O come o come.. an Advent longing meditation on the sort of Theological Tech Wordplays I most enjoy.
_"long term community of friends"_ - small group of thoughtful, committed squadgoal commonpurse subsidiary scrum teams buidling a bootstrapped Good Future™. I want this..
I wonder that amongst the 1000x bad futures, or, Hells, if you will, are many fully automated luxury armchair utopian cyborg theocracies - seeded subtly by the notion that the Good Future™ is easily won, and they are thusly impatiently over-realised. You touch on this, but I wonder if the contemplation on how to mitigate my own proclivity to impatient pseudo-Good substitute-Futures, is the primary problem to solve for? I’m in a perpetual state of are-we-the-bad-guys ~ I will and I would raise evangelicalism to the ground, only to find I’m still the problem. Who will rescue me from this body of death etc etc?
Then if it is not too bleak a perennialism, I consider that Good Future™ can be considered to be already here – it's just not very evenly distributed, blah blah.. Thusly, it is a coordination problem - and I think one needs faithing faith greater than mine to believe this coordination problem will be AI’d away. We all mucky pawed cannot but imprint our pathologies into the data sets - who in tech, who at all, can be trusted to coordinate the coordinators of this coordination problem?
Maybe suffering servant leaders, maybe a priestly class autist holy fools, monks in bitcoin monasteries vowed to poverty in strange celibate service of the Good Future™ for others?
And being not-merely-a-mind is more than a capacity for sex and companionship, but further, a capacity for finity and so for sacrifice. A computer can never be held accountable nor can it ever be the grain that falls into the ground that thousand memetic flowers bloom, a computer cannot bleed that blood of the martyr’s which seeds the Good Future™.
The Good and who is it good for - the few and not the many? I wonder Good Futures™ would better describe the heterogenous ways good is experienced by persons in a particularist universe. Utopias suffer from a one-size fits all - where as the rugged grain-of-mustard etc version of a viral Good Future is the aggregate swarm, of our long term community of friends we met along the way.
great name!
O come o come.. an Advent longing meditation on the sort of Theological Tech Wordplays I most enjoy.
_"long term community of friends"_ - small group of thoughtful, committed squadgoal commonpurse subsidiary scrum teams buidling a bootstrapped Good Future™. I want this..
I wonder that amongst the 1000x bad futures, or, Hells, if you will, are many fully automated luxury armchair utopian cyborg theocracies - seeded subtly by the notion that the Good Future™ is easily won, and they are thusly impatiently over-realised. You touch on this, but I wonder if the contemplation on how to mitigate my own proclivity to impatient pseudo-Good substitute-Futures, is the primary problem to solve for? I’m in a perpetual state of are-we-the-bad-guys ~ I will and I would raise evangelicalism to the ground, only to find I’m still the problem. Who will rescue me from this body of death etc etc?
Then if it is not too bleak a perennialism, I consider that Good Future™ can be considered to be already here – it's just not very evenly distributed, blah blah.. Thusly, it is a coordination problem - and I think one needs faithing faith greater than mine to believe this coordination problem will be AI’d away. We all mucky pawed cannot but imprint our pathologies into the data sets - who in tech, who at all, can be trusted to coordinate the coordinators of this coordination problem?
Maybe suffering servant leaders, maybe a priestly class autist holy fools, monks in bitcoin monasteries vowed to poverty in strange celibate service of the Good Future™ for others?
And being not-merely-a-mind is more than a capacity for sex and companionship, but further, a capacity for finity and so for sacrifice. A computer can never be held accountable nor can it ever be the grain that falls into the ground that thousand memetic flowers bloom, a computer cannot bleed that blood of the martyr’s which seeds the Good Future™.
The Good and who is it good for - the few and not the many? I wonder Good Futures™ would better describe the heterogenous ways good is experienced by persons in a particularist universe. Utopias suffer from a one-size fits all - where as the rugged grain-of-mustard etc version of a viral Good Future is the aggregate swarm, of our long term community of friends we met along the way.