@aredridel@kolektiva.social2024-03-26 04:42:43
I've been reading "On Green” (https://joecarlsmith.com/2024/03/21/on-green) and its following article, “On Attunement” with some interest today. I am uninterested in the ways he is focused on “AGI”, but that might actually be part of what he's saying and missing.
They talk about the philosophy of green in the "magic the gathering" sense, which has five core modes of things, and being a game, designed to balance. It's an attractive system and not without merit as a philosophical labeling system. In short: white, moral; blue, knowledge and rationality; red, passion and desire; black, power and achievement. And green. Green is the subject they can't identify clearly.
I don't think they really understand green. (They come from a very rationalist place, and that's not a good mode to understand Green)
Green is the domain of systems thinking and of ecology. It's one of flexible boundaries and hierarchies that vanish when you look at them for long. They talk about philosophical agents and try to fit a green philosophical stance into that framework, but it misses: the very idea of a self is nebulous in a green philosophy. Yes, it obviously exists, we are all separate from each other. But also we are inseparable from each other. Green is a philosophy of relationality and multiple perspectives and ever shifting viewpoints. It's not just yin, passive, permissive, but holistic. It's not that it lets the Other in, it's that it actively is in relation with the Other. The other is the self, the self is the other.
The essays also label green as conservative, and this is not quite true. It is not about being slow or regressive or traditional, but about being whole. They can't quite see that green's willingness to accept death and pain as things that happen and also its strong preservationist stance are not opposed to each other. It seems incoherent, but it's not: death and pain are things that happen to living parts of an ecosystem. They matter, but so too does the whole matter. Where so many blue rationalists see statistical and demographic counts of deaths and "sentient beings harmed”, green sees a whole ecosystem where some of that is deeply natural. It's unnatural, ecosystem-harming deaths that are disasters in the green philosophy. Wholesale extinctions. Protracted, painful deaths, as much for the wound they cause outside the individual as the individual suffering as well. But we all come to an end, and to change that wholesale would end so many kinds of relationship, so many things.
Green revels in the illegible, the incomplete, and the connected. It's easy to be green-blind, to ignore the subtle systemic effects. So many of us want simple cause and effect, rather than action and plurality of reactions.
Green's ability to embrace the illegible lets it deal with Red chaos; its resilience tempers red passion. It can ally with White philosophies into a pastoral, conservative, moralistic framework. It ends up at odds with the rationalist Blue and the power-hungry Black, because they drive disequilibrium, but more than just transition to new stable ecologies, they drive systems permanently out of stability, destroying relationships in their path. When confronted with this, they will deny it because the objects are still there. Preserved. Catalogued. Legible and accounted for. Perhaps used instrumentally. Perhaps wrecked for some "greater purpose” but only acknowledged as objects. The relationships between things remain illegible.
@oligneisti@social.linux.pizza2024-02-26 08:56:43
I think people unfairly attacked #ZachBraff for using #Kickstarter to fund his movie. I think the film industry would be in better shape if that had become a model.
There are many #filmmakers
@cowboys@darktundra.xyz2024-02-27 02:19:48
2024 offseason primer: Cash-strapped Cowboys feeling the heat after playoff dud https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/2024_offseason_primer_cash_strapped_cowboys_feeling_the_heat_after_playoff_dud…
@ampersine@mastodon.online2024-02-25 21:17:09
I don't usually post videos here, but the mental gymnastics going on among the magats in this clip are just astonishing.
#SouthCarolina #Trump voters were asked to react to various things "Joe Biden did," like dodging the Vietnam draft with a flimsy bone-spurs excuse. Then, t…
@aardrian@toot.cafe2024-03-26 16:05:51
This guy at the #Buffalo airport is loudly shouting into his phone how he is flying to DC to “make a play on the Seneca territory, yeah, for a hundred acres.”
So just a reminder that when you have to fly somewhere “for politics,” versus a genuine business deal, that maybe broadcasting it as the loudest thing in the terminal is not the smartest thing in the terminal.
@robpike@hachyderm.io2024-02-26 02:55:49
That feeling when the tool you bought ages ago just in case is, today, exactly the thing to fix the chair that broke when Aunt Millie sat in it.
@StephenRees@mas.to2024-04-26 18:07:52
20th Anniversary – probably
In 2004 I found myself unemployed. By some strange coincidence this morning I read a post from Ben Parfitt "Thanks for the Great Ride". It seems that just as I was looking for a new job he had found one: "my new capacity as a resource policy analyst with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, BC Office." I wasn't exactly clear on the precise date of either event, so I went looking in my filing cabinet and come across this docume…
@ErikJonker@mastodon.social2024-04-26 14:35:04
It's very early days with AI devices but i think the Rabbit R1 does a great job not failing completely from the start like the AI pin did. I will wait for the next generation however.
https://www.tomsguide.com/ai/i-just-spent-m…
@scott@carfree.city2024-04-27 00:54:42
"for Republican lawmakers, criticizing university presidents for failing to protect Jewish students from antisemitism is a useful political issue with the potential to deepen divisions among Democrats — one that, unsurprisingly, they have pursued vociferously."
thing is, Democratic *voters* are not divided. 75% disapprove of Israel's actions in Gaza!
@ErikJonker@mastodon.social2024-04-26 14:35:04
It's very early days with AI devices but i think the Rabbit R1 does a great job not failing completely from the start like the AI pin did. I will wait for the next generation however.
https://www.tomsguide.com/ai/i-just-spent-m…