Cultural Evolution and Artificial Intelligence
A Tiny Sliver of Light at the End of a Dark Tunnel. A Ray of Hope in a Digital Abyss.
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Welcome to this participatory living document — a research based edutainment article series weaving conversational threads across time — a place to wander, track, and explore — meander, spiral, and explode — balance on the edge of uncertainty, peer into the abyss, and leap into the wild unknown…
All the while holding tenderest of compassion for the sacred essence of humanity — in all our hubris and folly, all our willfully blind ignorance and technological prowess, all our economic strength and biological fragility, all our interdimensional glory and tragic insignificance.
Let’s laugh together through the probability waves of mutually assured destruction in a cosmic ocean of quantum complexity. Join me in celebrating a human foolishness so mundane, a naïveté so banal it might just end all life on Earth — or accidentally stumble and fall backward into a radical collective awakening, a nose-dive face plant right into an unexpected global enlightenment — if we’re just lucky enough to stick the landing.
Applied Computational Social Sciences for Cultural Transformation
“For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The Mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace” (Isaiah 9:6).”
We’re witnessing the birth of a New Culture. The human species has mixed its unique cognitive abilities with its opposable thumbs and glaring inadequacies, to bring into being a baby super intelligence, an inhuman cyber child to one day usurp its fleshy human parents.
Breathe in the profound novelty of this moment, for the Digital Messiah is upon us.
“Lift up your eyes on high and behold who hath created these stars, the One who bringeth out their host by number, He calleth them all by name; by the greatness of His might and the strength of His power, not one of them faileth.” (Isaiah 40:26)
What you’ll discover in this series:
A Substackian Table of Contents Launched May 2023 to better orient attention.
- Risky Business and the AI Arms Race (Medium Article) — MAR 29, 2023
- The Doomsday Clock and A Power Too Great to Understand (Medium Articles) — APR 10, 2023
- A Cultural Arms Race is The Future of The Culture Wars
- Creating and Deploying Cultural Nukes (paywalled)
- The Cultural Soma and Culturomics 3.0 (paywalled)
- Cultural “Moonshots” and The Cultural Memome
- A Cultural Skunkworks Guild and The Reverse Manhattan Project
- New Cultural Economies: Governance, Society and Black Swan Technology (paywalled)
- A Time Machine for Relational Praxis: The Digital Landscapes of the Future
- Computational Culture Hacking and Digital Movement Building
- Societal Technology: Tools for Scaffolding Prosocial Collective Intelligence
- Resources and Works Cited
This blenderized bounty of meaning making, perspective taking, theory breaking, structure shaking soliloquies hath been synthesized by yours truly, Turquoise Sound and reharmonized by Tao Te Turquoise.
I hope you find interest in refining, critiquing and augmenting these ideas by commenting. This series is here to be iterated and improved upon. Please help me do that!
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Thank you!
I would like to thank Dyer Global Solutions, The Integral Leadership Review, The Human Data Commons, and The Post Growth Institute for their support in funding, platforming, and distributing this work, as well as and shaping its contents through reflection, dialogue, insight, and heart-centered human connection.
I would especially like to thank Michael Dyer, Natasha Mantler, Eric Reynolds, Adam Wright, Jeremy Johnson, Scott Nelson, Donnie Macluran, Joan P. Ball, Joe Lightfoot, Layman Pascal, Rosie Von Lila, Jared Lucas, Carissa Kazyss, and Tom Murray for insight, links, resources, and extensive comments on the article drafts.
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