There's a recognizable & real value to this call. It presents something hopeful: that values human spirit, that says we each have value and are unique & worthwhile.
And it leaves the door open to the future; think of how hard scholars today go to find words from antiquity, what effort they take to understand the past: isn't it a noble idea to equip the past with a better view, to be able to see broadly into what the world is today?
The world is so tired & frustrated & angsted up, over so many situations. The comments here almost universally come in extremely hot. They are short on possibility, actively disbelieve in what we have. I confess it's indeed reasonable to have some curmudgeonliness, to assume people are useless & uninteresting. But isn't an effort like this what would make the world better? If we thought laterally, if we both recognized that we have but one small voice but also cherished that light? To me, what's proposed here is the most basic inner-core of social contract: the recognition of human value, human dignity.
These comments are amok with only the downsides of today. They are afraid of the couple scattering of examples of the weird that emerges at scale, the people harassed or bugged in real life. But there's so many hundreds of millions of people who are posting & sharing & blogging just fine. These comments disdain people & their discard their worth, without pausing to reflect on what gems in the rough might emerge. No one takes a long view, and asks how humanity might be different if we thought long, if we made a long context part of our existence. These attitudes engender the short term mercenary small view of exstence, they promote the havoc & irrelevance that they themselves disdain.
There's so many interesting fractal possibilities & growths we could make towards this kind of idea. The costs have never been lower to keep & preserve. The prompt, of writing for the long, for the world: that calling I think would change us, would help us beget something closer to a smart & sensible noosphere, that can care, that escapes the traps of negativity & turmoil-driven attention hounding, that would help us break free of so many of the unlikable conditions. I hope we can believe in each other, I hope we don't forever stay so pissy & snarky & short, I hope we can believe in trying for good things, moral & right things, even though there are challenges, even though it won't be perfect, even though less worthy & ideal words might also be captured in the archive.
And it leaves the door open to the future; think of how hard scholars today go to find words from antiquity, what effort they take to understand the past: isn't it a noble idea to equip the past with a better view, to be able to see broadly into what the world is today?
The world is so tired & frustrated & angsted up, over so many situations. The comments here almost universally come in extremely hot. They are short on possibility, actively disbelieve in what we have. I confess it's indeed reasonable to have some curmudgeonliness, to assume people are useless & uninteresting. But isn't an effort like this what would make the world better? If we thought laterally, if we both recognized that we have but one small voice but also cherished that light? To me, what's proposed here is the most basic inner-core of social contract: the recognition of human value, human dignity.
These comments are amok with only the downsides of today. They are afraid of the couple scattering of examples of the weird that emerges at scale, the people harassed or bugged in real life. But there's so many hundreds of millions of people who are posting & sharing & blogging just fine. These comments disdain people & their discard their worth, without pausing to reflect on what gems in the rough might emerge. No one takes a long view, and asks how humanity might be different if we thought long, if we made a long context part of our existence. These attitudes engender the short term mercenary small view of exstence, they promote the havoc & irrelevance that they themselves disdain.
There's so many interesting fractal possibilities & growths we could make towards this kind of idea. The costs have never been lower to keep & preserve. The prompt, of writing for the long, for the world: that calling I think would change us, would help us beget something closer to a smart & sensible noosphere, that can care, that escapes the traps of negativity & turmoil-driven attention hounding, that would help us break free of so many of the unlikable conditions. I hope we can believe in each other, I hope we don't forever stay so pissy & snarky & short, I hope we can believe in trying for good things, moral & right things, even though there are challenges, even though it won't be perfect, even though less worthy & ideal words might also be captured in the archive.
I vote with this guy: let's keep the lightcone.