Why Information Grows by Cesar Hidalgo might be a relevant read if you haven't read it before. Its an information theory book, some related points are:
- economies being distributed computers that accumulate knowledge/knowhow, similar to the Turing axis from the 2x2
- the notion of a "personbyte" (the maximum knowledge and knowhow carrying capacity of a human), as another individual-level mapping (from Anatomy)
To me the missing piece is Darwin and mate-selection. If people see themselves as drones and members of the borg collective, how will they get laid and get paid? I am sure there is a better, more serious way to say that. Even so, the striving for individuality and to show one's "unique" traits seems to hard-wired in. Perhaps you eschew such simplistic ideas? Peace!
Excited for this series as well! Prediction markets like poly.market may be a non-DAO kind of blockchain-based graph mind. Non-blockchain versions of this include metaculus, election betting sites, etc.
Humans will be a member of several overlaid graph minds at any given time, each with their own unique decision making mechanisms and "goals." An individual can be a member of a nation, a company, a religion, a family, an HOA, etc. Each organization will have its own set of resources, its own set of stated goals, and then the goals of the individual members that are steering the organization most effectively. Some organizations explicitly try to do some form of consensus decisions, or allow federated decisions within boundaries. ("Company expense reports above XXX dollars must be approved by a L8 manager or above")
These graphs can either be actively looking to recruit new nodes, or focus on purifying themselves to match a set of nodes more aligned with one goal. But every graph, with maybe the exception of hardcore cults, will have nodes that consider themselves to have an additional membership with other graphs.
Amish as an unorthodox example? Rumspringa represents a reverse ritual of assimilation, where an exposure outside of the hive ensures a total surrender back inside of it. The community is ontologically primary, both in supporting a collective resistance to modernity and in determining technological adaption. Expansion of the hive (in purchasing new land) also happens collectively only when sufficient numbers can move together to ensure the hive moves with it.
Mumford's concept of "megamachines" is a nice benchmark at scale. The pyramids give us Pharaoh as god king coercing an extended body of slaves for a grand single purpose.
Why Information Grows by Cesar Hidalgo might be a relevant read if you haven't read it before. Its an information theory book, some related points are:
- economies being distributed computers that accumulate knowledge/knowhow, similar to the Turing axis from the 2x2
- the notion of a "personbyte" (the maximum knowledge and knowhow carrying capacity of a human), as another individual-level mapping (from Anatomy)
Oh cool, thanks
To me the missing piece is Darwin and mate-selection. If people see themselves as drones and members of the borg collective, how will they get laid and get paid? I am sure there is a better, more serious way to say that. Even so, the striving for individuality and to show one's "unique" traits seems to hard-wired in. Perhaps you eschew such simplistic ideas? Peace!
Excited for this series as well! Prediction markets like poly.market may be a non-DAO kind of blockchain-based graph mind. Non-blockchain versions of this include metaculus, election betting sites, etc.
Humans will be a member of several overlaid graph minds at any given time, each with their own unique decision making mechanisms and "goals." An individual can be a member of a nation, a company, a religion, a family, an HOA, etc. Each organization will have its own set of resources, its own set of stated goals, and then the goals of the individual members that are steering the organization most effectively. Some organizations explicitly try to do some form of consensus decisions, or allow federated decisions within boundaries. ("Company expense reports above XXX dollars must be approved by a L8 manager or above")
These graphs can either be actively looking to recruit new nodes, or focus on purifying themselves to match a set of nodes more aligned with one goal. But every graph, with maybe the exception of hardcore cults, will have nodes that consider themselves to have an additional membership with other graphs.
Amish as an unorthodox example? Rumspringa represents a reverse ritual of assimilation, where an exposure outside of the hive ensures a total surrender back inside of it. The community is ontologically primary, both in supporting a collective resistance to modernity and in determining technological adaption. Expansion of the hive (in purchasing new land) also happens collectively only when sufficient numbers can move together to ensure the hive moves with it.
Mumford's concept of "megamachines" is a nice benchmark at scale. The pyramids give us Pharaoh as god king coercing an extended body of slaves for a grand single purpose.