Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Oct 9, 2016Replying to @turrible_taoyou're arguing very basic tech determinism vs social determinism you realize?3
Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Oct 9, 2016Replying to @vgr and @turrible_taosee this for my synthesis that I think reflects how the chicken-egg evolution actually works http://breakingsmart.com/en/season-1/the-principle-of-generative-pluralism/…21
Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Oct 9, 2016Replying to @vgr and @turrible_taotech determinism and social determinism are standard ways of talking about these things... there's Wikipedia entries on them2
Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Oct 9, 2016Replying to @turrible_taoyes, that's tech determinism! Causality often but not always, works that way. Values can evolve first and cause tech evol too1
Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Oct 9, 2016Replying to @turrible_taofeminism/suffrage --> women in workforce during WWII --> any innovation they made2
Venkatesh Rao@vgrReplying to @turrible_taoI could do this infinite regress all day, which should suggest there's chicken-egg feedback loop between values and evolution9:59 PM · Oct 9, 2016
Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Oct 9, 2016Replying to @vgr and @turrible_taonarrative anchoring is powerful. Once you see more in somebody than others do, and help bring it out. They change reality.
Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Oct 9, 2016Replying to @turrible_taomy mental model is that the values genome always contains far more than is expressionless in current environment.2