[FRIAM] Selective cultural processes generate adaptive heuristics

[Steve Smith]

On 4/12/22 11:42 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
>
> Vitalik Buterin remarked, “An emotional part of me says that once you 
> start going down that way, /professionalizing/ is just another word 
> for losing your soul” [1]
>
> 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.
>
> [1] https://time.com/6158182/vitalik-buterin-ethereum-profile/
>
Thanks for this reference!  It lead me to try to learn more about the 
crypto-idealism-fork of Buterin-Hoskinson touched on here:

https://decrypt.co/72824/vitalik-buterin-takes-swipe-at-cardano-charles-hoskinson-strikes-back

and now I have  Laura Shin's "The Cryptonians" 
<https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/57356067> on my to-read pile.

I just finished Isaacson's"The Code Breaker" 
<https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54968118-the-code-breaker?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=thyyPCBQL6&rank=1>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?


> *From:* Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> *On Behalf Of *Steve Smith
> *Sent:* Tuesday, April 12, 2022 10:19 AM
> *To:* friam at redfish.com
> *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] Selective cultural processes generate adaptive 
> heuristics
>
> Marcus -
>
>         Steve writes:
>
>         < Arguments for generational rather than Individual/personal growth and transformation...
>
>         “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.” >
>
>           
>
>         Maybe not?
>
>           
>
>         https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-022-01769-4
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
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