Culture, Communication, Complexity.

Tag: information

Democracy and Authoritarianism are Strange Bedfellows

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Post date Jul 1, 2019
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There is only one underlying logical information system – all ideologies are contingent interpretations that are biased towards selfish needs.

Alien Anthropology

The Necessary Evolution of Difference and Conflict

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Post date Jun 30, 2019
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Conflict and the means or methods of its execution lie at the center of all personal and (by extension or necessary inversion) collective history.

Tags civilisation, civilization, conflict, difference, evolution, fact, history, holism, holistic, humanity, ideology, information, intelligence, logic, other, Peace, physics, politics, Psychology, recursion, self, systems, truth, war, wisdom

Philosophy

Rethinking Conflict

Coming conflicts will be won by those who can most effectively, efficiently, continuously and adaptively rebuild themselves and their ways of life through successful negotiation and engagement with the recombinatory logical evolution of information and energy from which biology, humanity, technology and civilisation have emerged.

Tags adaptation, conflict, evolution, information, Peace, recursion, systems, technology, war

Philosophy

Visualising Reality

There is no “best” theory, there are only progressively “better” ones.

Tags algorithm, algorithmic information theory, approximation, compression, cosmology, cosmos, data, Gödel, incompleteness, information, Kurt Gödel, Philosophy, philosophy of science, recursion, Science, truth, Universe

culture

Genocide: Facebook’s Inability to Manage it’s own Effect

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Post date Jun 22, 2019
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Facebook has a genocide problem.

Tags communication, conflict, culture, entropy, Facebook, genocide, hate, human rights, information, Myanmar, persecution, refugee, Rohingya, social media, United Nations, violence, war

Philosophy

Countering the Inordinate Power of the Big Technology Companies

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Post date Jun 22, 2019
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Corporate power in the technology domain is a complex cartography but it is not indecipherable. It takes intelligence and subtlety to address the problem of autonomously self-propagating information systems that have grown too large, too fast and in all of this speed and runaway self-replication represent something of an atavistic return to a state of accelerated reproduction which in cells occurs in (or as) cancer.

Philosophy

No One Owns Truth

There is no “best” idea, there are only “better” ones.

culture

Within You, Without You: the Computation of Material Culture

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Post date Jun 18, 2019
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Does the plausible and probable distributed computation of the hyper-extended cognitive technologies of our material culture generate us just as much as we generate it?