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Michael Garfield 🔮

Michael Garfield 🔮

@michaelgarfield

📝🎨🎸 expert generalist 🎙📚 #humansontheloop 📯 comms director @aicacporg 🦚 ex @sfiscience @longnow @mozilla 🏆 https://t.co/FtNzIhJwgc

Santa Fe, NM + The Noosphere เข้าร่วม Ekim 2007
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Michael Garfield 🔮@michaelgarfield·
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.
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Michael Garfield 🔮@michaelgarfield·
Is tech the god of a secular modern world—and if so, what will it take to effect the kind of culture change we need to find a wiser relationship with it? In the spicy, nuanced discussion that followed a short presentation on @forlifeitself's latest white paper — including myself, @developingjen of Denizen, @wxswxs of Orbital Studies, and numerous other admired peers — we set probes into the relationship between exponential technology, economics, governance, and the changing nature of selfhood in the Digital Era. We brought some great questions into focus, and set the table for immensely generative 'adversarial collaboration' to come. Hope you'll stay in the thick of it with us.
Life Itself@forlifeitself

📽️Watch the recording of the In Tech We Trust white paper launch: youtube.com/watch?v=NgIjGn… @rufuspollock (co-author) presents a summary of the paper's key ideas & core takeaways, followed by rich comments & reflections from @developingjen @michaelgarfield @SylvieShiwei @wxswxs

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ZACH ✴️@zachtdavidson·
.@stewartbrand once asked: “Why haven’t we seen an image of the whole earth?” Without knowing it at the time, this question became the foundation of his life’s work. What came from it? - The Whole Earth Catalog - “We are as gods and might as well get good at it” - The Long Now Foundation (and clock) - and so much more Recently I pondered a similar question: “Why haven’t we solved The Hard Problem of Consciousness?” Just as Stewart devoted his life to the whole earth and the long now, I want to devote this next chapter of my life to answering to The Consciousness Question in various forms. Through foundational spaces, tools, and treatises, I think we have a shot understanding why this question is so hard to answer, and in that pursuit, we may find some other fun stuff too. But I can’t go on this journey alone - we will need to team up with likeminded travelers, each on their own journey, pursuing aligned paths. Through these collaborative relationships, we may be able to create a Collective Consciousness and Scenius around The Hard Problem. I have a feeling that’s a good place to start, and the end doesn’t even enter my consciousness rn. If this resonates and you’d like to contribute to this project, please reach out - I’d love to connect with you! sb.longnow.org/SB_homepage/Wh…
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Michael Garfield 🔮@michaelgarfield·
The Discord server (one of them, anyway) is doing what it's supposed to! Can't wait for the group that formed here to launch. Amazing set of conversations recorded over the last few weeks detailing some of the fundamental thinking in our work on decentralized trust, high-dimensional mapping, and regenerative flow funding.
⿻ patcon (is in Toronto) 🦋 @patcon.bsky.social@patcon_

Thanks to @HexaField in @michaelgarfield's mapmakers discord for giving this thought a chance to be articulated aloud :) The homology of linear narrative and linear peptides is a deep interest for me...! bsky.app/profile/patcon…

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Judea Pearl
Judea Pearl@yudapearl·
Models specified by "action conditioned" knowledge, as in classical control theory, are surely "causal" but are not "world models" in the causal sense. The former requires specifying the effect of every action or combination of actions; the latter permits the derivation of such effects from a compact description of (causal relationships in) the world, not of actions. To appreciate the difference, see "Does Obesity Shorten Life? Or is it the Soda? ucla.in/2EpxcNU Another way to appreciate the difference is to consider a city road-map, as an example of world model, and contrast it with GPS instructions, "Go right, left or straight", which contain the same information about approaching the destination, but not about handling unforeseen road blocks.
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Michael Garfield 🔮@michaelgarfield·
New episode of #HumansOnTheLoop! Today's conversation is with AI ethicist and organizational trust expert Nathan Kinch of Trustworthy By Design, asking questions like: How do institutions made of decent, well-meaning people continue to behave out of alignment with their stated values? How do we dig ourselves out of a catastrophic collapse in trust? How can we design practical, participatory “living labs” for organizational reflection and facilitate convivial, playful environments for working together? If you are caught in a system of technologically mediated social dilemmas — and who isn’t? — this will speak to you, and I’m excited to share it. Dig in wherever you go for podcasts. More primer: Nate is amazing. An AI Ethicist for Services Australia, he’s worked with major organizations including Microsoft, Autodesk, Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management, Telus, Open Banking, and the Autralian Government’s Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment. He is the Philosopher in Residence at CoLabs Australia, a Guest Lecturer at Swinburne University of Technology, led Ethics in Action at The RSA, works as a Reviewer for IEEE’s Transactions on Technology and Society, and co-owns the artist collective Nightfall Worldwide. As we frequently observe on this show, we need to rework our ideas of agency and identity to adapt them to advances in our understanding of complex systems. Decisions emerge within a nexus of nested, multi-scale dynamics, and our species flourishes or fumbles in intricate symbiotic relationships with the collective intelligences embodied in cultural technologies like states, markets, corporations, and social clubs — beings that, by any reasonable account, live in worlds alien to our own lived experience and demonstrate their own goals and values. Getting them to behave in ways that nourish us requires a much more nuanced theory of change than that which created them in the first place, perhaps even a radically different vision of the links between biology, psychology, society, and environment. And given that AI is a beast of a similar order to these other “egregores” — the entities of collective computation that arise from our efforts to coordinate at scale and then impose their own top-down causal influence on our thoughts and actions — learning how to align individual and organizational purpose can give us profound insight into how to live well alongside (or in the proverbial guts of) newer, more obvious forms of non-human intelligence like LLMs. In other words, the “intent-to-action” gap in corporate ethics and the “paperclip machine” problem in our built wilderness of black box super-machines are structurally identical. And if we can “tame” the secular gods of the modern industrial era , our self-domesticated species may actually still get a chance at living in a zoo of our own choosing.
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Joscha Bach
Joscha Bach@Plinz·
Now would be a good time to start a peer-to-peer search engine that disrupts Google, by optimizing search results for what ... gasp ... users want. LLMs can help with that. We can keep costs down by holding the cache in overlapping, decentralized nodes
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Michael Garfield 🔮@michaelgarfield·
@scottdomes Oy vey see also Chalmers' "Hard Problem" With a few exceptions, nearly every academic I know thinks we don't have this and may never. I know hundreds of people for whom this is the simplest and most obvious thing
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scott 🌞@scottdomes·
the more you think yourself intelligent, the more likely you'll believe that the solution to your problems is something complex & sophisticated which tends to make you blind to simple truths like "do more of what feels right in your body"
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🎭@deepfates·
Realized yesterday that Westworld is just Jurassic Park with robots instead of dinosaurs. Michael Crichton found the infinite money button
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Leighton@lay2000lbs·
If I were starting a company today I'd be hiring artists, poets, historians, and philosophers The "office" would have no desks, a living room with an espresso machine, bar, and smoking porch Building & operations are outsourced to AI, just need dreamers.
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Louis Arge
Louis Arge@louisvarge·
so many of the questions i have right now hinge on a good theory of consciousness being discovered if i was a rational person, i should think about how to accelerate this effort as much as possible wdyt would be most useful?
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Michael Garfield 🔮@michaelgarfield·
@owocki Agency is indeed worth more than ever. Do you know @add_hawk? Read his latest book! And then invite him on your show. I'd love to hear you two in dialogue. I'll try and remember to send you the link to our chat when it's live. x.com/michaelgarfiel…
Michael Garfield 🔮@michaelgarfield

Just spoke with the brilliant @add_hawk (our third!) for Humans On The Loop about his @penguinpress book The Score — this is the most accessible and enjoyable read I've ever found on the #philosophy of games, how the metrics we use to coordinate at scale also wash out vital context and variety, and how to stay human in a mechanical age. Easily one of the deepest and most important conversations I've had in over 360 #podcasts. This book needs to be on your shelf! Our episode will be out in a few weeks, so play the game and "smash that button" wherever you go to listen so you'll be ready — this work will help you learn to see the hidden ways that systems define your values, and the hope to be found in #GameDesign for futures where cultures foster agency and identity as art forms. (Seriously, look at all those tabs! This book is amazing, easy to read, and will change you — even if a lot of these ideas are already familiar. And our conversation used it as a launchpad for a huge and awe-inspiring inquiry into our relationship with technology, language, and how we might reconcile what matters to each of us personally with what matters to our institutions...I'm especially eager to share this with all of my friends working on the Decentralized Web and CivTech, but equally with all of my goofy gamer buddies. It's that big.)

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owocki@owocki·
Code is Worth $0 Now AI collapsed the marginal cost of writing software. You can generate, refactor, and rebuild entire codebases faster than ever. That doesn’t make software worthless. It moves the scarcity up the stack. The value is no longer in typing code. It’s in deciding what should exist. It’s taste. It’s initiative. It’s iteration. Code was the bottleneck. Now agency is.
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Michael Garfield 🔮@michaelgarfield·
@MattPirkowski Totally. You'll dig this conversation when it comes out. The whole issue of technology as drugs is so big, so rich, so important. x.com/michaelgarfiel…
Michael Garfield 🔮@michaelgarfield

Just spoke with the brilliant @add_hawk (our third!) for Humans On The Loop about his @penguinpress book The Score — this is the most accessible and enjoyable read I've ever found on the #philosophy of games, how the metrics we use to coordinate at scale also wash out vital context and variety, and how to stay human in a mechanical age. Easily one of the deepest and most important conversations I've had in over 360 #podcasts. This book needs to be on your shelf! Our episode will be out in a few weeks, so play the game and "smash that button" wherever you go to listen so you'll be ready — this work will help you learn to see the hidden ways that systems define your values, and the hope to be found in #GameDesign for futures where cultures foster agency and identity as art forms. (Seriously, look at all those tabs! This book is amazing, easy to read, and will change you — even if a lot of these ideas are already familiar. And our conversation used it as a launchpad for a huge and awe-inspiring inquiry into our relationship with technology, language, and how we might reconcile what matters to each of us personally with what matters to our institutions...I'm especially eager to share this with all of my friends working on the Decentralized Web and CivTech, but equally with all of my goofy gamer buddies. It's that big.)

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Michael Garfield 🔮
Michael Garfield 🔮@michaelgarfield·
Just spoke with the brilliant @add_hawk (our third!) for Humans On The Loop about his @penguinpress book The Score — this is the most accessible and enjoyable read I've ever found on the #philosophy of games, how the metrics we use to coordinate at scale also wash out vital context and variety, and how to stay human in a mechanical age. Easily one of the deepest and most important conversations I've had in over 360 #podcasts. This book needs to be on your shelf! Our episode will be out in a few weeks, so play the game and "smash that button" wherever you go to listen so you'll be ready — this work will help you learn to see the hidden ways that systems define your values, and the hope to be found in #GameDesign for futures where cultures foster agency and identity as art forms. (Seriously, look at all those tabs! This book is amazing, easy to read, and will change you — even if a lot of these ideas are already familiar. And our conversation used it as a launchpad for a huge and awe-inspiring inquiry into our relationship with technology, language, and how we might reconcile what matters to each of us personally with what matters to our institutions...I'm especially eager to share this with all of my friends working on the Decentralized Web and CivTech, but equally with all of my goofy gamer buddies. It's that big.)
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Adam Safron
Adam Safron@adamsafron·
Great interview. As far as I can tell, in terms of theories of consciousness, seems like Integrated World Modeling Theory (IWMT) is still the leading account of why there may be "something that it feels like" to be some physical processes, in terms of explaining how a "world appears" (@michaelpollan) to a system as a generative model of system-world states, comprised of a multimodal sensorium, organized according to an egocentric perspectival reference frame. frontiersin.org/journals/compu…
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