“Indicators arise from values (we measure what we care about), and they create values (we care about what we measure)” (Meadows, 1998)” (Singh et al., 2012, p. 281) (pdf)
Daniel Schmachtenberger talk on the Stoa
- where would optimize for this metric create problems?
- what might we have to add
- dialectics to consider looking for higher-order synthesis
- individual vs. collective
- medium vs long term
no definable metric should be optimized
- “the dao that is optimizable is not the eternal dao” Tao Te Ching 1 - The tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao
- defining inherently excludes other things that are valuable, and optimizing for our metric will inevitably harm what’s not included
a good metric would include and transcend its measurements
- possible ideas, not to be optimized for, but to be considered in conjunction with other things
- opposite of addiction
- people acting from sense of agency rather than compulsion
- Compersion
- opposite of addiction