Gods & Heroes: Singularity Institute – OWS – Twitter

23 Trillion Wrongs Don't Make a Right - OWS 10/15/11

Working Group Schedule - OWS 10/15/11

While NYU and NYC public school students joined Occupy Wall Street demonstrators downtown, the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence met uptown at the 92nd St Y. Sunday Oct 16, I dropped by on behalf of Social Media News New York (@smnny) to hear the Singularists's view of economic trends and what to do next. Mind you, taken to its furthest reaches the Singularist way of coming together would put the 1% and 99% uncomfortably close in the same bucket by making all humans redundant.


‎"Working with stuff is easier than working with people..we’re spending a lot on Health Care and not getting good value”. " 

Tyler Cowen, The Great Stagnation

TFP Measures Production from New Ideas

Cowen's TFP chart shows how productivity measurements from new ideas have flattened to 1/6 of that in the 19th century!  What can be fixed with stuff has already been done through industrialization and technology. Now, it's those hard people problems, health care and education being prime examples, that have to be addressed.  Developers were encouraged to focus on mobile devices to help humans with their interactions. He gave the example of something that could tell you when you are talking too much on a date.

Balloon Challenge Response

"Our communication paradigms are broken...we need connections to solve hard problems...You are fighting economics of attention"

Riley Crane, Rethinking Communication

Riley Crane shows organizations, companies and government how to build adoption of products, services, ideas and causes by “getting to the communication cascade” His graphs of communication cascades in social media amid the “economics of attention” was timely in the context of the weekend’s escalation of OWS.  

Social Media Boards - OWS

Once again Twitter, Facebook and mobile text carried the message of dissent globally and minimized confrontation on the ground when students used social media to quickly re-gather on Wall St. from Washington Square to avoid riot squads forming closeby at Astor Place.  

David Ferrucci, Tech, Dan Cerutti, Bus.

"...there is value in human language versus curated data"

David Ferrucci and Dan Cerutti

IBM's Watson executives claimed to value human analysis and included scholarly journals and other human language publications in programming the Jeopardy star.  His new gig is helping Health Care companies improve the performance of caregiver teams. 

Sharon Bertsch McGrayne, David Brin, Alex Wissner-Gross

" ....decendents of priests and rabbis, alphas should speak the adversary's language.."

David Brin

Futuristic writer and self-proclaimed contrarian, Brin proposed the “god creators” learn the language of the adversary.  Appealing flagrantly to the healthy ego in the room, he suggested their grasp of the Bible would be so impressive that even if the religious right is not converted, the caliber of debate would flatter and disarm the adversary.  In the heady atmosphere of the auditorium that morning, Brin’s tip made sense.  Forget the Crusades, 9/11 and the American abortion clinic’s daily toil, the super debater has entered!  Game imagery must be taking hold, even I thought yeah!

Badges, um, rewards go first to "god creators" gathering low-hanging quantifiable fruit, so our super bright humans aren’t likely to focus on the “hard” human stuff in the near term.  Brin’s got a point.  Better set one’s expectations closer to the ground.  Maybe they’d think it’s fun to pick up languages to show off. Minimally, those in desperate need of a lift could at least get a heady atmospheric fix - contact high, so to speak.

Must be great to be so smart.







Links

Occupy Wall Street: occupywallstreet.org


Social Media News NY: www.facebook.com/smnny


The Singularity Institute: www.singularityu.org


Twitter: www.twitter.com

Sept 11 - Subject: I'm a New Yorker - Make History National 9/11Memorial - Museum of Me

On this day ten years ago the world came apart and then together.  We each remember 9/11 in our own way and now have great tools to share this story.  Its an ongoing process... 

Links

http://on.fb.me/Sept11Spain

http://on.fb.me/Breuer

http://makehistory.national911memorial.org/

http://www.intel.com/museumofme/r/index.htm


Visit


http://www.sonsureda.com/index.php

www. linguae-mundi.com


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9CDini9SDM

http://www.yeguadacartuja.com/visitas_video.php

NYC Sights & Sites - Foursquare

Such fun this past week....Sunday's ah ha was on the Met roof gazing through the Anthony Caro sculpture especially noted for their engagement with the public; then dashing like a bandit down the stairs - once forbidden - to snap the "neighbors" in the galleries. 

Tuesday, I checked into the Carsten Aveda Institute.  Enroute, on the Upper East Side, Dulce Vida Café appeared with Colombian food - perfect to surprise Miss Gloria, the salon manager, a Colombia native.  The treats were so authentic, they prompted her immediate call, “Do you deliver to Union Square?”.  

Then the stylish Amadeo offered a complimentary manicure while telling me about his 2nd job with kids after work at Harvey Milk Public School, before going to a 3rd gig, performing whenever he can at Roseland. 

Wednesday, I joined Jeff Pulver’s NY for NYers #140 On Board for a guided tour by NYC fun fact specialist Jason Schuman.  One gem was the story of how Manhattan’s first luxury high rise got its name.   Evidently,  architect Henry J. Hardenbergh had a sense of humor.  When teased that his new creation was as far away as the Dakotas, he just used it.

Standard and Poor's appearance in the window, prompted a boo from the busload of #140 characters.  Lady Liberty sighted aboard the Zephyr on Manhattan's “blue highway" hushed the same crusty New Yorkers pausing to see her “enlightening the world with freedom”.

If the hawkers of scarcity intend to keep hording at the same rate in this town, they best adapt their refrain. This land grows the inspired.
Always Count the Cost - American Proverb

Four your inspiration:


Anthony Caro
http://www.flickr.com/photos/metmuseum/sets/72157626611308431/

The Metropolitan Museum on Foursquare
https://foursquare.com/metmuseum
"Neighbors"
http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1861582018985.2094091.1223975029
Dulce Vida Cafe
http://www.dulcevidacafe.com/
Carsten Aveda Institute
http://www.carsteninstitute.com/
Roseland
http://www.roselandballroom.com/
NY for NYers #140 On Board Photos
http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1873939047903.2094702.1223975
Harvey Milk High School

http://schools.nyc.gov/SchoolPortals/02/M586/default.htm
#140 OnBoard
http://140onboard.com/029
#140 State of Now Photos
http://www.meetup.com/140conf/photos/678526/
The Dakota
The Dakota - New York Architecture Images-

nyc-architecture.com/UWS/UWS017.htm - Cached

The Zephyr, Circle Line Downtown

http://www.circlelinedowntown.com/zephyr.asp
Foursquare
https://foursquare.com/
The Peking 
http://www.southstreetseaportmuseum.org/index1.aspx?BD=8995

Fat Tuesday - Sing Out America

@MarketWatch’s FatTuesday picture reminds me of the place I’ve loved since my mother, an interior designer installed a restaurant there and we heard Melba Moore and Preservation Hall in the French Quarter. Years later, at JazzFest 2005, it was a saxophone added to a flamenco trio. You see and hear everything in New Orleans. I promised myself another trip the same year to help restore a 12-bedroom Victorian. That Fall brought Katrina. Instead of restoring a historic home, I was waiting on HUD to release it’s wrong-headed hold on inventory of high-demand, low income housing. The sad series of national and personal misfortunes followed. I didn’t get back to the Gulf until Feb 2009 with Architecture for Humanity’s Biloxi Build, never imagining there would be more to come with BP.


When wondering today, how indeed the American public is to endure more discriminatory political discourse, I drew strength from those photos and the exuberant diversity that is New Orleans remembering the Arabic proverb…“when danger approaches, sing to it.“



Oh and I also kicked-in to Magnum fotog Bruce Gilden Foreclosing America   http://is.gd/Y8k9QT that has just 3 more days to be funded. He’s helping more voices in America to be heard.