maybe locally but certainly not systematically the problems of the world are not in my departmenthttps://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/871515755602485248?s=19 …
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maybe locally but certainly not systematically the problems of the world are not in my departmenthttps://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/871515755602485248?s=19 …
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but local problems are born from systematical problems (or, at least, from very wide-spread problems)https://twitter.com/erin_nerung/status/1141242446686371840?s=19 …
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it hurts personally, but it comes from a place of widespread uncertainty solving it locally works, but is a solution good enough if it doesn't tackle the problem in its entirety?
Solving problems locally is efficient even in this world. First, concentrating on solving issues locally insulates me from reliance on broken systems. Second, I don't actually have any ability to solve systematic problems and so effort expended toward that end is wasted.
Is difficulty in scaling up solutions a local or global problem? If everyone solves their local problems will all problems be solved or are some problems intrinsically global? If we can solve a problem N people have in common why can't we solve a problem N+1 people have?
Some problems are intrinsically global for sure. Emergent properties, neighborhood effects, all of that. I can come up with or advocate for nice solutions to some of these problems (and indeed they're often widely known!) but implementation is another enchilada entirely.
The coming up with solutions bit was fun for a while until I learned about advocacy and implementation and idk at this point I almost prefer the problems
For me, the problem lies in the philosophy itself. I don't just see rationality as broken, but the entire liberal Enlightenment worldview, which is our entire cultural background, as broken too. And I don't see any good alternatives outside it.
So simultaneously I have the work of building something of my own and that the further down that path I go, the less I see eye to eye with anyone else. I want a few people to come with me.
I agree and I think that's the really hard part. Almost anything is possible for the individual in isolation except community.
community begins at home with semiclones I guess :)
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