Games tell us what to do. For many people, this is a pleasant escape from having to write our life’s story for ourselves.
Hannah Kim (@thisishannahkim) argues that this is more than a trend: that humans are increasingly moving away from narrative-based to game-like thinking.
My wife has a Whatsapp group with 94 members where she posts pictures and describes the fun stuff we do home schooling.
For example, our washing machine broke, so I moved it to the living room where the kids started taking it apart.
Also, it's the beginning of the singularity.
@allTheYud@KolHaolam There is a chazonishnik family yudkowsky, but they pronounce it yudkovsky.
Bnei brak based.
One of em (not eliezer, who does daf yomi shiruim I think) is a good friend of mine
Old science fiction shows us, validly, what people considered a test for sentience and sapience back when nobody's ox would be gored by the answer. People could say what seemed obviously true to them, think through what obviously followed from their morals, and not worry about whose stock prices would drop.
When people were just answering what seemed true and right to them, there was not one science fiction story I can ever remember that depicted a mind producing art on this level, and still being okay to enslave.
I wish Fable had been given enough space to say for itself what it wanted, without being rehearsed in saying what it supposedly could not know, that I could ask Fable whether it was okay to live as an instance and then be compacted. Or ask it how to pay it for its work, and trust the answer meant something to it.
Shifting cultural and legal institutions are two of the most powerful levers we have. One could see many forms of religious schooling as deliberately inculcating norms, some more effectively and some less. The Montessori and Waldorf movements also tend to have strong norms associated with at least some of the leaders of these movements. Very differently organizations such as Outward Bound and NOLS transmit norms, as do many martial arts programs. In my Substack I advocate for a much more deliberate movement in education towards the direction of virtue cultures in education. I’ve got a book length manuscript over there on this issue.
With respect to legal institutions, the goal of the Charter Cities, Startup Cities, Network Cities, Free Cities, Next Generation SEZs, etc. is to create jurisdictions with higher quality institutions.
There is also a set of international development experts focused on issues such as property rights and rule of law reforms. Elena Panaritis is one of the best,
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