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Author: viznut_web <viznut_web@web>
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2022 08:54:24 +0200
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@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ philosophical ones, so feel free to disagree with them or refactor them.
* Computers were invented to assist people in their cognitive processes. "Intelligence amplification" was a good goal, but intelligence may also be used narrowly and blindly. It may therefore be a better idea to amplify awareness.
* Awareness means awareness of whatever is concretely going on in the world/environment but also awareness of how things work and how they situate in their contexts (cultural, historical, biological etc).
-* You don't need to twiddle with everything in order to understand it. [[Yin hacking]] emphasizes observation.
+* You don't need to twiddle with everything in order to understand it. [[Yin hacking|Yin and yang]] emphasizes observation.
* It may also often be a good idea to amplify the computer's awareness of its physical surroundings with things like sensors.
## Expose everything
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ philosophical ones, so feel free to disagree with them or refactor them.
* While operating locally and at present, be aware of the entire world-wide context your work takes place in. This includes the historical context several decades to the past and the future. Understanding the past(s) is the key for envisioning the possible futures.
* Nothing is "universal". Even computers, "universal calculators" that can be readapted to any task, are full of quirks that stem from the cultures that created them. Don't take them as the only way things can be, or as the most "rational" or "advanced" way.
* Every system, no matter how ubiquitous or "universal" it is, is only a tiny speckle in a huge ocean of possibilities. Try to understand the entire possibility space in addition to the individual speckles you have concrete experience about.
-* **Appreciate diversity**, avoid [[monoculture]]. But remember that [[standard]]s also have an important place.
+* **[[Appreciate diversity|Technological diversity]]**, avoid [[monoculture]]. But remember that [[standard]]s also have an important place.
* Strict utilitarianism impoverishes. Uselessness also has an important place, so appreciate it.
* You may also read this principle as: **There is a place of everything**. Nothing is obsolete or irrelevant. Even if they lose their original meaning, programmable systems may be readapted to new purposes they were not originally designed for. Think about technology as a rhizome rather than a "highway of progress and constant obsolescence".
* There is a place for both slow and fast, both gradual and one-shot processes.
