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Core Concepts for Navigating Complexity
Symmathesy
Nora Bateson
living systems are learning systems
A system results from relationships. If not enough relational data not a robust enough system. Warm data.
Are we creating support structures, such as AI that allow for learning?
For example, DAO innovations are focused on fixed code. How to evolve into living contracts?
Antifragile
Hydra FTW
Indoor plants need wind. Otherwise their stalks can be weak and gangly. If you start seeds indoors, blow on them…perturb them.
Striving for a way to “build back better”
Symmathesy: learn from disorder and perturbation
Feedback and feed forward
Spectrums
Beyond Dualism
false certainty
no box thinking
Dimensions and gradients of possibilityaxis: X, Y, Z….
Carrying Capacity
A spectrum with thresholds
Covid CC
ICU
hospital beds
Humanity’s Carrying Capacity
Doughnut Economics
Humans
Environment
Inverse and Shadows
Inverse
Super exciting growth chart hides the consumption of resource and personnel
Externalities and other ways of manipulating statistics to make invisible what is declining to support the growth chart
Shadow and other shady things
This also shows up in human behavior. Anything that seems like an admirable characteristic may cover over, hide, or justify shady elements.
Inquiry
What other core concepts do you notice supporting the ability to steer within complexity?
What is carrying capacity good for and what might it miss (see inverse)? How will we get adequate data for it?
How do we sense thrivabilty in a course correcting learning environment striving to be antifragile? Something that seems horrible in one moment turns into a necessary perturbation in hindsight.
Core Concepts for Navigating Complexity
Symmathesy
Nora Bateson
living systems are learning systems
A system results from relationships. If not enough relational data not a robust enough system. Warm data.
Are we creating support structures, such as AI that allow for learning?
For example, DAO innovations are focused on fixed code. How to evolve into living contracts?
Antifragile
Hydra FTW
Indoor plants need wind. Otherwise their stalks can be weak and gangly. If you start seeds indoors, blow on them…perturb them.
Striving for a way to “build back better”
Symmathesy: learn from disorder and perturbation
Feedback and feed forward
Spectrums
Beyond Dualism
false certainty
no box thinking
Dimensions and gradients of possibilityaxis: X, Y, Z….
Carrying Capacity
A spectrum with thresholds
Covid CC
ICU
hospital beds
Humanity’s Carrying Capacity
Doughnut Economics
Humans
Environment
Inverse and Shadows
Inverse
Super exciting growth chart hides the consumption of resource and personnel
Externalities and other ways of manipulating statistics to make invisible what is declining to support the growth chart
Shadow and other shady things
This also shows up in human behavior. Anything that seems like an admirable characteristic may cover over, hide, or justify shady elements.
Inquiry
What other core concepts do you notice supporting the ability to steer within complexity?
What is carrying capacity good for and what might it miss (see inverse)? How will we get adequate data for it?
How do we sense thrivabilty in a course correcting learning environment striving to be antifragile? Something that seems horrible in one moment turns into a necessary perturbation in hindsight.