Radical Rebalancing

Steerability, not foresight We’ll never perfectly predict what we’ll want. That was never the missing faculty. What we’re missing is steerability — the ability to encounter something new, learn from it, and then redirect or stop. We keep building things we can’t steer, then act surprised we can’t steer them. #fyp #ai

The one-way door We offshored the economy, optimized for cost. It worked. It also hollowed out towns. We deployed social media, optimized for engagement. It worked. It also degraded trust and truth. Both times, by the time we saw the damage, it was too embedded to undo. Doors that only open one way. #fyp #reality #ai

The expense report test We can build machines that write sonnets and generate Picassos. We still haven’t killed the expense report. The single most universally hated chore in modern work survives completely intact. That gap tells you exactly what the spend is for and what isnt #fyp #ai #radicalrebalancing

The missing mechanism By what mechanism do our actual desires get translated into what we build? We have markets (they translate willingness to pay). We have politics (they translate organized power). Neither is a channel for what people want the future to be. The honest answer is we don’t have one.

Your participation in the system is inextricably linked to its survival

verifying for @verses_xyz — to a pluriverse, a world where many worlds may fit pluriverse.world sig:0x4310f19715e0f6ff34ab670f531b8cb73b60bbc037d551082aa705a6e19f4dcf502af7e5e47ba3826bfa2929299ba8ea4984151faaa57a13338008a20e212f181c

attention is a moral act

“If men are to remain civilized or to become so, the art of associating together must grow and improve” - Alex de Tocqueville, 1840

the individual awakening is the revolution

“If you overemphasize … amplifying the public and private sector … where is the civic sector? … where is the social sector?”