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Intelligence is Intentional

03 Wednesday Jun 2015

Posted by lnedelescu in human capital

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Abductive Reasoning, Buckminster Fuller, Intelligence

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It is often the case that complex traits such as intelligence are very hard to define. But it is also true that there are “proxy” signs that we can all pick up on. One recurring sign of intelligence for me is “intentionality”. I’ve found in my experience that intelligent people are highly intentional. Look at the minute design decisions made by business greats such as Steve Jobs. They leave nothing ambiguous. They demand high standards. There is no “whatever” in an intelligent’s person vocabulary. Intelligent, focused individuals know that whatever decision one doesn’t make will get made for them. And so, they are decisive!

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Patterns and meta-patterns – the key to an enlightened life

16 Tuesday Jul 2013

Posted by lnedelescu in philosophy, society

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Buckminster Fuller, creativity, Enlightenment, Fractals, Life, Meaning, Patterns, Purpose, Society, Subtlety, Universe, wisdom

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In my previous blog contrasting creativity and planning I described the creative act as the probabilistic intersection of thought “patterns in the making” and the circumstantial experiences which completes their meaning. A life spent surfacing new patterns is an elevating journey that frees one from the grayer reality of zero sum games unfortunately still prolific in our supposedly civilized society. It is also a fulfilling endeavor that brings man closer to his rightful place in the cosmos as an implicated observer, as a “function of the universe itself” in Buckminster Fuller’s words.

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What’s beyond the knowledge economy shouldn’t scare anyone

22 Saturday Jun 2013

Posted by lnedelescu in capitalism, complexity, Crisis, future, human capital, society, technology

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automation, Buckminster Fuller, jobs, Knowledge Economy, Kurzweil, labor, Society, specialization, technological singularity

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The love-hate relationship of humanity with technology seems to be universal across ages. We love the benefits that technology brings, but hate it when it threatens our jobs, or forces us to learn new skills faster than our comfortable pace.

In the words of Clayton Christensen, one could say that technology is slowly disrupting human labor (and I include here knowledge work). The latest scare for humanity is the so called “technological singularity”, where artificial intelligence learns how to design improved versions of itself, and so exponentially surpasses human intelligence, leaving us humans well…irrelevant. Popular author Kurzweil predicts the year for this around 2045. Less extreme viewpoints still see automation as a major disruptive force to social order as even knowledge workers will be out of jobs in the next few decades. And so the fatalists wonder: how do we deal with the social implications of a few billion unemployed – will anarchy be the norm in 2045?

While the logical thread leading to a fatalist view of the future may seem sound, it is in fact plagued with serious flaws based in a misunderstanding of the differences between silicon and carbon-based intelligence.

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Never be afraid to ask crazy questions, or in Buckminster Fuller’s words, dare to be naive

22 Saturday Jun 2013

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Buckminster Fuller, creativity, inquiry, philosophy, Questions, Reality, Reflexivity, thoughts, Yin and Yan

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“There are no stupid questions” has become an accepted cliche. But then again, you’ve never run into my flavor of “stupid” questions. Joking aside, I was never afraid of stupid questions. Rather it is some of the questions I have asked of myself in the past that scare me into thinking I might have lost it. I want to give you two such examples that scared me at first, only to find that others have thought those same apparently crazy thoughts. Which is not to say I am not crazy, but rather than I am not the only crazy one. And that my friends, sits just fine with me!

Let me time-teleport you with a younger version of myself, laying sleeplessly in bed on a dark night about thirteen years ago. I decided to really challenge myself with the toughest question I could invent. Being that it was night and dark, my mind of course jumped to alien abductions. I asked myself: if aliens suddenly abducted me that very night, and decided to see how smart the human race really is, what would they ask me?

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