Beginning this year I found this youtube channel, has anyone heard of it? Its pretty smal and yet some ideas seem itneresting while others seem strange or scary?
The kernel community did their developmental space courses through a interview process that did take time, human time.
retribalize seems to work with AI as an interviewer?
What do you think about goals and approaches of the project, compared to lifeitself and in general?
@rufuspollock
Not wanting to listen to all the videos, I went looking for a print summary. Found this one:
To me, the project seems worthy. The basic problem space is there is a lot of cultural baggage around the “individual” that needs to be overcome to allow all those “individuals” to make more basic human connections. In reflecting on my own life, in my youngest years I was completely mystified by anything smacking of the social, the emotional, or the empathetic. I did hang out with people, of course, but I’m very aware of having had absolutely no mental model for why hanging out with people is both natural and important, and why some personal logical calculus is not the supreme guide to everything. It strikes me the retribalization project speaks to that hyber-individualized culture my younger self absorbed like a sponge. The previous generations of my family were thoroughly social animals. As I came of age, that taken-for-granted social world of my parents and their parents before them was unraveling. Any re-weaving of socially-oriented culture will now take intentional effort. In that sense, the “individual” is indeed a sort of base line experience. People still strongly identified with extended family or with some real tribe will not need to retribalize. But for anyone entirely cut loose and bouncing around the world like some independent social particle, Bell’s process looks very much worth a try.