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Part of the challenge of this moment is the meeting of two pandemics – one caused by COVID-19 and one caused by an onslaught of information our brains and cultures haven’t yet built appropriate defenses for. Michael Porcelli and I discuss previous information pandemics, media literacy, and some potential open solutions for solving our current crisis of information in a time when Shared Reality is increasingly rare.
Understanding The Problem
History
- The Square and the Tower by Niall Ferguson – Wikipedia — https://bit.ly/34MMt5P
- Niall Ferguson’s NetWorld | PBS — https://to.pbs.org/3eBDedw
- European wars of religion – Wikipedia — https://bit.ly/2VFXyle
- History of Misinformation – BLACKBIRD.AI — https://bit.ly/2xIQqMK
- The great “Fake News” scare of 1530 (hint: it repeats today) — https://bit.ly/3erUPV7
- The War of the Worlds (1938 radio drama) – Wikipedia — https://bit.ly/2RO7dEZ
Digital Information Technology
- Disinformation Technology with Renee DiResta – YouTube — https://bit.ly/2RQwTkm
- Misinformation – Wikipedia — https://bit.ly/2VEEKTl
- Deepfake – Wikipedia — https://bit.ly/2VKQ4gW
- Internet Research Agency – Wikipedia — https://bit.ly/34Obq0T
- Information warfare – Wikipedia — https://bit.ly/2XOs7Yu
- Weapons of Math Destruction – Wikipedia — https://bit.ly/2wSMgBK
- Surveillance capitalism – Wikipedia — https://bit.ly/2xDIso8
- Attention economy – Wikipedia — https://bit.ly/3eAeemy
- Replication crisis – Wikipedia — https://bit.ly/39MAk1X
- Information wants to be free – Wikipedia — https://bit.ly/2XT3aem
- Digital Humanism with Jaron Lanier and Sam Harris — https://bit.ly/3exdGhk
- Rivalry (economics) – Wikipedia — https://bit.ly/34Ln0Kd
- AI Alignment – Machine Intelligence Research Institute — https://bit.ly/2KiofXY
- Principles for Solutions
- Media literacy – Wikipedia — https://bit.ly/3ajeseJ
The principle of Openness
- Open Source – Wikipedia — https://bit.ly/3bk6e7v
- Open Science – Wikipedia — https://bit.ly/3evTpsA
- Open Access – Wikipedia — https://bit.ly/3crpsYT
- Open Culture – Creative Commons — https://bit.ly/2KixzuR
- Preprint – Wikipedia — https://bit.ly/2ypWMAK
- Open-book accounting – Wikipedia — https://bit.ly/34KFpa5
- Open-book management – Wikipedia — https://bit.ly/3bkdwbp
- Choose Your Salary – Semco — https://bit.ly/2XLzsrP
- Distributed ledger – Wikipedia — https://bit.ly/3anIzSa
Platform Cooperativism
- Platform cooperative – Wikipedia — https://bit.ly/2X2UxvD
- Platform Cooperativism Consortium — https://bit.ly/3bwxLCR
- Everything for Everyone by Nathan Schneider — https://bit.ly/2zcSCg5
- Ours to Hack and to Own: The Rise of Platform Cooperativism by Nathan Schneider — https://bit.ly/3cv5DQt
- Rochdale Principles – Wikipedia — https://bit.ly/2wOdHMT
Anti-Rivalry
- Non-Rivalrous Goods – Definition and Characteristics — https://bit.ly/3alFp1p
- Network effect – Wikipedia — https://bit.ly/2z4bAFt
- Metcalfe’s law – Wikipedia — https://bit.ly/3aqsECR
- Anti-rival good – Wikipedia — https://bit.ly/3cvysMI
- Anti-rivalrous conversation by Andrew Sweeny — https://bit.ly/2VEDqjl
Humanism
- Team Human with Douglas Rushkoff — https://bit.ly/3cnRYKS
- Coherent Extrapolated Volition – Lesswrongwiki — https://bit.ly/2KfSMWf
Hacking our neurobiology
- Supernormal Stimulus – Wikipedia – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supernormal_stimulus
- The Extraordinary Science of Junk Food – NYTIMES — https://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/24/magazine/the-extraordinary-science-of-junk-food.html
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