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Part 4 in the series with Nathan John Hagens
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQkQrc3Ant4

Show notes and links here: https://www.thegreatsimplifica....tion.com/episode/42-

Here is part 2 in a series with Kevin Owocki on meta-crisis informed web 3 development. This one mostly discusses the ways technologies change patterns of human behavior, psychology, and culture...and how those effects need to be factored into iterative design processes.
That was the topic of the most recent Consilience Project paper:
https://consilienceproject.org..../technology-is-not-v
We also discuss conflict vs mistake theory, and the limits of metrics and optimization...and the need for wisdom at the center of governance.

I was enheartened meeting Kevin as he is a clearly earnest, well-motivated, thoughtful, and competent technology and community builder working on web 3 solutions for public goods.
This is the first in a series we are going to do on his regenerative cryptoeconomics podcast on design considerations and criteria for web 3 development aimed at addressing the metacrisis (ie, building towards a 3rd attractor).
Since it will be new for many people in the community, we start here with a high-level overview of the metacrisis, its drivers, and some initial criteria of a 3rd attractor, ie viable civilization. The following pieces in the series will be on more details of solution criteria, then getting into specific web-3 public goods projects and thoughts on how to improve their design.
This is a good intro for people not already deeply familiar. If you have watched a bunch of recent stuff where I address these issues, this will be largely redundant, maybe a good recap. But the following conversations will be info not addressed on other podcasts yet.
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Topics Covered:
00 Intro
4:20 The Metacrisis
15:43 Catastrophes and Dystopias
220 The Third Attractor
30:40 Moloch and Values
34:46 Mapping the Metacrisis
43:25 Incentives and Trajectories
51:30 Forced Transparency
58:30 A Qualitative World
17:30 What Brings Hope
1:11:30 Faith
1:17:30 Optimism and Pessimism
1:22:10 What’s to Come
1:25:50 Closing
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If it's too long, at least you can read the abstract now. We just edited and reposted this to add an abstract at the beginning and break up the text field more to make it easier to read.
This is the first in a series constructing some foundational concepts for a vision of how infrastructure, social structures, and superstructures (cultures), coevolve and influence each other, and what something like necessary and sufficient criteria for each must be for a viable planetary civilization that makes it through the metacrisis.
This piece is exploring the way in which technologies confer power when used in certain ways, which predisposes patterns of human behavior, which influences minds and cultures. In other words, the influences from infrastructure on social structures and super structures.
If you have read Marvin Harris, Marshall McCluhan, Lewis Mumford, etc on the philosophy of technology, this will be obvious. If not, we tried to condense a critical throughline of that work here.
We coined some relevant terms here, specifically, "psycho-social externalities", which are the externalities of technology not mediated by physics directly but through the changes in the patterns of human behavior and resultant changes to psychologies and societies. And the term "axiological design" which is being proposed as a field of technological design consideration that emphasizes internalizing psychosocial externalities into the design process intentionally and procedurally - ie, designing technologies consciously in service of the types of social structures and superstructures we care about and are seeking to protect and advance.
Hope the formatting makes it more accessible 🙂