Summer of Protocols

This is what it's like to experience Whitehead's theory of advancement unfolding in realtime.

Just an intuition, but I think this is much more than just increased dopamine and viral loads, might just be a pre-condition for increased coordination ability.

If we're relying on technology to "think for us," maybe our individual cognitive abilities are declining from lack of exercise. But what if this means our collective capabilities are advancing in the long run?

NEW 🧵: Is human intelligence starting to decline?

Recent results from major international tests show that the average person’s capacity to process information, use reasoning and solve novel problems has been falling since around the mid 2010s.

What should we make of this? https://t.co/WyZoNEcTd3

John Burn-Murdoch

This is what it's like to experience Whitehead's theory of advancement unfolding in realtime.

Just an intuition, but I think this is much more than just increased dopamine and viral loads, might just be a pre-condition for increased coordination ability.

If we're relying on technology to "think for us," maybe our individual cognitive abilities are declining from lack of exercise. But what if this means our collective capabilities are advancing in the long run?

https://x.com/jburnmurdoch/status/1900537267308937416

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This is what it's like to experience Whitehead's theory of advancement unfolding in realtime.

Just an intuition, but I think this is much more than just increased dopamine and viral loads, might just be a pre-condition for increased coordination ability.

If we're relying on… https://t.co/U99YIV8G1x

The Hayek and Whitehead overlap is also surprising to me, but this is worth the read. Hayek takes Whitehead's observations on indv. cognitive habits, expanding them to the institutional scale: Markets as civilizational epistemic devices. 

https://t.co/rMcuz1x8CH

How we got here and where we're going. URL<>IRL @ v6acolab.org / SoP ☀️

https://x.com/rithikxa_/status/1900809284356587957

I heard on an episode of Dwarkesh pod this week that average human brain size has been declining over the past 10,000 years 

Eusociality in vogue

+ we’ve taken ourselves out of natural selection 

no good answer ofc