In a backstage chat at Rootwire 2013, EFF co-founder and former Grateful Dead lyricist Barlow offers his classic sardonic wit in a hip-shot interview about the future of democratized surveillance...
Michael Garfield at Center Camp Café, 27-8-2013. Improvised instrumental live electronica, aka "cyberacoustic guitar."
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More recordings from Burning Man 2013:
- View From The Horizon (talk at Center Camp) http://bit.ly/viewfromthehorizon
- Taking A Cosmic Perspective (talk at Fractal Planet) http://bit.ly/cosmic-perspectives
- Life in the Glass Age (talk at Palenque Norte) http://bit.ly/lifeintheglassage
- Earth Song For Sky Dance (music at Center Camp) http://bit.ly/earthsongforskydance
- Looper's Night (collaborative musical experiment at Center Camp) http://bit.ly/loopersnight2013-08-27
Signal Path: LR Baggs M80 Pickup - LR Baggs Venue DI - Boss PS-5 Pitch Shifter - Boss SL-20 Slicer - Boss DD-20 Giga Delay - Vox Wah - Boss RC-300 Loopstation
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ttQLAcfRds
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This episode’s guest is Arthur Brock, currency design expert and lead visionary behind the Holochain project – which just might be the basis for the truly free, encrypted, peer-to-peer, surveillance-resistant, voluntary, non-exploitative Web we’ve all been dreaming about since the 1990s.
Described by many as a “blockchain killer,” Holochain offers users an endlessly scalable and secure decentralized platform for our lives online, inspired by the fractal branching flows and emergent order we observe in nature.
You don’t have to be a cryptocurrency enthusiast or economics wonk to appreciate the smarts and wisdom that Art brings to his work – or to understand why he’s spent the last ten years teaching people about a new paradigm of currency and governance.
This is an introduction to a whole new way of thinking about what matters most to you – whatever that might be – as well as how Art and the Holochain team are working day and night to help us ditch the scarcity mindset, and to give us the tools for building a more human and generous society.
Holochain Website
Metacurrency Project Website
"Building Responsible Cryptocurrencies" by Arthur Brock
Quotes:
“I think one of my particular gifts is interfacing with complex systems, being able to find leverage points for changing those patterns…”
“Currencies are not just about money. That’s like a fingernail on the animal of currencies.”
“There’s two fundamental fallacies that blockchain is stuck in. The first one is that data exists, and the second one is that time exists.”
“There is no absolute time. To pretend that there is, is to create a fiction.”
We Discuss:
• Currencies as “current-sees,” ways to see, shape, and enable flows of value;
• How does nature use signaling systems to create evolutionary “current-sees” that can guide our thinking on currency design?
• Why most of the blockchain/cryptocurrencies space is thinking wrong about value and how to generate value in a thriving ecology.
• How to design money for stability, compared to the intense volatility of nearly all cryptocurrencies.
• Comparing Sean Esbjörn-Hargens’ “Metacapital Framework” to Art’s “Metacurrency Project” and how things shift when you shift your thinking from pools of resources to flows of resources.
• How our CONNECTIONS are actually deeper and more important realities than our BORDERS.
• How the transition to p2p money routing around banks is like the Protestant Reformation and its ensuing political chaos.
• The balance between centralized and decentralized systems ��
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Performed live at Tribal Convergence (Tide Water Falls, OR) on 12 June 2011. Improvised as accompaniment to the deep, damp night...
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This week we’re joined by Anna Riedl, a Global Shaper at the World Economic Forum and organizer at Effective Altruism Austria, currently studying Cognitive Science at Universität Wien. We discuss behavioral economics, bounded rationality, computational rationality, and other formal ways of thinking about how to do the most good, given great uncertainty about most things. We ask whether “cognitive biases” are really fairly understood as biases when they’re the result of a rational learning process, we explore links to the quantified self, and we advocate for epistemic humility — and the need, no matter our incomplete understanding, to nonetheless still Do Something…
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Anna on FB: “Rationality ≠ Rationalism”Anna’s Cognitive Science MapEffective Altruism AustriaEffective Altruism Redbubble Design Shop80,000 Hours: Key IdeasGapminder.orgFuture of Humanity Institute
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Official show music by original co-host Evan “Skytree” Snyder. For more vibes, here are my music and listening recommendations on Spotify.
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From Episode 75 of Future Fossils Podcast:
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TRANSCRIPT:
"I don't think we have enough utopian thinking. Not enough of it. People are too cynical and they pretend they're not cynical by calling it pragmatic. There couldn't be enough utopian thinking as far as I'm concerned – with caveats, all right – but with that said I think I feel very, very fortunate in so many ways. I've been exposed to amazing ideas, incredible people, and I see those ideas have an amazing power, and we've seen them. The Santa Fe Institute was instrumental in the development of network theory. It’s everywhere! It’s everywhere in good and bad ways. And so on.
I think that a success for me would be a world where a fact was a fact – I’m not being political! – where people could be reasonable, mentally pluralistic, and rigorous. I think the educational system was trying to do this – I mean schools are trying to do this, universities are trying to do this – but I think they're not succeeding, and we can see if we look at the world today and the political turmoil, and the genuine risk I think of loss of life at scales which are unprecedented, they're not succeeding. And in a sense it is utopian, because the Interplanetary Project is saying, "Is there a different way now of getting the best of what we have done to as many people as we possibly can, and in a way that isn't preachy, isn't didactic, is genuinely engaging and fun, and where a single individual somewhere in the world, who we've never met, who has limited resources could make a real contribution to it?"
It's utopian, but if that turned out to be true, if that happened, that's my notion of success."
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljxI0GabvxI
Michael Garfield takes a break from tour with journalist/filmmaker Charles Shaw.
ABOUT THE TOUR:
The Light & Shadow Tour is a six-week national event combining music, lectures, and documentary film-making from investigative journalist Charles Shaw and visionary artist Michael Garfield as they engage communities across the US in conversation about the role of the unconscious in personal and cultural transformation...
For more info, including a full program and tour schedule:
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ABOUT THE SONG:
"I don't know about you, but I forget I'm alive all the time."
- David Titterington (www.davidtitterington.com)
"It Hurts So We're Not Dead" is an attempt to reconcile the intrinsic pain of existence with the opportunity that pain provides us to wake up and appreciate the lives we have...
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LYRICS:
when love's first blush is gone
the fruit has fallen off
and we're left scratching heads
it hurts so we're not dead
when weariness sets in
and fame is wearing thin
so soon do we forget
it hurts so we're not dead
when we are disconnect
we don't feel, just expect
and we're not full, just fed
it hurts so we're not dead
when even pain is old
and doesn't hurt as should
and we're desperate to be bled
it hurts so we're not dead
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRmkm9iRpMU
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Paleontologist-Futurist and host of the Future Fossils Podcast Michael Garfield, on time as geography and how to navigate the landscape of potential. Recorded in 360º at the Global Eclipse Gathering, 19 August 2017. For more talks, podcasts, and writing, visit http://patreon.com/michaelgarfield.
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• Big thanks to Twilight Hobbies & Games in Santa Fe, NM for letting me ornament their wonderful store!
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• Voiceover excerpted from my essay, "The Future Is Indistinguishable From Magic":
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Michael Garfield at Center Camp Café, 27-8-2013. Improvised instrumental live electronica, aka "cyberacoustic guitar."
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More recordings from Burning Man 2013:
- View From The Horizon (talk at Center Camp) http://bit.ly/viewfromthehorizon
- Taking A Cosmic Perspective (talk at Fractal Planet) http://bit.ly/cosmic-perspectives
- Life in the Glass Age (talk at Palenque Norte) http://bit.ly/lifeintheglassage
- Earth Song For Sky Dance (music at Center Camp) http://bit.ly/earthsongforskydance
- Looper's Night (collaborative musical experiment at Center Camp) http://bit.ly/loopersnight2013-08-27
Signal Path: LR Baggs M80 Pickup - LR Baggs Venue DI - Boss PS-5 Pitch Shifter - Boss SL-20 Slicer - Boss DD-20 Giga Delay - Vox Wah - Boss RC-300 Loopstation
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHIc4i2aHv0