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cobber2005

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    Comment #48718164

    Sounds very interesting. Is there a link to your thesis?

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    Comment #48598458

    This room is an example of a public good[0] (something that is non-excludable and consumed in a non-rivalrous way, like a park or like clean air. Contrasted with private goods like…

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    Comment #47812843

    > In effect, these different cognitive processes together give rise to our self. I think this describes what happens in Simondon’s ‘psychic individuation’.[1] [1] https://epochemag…

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    Comment #47738853

    “Democranomic is a type of founding game. A founding game is a game where the players play to constitute a real-world event or organization. A democranomic is a type of founding ga…

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    Comment #46654801

    I realize there's a lot out there on the subject, but do you have any specific reading recommendations summarizing the effect of the US dollar's reserve currency status on middle A…

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    Comment #46603117

    In addition to local journalism, cooperatives are another way democracy can show up close to home. Combining the two, I believe 404Media.co is effectively a journalist-owned outlet…

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    Comment #43455905

    I too appreciate the clarity and structure of your writing. And the topics. Non-consensual consent seems to me related to Heidegger’s ‘throwness’, which Google Gemini summarized as…

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    Comment #41541946

    Found the first few paragraphs an interesting exploration of the concept of “curation”. Also interesting was the concept of a semioscape, and its location within a broader latent s…

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    Comment #39619260

    > The point about baby-eaters and wasps and starving elephants isn't, just, that Hart's God – the "Three O" (omnipotent, omniscient, omnibenevolent) God – is dead. That's the easy …

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    Comment #39132463

    I like the idea of ‘individuation’[0] where individual things (rocks, living bodies, minds, societies) come into being from their preindividual environment. As I understand this id…

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    Comment #38892386

    There is a model of nested dynamic systems called 'panarchy'. > Panarchy is the structure in which systems, including those of nature (e.g., forests) and of humans (e.g., capitalis…

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    Comment #38477321

    This reminds me of the cybertician Gordon Pask's idea of m-individuals and p-individuals. > A p-individual is a psychological individual and an m-individual is a mechanical individ…

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    Comment #33779875

    https://playingcards.io/ is a good tabletop simulator for card games. Can make custom decks and use their pre-made widgets.

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    Comment #30139300

    Can't those who don't have children still influence other's children? Famous childless people include Rosa Parks, Arthur C. Clark, the Dali Lama, Edwin Hubble, Oprah, Angela Merkle…

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    Comment #15870197

    Interesting quote: """His thinking parallels that of the philosopher Thomas Metzinger, who studies consciousness and artificial intelligence; Metzinger espouses digital anti-natali…

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    Comment #15202975

    Related to deflation - I believe there are demurage schemes for local currencies where the value of a particular bill lessens over time. It incentivises circulation instead of hoar…

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    Comment #13233880

    Plenty of companies not using Holocracy have a lack of empathy to their employees as well as overly-bureaucratic processes. What if a company ran itself under a nomic (a game where…

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    Comment #12497807

    Principia Cybernetica introduced me to pantheism (not really a theism at all). It is wonderful that the internet still allows people to stumble upon things that can positively chan…

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    Comment #9993318

    I wish there was a community that use the Principia Cybernetica project (PCP) as it's core foundation: "The PCP philosophy, which we call "Metasystem Transition Theory", is systemi…