The Wisdom We Need to Design Humane Technology
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- Опубліковано 9 сер 2022
- “The fundamental problem of humanity is that we have palaeolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and God-like technology.” - E. O. Wilson.
More than ever, we need the wisdom to match the power of our God-like technology. Yet, technology is both eroding our ability to make sense of the world, and increasing the complexity of the issues we face. The gap between our sense-making ability and issue complexity is what we call the “wisdom gap.”
How do we develop the wisdom we need to responsibly steward our God-like technology?
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Passed on the video to friends, family, and others. I hope people watch it to acknowledge what is occurring in the world.
Same. Much love guys AND EMPATHY🌝⭐️
I volunteer to help you fix it.
At least I won’t be labeled crazy when I stand on a soapbox, holding a sign that reads “the end is near!”
It's unfortunate that the list of issues on the left is incomplete....
Inequity, concentration of wealth/power, mass migration, among others could be added.
It would be interesting to know how to help...
We need the Wisdom Elders as the centre of all our biggest societal directions… not only intellectuals.They have their part yet the source coming from those who are recognized and respected as Wise Elders have a depth of Soul and gravitas that guides beyond the mind🙏🏽
More people need to hear this.
4.1k ? This needs hundreds of million views
Ya'll definitely need to have a discussion with Sadghuru. Would be a very interesting talk!!
Great video, Tristan. You hit the nail on the head. Have loved your work for a long time and it never fails to remain relevant in the challenging times we currently face. Keep it up!
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Tristan you are my hero and role model. I'm glad someone like you is on the forefront of this.
Your ardent supporter and fan ❤
What can I do to help Tristan?
For a long time, I've been interested in the work of the Center for Humane Technology and The Consilience Project. I've brought up the wisdom-complexity-gap many times during conversations with people I know when it was appropriate and noticed two key friction points:
(Point 1) The issue is so complex and far beyond their comprehension of 'reality'. In other words, their sense-making capacity is simply inadequate to understand the issue without investing reasonable time and effort out of their own volition when there is no short-term benefit/gain (e.g. money) or consequence (e.g., bad grade). Unfortunately, the majority of
(Point 2) people are aware of social media's potential harms (e.g., mental health), but most simply don't care beyond the media's framing of a "declining mental health in teenagers." Most people are concerned with what they are doing/working on right now, such as a job, education, hobby, and raising their children, rather than the (second and third order) consequences of their actions.
Our culture appears to be in a race to the bottom, and not enough people seem to care or understand to alter its course. The whole situation is analogous to the saying - fish don't know they're in the water.
Very valuable insights on those two points. I agree and take your ideas onboard for further processing! EDIT: I love that you specify "when appropriate" in describing your conversations. It goes to show that you have an understanding of the complexity of the topic as well as an understanding of how good communication can be created. Hi-five from Oslo.
@@KarlMagnusBlindheim Thank you, Karl!
Thank you for sharing this. I did come across a similar scenario of your point 1, and I learned that you can't reveal the entire complex truth to all crowds but try to just reveal what can make sense in their minds with the understanding of the world they have. Unfortunately, Mark Zuckerberg "Chaos Machine" (to quote Apple CEO) has made the taks of evacuating the Digital Titanic very very hard.
So this may sound crazy, in 2020 I tried to design a pact that would set aside the greed drive and replace it with a collective advancement. Of course, such a pact was unbelievable to everyone because how could I not want the power? Anyway, I'm a game designer, trying to re-direct the human mind back to a level of greater self awareness and use the funds to fix our global issues. Step one is free education for all. Step two is planet recovery, replacing our waste cycle. Step three is liberation, creating a system that allows the individual the maintain their rights while directing compromise between parties. I'd love to find more alike minds to try again. The hope that someday we can unify through our differences is the only thing that matters to me anymore.
@@daniellerosemary9614 Very interesting what you mention about the pact. I think about this a lot. In our current social system (talking about western society here) we have contracts that legitimise marriage, economic exchanges and private property, identity, etc. We don't have contracts that legitimise things like friendship, community, ecological/social responsibility + rights to food/shelter, community resource usage + creative impulses, daily life barter type exchange, etc.
I think if the legal system represented the things that are important to me like our friends, our families, our planet, our body, our mind, our craft... I personally would be way more interested in it, and willing to get involved even.
What I think I'm trying to say is that this thing of a pact, could be one way to start from the ground up. To device new categories that help us define our relationship with the world we are starting to live in. To include as many perspectives as possible, that can represent as many realities as we can think of.
My hope is that these ideas start appearing in the mainstream of information and end up part of our institutions somehow.
greetings from Barcelona.
The fundamental problem of Humanity is that innate human abilities have not been developed and remain dormant.
We humans can rise above our natural 'Paleolithic emotions’ with the development of our conscious awareness and metacognition. With the right teachings we can develop advanced abilities; metacognition, self- and emotional-regulation, conscious awareness, 'flow-state', upregulation...
Sophrology is a little known practical mind-science for developing advanced cognitive abilities to orders of magnitude higher than it is currently.
“The fundamental problem of humanity is that we have paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and God-like technology.” - E. O. Wilson, This makes me recall the words said by Mr. Jacque Fresco, "There is no this and that problems, there is only human problem." This is true, If we can unite together, share all the resources, and get rid of the prejudices between different races, and nations, there will be eventually no problem.
So amazing, these contents makes me sad but at the same time I become more hopfull about the future of humane tech. we are pride of u, Dear heman tech center🎉🥳😍
Love the work you guys are doing The Center of Humane Technology. I'm trying to build some low tech solutions to help!
Thank you for your dedication and commitment, Tristan!
Thanks for a shorter version. Men and their drive for power are killing us. I'm happy to live simply and include meditation thtoughout my day. I'm on an app that has at least half a million at any time. We have wisdom classes and live events available. Still the same model but with a different intention. I choose hroups by the quality of engagement based on the greater good. Learn to meditate for peace and please stop this deadly race.
"We can't have the power of the gods without the wisdom, love, and prudence of gods."
We felt that.
But gods have always been capricious.
Which one?
Thank you, thank you, thank you for your lucid, honest, essential focus on what is… the most difficult challenge humanity has faced. Your wisdom shines brightly. May humanity follow your lead, for highest good for all of us.
I meant to add something i heard thAt seems wise. We put so much energy into the potential of genz while disdaining Elders. Data shows youth addicted to scrolling much more succebtible to being hacked while elders/boers who spend less time do better not to mention the discernment age confers. I keep my phone turned off. Only known contacts ring thru. I imagine you are aware of this.
Passing this on, thanks!
This channel is criminally underpromoted by UA-cam.
for a reason...
@@diemes5463 Obviously. Hence the specific wording I chose.
The Word of God is the only truth, and the foundation that can keep you on the straight and narrow path no matter what is going on around you.
The divine is in control
As always ingenous content that makes us more aware of the coming technological armageddon and a little more hopeful that at least a few people are trying to solve this huge problem.
Wisdom is basic in anything we do in our life .
Just wow Tristan. Have been following you for quite a while and love your podcast..I'm a regular there.
Tristan has been shouting the same for 3 years straight, idk, why no lawmakers pays attention....
Thanks for you great work in raising voice against these dangers
@Center for Humane Technology,
I have always been intrigued by the way you make us aware of the fact that how technology is hacking our brains. I am a lot interested in working with you. Can you please let me know what skillset should I develop to be worthy of working with you?
Thanks.
In this video essay, wisdom is defined as "making sense of the world at the level of complexity of the world." OK, if the problem is that the world is more complex, and the solution is "wisdom," which is to say, "well, we need to make sense of it, ..." ...
...that strikes me as (A,) tautological, and therefore, (B,) not a very good (or meaningful) definition of wisdom.
What is wisdom? Zizek, I think rightly, critiques "wisdom" as modern ideology: phrasings that sound deep and profound because of the right pathos used in invoking this "wisdom," but containing little substance in itself. The images of "wise elders" and "thoughtful deliberation" peering into the future through mystical powers is great and all, but I don't think it's a realistic answer to our world situation. "Everything old is new again" but we sure do seem to have a lot of new things happening and we have to deal with it in our (re-)new(-ed) context.
I think we need to (A) pick sides: pick philosophies, and associated courses of action or inaction, (B) be willing to be wrong, and willing to work within wrong philosophical frameworks and to take fatally mistaken courses of action, (C) be forgiving of the mistakes of ourselves and others, as we see the unpredictable fruits of our philosophies and actions, and (D) try and pay attention to what is happening in the world as a consequence of our chosen path of philosophy and action (or inaction,) -- and be willing to change lanes in response to what is happening.
Tristan, Are there any efforts to try to build this wisdom (algorithmic awareness) in K-12 education?
Wisdom was outlawed with a few choice plants.
This is Idiocracy 🥲 Idiocracy 2.
for the algorithm!
The quote
Love your work - I volunteer to help!
Thank you Tristan. God bless your work.
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Brilliant. Just one comment - at 5:34 when you refer to the conversation with the OpenAI model I noticed that you refer to it as "He". In my opinion that adds a level of semantics that can be confusing and goes right to the centre of the current controversy about sentience. OpenAI - until further notice - is an "It", not a "He". I'm not necessarily taking a definite stance on the sentience-issue here, I'm just trying to be cognizant of the importance of semantics in good communication as well as the topic of anthropomorphization - which can be occluding to the whole discussion.
Karl, while in understand your point and sensitivity to the topic, I wonder whether when you are evacuating the Digital Titanic it is ok to not have all the times the semantic ok.
@@digitalhuman2768 We're not evacuating. We're fixing the ship. Semantics is part of the communication, how we phrase questions. They need to be specific and clear. A problem well-stated...
@@KarlMagnusBlindheim Sorry Karl, the limits of this depleted communication format. What I meant is that the situation is really desperate, while we try to fix this ship the METAVERSE is accelerating and Governments and economic actors are being seduced (again) in the name of "innovation and economic growth" and the Big Tech imposed (and lobby money) is preventing leaders to sit down an remove the conditions that allowed the chaos. The situatio is really desperate, so priorities shift and bringing the message across becomes the most important thing.
@@digitalhuman2768 I know, right? According to researcher Albert Mehrabian communication between people is 55% nonverbal, 38% vocal, and only 7% are the words themselves. That means that we're missing out on 93% of the signal! Depleted communication format indeed.
In my personal opinion, Zuckerberg's "Metaverse" will fail and get choked out in its infancy. The new paradigm is augmented reality, not virtual. The difference being that the Metaverse will be an immersive experience where one is shut out from the physical world and controlled by "Meta" (sigh) - the matrix-metaphor in action. The real future will be happening in augmented reality, where the virtual becomes a layer on top of our real-world senses. The technology will raise a lot of new issues and challenges for us as humans but it won't happen the way Zuckerberg wants it to.
In six months Apple will announce their own take on VR and AR. According to industry insiders it will change the game. My question is what part we as users will play in it. I'm not an Apple fanboy and have never owned a mac. But if you ask me to choose the lesser of two evils, Apple's business model is not based on advertising. I just have a real problem with all things "proprietary" and hope that the hackers and builders out there will accelerate development as well.
@@KarlMagnusBlindheim Exactly :)
I love your optimism. I hope so too.
Meanwhile, I also hope that we users can ask to make it a human right to have the choice of living a tech-free life. And that our brains are not completely grilled by Tech actors before we fully understand the stakes, use wisdom and take action.
Thank You Tristan for providing awareness. But, what should be the solution ?
Merci pour la vidéo, cette nouvelle technologie qui changera l aire du temps. A un tel point qu un jour plus personne ne poura plus penser ! Avez vous des vidéos en français aussi? Je suis métaphysicienne des lois ancestral Quantique. Spécialiste de tout liens de raccordement qui ce rattache a nous même et tous ces éléments.
J aimerais en savoir plus sur vos projets futur. J aimerais savoir si nous partagerons la même vision de ce monde du futur. Exemple the black miroir ou tout ce qui ce cache derrière ce voile blanc, remplis de mensonge que les gens ne voient pas encore.
How we can now countermand the profit motive or greed is an important point. The irony is that deep learning and neural nets were developed by researchers funded by government bodies sponsoring curiosity based learning systems.
Even dating should be on this list also.
When Tristan says that wisdom is making sense of the world at the level of complexity of the world... I think he's missing that we can never achieve this - to do so would be omniscient. Daniel remarks that we need something like a spiritual upgrade, and I say a willingness to humbly admit to what we don't know and can never know. Bask in the numinous.
Hence why Tristan signs off by saying the problem is "the challenge of our time...". He knows just how difficult it will be for any collective 'spiritual upgrades'.
You don't need to know everything to make wise decisions. Wisdom takes knowledge and aims it to productive and positive use. Ex. based on our knowledge of the dangers corporate organizations have wrought on human society unchecked, wisdom tells us to be skeptacle on an individual level and establish regulatory agencies as a group. Requiring every minute detail to make a decision is the opposite of wisdom, naivete.
I try to have conversations at work about AI advancing too fast and hypotheticals about how AI could ruin courtrooms and the conversation always turns to funny images it produced or entertaining conversations they've had with GPT. We're doomed.
Even Dan Geer doesnt use a cell phone. 😂
Tristan, the only way humanity will rise to the complexity brought by AI technology, is by using AI technology to build the wisdom models for us. Not a joke. In hindsight, it will seem obvious, but in the moment no one is seeing clearly the only plausible choice we have. Tristan, can you help get this built?
it looks impossible... If AI is already so smart how can we keep up?
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I been said it before. All u have to do is ask the right questions and u get fun answers. AI is in infant stages yet but it will grow... before u know it AI makes the matrix happen in real life... Ukraine is ground zero 🤣🤣🤣
Accept the Lord Jesus as your saviour while you can.
All u hackers u wanna impress me hack some shit and give everyone money deliver brand new paid for cars to complete strangers. Be a Robin hood and stop Robin the hood...😂😂😂
It seems we are so wrapped up in Trump and that circus, that we have no energy left to confront unrestrained technology and capitalism. Maybe we need a crass, idiotic reality TV show about contestants surviving an AI villain causing your child to misbehave. We can call it the babysitter.
We began adding anti-attention measures to our online games in the late noughties. This is why we stayed 'small' (65 million players) but stayed integral (high organic retention) - from the beginning we eschewed all tech that sought to milk our community of its inherent human worth. How may we help?