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"Argument-Making in the Wild"
Today's SFI Seminar by Simon DeDeo (@LaboratoryMinds), streaming now. Follow our thread for pull quotes and slides:
Today's SFI Seminar by Simon DeDeo (@LaboratoryMinds), streaming now. Follow our thread for pull quotes and slides:
First, let's divide human history into three eras, or regimes of #knowledge #production and #consumption:
• #premodern/#archaic
• #modern + #postmodern
• the #egregore (online content sharing)
• #premodern/#archaic
• #modern + #postmodern
• the #egregore (online content sharing)
• The premodern era is defined by caloric restriction.
• The modern era is characterized by a small number of sellers of #information vs. a large number of consumers (see also #HerbertSimon's remarks on the "poverty of #attention")
• The modern era is characterized by a small number of sellers of #information vs. a large number of consumers (see also #HerbertSimon's remarks on the "poverty of #attention")
