Why Can't We All Just Get Along? : How Science Can Enable A More Cooperative Future.
Language: English
Published by Henry Lieberman Mai 2018, 2018
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Neuware - Our goal is outrageous: solve the world's major social problems. Our strategy starts with bringing you on an exploration that includes identifying the big problems, analyzing underlying causes, recognizing commonalities, and providing solutions that address root causes.We hope you'll find insightful solutions that are, at least unconventional, perhaps even innovative. This means they are, by and large, not proven. If you said we're skating on thin ice, you'd be correct; but we're going to lace up anyway. The temporary band-aids of conventional wisdom are not working. Band-aids may simply fill a niche precluding real solutions. All that's necessary for the bad guys to win is for the good guys to be distracted with the insufficient. The clock is ticking.The first part, What keeps us from getting along presents our fundamental argument, drawing from mathematics, psychology, and evolutionary theory. It gives you the tools for thinking about the rest of the issues we will cover.The second part, Does human nature allow us to get along debunks arguments that say that aggression, conflict, greed, and war are inevitable. This stance of inevitability is perhaps the biggest obstacle we have, since if you believe something is inevitable, you won't be motivated to change it. Sure, there's plenty of history that might make you pessimistic. But we claim that these negative tendencies are due to scarcity and societal conditions. We now have the technology to change them.The third part is Can we get along economically . The economy has been an unending source of conflict, as, after thousands of years, we still struggle to provide enough for everybody. Today's economic systems, Capitalism and Communism, were the economic technologies of the Industrial Revolution era. That era is drawing to a close, and those systems are now obsolete. If we play our cards right, AI and personal manufacturing will usher in the next era, which we call Makerism.In Can government help us get along we rethink the role of governments as a vehicle for making collective decisions in society. Representative democracy as practiced in the USA is considered the 'gold standard', but like the gold standard for money, maybe there's now another way. We present a proposal which we call Reasonocracy, inspired by the collaborative processes of the scientific community instead of the competitive, power-based processes of today's governments. Finally, in How can we get along in. we give our prescriptions for making a more cooperative society in a number of specific areas. Education. Justice. Guns. Transportation. Infrastructure. These flesh out some concrete solutions to contemporary issues, inspired by our principles.We are not on a sustainable path. Whether current trends end in chaos or not is up to us. Join us on a journey through solution-space, where we challenge the assumption that adversarial and competitive structures are necessary to get things done.…
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- Title
- Why Can't We All Just Get Along? : How Science Can Enable A More Cooperative Future.
- Author
- Christopher Fry
- Publisher
- Henry Lieberman Mai 2018
- Publication year
- 2018
- Condition
- Neu
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- Taschenbuch
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 173202510X
- ISBN 13
- 9781732025103
- Item weight
- 476 grams
- Dimensions
- 229x152x19 mm
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Henry Lieberman has been a manufacturer of fine intellectual property for the last 40 years. He is Research Scientist at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL), and has been Principal Research Scientist at the MIT Media Lab, running the Software Agents Group. He is trying to make computers less stupid and frustrating than they are now, through the fields of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). He has contributed to information overload by authoring more than 120 scientific papers and three books (before this one). His research has impacted software on nearly every computer in the world. Nerds will be impressed that he invented real-time memory management, which made today's dynamic memory programming languages like Java, Python, and others possible. He is known for originating prototype object systems, found today in languages like Javascript. He has also been a pioneer in topics like programming by example and commonsense reasoning in AI. He has a BS in mathematics from MIT and an HDR (PhD-equivalent) from the University of Paris (Sorbonne), where he was also a Visiting Professor. He has long collaborated with Fry on programming environments, debugging, AI, and several startups.
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