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The myth of Prometheus, who stole fire from the gods, describes human origins. For our ancestors ?every act was without knowledge, until Prometheus gave them his illicit gift, which would become their teacher of every art.? The word for ?art? in ancient Greek was ?techne,? the root of technique & technology. Prometheus, whose name means ?fore-thinker,? symbolizes science and foresight.
An un-human ?logic? drives the ?tragedy of the commons.? Garrett Hardin coined that term for the overexploitation of common resources by ?rational beings each?seeking to maximize his gain,? which causes collective disaster by damaging what they depend on. But this is no unavoidable fate. Rather it?s a tragedy of poor thinking by supposedly elite reasoners, blind to simple solutions.
Elinor Olstrom won a Nobel Prize in Economics for researching how groups overcome Hardin?s hard-of-thinking hurdle. But her work isn?t widely known. Before her Nobel, even prominent economists hadn?t heard of her. But we shouldn?t need Nobel laureate to see the obvious. Our survival has long required cooperation. We?ve evolved and developed ways to manage joint resources (e.g. punishing free riders) over about 10,000 generations.
Hardin claimed ?no technical solution? existed and that a ?fundamental extension in morality? was needed. His framing of the moral as distinct from the rational/technical shows how scientists can misunderstand those words. Morals are simply social coordination rules. They can be rational. Aquinas distinguished natural from supernatural moral virtues. The natural virtues, or skills (taken from Aristotle) included justice, temperance, and prudence and were needed for humans to thrive on earth.
Allowing foreseeably bad outcomes isn?t rational. Yet a supposedly rational economistic ?logic? often encourages precisely that. Hardin spoke of a ?tragedy of freedom in a commons,? which pinpoints the real issue. It?s not ?the commons?, but an unsustainable idea of freedom. No community can allow freedom to create foreseeable collective doom. The fate of this logic is inescapable. Damage what you depend on and you risk perishing. Cultures with self-undermining forms of ?rationality? and freedom don?t survive. That?s their common tragedy.
In Plato?s version of the Prometheus myth, ?scattered isolated? humans are given ?political techne? ? the arts needed to create cities. The ?pol? in politics is from ?polis? meaning city. Without this, humans, self-deficient by nature, couldn?t prosper. The political arts of social coordination prevent us from being idiots. In ancient Greek, ?idios? meant ?of one?s own or private.? They believed it crazy and irrational to live only for private interests. They had sustainable self-interest rightly understood. We?d be idiots to ignore that we evolved relational rationality and social coordination rules based on justice. We must think better or bitter fates await.
Illustration by Julia Suits, The New Yorker Cartoonist & author of The Extraordinary Catalog of Peculiar Inventions.
Previously in this series:
It Is in Our Nature to Be Self-Deficient
Inheriting Second Natures
Our Ruly Nature
It Is in Our Nature to Need Stories
Tools Are in Our Nature
We Fit Nature To Us: Evolutions two way street
Justice Is In Our Nature
Behavioral Telescope Shows How Cooperation Works
Selfish Genes Also Must Cooperate
Game Theory And The Golden Punishment Rule
Revolutionizing Economics by Evolutionizing it.
Science?s Mobile Army of Metaphors
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ? Vivendi SA is selling most of its majority stake in Activision Blizzard Inc. for $8.2 billion, giving the video game company back its independence as the French conglomerate tries to strengthen its balance sheet.
Vivendi said Friday that 429 million of its shares will be sold to Activision itself for $5.83 billion, or $13.60 per share. Another 172 million shares will be sold for $2.34 billion to a consortium of investors including Activision CEO Bobby Kotick and Co-chairman Brian Kelly, who are contributing $100 million each.
Santa Monica, Calif.-based Activision makes games such as "World of Warcraft" and the wildly popular "Call of Duty" series. Vivendi acquired a majority stake in Activision in 2008 and combined it with its games unit, which included "Warcraft" publisher Blizzard Entertainment, so Activision will walk away a bigger company.
Vivendi, meanwhile, will reduce its stake in Activision to 12 percent. The French company will continue to hold 83 million Activision shares after the sale, which is expected to close in September.
Activision's newly found independence will come ahead of an important holiday season for video game companies. New consoles from Microsoft Corp. and Sony Corp. coming out later this year are expected to fuel video game sales starting this fall and through the holidays.
Activision said in a conference call with investors Friday that this is a "tremendous" opportunity for the company and its shareholders. The move will reduce the number of available shares Activision has, which will increase the value of its remaining stock.
"Five years ago, we made one of the best decisions in our company's history when we joined forces with Blizzard Entertainment," Kotick said in the call. Since then, Activision has launched new games including "Diablo III" and the kid-focused "Skylanders."
After Friday's announcement, investors can shift their focus to Activision's games, including the upcoming "Destiny" from "Halo" creator Bungie that could be a "major hit" when it comes out next year, said Cowen and Co. analyst Doug Creutz.
Vivendi, whose shares closed up less than 1 percent to 16.07 euros in trading in Paris, said in a statement that the sale "provides the group with greater financial flexibility and creates value for our shareholders."
Part of the cash will be used to strengthen the balance sheet and maintain its credit rating. Vivendi has been trying to restructure and sell off some businesses in its diverse conglomerate, and announced earlier this week that it's in talks to sell its stake in Moroccan phone company Maroc Telecom.
Shares of Activision jumped $2.28, or 15 percent, to close at $17.46. The company's stock hit $17.76 earlier in the day, its highest level since August 2008.
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Associated Press writers Angela Charlton in Paris and Sarah Skidmore Sell in Portland, Ore. contributed to this story.
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Google?s Chromecast is a tiny $35 device designed to let you stream videos from the internet to your TV. It?s running a modified version of Chrome OS, but you?d never really know that to look at it ? there?s virtually no user interface. Instead, when you fire up a video on your phone, tablet, or PC and send it to your Chromecast, the device essentially opens up a browser tab to stream the video or other internet content on your TV.
If you?ve been wondering what kind of hardware it takes to do that, wonder no more. The folks at repair shop iFixit have ripped open a Chromecast to see what lies beneath the 2 inches of plastic.
Here?s the answer, in a nutshell:
Normally iFixit assigns repairability scores to the devices it dissects. In this case, there?s not much point. There?s almost nothing you could conceivably replace yourself ? aside from the case and heatsink, every component of the Chromecast is physically attached to the system board.
With a price of $35 though, even if you could replace individual components, you?d probably end up spending more on tools and replacement parts than it would cost to just buy a new unit.
If you feel the urge to open up your case though, all you need to do is slide a thin piece of plastic between the two pieces of the case and gently pry it apart.
It?s interesting to note that the device has a Bluetooth chip and 4GB of built-in storage. While that space is basically designed to hold the Chromecast?s version of Chrome OS, I wouldn?t be shocked if someone eventually figured out a way to side-load other operating systems or software. After all, if you can run Ubuntu on a Chromebook, why not on a Chromecast?
While the sole USB port is used as a power supply, theoretically you may be able to tap into the Bluetooth chip to connect a wireless keyboard and mouse.
Of course, then you?ll have to figure out how many Ubuntu desktop apps you can load on a cheap, relatively slow computer with just 4GB of storage and no SD card slot.
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Today Google unveiled a brand new Play Games app, that serves as a companion hub and portal for the Google Play Games Services, announced at I/O. The app serves as a front end for viewing leader boards and connecting with friends (from your Google+ circles, of course), simplifying the act of challenging them in head-to-head competitions. Play Games, in addition to serving as a place to track all of your achievements and other such gaming goodness, serves as a single repository for launching all your games. Think of it like Steam, but for your Android tablet or phone, and with a slightly less graphically-impressive library of titles. Asphalt 8 Airborne, Riptide GP2 and Prince of Persia The Shadow and the Flame are will be among the first to take advantage of the new Play Games App, with the latter hitting virtual shelves tomorrow.
Update: It's now available on Google Play; hit the source link for your download.
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