements - internalize all externalities - stop all human expansion into intact nature
- planetary boundaries - ocean biology - net primary production
- other types of tipping points - not climate but human mismanagement of resources
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- quote - Johan Rockstrom - successful phase of of fossil fuels - is a necessary but not sufficient condition for station under 1.5 degree Celsius
- quote - social tipping points - Johan Rockstrom
- planetary boundaries - lack of ocean biological boundary
- interview - Johan Rockstrom - planetary boundaries
- tipping points - impacts are so high that they are beyond measure
- comparison of urgency - climate change vs endocrine disruptors - Jeremy Grantham
- quote - Johan Rockstrom - transition - is messy
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- quote - we are in the cockpit of planet earth - Johan Rockstrom
- planetary emergency - top priority task - get world leaders to meet and develop a plan to return to the safe operating space
- uote - Johan Rockstrom - lack of keadership should concern us
- quote - our generation caused the problem and must solve it - Johan Rockstrom
- bird flu mutation - can exceed impacts of COVID
- quote - positive tipping points - Johan Rockstrom
- stats - climate crisis intervention - urgency - reduce emissions by 50% in 5 years!
- climate crisis - biodiversity responsible for buffering 30% of emissions
- planetary emergency - narrative shift required - from lack to building a better world
- planetary boundaries - 2023 - all 9 fully quantified
- World economic forum - integration planetary boundaries into their strategy
- question - planetary emergency - ignorance or apathy - what should we do?
- stats - anthropology - she of modern humans - 250,000 year
- quote - planetary emergency - Johan Rockstrom - top advice - top leverage point - talk about it
- example - cascading tipping points via AMOC
- examples of planetary boundaries novel entities
- COP30 - G20 - both hosted by Brazilv in 2025 - critical COP
- adjacency - precautionary principle - risk assessment - progress traps
- planetary emergency - risk analysis
- quote - Johan Rockstrom - 2024 - double frustration - allowing situation to deteriorate - while there is no sacrifice
- World business council - adopted planetary boundary strategy
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“Building housing in existing communities is one of our best climate solutions, and paving over 17,000 acres of non-irrigated farmland is not,
for - sustainable building - building reuse vs new build - which is better? - California Forever - intentional community - green debate
sustainable building - building reuse vs new build - which is better? - Study by Preservation Green Lab in 2012 concluded that in most cases, reusing existing buildings is far lower carbon footprint than building new - Research study shows that we cannot expand human activity into intact nature any longer if we are to stay within planetary boundaries - Rockstrom - https://hyp.is/0dbJ4FQSEe-QxY8q4Y3yvw/www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaboF3vAsZs
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summary - Building new "sustainable cities from nothing often does not consider the embodied energy required to do so. When that is considered, it is usually not viable - A context where it is viable is where there is extreme poverty and inequality
to - Why do old places matter? - sustainability - https://hyp.is/vlBLGlQFEe-EpqflmmlqnQ/savingplaces.org/stories/why-do-old-places-matter-sustainability
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by building on undeveloped land, “by definition, you’re going to incur a carbon debt that you may never be able to pay off,”
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unsustainable building - See Preservation Green lab report cited above
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the location of the development still poses what she considers an intractable environmental problem. “It is a vibrant landscape that supports our food systems, our environment, our water systems
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unsustainable urban spatial planning - It is no longer sustainable to take ecologically critical land and destroy it to install human habitat
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he’s spent years grappling with barriers to retrofit existing cities.
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- unsustainable building - Preservation Green Lab report - National Trust for Historic Preservation
- Building reuse is lower carbon footprint than building new - Preservation Green Labs study
- downscaled planetary boundaries - barriers to transition
- urban planetary boundaries - barriers to transition
- California Forever - intentional community - green debate
- sustainable building - building new cities from scratch is usually not sustainable
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- planetary boundaries - staying within - can no longer expand human activity into intact nature
- unsustainable urban spatial planning
- cross-scale translation of earth system boundaries - barriers to transition
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Climate change psychology - Per Espen Stokes - the 5 Ds - Distance - far away in spatial distance and time - also consider hyperobjects - Timothy Morton - Doom - crying wolf makes us discredit the alarm message - second time we hear a doom message, 40% less salience - avoidance behavior - discredit climate activists - Dissonance - disconnect between belief and action - Denial - we can make lots of excuses - blame others - compare our footprint to others with much larger ones - temporary concern but quickly move on to other topics - iDentity - spend many years to build up my identity - factual inputs are compared to my identity's values - identity values usually trump facts when our identity is threatened
climate crisis intervention - Any psychology-based climate intervention needs to leverage a combination of the 5 Ds.
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per Espen Stokes is the author of what we think about when we try not to think about global warming
for - book - What we think about when we try not to think about global warming - author - Per Espen Stokes - climate crisis - psychology of - Per Espen Stokes
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for - climate change psychology - video - youtube - Al Jazeera - All Hall the Planet - Why our brains are wired to ignore the climate crisis - Per Espen Stokes - interview
summary - A good introduction to climate change psychology - Per Espen Stokes is interviewed and he discusses his 5 Ds
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this propaganda plays on psychological structure and if you're able to fish into that you're able to exploit those irrational Tendencies
for - climate crisis propaganda - human psychology used to exploit irrational tendencies of people to delay climate action
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- book - What we think about when we try not to think about global warming - author - Per Espen Stokes
- video - youtube - Al Jazeera - All Hall the Planet - Why our brains are wired to ignore the climate crisis
- climate change psychology - Per Espen Stokes - 5 Ds
- climate crisis propaganda - human psychology used to exploit irrational tendencies of people to delay climate action
- interview - Per Espen Stokes
- climate crisis - psychology of - Per Espen Stokes
- climate change psychology
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from - California Forever - intentional community - green debate - https://hyp.is/DKpS7FQGEe-xvLfZC4U-7Q/www.truthdig.com/articles/californias-urban-dream/
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for - social tipping points - breakthrough effect - cascading tipping points - systemiq - Bezos Earth Fund -University of Exeter - social tipping points
report details - title - The Breakthrough Effect - How to trigger a cascade of tipping points to accelerate the net zero transition - authors - Mark Meldrum - Lloyd Pinnell - Katy Brennan - Mattia Romani - Simon Sharpe - Tim Lenton - date - january 2023 - publisher -
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the people who has the power need to act faster
for - climate crisis - who has the power? - poverty mentality - leverage points - social tipping points - climate crisis - feelings of helplessness
climate crisis - who has the power? - There is still this assumption that policy-makers are the ones who have the power - There isn't yet a recognition of whether there is power within individuals sufficient to make a real difference. - Trying and failing, we grow weary of believing that we do have power to collectively effect the scale of change required - Unless we demonstrate leverage points within individuals that can lead to effective scale of collective action, we cannot jumpstart an effective movement - poverty mentality can keep us stuck
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use the Neuroscience principle of education for corporate learning systems so instead of just having a classic a classic lesson to teach people
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neuroscience and education - problem solving - active learning - this is much like Socratic dialogue technique, engaging the learner actively to recreate the problem in their own consciousness - and play an active role in solving it - just like historical innovators did
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is it possible to teach machine values
for - question - AI - can we teach AI values?
question - AI - can we teach AI values? - it's likely not possible because we cannot assign metrics to things like - ethics - kindness - happiness
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Solutions or systems that are created uh to solve problems
for - question - neuroscience - creating neuroscience-based systems for solving problems
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studies that are coming in right now from the last two years where we were forced to work remotely we see a decrease in Innovation and creative potential in in companies
for - neuroscience research - remote intentional working during Covid - showed decreased productivity and innovation
neuroscience research - remote intentional working during Covid - showed decreased productivity and innovation - Due to only creating intentional work times and eliminating the opportunities for informal meeting - When it is purely intentional work contexts created and no relaxing, informal opportunities to meet, innovation suffers
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the first question that came in and as we're embracing remote and hybrid working as The New Normal how do you address this from a neuroscience perspective
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the future future for education and this is a mega Trend that will last in the next decades is that we use artificial intelligence to tailor um educational let's say or didactic Concepts to the specific person so let's say in in the future everybody will have his or her specific let's say training or education profile he or she will run through and artificial intelligence um will will tailor the different educational environments for everybody in the future this is this is a pre this is a pretty clear Trend
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before puberty before let's say 30 and 14 years of age um we know that the Restriction of those devices is beneficial for the development of the brain because children learn to to think in a three-dimensional world
for - neuroscience - education of children - recommend no digital devices before puberty - allows learning in a 3 dimensional world
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children for instance ask 500 2 000 questions a day and as you are grown up it's maybe 10 or 20 Questions per day
for - neuroscience - importance of maintaining curiosity - 1000 questions a day for children - 20 questions a day for adults
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in fact the best ideas happen when you are not planning them when you are just creating an environment where people get together in an informal way this is the reason why um Steve Jobs when he designed the Pixar building um he the initial idea was there's just one bathroom for the whole company
for - neuroscience - building design - common area to converge everyone - creates diverse social meetings - increases work efficacy - example - Steve Jobs - Pixar bathroom
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upport cross-divisional thinking and that the best ideas are already in a company and it's just a matter of sort of um getting people together
for - neuroscience - validation for Stop Reset Go open source participatory system mapping for design innovation
neuroscience - validation for Stop Reset Go open source participatory system mapping for design innovation - bottom-up collective design efficacy - What Henning Beck validates for companies can also apply to using Stop Reset Go participatory system mapping within an open space to de-silo and be as inclusive as possible of many different silo'd transition actors
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we are slower we are irrational we are imperfect we are drifting away we are forgetting stuff we are making mistakes but we are learning from our failures we get support from our from our friends from our from our colleagues and we are understanding and instead of just analyzing the world and this is giving us the ultimate cognitive Edge
for - key insight - human vs artificial intelligence - humans will create the best ideas
key insight - human vs artificial intelligence - humans will create the best ideas - why? - because we are - slower - imperfect - less rational - drifting away - forgetting - and we learn from the mistakes we make and from different perspectives shared with us
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by doubling the size of the tables in the in the eating in the eating areas they increase cross-divisional across talk um in a very informal way they found out that cross-department um Corporation increased after that and the and the code and the code output increased two months later
for - neuroscience - example - informal diversity - increases work efficacy - via sharing diverse and novel perspectives
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all the great ideas come um with a price tag of it's maybe a mistake
for - neuroscience - innovation - great ideas - mistakes and - risk
neuroscience - innovation - great ideas - mistakes and - risk - Any new idea involves taking a risk that it could be wrong - we cannot be innovators if we are not able to risk making mistakes
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when we analyze what is happening in the brain when we are doing a mistake then we we see that a lot of different areas active when one region is missing the region for fear
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a good projects always benefit from cross-divisional from cross-divisional cooperation from asking some guys from outside not because they are showing the better um the better solution but usually they they give a good they give a good question they ask questions that nobody ever asked before and thereby giving you some kind of some kind of New Perspective
for - Indyweb - Stop Reset Go participatory system mapping - benefits of open source - Henning Beck - neuroscience support
Indyweb - Stop Reset Go participatory system mapping - benefits of open source - Henning Beck validates the importance of an open source design of the Stop Reset Go participatory system mapping - By developing an open source graph for many silo'd actors to participate, they mutually desilo each other - The sharing of diverse perspectives helps to mitigate progress traps
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here you see a company with three different departments depicted in blue red and green
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neuroscience - example diverse and low density connections vs non-diverse high density connections - having access to many diverse perspectives is a key enabler of good problem-solving and innovation
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catching a break is necessary in order to refill your mental capacities and as a rule of thumb you can say that it's it's five to one five parts of work one part of doing a break so 50 minutes working 10 minutes catching a break
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neuroscience - efficient work - relaxation rule - It is necessary to build NO WORK time into effective work - 5 time units work - 1 time unit relaxation - It is necessary to step back from concentrating on a problem - for the brain to drift away from it and - relax from concentrating on the problem - so that new perspectives can develop that can be brought back to solve the problem
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I have never seen a single project that did not benefit from asking a non-expert
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it's about concentration prioritization and drifting away and doing something different
for - neuroscience - ideation depends on three different brain functions and brain areas - concentration - prioritization - and drifting away
neuroscience - ideation depends on three different brain functions and brain areas - concentration<br /> - frontal area of brain - prioritization and - deep inner part of the brain - drifting away - back part of the brain
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what is the most brain friendly working environment in our digital in our digital working area and interestingly there are as I've shown you before there are different aspects of our way of thinking I mean we are not thinking the same way throughout the day um there are phases at the day
for - neuroscience - optimal working environment - varies with brain state - different phases during the day - engagement - inspiration - concentration - communication - relaxation
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how long did it take you to understand the word brexit
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we know from Lab studies that children understand the meaning of stuff at first or second or third site you
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this is the reason why I'm not afraid of artificial intelligence taking over
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human beings are good at getting distracted at mentally drifting away doing something else and thereby thereby understanding the world and give meaning to stuff
for - neuroscience - human understanding - what makes us excel? - forgetting and getting distracted!
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usually it sticks you you know that moment you know that aha moment when you say ah I got it I understood it and suddenly from one second to the next your your way of thinking completely changes and this is the main difference in our world
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human beings don't do that we understand that the chair is not a specifically shaped object but something you consider and once you understood that concept that principle you see chairs everywhere you can create completely new chairs
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question - comparison - human vs artificial intelligence - Can't an AI also consider things we sit on to then generalize their classifcation algorithm?
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the brain is Islam Islam is it is lousy and it is selfish and still it is working yeah look around you working brains wherever you look and the reason for this is that we totally think differently than any kind of digital and computer system you know of and many Engineers from the AI field haven't figured out that massive difference that massive difference yet
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comparison - brain vs machine intelligence - the brain is inferior to machine in many ways - many times slower - much less accurate - network of neurons is mostly isolated in its own local environment, not connected to a global network like the internet - Yet, it is able to perform extraordinary things in spite of that - It is able to create meaning out of sensory inputs - Can we really say that a machine can do this?
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this blue ball with three stumps a chair or this strange design object here because you can sit on it and what you see here is the difference the main difference between the computer world and the brainworld
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comparison - human intelligence vs artificial intelligence - AI depends on feeding the AI system with huge datasets that it can - analyze and make correlations and - perform big data analysis - Humans don't operate the same way
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you can Google data if you're good you can Google information but you cannot Google an idea you cannot Google Knowledge because having an idea acquiring knowledge this is what is happening on your mind when you change the way you think and I'm going to prove that in the next yeah 20 or so minutes that this will stay analog in our closed future because this is what makes us human beings so unique and so Superior to any kind of algorithm
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you can measure data but you cannot measure having an idea you cannot measure Innovation you cannot measure knowledge there's no metric there is no quantifiable scale for knowledge or having an idea you cannot say one meter of knowledge one kilogram of idea
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- human learning - key feature - evolutionary nature
- key insight - human vs artificial intelligence - humans will create the best ideas
- question - AI - can AI learn to be intentionally distracted?
- neuroscience - innovation - great ideas - mistakes and - risk
- neuroscience - efficient work - relaxation rule
- neuroscience - importance of maintaining curiosity - 1000 questions a day for children - 20 questions a day for adults
- neuroscience - human abilities - example Brexit and variations
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- neuroscience - optimal working environment - varies with brain state - different phases during the day
- neuroscience - human understanding - what makes us excel? - forgetting and getting distracted!
- neuroscience - education of children - recommend no digital devices before puberty - allows learning in a 3 dimensional world
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- neuroscience - problem solving efficacy - no work periods are required
- AI and education - children will have custom tailored education program via AI
- neuroscience - example - diverse and low density connections beats non-diverse and high connections
- comparison - brain vs machine intelligence - what brains and consciousness can do but AI cannot
- neuroscience - building design - common area to converge everyone - creates diverse social meetings - increases work efficacy - example - Steve Jobs - Pixar bathroom
- question - comparison - human vs artificial intelligence - Can't an AI also consider things we sit on to then generalize their classifcation algorithm?
- comparison - human intelligence vs artificial intelligence
- Indyweb - Stop Reset Go participatory system mapping - benefits of open source - Henning Beck - neuroscience support
- neuroscience research - remote intentional working during Covid - showed decreased productivity and innovation
- neuroscience - children's understanding - 3 examples is enough to consolidate new concept
- Henning Beck - neuroscientist
- comparison - data vs ideas - no metric for ideas
- neuroscience - validation for Stop Reset Go open source participatory system mapping for design innovation - bottom-up collective design efficacy
- key insight - claim - humans can generate new ideas by changing the way we think - AI cannot do this
- question - AI - can we teach AI values?
- neuroscience - example - informal diversity - increases work efficacy - via sharing diverse and novel perspectives
- question - neuroscience - efficacy of hybrid remote and live work environments
- neuroscience - mistakes - and fear
- question - neuroscience - creating neuroscience-based systems for solving problems
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the more stuff happened I'm going to think retrospectively oh this was a very long time because there were so so many new things and so much experience in retrospectively
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this is one reason why we forget stuff it is not a like like something that that is telling us that our brains bad but on the other hand the brain is using active forgetting in order to make the most important information the more precise and more pronounced
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neuroscience -active forgetting - leaves behind a small set of salient ideas
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we forget stuff yeah and it is even more it is not precise and accurate we invent stuff retrospectively
for - neuroscience - memories - reconstructed in the present - with new information - Indyweb - talking to our old selves - memories
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Avram Lincoln said I don't like this man I have to get to know him better because getting other people into your perspective
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a very good advice in order to calculate or estimate the duration of the project is that you ask non-experts
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the best way to have a very long life is that you have a lot of new stuff around you
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- neuroscience - memories - reconstructed in the present - with new information
- neuroscience - perspectival knowing - why it's important to know other perspectives
- perspectival knowing - Abraham Lincoln quote - I don't know that man - I better get to know his perspective
- When distractions take us out of the concentration and focusing zone
- neuroscience - time estimation - non-experts are better at providing time budgets
- neuroscience - why brains forget - active forgetting
- neuroscience - non-experts give better time estimates than consultants
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summary - Climate scientist professor Mojib Latif explores why our best efforts at rapid intervention to deal with the climate crisis are failing - Near the end of the program, he interviews professor Henning Beck, a neuroscientist who suggests that human brains have evolved to be rewarded for securing more. - Dopamine is released when we get more and we have not designed our intervention strategies aligned with this basic property of our brains
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Silicon Valley’s pivot to Trump reveals just how uncoupled its own needs have become from the public’s
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question - participatory system mapper -tweak for people centered and Indyweb provenance? - Could we tweak it for Indyweb to simultanously map - people and - their ideas with - provenance
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System mapping software
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system mapping software - ask @gyuri
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The maps produced are intersubjective objects, in that they reflect the beliefs of the group of people that built them.
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The premise we explore in this article is that we would arrive at better ToCs, which more effectively support evaluation in complex environments, when we1.Begin with systems mapping, and then2.Recast the system map into the form of a traditional ToC.
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to - CECAN - https://hyp.is/2LWJzE0ZEe--JEt2ZKmfFQ/www.cecan.ac.uk/about-us/
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for - paper review - building a system-based Theory of Change using Participatory Systems Mapping - participatory systems mapping - SRG / Indyweb dev - system mapping - participatory approach
summary - I'm reviewing this paper because the title seems salient for the development of our own participatory Stop Reset Go system mapping tool within Indyweb ecosystem. - The building of - a systems-based Theory of Change using - Participatory Systems Mapping - is salient to our own project and aligns to it with different language: - Theory of Change with uses theory to perform an evaluation and propose an intervention - The Stop Reset Go framework focuses on the specific type of process called "improvement", or - transforming a process to make it "better" in some way
to - Indyweb project info page - https://hyp.is/RRevQk0UEe-xwP-i8Ywwqg/opencollective.com/open-learning-commons/projects/indy-learning-commons
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recommends that ToC construction should be participatory, involving stakeholders who represent different perspectives and roles within the intervention
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comment - Stop Reset Go process using Trailmark mark-in notation within Indyweb people-centered, interpersonal software ecosystem is inherently designed: - to be participatory - to mitigate progress traps - In fact, - the greater the diversity of perspectives, - the greater the efficacy in mitigating progress traps - For this reason, open source is necessary to achieve the optimal transformations of improvement
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There have been many attempts over the years to address the limitations of an overly ‘linear’ approach to ToC diagramming
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- ToC - Stop Reset Go on Indyweb - designed for diversity and openness - to mitigate progress traps
- oC construction - recommendation - should be participatory
- paper review - building a system-based Theory of Change using Participatory Systems Mapping
- comparison - Stop Reset Go and Theory of Change intervention
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- SRG / Indyweb dev - system mapping - participatory approach
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- CECAN - Centre for the Evaluation of Complexity Across the Nexus
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for - search - google - high resolution addressing of disaggregated text corpus mapped to graph - search results of interest - high resolution addressing of disaggregated text corpus mapped to graph
search - google - high resolution addressing of disaggregated text corpus mapped to graph - https://www.google.com/search?q=high+resolution+addressing+of+disaggregated+text+corpus+mapped+to+graph&oq=high+resolution+addressing+of+disaggregated+text+corpus+mapped+to+graph&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOTIHCAEQIRigATIHCAIQIRigAdIBCTMzNjEzajBqN6gCALACAA&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
to - search results of interest - high resolution addressing of disaggregated text corpus mapped to graph - A New Method for Graph-Based Representation of Text in - The use of a new text representation method to predict book categories based on the analysis of its content resulted in accuracy, precision, recall and an F1- ... - https://hyp.is/H9UAbk46Ee-PT_vokcnTqA/www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/10/12/4081 - Encoding Text Information with Graph Convolutional Networks - According to our understanding, this is the first personality recognition study to model the entire user text information corpus as a heterogeneous graph and ... - https://hyp.is/H9UAbk46Ee-PT_vokcnTqA/www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/10/12/4081
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he most commonly used personality model is the Big Five personality traits model, which describes personality in five aspects: extroversion, neuroticism, agreeableness, conscientiousness, and openness
for - from - search - google - high resolution addressing of disaggregated text corpus mapped to graph
from - search - google - high resolution addressing of disaggregated text corpus mapped to graph - https://hyp.is/ch_J9k43Ee-lGzfOapoCvQ/www.google.com/search?q=high+resolution+addressing+of+disaggregated+text+corpus+mapped+to+graph&oq=high+resolution+addressing+of+disaggregated+text+corpus+mapped+to+graph&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOTIHCAEQIRigATIHCAIQIRigAdIBCTMzNjEzajBqN6gCALACAA&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
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An innovative element of the proposed approach is the use of common cliques in graphs representing documents to create a feature vector.
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from - search - google - high resolution addressing of disaggregated text corpus mapped to graph - https://hyp.is/ch_J9k43Ee-lGzfOapoCvQ/www.google.com/search?q=high+resolution+addressing+of+disaggregated+text+corpus+mapped+to+graph&oq=high+resolution+addressing+of+disaggregated+text+corpus+mapped+to+graph&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOTIHCAEQIRigATIHCAIQIRigAdIBCTMzNjEzajBqN6gCALACAA&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
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common goal to improve policy evaluations for the better.
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“What if we could give people who are depressed or suffer from PTSD or anxiety or obsessive-compulsive disorder a medication, and they could wake up the next day and be fine without any side effects? That would be transformative.”
for - Deep Humanity - alternatives to psychedelics?
Deep Humanity - alternative to psychedelics? - Could Deep Humanity open source praxis be developed as a non- pharmacological method to achieve the same kind of de-synchronisation? - Especially.well-crafted BEing journeys?
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deep sea mining could start domino effects of which we are entirely unaware.
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Does anything really matter? That’s what Tolstoy and I both want to know.
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It would represent a revolution in the governance of the world – and we do not have a map for how to get there.
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Planetary subsidiarity is the principle that we offer for allocating authority over an issue to the smallest-scale institution that can govern the issue effectively to promote habitability and multispecies flourishing.
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there are two crippling flaws with the existing multilevel governance architecture for the globe.
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governance - multi-scale - two problems -1. Some scales such as planetary scale lack institutions to deal with problems on that scale - 2. Smaller-scale, subnational governance institutions don’t have the authority or resources necessary - to address local challenges in a way that - satisfies and responds to constituent desires. - both problems have the same common source - the nation state level calls all the shots
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Managing problems at the scale the planet, therefore, requires creating governance institutions at the scale of the planet.
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The UN and its many parts and agencies – from UNICEF to the Universal Postal Union – answer not to humanity nor the world, but the nations that united to join it.
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climate crisis - key insight - why UN cannot address the climate crisis - The UN responds to sovereign states, not to humanity nor to the planet
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the framing of problems as global suggests that they can be addressed with the tools we have at hand: modern political ideas and the architecture of global governance that has emerged since the Second World War
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quote - planetary governance is required - not global - The framing of problems as global - suggests that they can be addressed with the tools we have at hand: - modern political ideas and the architecture of global governance that has emerged - since the Second World War. - But planetary problems cannot. - This helps to explain why decades of attempts to manage planetary problems with global institutions have failed.
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it suggests the goal for our action should be sustainability – an anthropocentric, global concept – rather than habitability – a multispecies, planetary concept.
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human flourishing is possible only in the context of multispecies flourishing on a habitable planet.
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Culturally, we in the West, at least, have inherited a tradition of human exceptionalism rooted in the idea that human beings, uniquely, are made in God’s image and, as the Bible says, are meant to ‘have dominion … over all the earth’.
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This basic mismatch between the scale of the problem and the scale of possible solutions is a source of many of today’s failures of global governance. Nation-states and the global governance institutions they have formed simply aren’t fit for the task of managing things such as viruses, greenhouse gases and biodiversity, which aren’t bound by political borders, but only by the Earth system.
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sustainable building - passive hvac - building temperature regulation - PCM
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This has led some scientists to contend we are a ‘hyperkeystone’ species.
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Another is to become a keystone species in an ecosystem, which is a species that has an outsized effect on its environment relative to its abundance. The concept was introduced by Robert T. Paine in 1969, and his experiments provide a good explanation of the concept.
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There have been so many lives, lived in so many ways, each with absolute importance to the individuals who lived them.
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Tlaxcala, an indigenous city-state in Central America, was a democracy with a strongly egalitarian ethos. People appointed to their city council had to go through a gruelling initiation process aimed at instilling an attitude of self-deprecation and subordination to the will of the citizens they served.
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they were effectively hunter-gatherers in terms of how they actually obtained their daily food supply, but they extensively modified the landscape, which is usually considered an agricultural practice.
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people in different cultures have different relations to deeper emotions such as greed.
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However, each of those people so intrinsically similar to you might be very different to you in many respects in their actual lives, because our cultural and environmental surroundings have an enormous influence on who we become.
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leads to an arresting realisation. It is a statistical certainty that people very similar to you and to each one of your friends and family lived in the deep past, are alive now in societies around the world, and will be born in the distant futur
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key insight - we are the same across deep time and space - He elaborates quite well on the fact that we are the same across deep time and space - This is the Common Human Denominator (CHD) of Deep Humanity praxis
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If a baby born today and a baby born 30,000 years ago were swapped at birth, they would each grow up as normal people in their new cultures.
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similar to - quote - Ronald Wright - progress trap - computer metaphor - Ronald Wright's famous quote on the computer metaphor really gets to the essence of things - how much of the meta-poly-perma-crisis can be explained by the unprecedented mismatch between the rate of - biological evolution of our species - cultural evolution of our species - Culture is the major and possibly most signficant differentiator between the person alive 50,000 years ago and the one alive today.
reference - quote - Ronald Wright - computer metaphor - https://hyp.is/go?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.goodreads.com%2Fwork%2Fquotes%2F321797-a-short-history-of-progress&group=world
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In the Americas themselves, the impact was even worse. More than 90% of the indigenous population of both continents were killed.
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All around you as you read this essay, billions of molecules are chaotically bouncing into each other as they move at hundreds of metres per second
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perspectival knowing - Again, this may be considered "true" from one perspective, but not recognized from another - What meaning does it have to someone whose worldview is highly religious? - What meaning does it have to a tick, whose umwelt doesn't even allow it to recognize human word symbols in any meaningful way?
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We now know that the world has existed for billions of years,
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perspectival knowing - example - age of the world - number of galaxies - This may be truth for one person, but not another - Our writing reveals our perspectives, and also determines who will or will not resonate with it
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it might help people live more meaningful lives, by feeling a sense of connection to the greater whole of the human species, and allowing this connection to guide their lives.
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I am trying to understand where the modern world, and individuals within it, might fit into the big story of our species.
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adjacency - between - big story of our species - Deep Humanity - absolute - relative - adjacency relationship - This is very similar to the goals of Deep Humanity - The problem with being fully immersed into modernity - and having no sense of history - is that we start to believe that our modernity is absolute, - when in reality, it is relative
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I am writing this story from a particular time and place, and the story I am telling is limited by my cultural and experiential background.
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it is useful to instead zoom out, look at a bigger picture, on a longer timescale, and see if we can use this to find our way forward.
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This essay is about the story of our species.
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Despite this panoply of stories, we are in fact living in a time between stories, because the d
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quote - a time between stories - Despite this panoply of stories, we are in fact living in a time between stories, because - the dominant narrative remains the same: - progressing within the modern paradigm is the best way to create and maintain a good quality of life, and the only way societies can do this is through - Western-style industrial development, - corporate capitalism, and - representative democracy. - While many people recognise that this narrative needs to be replaced, - we haven’t yet found a new narrative that’s powerful enough to replace it.
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article details - title - Finding our place in the human story - author - Paddy Le Flufy - date - 14 July, 2024 - publication - substack - self link - https://paddyleflufy.substack.com/p/finding-our-place-in-the-human-story
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- key insight - we are the same across deep time and space
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- anthropology - aboriginal Australians - both hunter gatherer AND agriculturalists
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metaphor - interspecies communications - AI can be compared to a new scientific instrument that extends our ability to see - We may discover that humanity is not the center of the universe
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Question - Dr Doolittle question - Will we be able to talk to the animals? - Wittgenstein said no - Human Umwelt is different from others - but it may very well happen
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species have culture - Marine mammals enact behavior similar to humans
- Unknown unknowns will likely move to known unknowns and to some known knowns
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citizen science bioacoustic projects - audio moth - sound invisible to humans - ultrasonic sound - intrasonic sound - example - Amazonian river turtles have been found to have hundreds of unique vocalizations to call their baby turtles to safety out in the ocean
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ocean habitat for whales - they can communicate across the entire ocean of the earth - They tell of a story of a whale in Bermuda can communicate with a whale in Ireland
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progress trap - AI for interspecies communications - examples - examples - poachers or eco tourism can misuse
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progress trap - AI for interspecies communications - policy
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whale protection technology - Kim Davies - University of New Brunswick - aquatic drones - drones triangulate whales - ships must not get near 1,000 km of whales to avoid collision - Canadian government fines are up to 250,000 dollars for violating
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What is required in the first half of the 21st century is a new form of post-modern construction, relevant to contemporary needs but as sustainable and as environmentally benign as pre-industrial traditional building used to be.
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quote - stone age 2.0 - post modern stone building - What is required in the first half of the 21st century is a new form of post-modern construction, - relevant to contemporary needs but as - sustainable and as - environmentally benign - as pre-industrial traditional building used to be.
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Such a new post-modern system of construction could produce the loose-fit, low-energy, long-life principles proposed by RIBA President Alex Gordon in the 1970s – and ignored ever since!
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This would exploit the compressive strength of stone, which can be greater than that of concrete, combined with post-tensioning by stainless steel rods.
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the most important reason for preferring lime to cement and concrete is that it facilitates re-use and recycling.
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The worst thing for stone – and for bricks, come to that – is for them to be bedded, jointed or rendered with hard cement mortars.
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It does not make sense today to quarry limestone, burn it with aluminium and a few other ingredients at extremely high temperatures to create a powder that is mixed with water, sand and gravel to convert it back into a solid material. And concrete is not good in tension. It has to be reinforced with steel in order to build with it.
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quote - sustainable building - concrete paradox - It does not make sense today to: - quarry limestone, - burn it with aluminium and a few other ingredients at extremely high temperatures to create a powder that is - mixed with - water, - sand and - gravel - to convert it back into a solid material. - And concrete is not good in tension. - It has to be reinforced with steel in order to build with it.
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article details - title - Hollow, world! (Part 1 of 5) - author - James Allen - date - 10 July, 2024 - publication - substack - self link - https://allenj.substack.com/p/hollow-world-part-1-of-5
summary James Allen provides an insightful description of ultra-anthropomorphic AI, AI that attempts to simulate an entire, whole human being.
In short, he points out the fundamental distinction between the real experience of another human being, and a simulation of one. In so doing, he gets to the heart of what it is to be human.
An AI is a simulation of a human being. No matter how realistic it's responses and actions, it is not evolved out of biology. I have no doubts that scientists are hard at work trying to make a biological AI. The distinction becomes fuzzier then.
Current AI cannot possibly simulate the experience of being in a fragile and mortal body and all that this entails. If an AI robot says it understands joy or pain, that statement isn't built on the combined exteroception and interoception of being in a biological body, rather, it is based on many linguistic statements it has assimilated.
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summary - The results are not surprising. It is the infrastructure used to build the urban agriculture system that has the greatest carbon footprint - This can be lowered dramatically by - having longer lasting UA projects - having larger scale projects - reusing urban demolition waste materials to build UA systems
from - search - Google - 2024 percentage of carbon emissions from food system - https://www.google.com/search?q=2024+percentage+of+carbon+emissions+from+food+system&sca_esv=9d5b952a18faf0f8&sxsrf=ADLYWIIlye-Qwjiqr8aEdCoiJshs-88Yqw%3A1720874425938&ei=uXWSZvvuOMjXhbIP-YeX6Aw&ved=0ahUKEwi7r_HmhKSHAxXIa0EAHfnDBc0Q4dUDCA8&uact=5&oq=2024+percentage+of+carbon+emissions+from+food+system&gs_lp=Egxnd3Mtd2l6LXNlcnAiNDIwMjQgcGVyY2VudGFnZSBvZiBjYXJib24gZW1pc3Npb25zIGZyb20gZm9vZCBzeXN0ZW0yChAAGLADGNYEGEcyChAAGLADGNYEGEcyChAAGLADGNYEGEcyChAAGLADGNYEGEcyChAAGLADGNYEGEcyChAAGLADGNYEGEcyChAAGLADGNYEGEcyChAAGLADGNYEGEdI3A5QmwhYpA1wAXgBkAEAmAGUA6AB6QiqAQUzLTIuMbgBA8gBAPgBAZgCAaACBJgDAIgGAZAGCJIHATGgB6IR&sclient=gws-wiz-serp - search results returned of interest - Food from urban agriculture has carbon footprint 6 times - A new study finds that fruits and vegetables grown in urban farms and gardens have a carbon footprint that is, on average, six times greater . - https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/01/240122140408.htm
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book - Over the Seawall - Steven Robert Miller - A book about PROGRESS TRAPS! - How climate adaptation measures can lead to progress traps, such as - lead to a sense of complacency and false security - leading to overdevelopment - leading to even more people vulnerable to climate and extreme weather events
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the information about how bad things have been has not been meaningfully connected to the levers of power there just isn't there's this you know there's been no connection between those two worlds at all um they've sort 00:55:06 of been operating in parallel
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climate crisis - disconnect between - levers of power - and information of what is happening - there is an abundance of scientific information available to political leaders, yet - they are failing to make the necessary decisions - why?
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Global industrialized world is doing today on the planet is that it's just so far out of equilibrium and so beyond um the Al operation of the 00:50:27 carbon cycle that it's just completely it's impossible that it will that it will persist um very far into the future
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adjacency - between - climate crisis - different perspectives - human vs - deep time - adjacency relationship - Our global industrialized world is perturbing the carbon cycle so far out of equilibrium that the status quo civilization cannot persist very far into the future<br /> - the earth system has been through many such perturbations and it ALWAYS self corrects - Even the most extreme climate events earth has ever experienced are called transient because they are still relatively short in geological time - In the long term, the planet will restore equilibrium no matter how much extreme the perturbations human civilization creates in the next few centuries - In the long term, the earth is going to be fine - Homo sapien is just one of millions of species, most of which have gone extinct - We should NOT feel we are exceptional - We are comparing different timescales: - human lifetimes are measured in a hundred years - earth system time scales are measured in millions of years - even if there were another mass extinction event, on a geological time scale of tens of million years a new biosphere will regenerate and the ocean chemistry will be restored - Here we have an interesting intersectionality of different timescales. - paleontologists provide a deep time perspective - while we humans live in a timescale of no greater than 100 years - our bodies cannot directly sense change in deep time - therefore, any scientific information about deep time will need to go through our cognitive system - Our body is not evolutionarily designed to biologically respond to information on a deep-time timescale - It may be beneficial to help us see from a deep-time perspective to appreciate the geological-scale changes we are responsible for
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this very elegant uh argument made by this I think he is a uh he's a physicist I 00:46:11 think at UC San Diego Tom Murphy where he's like even even if you take the most conservative relationship between energy use and economic growth and you plot it out a couple hundred years from now then 00:46:26 the economy is producing so much waste heat that the oceans will be boiling off and in in a thousand years you're like the economy is producing so much waste heat that it's more energy than is put 00:46:38 out in the sun in all directions
for - limits to economic growth - physics calculations - by Tom Murphy show absurdity of continual growth - energy and waste heat perspective
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in completely hijacking the the global car carbon cycle now you know the temperature 00:42:19 of the planet in in the future and the pH of the oceans and the oxygen levels in uh the oceans is no longer you know determined 00:42:32 by Earth system processes like it has been for all of Earth history it is um fundamentally rooted through human institutions
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quote - carbon cycle - hijacked by political and business institutions - (see below) - In completely hijacking the global car carbon cycle now - the temperature of the planet - the pH of the oceans and - the oxygen levels in the oceans - are no longer determined by Earth system processes like it has been for all of Earth history - it is fundamentally rooted in human institutions - There really isn't any disentangling the the science from the the political
adjacency - between - carbon cycle - human processes - politics and business - adjacency relationship - The carbon cycle is no longer controlled by earth system processes, - as it has been for billions of years, - but rather by human processes of politics and business
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neoclassical Economist about you know growth can be totally decoupled from 00:45:45 Material use
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I don't really understand what they think uh what it is um if it's not you know 00:45:20 how resources are allocated and um the the transformation of commod you know raw material into finished goods and stuff all that takes energy it all takes material
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progress trap - real dangers from - abstraction and siloing - Business processes create workers who live in abstract, symbolic worlds, never seeing the consequences of their symbolic manipulations - At the end of the day, the abstract, symbolic finance industry worker gets a fat salary and lives comfortably, whilist playing with abstractions of processes they are contributing to which they have no sensory information on - the separation of producer from consumer is yet another huge abstraction that cleaves the gestalt into pieces that we cannot see - ANTIDOTE to this - de-abstraction - re-synthesize - Processes have been fragmented and split apart - We need to find ways for people to re-synthesize and assemble the pieces back together again in order to - see and experience the whole picture
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the action always begins at home and I I think this idea of like seeing um the seeing one another and the Earth as an extension of like one's own self one's 00:43:35 own body and like the body politic kind of taking over again and coming back to a sense of like ground reality
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I sort of take the easy way out and say well I know Earth history so maybe I'm 00:32:53 helping people by uh understanding the science of this stuff
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educator - earth climate history specialist can help with education about the past to help understand what we face in the present
climate education - low impact due to - ignoring perspectival knowing - and salience landscapes - It may help to look at the problem of education through the lens of Michael Levin's multi-scale competency architecture - https://hyp.is/FFxzRL2nEe6ghzeLcJGM7A/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10167196/ - Applied to cognitive and cultural evolution within the lifetime of a single individual (human) - The salience landscape of an individual can vary depending on their educational and cultural background - There are multiple categories of concepts, each with their own degree of salience: - immediate phenomenological experience - high salience - second hand, linguistically communicated experience - moderate and dependent on source - scientific reported phenomena - moderate, high or low, dependent on source and cultural / educational background - second hand, linguistically communicated experience - low, moderate or high, dependent on source and cultural / educational background - A key observation is that humans are evolved to detect specific environmental cue but miss many others - The rate of cultural evolution is so rapid that our biologically adapted processes cannot adapt quickly enough to the rapid cultural changes, resulting in the experience of "hyperobjects" - https://jonudell.info/h/facet/?max=100&expanded=true&user=stopresetgo&exactTagSearch=true&any=+hyperobject - education that is done haphazardly and in an adhoc manner will fail to discriminate between this large variety of salience landscape, with the overall impact of low educational impact
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paper details - title - Limits to Economic Growth - author - Thomas W. Murphy Jr. - date - 21 July, 2022 - publication - Nature Physics, comment, online - https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-022-01652-6
summary - Physicist Thomas W. Murphy employs reductio ab adsurdium logic to prove the fallacy of the assumptions of his argument - In this case, the argument is that we can indefinitely continue to sustain economic growth at rates that have held steady at about 2-3% per annum since the early 1900s. - Using both idealistic and simplified energy and waste heat calculations of energy and waste heat compounding at 2-3% per annum (or 10x per century), Murphy shows the absurd conclusions of continuing these current trends of energy and waste heat emissions on a global scale. - The implications are that physics and thermodynamics will naturally constrain us to plateau to a steady state economy in which the majority of economic activity needs to not depend on physically intensive
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An examplein the energy domain demonstrates theabsurdity of indefinite growth in the physicalrealm.
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-absurdity of indefinite economic growth - energy projections - Energy growth has typically been 2–3% per year since early 1900's. - This is approximately equivalent to 10x each century - Present-day energy output is 18 TW and extrapolates to - - approx.100 TW in 2100, - approx. 1,000 TW in 2200, etc. - In 400 years, from today, we would exceed the total solar power incident on Earth - In 1300 years from today, we would exceed the entire output of the Sun in all directions - In 2400 years from today, we would exceed the energy output of all 100 billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy - This last jump is made impossible by the fact that even light cannot cross the galaxy in fewer than 100,000 years. - Hence, physics puts a hard limit on how long our energy growth enterprise could possibly continue
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The red curve in the right panel of Fig.3 shows a more realistic trajectory for theeconomy in the face of a steady physicalscale. In this example, non-physical activitiesare allowed to comprise 75% of the economybefore saturating. Although this upperlimit is arbitrary, its exact value does notchange the resulting saturation of the overalleconomy.
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In this case, the non-physical elements of the economy areconstrained (arbitrarily) to grow no higher than 75% of the total, resulting in only a modest amount ofdecoupled economic growth before flattening.Nature PHysics | www.nature.com/naturephysics
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adjacency - between - degrowth - circular economy - regenerative practices - steady state economy - adjacency relationship - Where did the 75% number come from? Is there anything special about it? Is it some kind of a limit from the model? - Would circular and regenerative practices play an important role in this? - This would seem to indicate a degrowth type scenario. Degrowth is a misnomer, it doesn't imply continual economic downward trend, - but is specifically addressing a the decrease of physical human economic activity - that is responsible for our excessive pollution load / biodiversity loss - to levels necessary to avoid the worst impacts - It isn't explicitly stated that the other half of degrowth is growth of non-physical economic activity that nurtures and nourishes humanity
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It seems ludicrous to imagine that these vitalresources incapable of further expansionwould become essentially free of charge.
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question - capitalism to a form of socialism? - To say it seems ludicrous is an opinion that makes sense from a traditional capitalists perspective - From a socialist perspective, it seems feasible - Nothing is free of charge, however, even in socialism, there is always some price an individual must pay, it's more about the incentive structure that differentiates the two - capitalism - polarized towards self-centric perspective - socialism -balanced self-and-other perspective
adjacency - between - capitalism - socialism - differing perspective on self/other worldview - adjacency relationship - While capitalism relies on a self-centric perspective, socialism relies on a more balanced self/other perspective
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Continued economic growth in the faceof steady-state physical resources wouldrequire all growth to be effectively in thenon-physical sector, possibly assisted bymodest efficiency improvements in howwe use physical resources.
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it is unclear what mightprevent economic growth from continuingapace even in the context of stalled growthin the physical domain. The idea of‘decoupling’ in economics addresses exactlythis point.
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question - decoupling economics from physical resources- degrowth? - The author seems to be talking about continuing an economy with - less and less reliance on physically intensive activities, hence significantly reducing our carbon and physical resource intensity
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We must therefore becareful to understand the phenomenonand its implications so that we do not toallow a panicked departure from growththat may result in unnecessary suffering orill-intentioned opportunists exploitingthe chaos
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question - climate adaptation - how do we prepare for potential collapse? - How do we prepare? - preparation needs to take place at national, community and individual / family level - Resiliency will depend on how ill prepared we are at each of these levels - How do we prepare for: - high levels of suffering - ill-intentioned opportunists who are ready to exploit the chaos?
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The thermodynamic limitsexplored above, for instance, apply to anyenergy technology we care to imagine.
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question - I suppose it also applies to - nuclear fusion if it becomes feasible and - deep geothermal
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Given that assumptions of quantitativegrowth are pervasive in our society andhave been present for many generations,it is perhaps not surprising that growth isnot widely understood to be a transientphenomenon. Early thinkers on the physicaleconomy, such as Adam Smith, ThomasMalthus, David Ricardo and John Stuart Millsaw the growth phase as just that: a phase9
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quote - economic growth - pioneering economists saw growth not as permanent, but as just a temporary phase - (see below) - Given that - assumptions of quantitative growth are pervasive in our society and - have been present for many generations, - it is perhaps not surprising that growth is not widely understood to be a transient phenomenon. - Early thinkers on the physical economy, such as - Adam Smith, <br /> - Thomas Malthus, - David Ricardo and - John Stuart Mill - saw the growth phase as just that: a phase
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Another way to frame physicallimitations to growth is in terms of wasteheat, which is the end product of nearlyall energetic utilization on Earth.
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absurdity of indefinite economic growth - waste heat projection example of recent waste heat trends - At present, the waste heat term is about four orders of magnitude smaller than the solar term. - But at a growth factor of ten per century, they would reach parity in roughly 400 years. - Indeed, the surface temperature of Earth would reach the boiling point of water (373 K) in just over 400 years under this relentless prescription.
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- decoupling economics from physical resources- degrowth?
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- reductio ad absurdum - physical absurdity of continuing current energy and waste heat trends into the near future
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