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From a chat on 2020/2
The need for reliable knowledge
editUnderstanding a many-step ecosystem of ideas, documents, claims requires layered ways to group, link, and evaluate.
Something we need for the entire web -- Knowledge provenance + Citation indexing
Discussed as early as initial Google chat: ways to know how much to trust claims. [S]
We need to recognize avenues for exploitation of society.
Most social constructs can be exploited or manipulated if one can control knowledge; a simple meta-exploit that can enable arbitrary other execution.
Similarly, any useful effort can be prevented or shunted aside by rendering the ground for those ideas infertile / saturating it otherwise.
We need a time to anneal for a given type of K. continuous streams only work for a narrow slice.
Worries about demagoguery, post-fragmentation
editDiscussion from 2012, worrying about the environment in 20y. Why so fast?
sense-making changing slower than mass production reputation intermediaries wear their levers on their sleeves, just a matter of time/focus/investment to control many
Role of different players:
philanthropy - somewhat anti-intellectual in places. [knows what to do, just needs to funnel funds into it]
mobs are independent of individual members. Institutions set the meta-structure.
Role of education:
Grounding for individual thinking: first 2 decades For collective thinking: shared sense of why people are important?
OER / Who we are:
Developing alternative practices (using the same tools w/ different neol outcomes) A community of activity, language, focus [as example]
Windows of perception:
Overton is just one of many (for discussion); there are similar windows for what concepts can be imagined as sustainable, attainable; and for what collective behavior or activity can be imagined. cf: how we now think of the pyramids as the result of slavery, in modern parlance; and strange ways we describe moai production
A few separable challenges: ideology at any generation tends towards use to cloak advances of small groups.
ex: neol., golden calves, simplistic [simplification] [markets] [trust the system]
ex: ethnic nat., fascia, simplistic xeno, scapegroup.
ex: each church at some point in a long cycle
General notes
editNews cycles focus on the top tier of emotion (disaster). Amplified in fast-news.
Economist is proud of slow cycles; not froth.
Trappings: to crystallize a large network, try a series of cooling steps that are each minimally divisive at that temperature.
Don't imagine there is a simple priority list of "language/tactics/approaches you must consider"