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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 4/12/22 11:42 AM, Marcus Daniels
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<p class="MsoNormal">Vitalik Buterin remarked, “An emotional
part of me says that once you start going down that way,
<i>professionalizing</i> is just another word for losing your
soul” [1]<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">That sounds plausible. However, I have
long thought that an important part of productivity is to find
consciousness-lowering habits. Just attach to whatever is
front of you and forget about the motivations and the big
picture. For one thing, it is rare that one can really change
the big picture. For two it is necessary to get in the
critical path of a process to disrupt it. The nihilistic
episodic personality doesn’t have to impose a narrative before
going on excursion. Too much evaluation and reflection and
one’s action as a virion cannot move forward! There is
plenty of time to wake up a judgmental brain process once
embedded. But what are judgements really informed by if
sampling is based on an outsiders’ view? This kind of ties
into Glen’s local reset idea. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">[1] <a
href="https://time.com/6158182/vitalik-buterin-ethereum-profile/"
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https://time.com/6158182/vitalik-buterin-ethereum-profile/</a></p>
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<p>Thanks for this reference! It lead me to try to learn more about
the crypto-idealism-fork of Buterin-Hoskinson touched on here:</p>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://decrypt.co/72824/vitalik-buterin-takes-swipe-at-cardano-charles-hoskinson-strikes-back">https://decrypt.co/72824/vitalik-buterin-takes-swipe-at-cardano-charles-hoskinson-strikes-back</a></p>
<p>and now I have Laura Shin's <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/57356067">"The
Cryptonians"</a> on my to-read pile.</p>
<p>I just finished Isaacson's<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54968118-the-code-breaker?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=thyyPCBQL6&rank=1">
"The Code Breaker" </a>on CRISPR and Doudna's life-story. With
all the chatter here about post/trans-humanism, I had expected to
see others reporting on this book here?</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> Friam
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:friam-bounces@redfish.com"><friam-bounces@redfish.com></a> <b>On Behalf Of
</b>Steve Smith<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, April 12, 2022 10:19 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:friam@redfish.com">friam@redfish.com</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [FRIAM] Selective cultural processes
generate adaptive heuristics<o:p></o:p></p>
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<pre style="mso-margin-top-alt:5.0pt;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:5.0pt;margin-left:0in">Steve writes:<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre style="mso-margin-top-alt:5.0pt;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:5.0pt;margin-left:0in">< Arguments for generational rather than Individual/personal growth and transformation...<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre style="mso-margin-top-alt:5.0pt;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:5.0pt;margin-left:.5in">“I don’t think we should try to have people live for a really long time,” Musk recently told Insider. “It would cause asphyxiation of society because the truth is, most people don’t change their mind. They just die. So if they don’t die, we will be stuck with old ideas and society wouldn’t advance.” ><o:p></o:p></pre>
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<pre style="mso-margin-top-alt:5.0pt;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:5.0pt;margin-left:0in">Maybe not?<o:p></o:p></pre>
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<pre><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-022-01769-4" moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-022-01769-4</a><o:p></o:p></pre>
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<p>I do think there is plenty of room for individual
growth/transformation in one lifetime and perhaps Psi research
will (continue to) provide yet-more tools for facilitating
that.
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<p>It isn't clear to me that merely loosening up neural pathways
so that they can be re-created yields healthy growth as
such. I'd like to think it can be, but as the neo-luddite
that I tend toward, I can't help but seeing the myriad ways it
can go wrong as well. This negative ideation is probably a
self-referential example of the topic itself.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Following RECs original subject: I'm interested I suppose in
understanding more-better the myriad scales and dimensions of
adaptivity of "Life Itself", with the human (individual as
well as cultural) experience being the one most relevant to my
own life, but not exclusively.<o:p></o:p></p>
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