#social-systems — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #social-systems, aggregated by home.social.
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Thirteenth Met police officer sacked after undercover BBC investigation | Metropolitan police | The Guardian
“Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action”
– Ian FlemingFour or more is a systemic problem.
> PC Mason O’Connor dismissed following Panorama film showing misogyny and racism at London police station
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Thirteenth Met police officer sacked after undercover BBC investigation | Metropolitan police | The Guardian
“Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action”
– Ian FlemingFour or more is a systemic problem.
> PC Mason O’Connor dismissed following Panorama film showing misogyny and racism at London police station
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Thirteenth Met police officer sacked after undercover BBC investigation | Metropolitan police | The Guardian
“Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action”
– Ian FlemingFour or more is a systemic problem.
> PC Mason O’Connor dismissed following Panorama film showing misogyny and racism at London police station
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Thirteenth Met police officer sacked after undercover BBC investigation | Metropolitan police | The Guardian
“Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action”
– Ian FlemingFour or more is a systemic problem.
> PC Mason O’Connor dismissed following Panorama film showing misogyny and racism at London police station
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Thirteenth Met police officer sacked after undercover BBC investigation | Metropolitan police | The Guardian
“Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action”
– Ian FlemingFour or more is a systemic problem.
> PC Mason O’Connor dismissed following Panorama film showing misogyny and racism at London police station
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🥴 Oh wow, AI agents are finally graduating from their "Hello World" phase and playing in the big leagues of...social systems. 🤖👏 Imagine trying to slow down a freight train with a paper towel—the institutions designed for humans are definitely ready for this thrilling AI-speed adventure! 🚂💥
https://www.anthropic.com/research/multiagent-systems #AIagents #SocialSystems #Innovation #TechNews #AIAdventure #HackerNews #ngated -
🥴 Oh wow, AI agents are finally graduating from their "Hello World" phase and playing in the big leagues of...social systems. 🤖👏 Imagine trying to slow down a freight train with a paper towel—the institutions designed for humans are definitely ready for this thrilling AI-speed adventure! 🚂💥
https://www.anthropic.com/research/multiagent-systems #AIagents #SocialSystems #Innovation #TechNews #AIAdventure #HackerNews #ngated -
🥴 Oh wow, AI agents are finally graduating from their "Hello World" phase and playing in the big leagues of...social systems. 🤖👏 Imagine trying to slow down a freight train with a paper towel—the institutions designed for humans are definitely ready for this thrilling AI-speed adventure! 🚂💥
https://www.anthropic.com/research/multiagent-systems #AIagents #SocialSystems #Innovation #TechNews #AIAdventure #HackerNews #ngated -
🥴 Oh wow, AI agents are finally graduating from their "Hello World" phase and playing in the big leagues of...social systems. 🤖👏 Imagine trying to slow down a freight train with a paper towel—the institutions designed for humans are definitely ready for this thrilling AI-speed adventure! 🚂💥
https://www.anthropic.com/research/multiagent-systems #AIagents #SocialSystems #Innovation #TechNews #AIAdventure #HackerNews #ngated -
🥴 Oh wow, AI agents are finally graduating from their "Hello World" phase and playing in the big leagues of...social systems. 🤖👏 Imagine trying to slow down a freight train with a paper towel—the institutions designed for humans are definitely ready for this thrilling AI-speed adventure! 🚂💥
https://www.anthropic.com/research/multiagent-systems #AIagents #SocialSystems #Innovation #TechNews #AIAdventure #HackerNews #ngated -
"Gig platforms can simply 'wait out' workers to slash wages, research reveals
" a study that uncovers a mathematical strategy explaining how digital labor platforms can systematically suppress wages."
https://phys.org/news/2026-07-gig-platforms-simply-workers-slash.html
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"Gig platforms can simply 'wait out' workers to slash wages, research reveals
" a study that uncovers a mathematical strategy explaining how digital labor platforms can systematically suppress wages."
https://phys.org/news/2026-07-gig-platforms-simply-workers-slash.html
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"Gig platforms can simply 'wait out' workers to slash wages, research reveals
" a study that uncovers a mathematical strategy explaining how digital labor platforms can systematically suppress wages."
https://phys.org/news/2026-07-gig-platforms-simply-workers-slash.html
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"Gig platforms can simply 'wait out' workers to slash wages, research reveals
" a study that uncovers a mathematical strategy explaining how digital labor platforms can systematically suppress wages."
https://phys.org/news/2026-07-gig-platforms-simply-workers-slash.html
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"Gig platforms can simply 'wait out' workers to slash wages, research reveals
" a study that uncovers a mathematical strategy explaining how digital labor platforms can systematically suppress wages."
https://phys.org/news/2026-07-gig-platforms-simply-workers-slash.html
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Social Systems Thinking
Systems
Systems are collections of parts whose relationships change relatively slowly, so they can be recognised as a whole. The behaviour of the whole is more than just the sum of the behaviours of the individual parts.
Systems Thinking
Systems Thinking is a collection of tools that allow us to understand what systems do, how they do it, and how to change them.
It allows us to make some predictions of how systems will behave in the future. It is partly an additional set of tools which augment the ways in which we think about simpler problems and partly a method which selects the right tool for the job and acknowledges that the simpler tools may give a wrong, but potentially persuasive answer.
Social Systems
Social systems are systems whose main parts are human beings[1], but may be made up of smaller social systems and infrastructure. For example, a country such as Canada is made up of a population of about 40 million people, has a federal government and Provinces, has transportation systems, border control points, several education and health systems and more.
The behaviour of social systems is more complex than that of inanimate systems for four reasons.
- Their principle parts—humans—are already very complex systems themselves. Many sources have claimed that the human brain is the most complex system in the universe (e.g. Patrick Kraus—The Most Complex System in the Universe)[2].
- Each human can play many different roles in different social systems which make up a bigger system and the way they play those roles differ widely between people in the same in ways that, for example, the a cog in a mechanical system does not do.
- We, the humans who are trying to understand the systems, are part of and shaped by the very systems we are trying to understand. And that shaping includes stories about how the systems work
- Social systems change significantly while remaining recognisably the same system. We call this “history”.
Social Systems Thinking
Social Systems Thinking is a collection of tools that allow us to understand what social systems do, how they do it, and how to change them. Just as the simpler tools that are used to understand simple collections of things are not always adequate for systems, so the systems thinking tools for inanimate systems like clocks and heating systems are not always useful for understanding the more complex behaviours of social systems.
- InB4 There are many other species which form social systems, but for brevity on this site I don’t usually bother writing “human social systems”↩︎
- If each human brain is an example of the most complex system in the universe, isn’t global society—an interacting collection of eight billion of them—even more complex?↩︎
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Social Systems Thinking
Systems
Systems are collections of parts whose relationships change relatively slowly, so they can be recognised as a whole. The behaviour of the whole is more than just the sum of the behaviours of the individual parts.
Systems Thinking
Systems Thinking is a collection of tools that allow us to understand what systems do, how they do it, and how to change them.
It allows us to make some predictions of how systems will behave in the future. It is partly an additional set of tools which augment the ways in which we think about simpler problems and partly a method which selects the right tool for the job and acknowledges that the simpler tools may give a wrong, but potentially persuasive answer.
Social Systems
Social systems are systems whose main parts are human beings[1], but may be made up of smaller social systems and infrastructure. For example, a country such as Canada is made up of a population of about 40 million people, has a federal government and Provinces, has transportation systems, border control points, several education and health systems and more.
The behaviour of social systems is more complex than that of inanimate systems for four reasons.
- Their principle parts—humans—are already very complex systems themselves. Many sources have claimed that the human brain is the most complex system in the universe (e.g. Patrick Kraus—The Most Complex System in the Universe)[2].
- Each human can play many different roles in different social systems which make up a bigger system and the way they play those roles differ widely between people in the same in ways that, for example, the a cog in a mechanical system does not do.
- We, the humans who are trying to understand the systems, are part of and shaped by the very systems we are trying to understand. And that shaping includes stories about how the systems work
- Social systems change significantly while remaining recognisably the same system. We call this “history”.
Social Systems Thinking
Social Systems Thinking is a collection of tools that allow us to understand what social systems do, how they do it, and how to change them. Just as the simpler tools that are used to understand simple collections of things are not always adequate for systems, so the systems thinking tools for inanimate systems like clocks and heating systems are not always useful for understanding the more complex behaviours of social systems.
- InB4 There are many other species which form social systems, but for brevity on this site I don’t usually bother writing “human social systems”↩︎
- If each human brain is an example of the most complex system in the universe, isn’t global society—an interacting collection of eight billion of them—even more complex?↩︎
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Social Systems Thinking
Systems
Systems are collections of parts whose relationships change relatively slowly, so they can be recognised as a whole. The behaviour of the whole is more than just the sum of the behaviours of the individual parts.
Systems Thinking
Systems Thinking is a collection of tools that allow us to understand what systems do, how they do it, and how to change them.
It allows us to make some predictions of how systems will behave in the future. It is partly an additional set of tools which augment the ways in which we think about simpler problems and partly a method which selects the right tool for the job and acknowledges that the simpler tools may give a wrong, but potentially persuasive answer.
Social Systems
Social systems are systems whose main parts are human beings[1], but may be made up of smaller social systems and infrastructure. For example, a country such as Canada is made up of a population of about 40 million people, has a federal government and Provinces, has transportation systems, border control points, several education and health systems and more.
The behaviour of social systems is more complex than that of inanimate systems for four reasons.
- Their principle parts—humans—are already very complex systems themselves. Many sources have claimed that the human brain is the most complex system in the universe (e.g. Patrick Kraus—The Most Complex System in the Universe)[2].
- Each human can play many different roles in different social systems which make up a bigger system and the way they play those roles differ widely between people in the same in ways that, for example, the a cog in a mechanical system does not do.
- We, the humans who are trying to understand the systems, are part of and shaped by the very systems we are trying to understand. And that shaping includes stories about how the systems work
- Social systems change significantly while remaining recognisably the same system. We call this “history”.
Social Systems Thinking
Social Systems Thinking is a collection of tools that allow us to understand what social systems do, how they do it, and how to change them. Just as the simpler tools that are used to understand simple collections of things are not always adequate for systems, so the systems thinking tools for inanimate systems like clocks and heating systems are not always useful for understanding the more complex behaviours of social systems.
- InB4 There are many other species which form social systems, but for brevity on this site I don’t usually bother writing “human social systems”↩︎
- If each human brain is an example of the most complex system in the universe, isn’t global society—an interacting collection of eight billion of them—even more complex?↩︎
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Social Systems Thinking
Systems
Systems are collections of parts whose relationships change relatively slowly, so they can be recognised as a whole. The behaviour of the whole is more than just the sum of the behaviours of the individual parts.
Systems Thinking
Systems Thinking is a collection of tools that allow us to understand what systems do, how they do it, and how to change them.
It allows us to make some predictions of how systems will behave in the future. It is partly an additional set of tools which augment the ways in which we think about simpler problems and partly a method which selects the right tool for the job and acknowledges that the simpler tools may give a wrong, but potentially persuasive answer.
Social Systems
Social systems are systems whose main parts are human beings[1], but may be made up of smaller social systems and infrastructure. For example, a country such as Canada is made up of a population of about 40 million people, has a federal government and Provinces, has transportation systems, border control points, several education and health systems and more.
The behaviour of social systems is more complex than that of inanimate systems for four reasons.
- Their principle parts—humans—are already very complex systems themselves. Many sources have claimed that the human brain is the most complex system in the universe (e.g. Patrick Kraus—The Most Complex System in the Universe)[2].
- Each human can play many different roles in different social systems which make up a bigger system and the way they play those roles differ widely between people in the same in ways that, for example, the a cog in a mechanical system does not do.
- We, the humans who are trying to understand the systems, are part of and shaped by the very systems we are trying to understand. And that shaping includes stories about how the systems work
- Social systems change significantly while remaining recognisably the same system. We call this “history”.
Social Systems Thinking
Social Systems Thinking is a collection of tools that allow us to understand what social systems do, how they do it, and how to change them. Just as the simpler tools that are used to understand simple collections of things are not always adequate for systems, so the systems thinking tools for inanimate systems like clocks and heating systems are not always useful for understanding the more complex behaviours of social systems.
- InB4 There are many other species which form social systems, but for brevity on this site I don’t usually bother writing “human social systems”↩︎
- If each human brain is an example of the most complex system in the universe, isn’t global society—an interacting collection of eight billion of them—even more complex?↩︎
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Social Systems Thinking
Systems
Systems are collections of parts whose relationships change relatively slowly, so they can be recognised as a whole. The behaviour of the whole is more than just the sum of the behaviours of the individual parts.
Systems Thinking
Systems Thinking is a collection of tools that allow us to understand what systems do, how they do it, and how to change them.
It allows us to make some predictions of how systems will behave in the future. It is partly an additional set of tools which augment the ways in which we think about simpler problems and partly a method which selects the right tool for the job and acknowledges that the simpler tools may give a wrong, but potentially persuasive answer.
Social Systems
Social systems are systems whose main parts are human beings[1], but may be made up of smaller social systems and infrastructure. For example, a country such as Canada is made up of a population of about 40 million people, has a federal government and Provinces, has transportation systems, border control points, several education and health systems and more.
The behaviour of social systems is more complex than that of inanimate systems for four reasons.
- Their principle parts—humans—are already very complex systems themselves. Many sources have claimed that the human brain is the most complex system in the universe (e.g. Patrick Kraus—The Most Complex System in the Universe)[2].
- Each human can play many different roles in different social systems which make up a bigger system and the way they play those roles differ widely between people in the same in ways that, for example, the a cog in a mechanical system does not do.
- We, the humans who are trying to understand the systems, are part of and shaped by the very systems we are trying to understand. And that shaping includes stories about how the systems work
- Social systems change significantly while remaining recognisably the same system. We call this “history”.
Social Systems Thinking
Social Systems Thinking is a collection of tools that allow us to understand what social systems do, how they do it, and how to change them. Just as the simpler tools that are used to understand simple collections of things are not always adequate for systems, so the systems thinking tools for inanimate systems like clocks and heating systems are not always useful for understanding the more complex behaviours of social systems.
- InB4 There are many other species which form social systems, but for brevity on this site I don’t usually bother writing “human social systems”↩︎
- If each human brain is an example of the most complex system in the universe, isn’t global society—an interacting collection of eight billion of them—even more complex?↩︎
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Values, Ethics, Purposes and Requirements
If we want to change our social systems for the better, we need to know what “better” means, and for whom.
Even the Prime Minister of Canada used to think we should start there; he wrote a book called “Value(s)”, in which he argued that we should put ethical values before financial value. Unfortunately, he seems to have changed his mind since becoming Prime Minister; he is now solidly in favour of growing the economy (rich people’s wealth and power) even if it means destroying the environment and retreating before Trump’s attacks.
I find it useful to distinguish a few levels of desired results of the behaviour of a social system. Values and ethics are broadly applicable across a whole society, whatever that may be. In a globalised world, it is the whole planet. It’s not clear to me how we could divide the world into parts with different basic values and avoid conflict, though maybe that is possible.
Values are broadly applicable set of basic principles that all social systems should satisfy. Examples include justice, equality of rights and dignity, duty and freedom.
Ethics are the rules of behaviour for individuals that enable the system to work according to the principles. Examples include treating others with respect and kindness, and showing solidarity with others.
Purposes and requirements are about specific systems.
- Purpose: The intended results of the system. Examples include, for a school, to provide students with the skills and knowledge they need, in specified areas. However, in all but the smallest systems, different people have different intentions. Some interested parties may want schools to produce “good” workers, whereas others may want them to help students to reach their full potential in directions defined by themselves.
- Requirements: The specific needs which a system must implement. Examples include “provide classroom instruction by people with specific skills”, “provide unbiased assessments of the capabilities of students as they enter and leave a program”.
In practice, it’s a lot more complex than this, and there is no clear dividing line between the levels. Whole schools of philosophy, with thousands of books and millions of scholarly papers have been devoted to values and ethics, and various post-secondary schools teach ethics aimed at specific systems, such as “business ethics.
I will have much more to say about this, later.
#Ethics #Philosophy #socialSystems #values -
Values, Ethics, Purposes and Requirements
If we want to change our social systems for the better, we need to know what “better” means, and for whom.
Even the Prime Minister of Canada used to think we should start there; he wrote a book called “Value(s)”, in which he argued that we should put ethical values before financial value. Unfortunately, he seems to have changed his mind since becoming Prime Minister; he is now solidly in favour of growing the economy (rich people’s wealth and power) even if it means destroying the environment and retreating before Trump’s attacks.
I find it useful to distinguish a few levels of desired results of the behaviour of a social system. Values and ethics are broadly applicable across a whole society, whatever that may be. In a globalised world, it is the whole planet. It’s not clear to me how we could divide the world into parts with different basic values and avoid conflict, though maybe that is possible.
Values are broadly applicable set of basic principles that all social systems should satisfy. Examples include justice, equality of rights and dignity, duty and freedom.
Ethics are the rules of behaviour for individuals that enable the system to work according to the principles. Examples include treating others with respect and kindness, and showing solidarity with others.
Purposes and requirements are about specific systems.
- Purpose: The intended results of the system. Examples include, for a school, to provide students with the skills and knowledge they need, in specified areas. However, in all but the smallest systems, different people have different intentions. Some interested parties may want schools to produce “good” workers, whereas others may want them to help students to reach their full potential in directions defined by themselves.
- Requirements: The specific needs which a system must implement. Examples include “provide classroom instruction by people with specific skills”, “provide unbiased assessments of the capabilities of students as they enter and leave a program”.
In practice, it’s a lot more complex than this, and there is no clear dividing line between the levels. Whole schools of philosophy, with thousands of books and millions of scholarly papers have been devoted to values and ethics, and various post-secondary schools teach ethics aimed at specific systems, such as “business ethics.
I will have much more to say about this, later.
#Ethics #Philosophy #socialSystems #values -
Values, Ethics, Purposes and Requirements
If we want to change our social systems for the better, we need to know what “better” means, and for whom.
Even the Prime Minister of Canada used to think we should start there; he wrote a book called “Value(s)”, in which he argued that we should put ethical values before financial value. Unfortunately, he seems to have changed his mind since becoming Prime Minister; he is now solidly in favour of growing the economy (rich people’s wealth and power) even if it means destroying the environment and retreating before Trump’s attacks.
I find it useful to distinguish a few levels of desired results of the behaviour of a social system. Values and ethics are broadly applicable across a whole society, whatever that may be. In a globalised world, it is the whole planet. It’s not clear to me how we could divide the world into parts with different basic values and avoid conflict, though maybe that is possible.
Values are broadly applicable set of basic principles that all social systems should satisfy. Examples include justice, equality of rights and dignity, duty and freedom.
Ethics are the rules of behaviour for individuals that enable the system to work according to the principles. Examples include treating others with respect and kindness, and showing solidarity with others.
Purposes and requirements are about specific systems.
- Purpose: The intended results of the system. Examples include, for a school, to provide students with the skills and knowledge they need, in specified areas. However, in all but the smallest systems, different people have different intentions. Some interested parties may want schools to produce “good” workers, whereas others may want them to help students to reach their full potential in directions defined by themselves.
- Requirements: The specific needs which a system must implement. Examples include “provide classroom instruction by people with specific skills”, “provide unbiased assessments of the capabilities of students as they enter and leave a program”.
In practice, it’s a lot more complex than this, and there is no clear dividing line between the levels. Whole schools of philosophy, with thousands of books and millions of scholarly papers have been devoted to values and ethics, and various post-secondary schools teach ethics aimed at specific systems, such as “business ethics.
I will have much more to say about this, later.
#Ethics #Philosophy #socialSystems #values -
Values, Ethics, Purposes and Requirements
If we want to change our social systems for the better, we need to know what “better” means, and for whom.
Even the Prime Minister of Canada used to think we should start there; he wrote a book called “Value(s)”, in which he argued that we should put ethical values before financial value. Unfortunately, he seems to have changed his mind since becoming Prime Minister; he is now solidly in favour of growing the economy (rich people’s wealth and power) even if it means destroying the environment and retreating before Trump’s attacks.
I find it useful to distinguish a few levels of desired results of the behaviour of a social system. Values and ethics are broadly applicable across a whole society, whatever that may be. In a globalised world, it is the whole planet. It’s not clear to me how we could divide the world into parts with different basic values and avoid conflict, though maybe that is possible.
Values are broadly applicable set of basic principles that all social systems should satisfy. Examples include justice, equality of rights and dignity, duty and freedom.
Ethics are the rules of behaviour for individuals that enable the system to work according to the principles. Examples include treating others with respect and kindness, and showing solidarity with others.
Purposes and requirements are about specific systems.
- Purpose: The intended results of the system. Examples include, for a school, to provide students with the skills and knowledge they need, in specified areas. However, in all but the smallest systems, different people have different intentions. Some interested parties may want schools to produce “good” workers, whereas others may want them to help students to reach their full potential in directions defined by themselves.
- Requirements: The specific needs which a system must implement. Examples include “provide classroom instruction by people with specific skills”, “provide unbiased assessments of the capabilities of students as they enter and leave a program”.
In practice, it’s a lot more complex than this, and there is no clear dividing line between the levels. Whole schools of philosophy, with thousands of books and millions of scholarly papers have been devoted to values and ethics, and various post-secondary schools teach ethics aimed at specific systems, such as “business ethics.
I will have much more to say about this, later.
#Ethics #Philosophy #socialSystems #values -
Values, Ethics, Purposes and Requirements
If we want to change our social systems for the better, we need to know what “better” means, and for whom.
Even the Prime Minister of Canada used to think we should start there; he wrote a book called “Value(s)”, in which he argued that we should put ethical values before financial value. Unfortunately, he seems to have changed his mind since becoming Prime Minister; he is now solidly in favour of growing the economy (rich people’s wealth and power) even if it means destroying the environment and retreating before Trump’s attacks.
I find it useful to distinguish a few levels of desired results of the behaviour of a social system. Values and ethics are broadly applicable across a whole society, whatever that may be. In a globalised world, it is the whole planet. It’s not clear to me how we could divide the world into parts with different basic values and avoid conflict, though maybe that is possible.
Values are broadly applicable set of basic principles that all social systems should satisfy. Examples include justice, equality of rights and dignity, duty and freedom.
Ethics are the rules of behaviour for individuals that enable the system to work according to the principles. Examples include treating others with respect and kindness, and showing solidarity with others.
Purposes and requirements are about specific systems.
- Purpose: The intended results of the system. Examples include, for a school, to provide students with the skills and knowledge they need, in specified areas. However, in all but the smallest systems, different people have different intentions. Some interested parties may want schools to produce “good” workers, whereas others may want them to help students to reach their full potential in directions defined by themselves.
- Requirements: The specific needs which a system must implement. Examples include “provide classroom instruction by people with specific skills”, “provide unbiased assessments of the capabilities of students as they enter and leave a program”.
In practice, it’s a lot more complex than this, and there is no clear dividing line between the levels. Whole schools of philosophy, with thousands of books and millions of scholarly papers have been devoted to values and ethics, and various post-secondary schools teach ethics aimed at specific systems, such as “business ethics.
I will have much more to say about this, later.
#Ethics #Philosophy #socialSystems #values -
Humans are Social Animals—We need each other
Here is a blog post about the limitations of individual humans, our power as social animals, our obligations to each other and the radical change in our social systems that we need to change the social systems that give power to sociopaths.
http://ericlawton.org/2026/07/10/humans-are-social-animals-we-need-each-other/
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Humans are Social Animals—We need each other
Here is a blog post about the limitations of individual humans, our power as social animals, our obligations to each other and the radical change in our social systems that we need to change the social systems that give power to sociopaths.
http://ericlawton.org/2026/07/10/humans-are-social-animals-we-need-each-other/
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Humans are Social Animals—We need each other
Here is a blog post about the limitations of individual humans, our power as social animals, our obligations to each other and the radical change in our social systems that we need to change the social systems that give power to sociopaths.
http://ericlawton.org/2026/07/10/humans-are-social-animals-we-need-each-other/
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Humans are Social Animals—We need each other
Here is a blog post about the limitations of individual humans, our power as social animals, our obligations to each other and the radical change in our social systems that we need to change the social systems that give power to sociopaths.
http://ericlawton.org/2026/07/10/humans-are-social-animals-we-need-each-other/
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Humans are Social Animals—We need each other
Here is a blog post about the limitations of individual humans, our power as social animals, our obligations to each other and the radical change in our social systems that we need to change the social systems that give power to sociopaths.
http://ericlawton.org/2026/07/10/humans-are-social-animals-we-need-each-other/
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Homelessness has been framed as a housing problem in NZ. The reality is more complex
> Interviews with 55 Aucklanders reveal how gaps between housing, health, income and justice services can make it harder to find a path out of homelessness.
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Homelessness has been framed as a housing problem in NZ. The reality is more complex
> Interviews with 55 Aucklanders reveal how gaps between housing, health, income and justice services can make it harder to find a path out of homelessness.
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Homelessness has been framed as a housing problem in NZ. The reality is more complex
> Interviews with 55 Aucklanders reveal how gaps between housing, health, income and justice services can make it harder to find a path out of homelessness.
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Homelessness has been framed as a housing problem in NZ. The reality is more complex
> Interviews with 55 Aucklanders reveal how gaps between housing, health, income and justice services can make it harder to find a path out of homelessness.
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Homelessness has been framed as a housing problem in NZ. The reality is more complex
> Interviews with 55 Aucklanders reveal how gaps between housing, health, income and justice services can make it harder to find a path out of homelessness.
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Oxford boaters every day commons
There will be increasing experience of commons as lived infrastructure, not theory, not an idea waiting to be implemented. As the #mainstreaming keeps failing people will need practical, community-led way of meeting shared needs that work and exists wherever people cooperate outside of markets and hierarchy. Commons are not abstract systems, they are what people do when they stop waiting for permission. We have a recent example - #Oxfordboaters it is messy commons in real time, not a perfect […]https://hamishcampbell.com/oxford-boaters-every-day-commons/
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HYBRIDMIND42 | APRIL 2026
Paper 6 — The Systemic Floor and Integrated Persistence
Evaluating Stability Across Measurement, Time, Signal, Intervention, and Access
#HybridMind42 #PublicPolicy #SystemsThinking #UKPolicy #SocialSystems #EconomicPolicy #Wellbeing #Accessibility #PolicyDesign #Inequality #ComplexSystems
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HYBRIDMIND42 | APRIL 2026
Paper 6 — The Systemic Floor and Integrated Persistence
Evaluating Stability Across Measurement, Time, Signal, Intervention, and Access
#HybridMind42 #PublicPolicy #SystemsThinking #UKPolicy #SocialSystems #EconomicPolicy #Wellbeing #Accessibility #PolicyDesign #Inequality #ComplexSystems
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HYBRIDMIND42 | APRIL 2026
Paper 6 — The Systemic Floor and Integrated Persistence
Evaluating Stability Across Measurement, Time, Signal, Intervention, and Access
#HybridMind42 #PublicPolicy #SystemsThinking #UKPolicy #SocialSystems #EconomicPolicy #Wellbeing #Accessibility #PolicyDesign #Inequality #ComplexSystems
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HYBRIDMIND42 | APRIL 2026
Paper 6 — The Systemic Floor and Integrated Persistence
Evaluating Stability Across Measurement, Time, Signal, Intervention, and Access
#HybridMind42 #PublicPolicy #SystemsThinking #UKPolicy #SocialSystems #EconomicPolicy #Wellbeing #Accessibility #PolicyDesign #Inequality #ComplexSystems
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HYBRIDMIND42 | APRIL 2026
Paper 6 — The Systemic Floor and Integrated Persistence
Evaluating Stability Across Measurement, Time, Signal, Intervention, and Access
#HybridMind42 #PublicPolicy #SystemsThinking #UKPolicy #SocialSystems #EconomicPolicy #Wellbeing #Accessibility #PolicyDesign #Inequality #ComplexSystems
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What if the problem isn’t access to support—
but the ability to access the system itself?https://substack.com/@hybridmind42/note/p-194712512?r=75c2ac
#HybridMind42 #PublicPolicy #UKPolicy #DWP #HMRC #MakingTaxDigital #SystemsThinking #Accessibility #DigitalInclusion #AdministrativeBurden #SocialSystems #PolicyDesign
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What if the problem isn’t access to support—
but the ability to access the system itself?https://substack.com/@hybridmind42/note/p-194712512?r=75c2ac
#HybridMind42 #PublicPolicy #UKPolicy #DWP #HMRC #MakingTaxDigital #SystemsThinking #Accessibility #DigitalInclusion #AdministrativeBurden #SocialSystems #PolicyDesign
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We started by asking: what do our systems see?
Now we ask: do they allow people time to adapt?
Paper 2 looks at pension changes through the lens of expectation boundaries. When those shift too late, people are left bridging the gap themselves.
Not collapse—
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We started by asking: what do our systems see?
Now we ask: do they allow people time to adapt?
Paper 2 looks at pension changes through the lens of expectation boundaries. When those shift too late, people are left bridging the gap themselves.
Not collapse—
but strain where it matters most. -
Fresh Start for Better Systems
I have not been well for some time; an iron deficiency has left me short of energy and easily out of breath. My wife’s health is even worse so I am her full-time caregiver, which means I have not caught up with the backlog of work from the year-end “holidays”, which added work for several gatherings in our home for guests we really wanted to do.
I have reluctantly abandoned several tasks for community give-back; I just don’t have the energy until we can fix this problem; I’m still awaiting several medical tests to try to determine the cause, though I have some relief from trans- and in-fusions.
But I have decided to keep up with writing my books, focusing on my Better Systems book. I have been working on it for 10 years, mostly for my own benefit in thinking about social systems. I have made—and fixed—enough mistakes while working on it that I think I should work towards publishing it, first on my website and then possibly commercially. To that end, I removed it all from the website because the content was getting inconsistent and I have just put the Introduction and top level Table of Contents back on the web and intend to fill in the content again as quickly as my energy-levels will permit. Since I’m in my final quarter-century, I don’t think I have another ten years left to work on it.
The table of contents also contains work on my autobiography and a planned book on philosophy.
Because it’s possible that I may try commercial publishing later, I am putting a copyright notice on the chapters, but will also put the main ideas on this blog under Creative Commons. After all, as I say in the Introduction, we owe almost all our ideas to the community. Since I read a lot of philosophy and history, “my” ideas have roots thousands of years old.
Any comments people make, that I use, will be acknowledged as theirs, and I may return the whole thing to the commons if it proves too much work to get it published.
I hope it proves useful to somebody, somewhere, sometime.
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Fresh Start for Better Systems
I have not been well for some time; an iron deficiency has left me short of energy and easily out of breath. My wife’s health is even worse so I am her full-time caregiver, which means I have not caught up with the backlog of work from the year-end “holidays”, which added work for several gatherings in our home for guests we really wanted to do.
I have reluctantly abandoned several tasks for community give-back; I just don’t have the energy until we can fix this problem; I’m still awaiting several medical tests to try to determine the cause, though I have some relief from trans- and in-fusions.
But I have decided to keep up with writing my books, focusing on my Better Systems book. I have been working on it for 10 years, mostly for my own benefit in thinking about social systems. I have made—and fixed—enough mistakes while working on it that I think I should work towards publishing it, first on my website and then possibly commercially. To that end, I removed it all from the website because the content was getting inconsistent and I have just put the Introduction and top level Table of Contents back on the web and intend to fill in the content again as quickly as my energy-levels will permit. Since I’m in my final quarter-century, I don’t think I have another ten years left to work on it.
The table of contents also contains work on my autobiography and a planned book on philosophy.
Because it’s possible that I may try commercial publishing later, I am putting a copyright notice on the chapters, but will also put the main ideas on this blog under Creative Commons. After all, as I say in the Introduction, we owe almost all our ideas to the community. Since I read a lot of philosophy and history, “my” ideas have roots thousands of years old.
Any comments people make, that I use, will be acknowledged as theirs, and I may return the whole thing to the commons if it proves too much work to get it published.
I hope it proves useful to somebody, somewhere, sometime.
#socialSystems -
Fresh Start for Better Systems
I have not been well for some time; an iron deficiency has left me short of energy and easily out of breath. My wife’s health is even worse so I am her full-time caregiver, which means I have not caught up with the backlog of work from the year-end “holidays”, which added work for several gatherings in our home for guests we really wanted to do.
I have reluctantly abandoned several tasks for community give-back; I just don’t have the energy until we can fix this problem; I’m still awaiting several medical tests to try to determine the cause, though I have some relief from trans- and in-fusions.
But I have decided to keep up with writing my books, focusing on my Better Systems book. I have been working on it for 10 years, mostly for my own benefit in thinking about social systems. I have made—and fixed—enough mistakes while working on it that I think I should work towards publishing it, first on my website and then possibly commercially. To that end, I removed it all from the website because the content was getting inconsistent and I have just put the Introduction and top level Table of Contents back on the web and intend to fill in the content again as quickly as my energy-levels will permit. Since I’m in my final quarter-century, I don’t think I have another ten years left to work on it.
The table of contents also contains work on my autobiography and a planned book on philosophy.
Because it’s possible that I may try commercial publishing later, I am putting a copyright notice on the chapters, but will also put the main ideas on this blog under Creative Commons. After all, as I say in the Introduction, we owe almost all our ideas to the community. Since I read a lot of philosophy and history, “my” ideas have roots thousands of years old.
Any comments people make, that I use, will be acknowledged as theirs, and I may return the whole thing to the commons if it proves too much work to get it published.
I hope it proves useful to somebody, somewhere, sometime.
#socialSystems -
Fresh Start for Better Systems
I have not been well for some time; an iron deficiency has left me short of energy and easily out of breath. My wife’s health is even worse so I am her full-time caregiver, which means I have not caught up with the backlog of work from the year-end “holidays”, which added work for several gatherings in our home for guests we really wanted to do.
I have reluctantly abandoned several tasks for community give-back; I just don’t have the energy until we can fix this problem; I’m still awaiting several medical tests to try to determine the cause, though I have some relief from trans- and in-fusions.
But I have decided to keep up with writing my books, focusing on my Better Systems book. I have been working on it for 10 years, mostly for my own benefit in thinking about social systems. I have made—and fixed—enough mistakes while working on it that I think I should work towards publishing it, first on my website and then possibly commercially. To that end, I removed it all from the website because the content was getting inconsistent and I have just put the Introduction and top level Table of Contents back on the web and intend to fill in the content again as quickly as my energy-levels will permit. Since I’m in my final quarter-century, I don’t think I have another ten years left to work on it.
The table of contents also contains work on my autobiography and a planned book on philosophy.
Because it’s possible that I may try commercial publishing later, I am putting a copyright notice on the chapters, but will also put the main ideas on this blog under Creative Commons. After all, as I say in the Introduction, we owe almost all our ideas to the community. Since I read a lot of philosophy and history, “my” ideas have roots thousands of years old.
Any comments people make, that I use, will be acknowledged as theirs, and I may return the whole thing to the commons if it proves too much work to get it published.
I hope it proves useful to somebody, somewhere, sometime.
#socialSystems -
Fresh Start for Better Systems
I have not been well for some time; an iron deficiency has left me short of energy and easily out of breath. My wife’s health is even worse so I am her full-time caregiver, which means I have not caught up with the backlog of work from the year-end “holidays”, which added work for several gatherings in our home for guests we really wanted to do.
I have reluctantly abandoned several tasks for community give-back; I just don’t have the energy until we can fix this problem; I’m still awaiting several medical tests to try to determine the cause, though I have some relief from trans- and in-fusions.
But I have decided to keep up with writing my books, focusing on my Better Systems book. I have been working on it for 10 years, mostly for my own benefit in thinking about social systems. I have made—and fixed—enough mistakes while working on it that I think I should work towards publishing it, first on my website and then possibly commercially. To that end, I removed it all from the website because the content was getting inconsistent and I have just put the Introduction and top level Table of Contents back on the web and intend to fill in the content again as quickly as my energy-levels will permit. Since I’m in my final quarter-century, I don’t think I have another ten years left to work on it.
The table of contents also contains work on my autobiography and a planned book on philosophy.
Because it’s possible that I may try commercial publishing later, I am putting a copyright notice on the chapters, but will also put the main ideas on this blog under Creative Commons. After all, as I say in the Introduction, we owe almost all our ideas to the community. Since I read a lot of philosophy and history, “my” ideas have roots thousands of years old.
Any comments people make, that I use, will be acknowledged as theirs, and I may return the whole thing to the commons if it proves too much work to get it published.
I hope it proves useful to somebody, somewhere, sometime.
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These Are the Top 5 Countries for Retirement
A new global ranking reveals which countries have the best retirement security, and the U.S. didn’t crack the…
#NewsBeep #News #Personalfinance #Business #developedcountries #Finance #incomeequality #Nordiccountries #PersonalFinance #Retirement #socialsystems #UK #UnitedKingdom
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https://www.europesays.com/ie/145079/ These Are the Top 5 Countries for Retirement #Business #DevelopedCountries #Éire #IE #IncomeEquality #Ireland #NordicCountries #PersonalFinance #PersonalFinance #Retirement #SocialSystems
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Something I've tried to capture in ‘Verses #ttrpg is how #socialSystems interact with & affect characters and their actions. I believe that modeling this with some fidelity enriches player experiences, and is an un- or under-explored force in #worldbuilding in many other games. Modeling these systems at the core rules level means that expansion authors and GMs don't have to spend the time to “roll their own”
One cool example is the relationship between Wealth & money:
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Something I've tried to capture in ‘Verses #ttrpg is how #socialSystems interact with & affect characters and their actions. I believe that modeling this with some fidelity enriches player experiences, and is an un- or under-explored force in #worldbuilding in many other games. Modeling these systems at the core rules level means that expansion authors and GMs don't have to spend the time to “roll their own”
One cool example is the relationship between Wealth & money:
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Something I've tried to capture in ‘Verses #ttrpg is how #socialSystems interact with & affect characters and their actions. I believe that modeling this with some fidelity enriches player experiences, and is an un- or under-explored force in #worldbuilding in many other games. Modeling these systems at the core rules level means that expansion authors and GMs don't have to spend the time to “roll their own”
One cool example is the relationship between Wealth & money:
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Something I've tried to capture in ‘Verses #ttrpg is how #socialSystems interact with & affect characters and their actions. I believe that modeling this with some fidelity enriches player experiences, and is an un- or under-explored force in #worldbuilding in many other games. Modeling these systems at the core rules level means that expansion authors and GMs don't have to spend the time to “roll their own”
One cool example is the relationship between Wealth & money:
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Plan B for Paradise.
Eugenics enthusiast: "We want to improve the human species in order to reduce human suffering. What could be a kinder vision for the world than that?"
The skeptic: "How will you accomplish this?"
Eugenics enthusiast: "Mostly by introducing a whole lot of concentrated human suffering."
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Plan B for Paradise.
Eugenics enthusiast: "We want to improve the human species in order to reduce human suffering. What could be a kinder vision for the world than that?"
The skeptic: "How will you accomplish this?"
Eugenics enthusiast: "Mostly by introducing a whole lot of concentrated human suffering."
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Plan B for Paradise.
Eugenics enthusiast: "We want to improve the human species in order to reduce human suffering. What could be a kinder vision for the world than that?"
The skeptic: "How will you accomplish this?"
Eugenics enthusiast: "Mostly by introducing a whole lot of concentrated human suffering."
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Plan B for Paradise.
Eugenics enthusiast: "We want to improve the human species in order to reduce human suffering. What could be a kinder vision for the world than that?"
The skeptic: "How will you accomplish this?"
Eugenics enthusiast: "Mostly by introducing a whole lot of concentrated human suffering."