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interestingly, institutions and bureaucracies are the best way to group sense-make now. Not sure if they'll hold up without some kind of refactor in the future, but the breaking them down is also going to a have an affect on how we understand ourselves and relate to each other.
Rules are a collective sensemaking mechanism.
This is what it's like to experience Whitehead's theory of advancement unfolding in realtime.
Just an intuition, but I think this is much more than just increased dopamine and viral loads, might just be a pre-condition for increased coordination ability.
If we're relying on technology to "think for us," maybe our ind
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This is what it's like to experience Whitehead's theory of advancement unfolding in realtime.
Just an intuition, but I think this is much more than just increased dopamine and viral loads, might just be a pre-condition for increased coordination ability.
If we're relying on technology to "think for us," maybe our ind...

John Burn-Murdoch
@jburnmurdoch
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NEW 🧵: Is human intelligence starting to decline?
Recent results from major international tests show that the average person’s capacity to process information, use reasoning and solve novel problems has been falling since around the mid 2010s.
What should we make of this? https://t.co/WyZoNEcTd3

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I love how presenting the two extreme tails in future scenarios get people thinking about the more nuanced middle pathways. Feels like an inherently human trait to reject absolutes that needs to be leveraged more
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I'm a strong believer that history repeats itself, but with new tools each cycle. Lots to bridge between the governance systems of the hanseatic league and all the little pieces of a new computer<>economy we're all trying to build over here:
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