tag > Culture
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“I’m through with it; it’s no longer relevant. What I’m interested in now is self-determination, not treatment; examining how the doctor-patient relationship is connected to what goes on; getting behind and underneath roles, and giving up control” - Marvin Solit
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Implicit drivers of most AI/Robotics future visions told by tech leaders are such immature desires:
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The ‘Wrong’ Turning Brings on the ‘Fourth Turning’ - by Alastair Crooke - "If we determine to imagine the world as machine, then ‘reality’ will present itself as a machine"
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Akademgorodok - the educational and scientific centre of Siberia.
Koltsovo, Novosibirsk Oblast - a science town near Akademgorodok
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The gist of the message broadcasted on most channels these days is very similar: Harder, louder, faster, scarier, weirder, richer, smarter, exacter & more more more. Given this hyped up environment, doing the exact opposite is a revolutionary act: Striving to be softer, quieter, slower, and generally doing less.
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"Sometimes it seems as if there are more solutions than problems. On closer scrutiny, it turns out that many of today's problems are a result of yesterday's solutions." - Thomas Sowell
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Killing trees that are over 1000 yrs old is fundamentally wrong. Over 1100 people have been arrested trying to protect these giants from being logged. Only a fraction of large old growth remain in B.C. and they keep falling. (via)
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Chesterton's fence is the principle that reforms should not be made until the reasoning behind the existing state of affairs is understood.
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Armies of trendy business & design people will sell you "technological progress", with out even mentioning the downsides. It's disingenuous. Every augmentation leads to amputation. No free lunch.
Escape. - Art by John Holcroft.
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‘Only the small secrets need to be protected. The big ones are kept secret by public incredulity.’ — Marshall McCluhan
