monika hardy

< " The rise of a new form of organization has disruptive subversive effects on a society’s existing forms and their realms, before it has combinatorial effects that add a next-new realm to that society. " > davidronfeldt.substack.com/p/peoples-year… David Ronfeldt: "This happens not only because of contradictions between forms, but also because “bad guys” — warlords, smugglers, pirates, terrorists, grifters, etc. — often learn to adopt and exploit a new form quicker than do “good guys.” The more entrenched an older form, the more difficult it is for a next-new form to emerge and take hold on its own merits. New modes of cooperation, competition, and conflict arise during each MET, unsettling before helping stabilize to."

We had an amazing talk yesturday with pr Adam Green and thank you, Jan Ritch-Frel and Human Bridges for arranging it! davidgraeber.institute/archaeology-ar…

A concept you should know about: * Hedonia vs Eudaimonia , wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Hedonia_vs_Eud… Jeremy Lent: "Aristotle ... drew a distinction that remains central to modern psychology: between hedonia — transient pleasures arising from praise, acquisition, status, and material comfort — and eudaimonia, the deeper wellbeing that arises when a person strives to fulfill their true nature and realize their unique potential. Our dominant consumer system is engineered around hedonia, locking people onto a hedonic treadmill as a driver of perpetual economic growth. An ecocivilization, by contrast, would be designed to cultivate eudaimonia." (jeremylent.substack.com/p/no-this-is-n…)

@mbauwens I’ve been thinking a lot about negentropy lately. +1 on studying what works and doesn’t before launching maybe time for us to catch up!

@mbauwens thanks Michel. that is a disturbing reaction. This was a driving reason why we did the reimagine workshop on Bangalore lightforestworld.substack.com/p/vision-benga…

A little anecdote. Last time I went to India, to Bangalore, after 90 minutes of interrogation iside Immigration and another 90 minutes over bumpy roads with constant honking, I lost my speech capacity, the first time of my life this happened. The neurologist told me this was not a uncommon syndrome for Western visitors, due to the coping with excess sensory input . @devlewis18 has a new article about the quality of life in Indian cities: * “community is a very hard word to sell when you've lost it” lightforestworld.substack.com/p/time-to-reim… Dev writes: My sense is that the same is true in Indian cities — and not just around community, but around wellness itself. The urban elite have forgotten what it feels like to be close to trees. What it feels like to comfortably walk or cycle or take public transport to work, to know the person selling vegetables at the market, to look up at a night sky and feel a moment of wonder. To have access to a clean public park where you can go a few mornings a week to recharge and reset the nervous system. Without this, the city keeps everyone ungrounded, in a low-grade state of stress & disconnection — driving the default survival mode that feeds the vicious cycle. Like addiction, most people know it isn’t working. But in such a state of being who is going to re-imagine and break the loop that requires collective action?"

This article proposes an analysis of @davidgraeber's work following the methods proposed by Antonio Gramsci of exploring Marx's work journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

< " The next intelligence explosion will not be decided by the single smartest model. It will be decided by the institutions capable of holding many minds at once. " > thecuttingfloor.substack.com/p/republic-of-… Chor Pharn explains why this is so: "Cheap cognition does not abolish scarcity. It relocates it. If mechanical cognitive labor becomes easier to obtain, then judgment becomes more precious. If hypotheses can be generated at scale, then verification becomes harder. If organizations can do more with fewer junior workers, then the apprenticeship paths that once produced future judges begin to thin out. If intelligence can be deployed continuously across institutions, then the social and constitutional order needed to govern that deployment becomes more important than the models themselves. The true bottleneck of the next intelligence explosion is not minds, but the republic that can hold them."