Hull, MA

Enviro300 27739 (NK11 BGX) inet, Sunderland.

a CIGS/INET dinner discussion on rising above the discord to evolve our common humanity in the age of the internet.

Sam Harris: “The vanity of each generation is to think that this time is different. But this time is different.”

Nicholas: “Even’s Plato’s Republic complains about ‘kids these days.’”

Nicholas: “Our genes and culture coevolve. Culture is a force for natural selection. The domestication of milk-producing animals tilted the selection pressure for the human mutation that prolongs lactase persistence post infancy. I am sorry to tell you Sam that we are going to become more religious over time. While being secular correlates with economic success, the religious are having more kids.”

Sam: “The Internet has become a vehicle for misinformation, and silencing calls, many from the left. This is very worrisome. Free speech is the master variable for progress, our only tool for mutual error correction. To make progress, scientifically and ethically, conversation is the only algorithm we have.”

I argued that cultural/mimetic evolution has completely subsumed biological/genetic evolution as the primary vector of change. Our brains are physically identical to those of humans 2000 years ago, but much of the “intelligence” that we ascribe to humanity comes from our ongoing cultural evolution, glacial as it may seem in any one lifetime. But 2000 years ago, our lives and social contracts were nasty and brutish, and various social abominations were not yet condemned. Human communication sets the clock rate for our cultural evolution, and the Internet expands the fanout, frequency and global reach. So, we should expect our collective cultural evolution to be in a state of unprecedented change.

Sam: “In 100 years, we will be biologically the same but may be unrecognizable with all of the change at the cultural level.”

Sam: “If we outsource our epistemology to these tools, then when change the tools, we change ourselves.”

Epistemology addresses such questions as: What makes justified beliefs justified?, What does it mean to say that we know something?, and fundamentally How do we know that we know? All interesting questions in the filter bubbles of social networks.

You can listen to a long podcast with Sam and Nicolas here.

Thanks to our host, the Center for Innovation, Growth, and Society (CIGS) of the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET)

P.S. Jack Dorsey was among the dinner guests, wearing the same black beanie as his recent TED talk.

Shiba Inu Hiro (10 months). FKC reg. Daitan, ER44034/08. He got pissed off because he didn't get ice cream (and partly because he is in teenage). Turn on volume to hear his Shiba talk. (It's shedding time so his fur looks a bit messy.)

Shiba Inu Hiro in car (8 weeks), FKC reg. Daitan, ER44034/08).

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Shiba Inu Hiro (8 months) after he guessed that we're going to dog park. FKC reg. Daitan, ER44034/08.

Shiba Inu Hiro (7 months), FKC reg. Daitan, ER44034/08 with his new name tag.

Shiba Inu Hiro (16 weeks), FKC reg. Daitan, ER44034/08) checking my apartment in Lutakko, Jyväskylä, Finland. The apartment is brand new so the balcony is still missing wood tiles.

erin purchases sushi and bubble teas at the internet cafe next door to our coop.

i photograph the surveilance camera monitor.

see the division of labour in our relationship?

tra cuu ten mien,

tin nhanh,

doi song phap luat,

a dot and a mop in the internet cafe

Shiba Inu Hiro's (7 months), FKC reg. Daitan, ER44034/08 mother Nami (FIN Ch. Natural Nami-Nami, ER51787/05) stole his Dog Turbo toy and guards it while visiting him. She also raided his food bowl.

Shiba Inu Hiro (21 weeks) in christmas mood, FKC reg. Daitan, ER44034/08). I couldn't get him to pose with the Santa because he kept trying to skin and gut it and pull its beard.

Shiba Inu Hiro (21 weeks) watching sunrise in new year's day 2009, FKC reg. Daitan, ER44034/08).

Shiba Inu Hiro (8 months) getting tired and angry. I laughed at him and he got pissed off. Turn on some volume to hear his shiba talk. FKC reg. Daitan, ER44034/08.

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Shiba Inu Hiro (16 weeks), FKC reg. Daitan, ER44034/08). (Nokia N80 mobile phone picture.) Picture taken at Lutakko, Jyväskylä, Finland.

Shiba Inu Hiro waking up (8 weeks), FKC reg. Daitan, ER44034/08).

Shiba Inu Hiro (6 months) on Lake Jyväsjärvi ice in front of Lutakko, FKC reg. Daitan, ER44034/08). (Nokia N80 mobile phone picture.)

28 May 2013 - Moderator: Paul Taylor, European Affairs Editor, Thomson Reuters

Pew survey presentation: Bruce Stokes, Director, Global Economic Attitudes, Pew Research Center

Speakers:

Robert Johnson, Executive Director, Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET)

Vladimir Mau, Rector, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration

Adam S. Posen, President, Peterson Institute for International Economics

Philip Stephens, Associate Editor, Financial Times

Richard Trumka, President, AFL-CIO; Trade Union Advisory Committee to the OECD (TUAC)

Yanis Varoufakis, Professor of Political Economy, University of Texas at Austin, United States

Closing Remarks: Pier Carlo Padoan, Deputy Secretary-General and Chief Economist, OECD

For more information, visit: www.oecd.org/Forum

Photo: OECD/Andrew Wheeler

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Construction work on China's high temperature reactor at the Institute of Nuclear Energy Technology. (INET, China)

Photo Credit: IAEA

Shiba Inu Hiro (6 months) on Lake Jyväsjärvi ice in front of Ainolanrantaand Kuokkala bridge, FKC reg. Daitan, ER44034/08). (Nokia N80 mobile phone picture.)

The Fountain of Life at the New York Botanical Garden

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Shiba Inu Hiro (23 weeks) in front of University of Jyväskylä's Ylistönrinne campus (Dept. of Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Nuclear Cyclotrone Accelerator Laboratory and Nanoscience Center), FKC reg. Daitan, ER44034/08). (Nokia N80 mobile phone picture.)

Buenos Aires, 27 de Marzo de 2014 - La Secretaría de Cultura de la Presidencia de la Nación, a través del Instituto Nacional de Estudios de Teatro (INET) y el Plan Nacional de Promoción del Tango, realizaron el espectáculo “Cuando el tango era teatro”. La presentación estuvo a cargo de la directora del INET, María Cristina Lastra Belgrano.

Esta actividad se realizó como parte de la celebración del Día Mundial del Teatro, el 27 de marzo, en la Sala Trinidad Guevara, del Teatro Nacional Cervantes.

Fotos: Silvina Frydlewsky / Secretaría de Cultura de la Presidencia de la Nación

Two computers connected to the internet.. for about 50 teachers and 540 students..

Shiba Inu Hiro (22 weeks), FKC reg. Daitan, ER44034/08). (Nokia N80 mobile phone picture.)

Shiba Inu Hiro (FKC reg. Daitan, ER44034/08).

Shiba Inu Hiro (12 weeks), FKC reg. Daitan, ER44034/08). End of his "Shiba 500", he is already tired at this point and not so fiery anymore.

Shiba Inu Hiro (8 months) getting tired and angry. I laughed at him and he got pissed off. Turn on some volume to hear his shiba talk. FKC reg. Daitan, ER44034/08.

Shiba Inu Hiro (7 months) being cranky. It happens sometimes when he's tired but wouldn't want to sleep, kinda like little kids. He also gets mad when I laugh at him when he starts that. He's trying to annoy me by threatening to chew the table (Artek 910 by Aino Aalto, 1930). FKC reg. Daitan, ER44034/08.

Shiba Inu Hiro (FKC reg. Kitsune no Daitan, ER44034/08).

Buenos Aires, 28 de Diciembre de 2018

Se llevó a cabo en la Sala Cané de la Secretaría de Cultura de la Nación, la donación de la biblioteca de textos teatrales de Kive Staiff al INET.

Estuvieron presentes por parte de la secretaría, Mirta Rosovsky, Coordinadora de Investigación Cultural,, Laura Mogliani, Directora del INET, Marcelo Panozzo, secretario de Patrimonio Cultural, y por parte de la familia Débora y Eliana Staiff, donantes e hijas de Kive Staiff.

Fotos: Silvina Frydlewsky / Secretaría de Cultura de la Nación

Shiba Inu Hiro (16 weeks), FKC reg. Daitan, ER44034/08). (Nokia N80 mobile phone picture.) Picture taken at Lutakko, Jyväskylä, Finland.

Shiba Inu Hiro on frozen lake Jyväsjärvi (23 weeks), FKC reg. Daitan, ER44034/08). (Nokia N80 mobile phone picture.)