Why so? The emergence of a global consciousness that transcends nation states seems like a step towards the maturity of the species. What concerns do you have Joscha?
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Do you prefer to shop at a small store that is intelligently stocked by its owner, or do you like to go to CVS so you can buy seven different kinds of aspirin by the pound? Large systems tend to exploit efficiency of scale, at the price of reducing smart complexity.
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Say more about "civilizational intellects"
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Your own intellect is not monolithic, but a rarely fully coherent orchestra of different mental instruments. Likewise, the civilizational intellect becomes visible when you integrate over the effects of the interaction of its influential minds, over a sufficiently long time.
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Before/after this way of thinking...what do you think of Israel? And Kurdistan? And Mars?
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Discussing the middle east conflict on twitter?
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Humoring the idea of "civilizationally-emergent" intelligence, how prone do you think this idea is to entertaining tendencies of fascism? If the politics of individuals enables judgement of character, surely the politics of civilizations also enables it.
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Fascism is one of the attractors in the space of operating systems for societies. The resulting civilizations were aggressive, agentic and short-lived. They also tried to increase efficiency by cauterizing the existing civilizational intellectual tradition, so they were primitive
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I never liked the idea personally, but yes.
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There is no need (and no possibility) to destroy them. But they may melt together and transform into a new, different form. The process doesn't need to be harsh.
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