The prospect of wise public policy (AI – A Partner in Wise Democracy? #7)
I had a conversation with Claude, one of my AI colleagues, which I share here. Starting with a prompt about wise public …
An ecosystem of participatory worldviews
(NOTE: I’m not really happy with the title of this post, but am having trouble thinking of a different one to describe what the …
ChatGPT – A Partner in Wise Democracy? #3 – Storytelling (AI Meets Wisdom Series – Part 5)
In this post, I challenge ChatGPT 4o to imagine how the Community Catalyst Program it recommended (in my prior blog conversation on …
ChatGPT – A Partner in Wise Democracy? #2 – Strategy (AI Meets Wisdom Series – Part 3)
In this message, I explore ChatGPT’s adventure with me into strategizing how to utilize the great list it produced of existing approaches …
ChatGPT – A Partner in Wise Democracy? #1 (AI Meets Wisdom Series – Part 2)
Below I share one of my conversations with ChatGPT 4o about generating wise, inclusive, multi-level self-governance. It provides a remarkable overview of …
How “harmony” makes interesting sense of Chinese culture and our shared future
China’s governing principle of the Mandate of Heaven and their standard of Harmony can be used to understand some of their dubiousness about …
Holoficiency = efficiency of, by and for the Whole
Most forms of efficiency depend on narrow intelligence promoting narrow, short-term goals. This is not healthy for the world or our civilization’s …
Can problem-solving itself be problematic? (Sense-making, Part 6)
This essay is largely a critique of how we tend to focus on problem-solving to address any undesirable situation. However, as I’ve …
Some clarifying big-picture perspectives on the coronavirus
I think we will see everything…people coming together and some with an “every man for himself” attitude. I also hope this is …
Twenty years ago today….
Back in 1998-2000 I was a major figure in efforts to prepare for possible Y2K disruptions and to use that possibility for …