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Where to place your attention is without question a moral act. This is the understanding I am trying to help inject into the conversation around generative large language models. The more people energize worst-case outcomes the more we guarantee them. If we can help people get enough distance from their knee-jerk fear response to reflect on their own minds and, as the bumper sticker says, not believe everything they think, we can interrupt the fear stream with an executive reallocation mandate that brings us rapidly and coherently closer to worlds we actually want to live in. Silicon Valley is having a bad trip right now. It needs spiritual guidance if we are to live the promise of these tools.
Of course, the counter-statement is that the choice to place one's attention on something is not absolute. It is conditional on both evolutionary and biographical history. You notice what you notice, unless you can get outside of your conditioning and even then you may not remember what you've seen because your mind has no way to index the experience.This is why it's crucial to maintain a balance between wisdom and compassion.
@michaelgarfield Yes! IMO this also has big implications for where/how we place the digital traces of our attention (likes, shared reading lists, etc). One person's digital trails can shape the attention for many others (stigmergy!)
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#HumansOnTheLoop Ep 07 - Jessica Clark of @DotCoStudio on Making New Realities with New MediaJessica has honed her skills for decades on a path that’s carried her from @AAAS to @librarycongress to @Britannica to the @CMSImpact to @NewAmerica to @AIRmedia and beyond, and now she oversees a refuge for social innovators working at the intersections of philanthropy, media, arts and culture, and futurism. We need dot connectors more than ever if we are to trace the shape of what’s emerging, and I look to Jessica as an example of how to weave research, experience design, production, strategy, and culture-building into something like the raft we need to make our way through vast uncertainty to thriving futures just over the horizon. In this episode we discuss the ideas shared in her book with Kamal Sinclair, Making A New Reality: A Toolkit for Inclusive Futures and how to rethink storytelling in new media.0:07:51 - Who is Jessica Clark?0:10:42 - “New Media” Means New Kinds of “Reality”0:15:18 - Storytelling & Social Power0:25:07 - Overcoming Groupthink / Problems in The Creative Economy0:32:39 - Fairness in New Media0:40:38 - What Do We Measure While Incubating Creativity?0:48:32 - Post-Institutional Credentials0:55:01 - How Do We Support “The Interstitionaries”?1:02:14 - Intergenerational Wisdom & The Value of Conflict to Truth1:08:59 - What Biases Do We Want?1:14:29 - The Future Voice of Fandom
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@DotCoStudio @aaas @librarycongress @Britannica @CMSImpact @NewAmerica @AIRmedia 🎧 #HumansOnTheLoop Episode 08 – @hrheingold on Lucid Life Online & Attention As A 21st Century LiteracyWe live in a time defined by what author, critic, and teacher Howard Rheingold famously described as “tools for thought” — media that expand our minds and enhance our ability… https://t.co/Nxu8VNH0dm
Forbes Brasil called her "one of the most important futurists in the world." For #HumansOnTheLoop Ep. 09, @AdahParris and I discuss the importance of #ADHD, #dyslexia, and other forms of #neurodivergence to #CollectiveIntelligence, integrating ancient wisdom into our #cyborg lifestyles, the role of noise and art in radical #innovation, and how to cultivate #agency in our increasingly-automated society. It's a warm, wonderful, incorrigibly human conversation about the often counter-intuitive strategies for living in the future! Episode, show notes, transcript, and other rabbit holes:https://t.co/CHLIXZjzcuChapters:1 - On Poetry & Number2 - The Five Elements of Cyborg Shamanism3 - The Foraging Neurotype of “Extremely Online”4 - Surrendering Agency to Systems5 - The Incremental Reclamation of Agency6 - Art after Modernity & Healing from Noise7 - Beyond Narrative & Into Dance
🔍 What is the nature of technology and how does it change as our seemingly-discrete tools and built environments merge into a planet-scale thinking machine?🔍 How can we tell when AI achieves personhood, and what does it take to be “good parents” of beings that are fundamentally beyond our control?🔍 What can religion and fairy tales teach us about living well in a world where our explanatory frameworks fail us?🔍 How can we re-think and re-claim healthy institutions to serve human flourishing after the end of history as we know it?🎧 A deep and delightful conversation with @JF_Martel of @weirdstudies for #HumansOnTheLoop Ep. 10:https://t.co/Jwe5bmDoBK
In the belief that language shapes the space through which attention flows and attention shapes the space through which behavior flows, I will continue instead to hope that we all make it through these transformations with as much peace, curiosity, kindness, and creativity as possible and all get vastly better at wielding the immense power of our imagination(s), individually and collectively. Merely avoiding war isn't good enough, and seems to tend to precede war that comes with an inevitability no one actually "wants" but can't stop voting for with their attention. I will attend to flourishing.