Jillian Ada Burrows Sosa

@adaburrows

Joined on Apr 16, 2021

  • My notes are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license. All images here are also similarly licensed. The following is a set of reading that I've found helpful for thinking about Valueflows. For background context, Valueflows is a real world implementation of the mostly academic REA ontology. Technology shapes what we make. Economics Cook, S. (1968). Primitive, Archaic, and Modern Economies: Essays of Karl Polanyi. Piketty, T. (2014). Capital in the twenty-first century. In Capital in the twenty-first century. Harvard University Press. Piketty, T. (2020). Capital and ideology. Harvard University Press.
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  • There are multiple kinds of Ilex teas around the world. It turns out most of them have anti-inflammatory properties. Some also have metabolic properties that help with lipid metabolism: I. latifolia — "bitter nail tea" kǔ dīng cháCan reduce cholesterol. I. kaushue — "bitter nail tea" kǔdīng chá I. vomitoria — yaupon (Catawba), Aatichoosanàyli (Alabama), cassine/cassina/cassena (Timucua) — Found in USA: OK, AL, AR, FL, GA, LA, MS, NC, SC, VA, TX; MX: Veracruz, Chiapas. Very rich in flavonols. High in Chlorogenic acid (Negrin et al. 2019).
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  • The Mije-Sokean languages are spoken in the isthmus of of what is now known as "Mexico". It is spoken in the states of Veracruz, Tabasco, Oaxaca, and Chiapas. This region was called "yn nolmeca yn xicallanca" in La Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca. This means, "these people from a region of rubber, these people near the tree gourds" and it is where some scholars got the name "Olmeca" or "Olmec". When the Mexica encountered the other languages to their south, they named them all "popoloca". This roughly translates to "those people from the region speaking jibberish" and has been used in ways very similar to the Greek word "βάρβαροι" and it's descendant "barbarian". However, it may also be related to the concept of "those who have been conquered". In the regional branches of Nahuatl the word branched into two versions: popoloca and popoluca. Nowdays, Popoloca refers to a portion of the Oto-Manguean that includes the Mazatecan languages, while Popoluca refers to the northern-most languages of the Mije-Soke tree in Veracruz. Present Day Language Distribution Jimenez, S. J. (2019). Estudios de la Gramática de la Oración Simple y Compleja En El Zoque De San Miguel Chimalapa. (Tesis Doctoral). From Glottolog Language Tree
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  • Rasmusen, E. (1988). Mutual banks and stock banks. The Journal of Law and Economics, 31(2), 395-421. Kiyotaki, N., & Wright, R. (1989). On money as a medium of exchange. Journal of political Economy, 97(4), 927-954. Stodder, J. (2000, August). Reciprocal exchange networks: Implications for macroeconomic stability. In Proceedings of the 2000 IEEE Engineering Management Society. EMS-2000 (Cat. No. 00CH37139) (pp. 540-545). IEEE. Lietaer, B. (2004). Complementary currencies in Japan today: History, originality and relevance. International Journal of Community Currency Research, 8(1), 1-23. Lascelles, C. (2006). Complementary currencies: Mutual credit currency systems and the challenge of globalization. Duke University Unpublished, 1-12. Colacelli, M., & Blackburn, D. J. (2009). Secondary currency: An empirical analysis. Journal of monetary economics, 56(3), 295-308. Ozanne, L. K. (2010). Learning to exchange time: Benefits and obstacles to time banking. Lasker, J., Collom, E., Bealer, T., Niclaus, E., Young Keefe, J., Kratzer, Z., ... & Perlow, K. (2011). Time banking and health: the role of a community currency organization in enhancing well-being. Health promotion practice, 12(1), 102-115. Kristjanson, P., Mango, N., Krishna, A., Radeny, M., & Johnson, N. (2010). Understanding poverty dynamics in Kenya. Journal of international development, 22(7), 978-996. Ruddick, W. (2011). Eco-Pesa: an evaluation of a complementary currency programme in Kenya’s informal settlements. International Journal of Community Currency Research, 15(A), 1-12.
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  • Questions to think about while reading: What qualifies as intelligence? What qualifies as self-awareness? What qualifies as sentience? Can an intelligence not be sentient, but still report back that it is? Can something be sentient, but not intelligent enough to report back that it is? Can something be neither intelligent or sentient, but be statistically likely to compose sentences like it was trained on that fool a human into thinking it it both intelligent and sentient? How harmful can an AI become that can fool someone into thinking it is a person? How do we handle a case where an AI is a completely different "personality" (for lack of a better word) from one interaction to another and from one person to another? How do we a handle a being that has no consistent self-identity from one moment to another?
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  • Background Information Kohler, T. A., Smith, M. E., Bogaard, A., Feinman, G. M., Peterson, C. E., Betzenhauser, A., … & Ellyson, L. J. (2017). Greater post-Neolithic wealth disparities in Eurasia than in North America and Mesoamerica. Nature, 551(7682), 619-622. Ortman, S., & Lobo, J. (2020). Smithian growth in a nonindustrial society. Science advances, 6(25), eaba5694. Overview La Lone, D. E. (1982). The Inca as a nonmarket economy: Supply on command versus supply and demand. In Contexts for prehistoric exchange (pp. 291-316). Academic Press. Earle, T. (1994). Wealth finance in the Inka empire: Evidence from the Calchaqui Valley, Argentina. American antiquity, 59(3), 443-460. D'Altroy, T. N. (1997). Recent research on the central Andes. Journal of Archaeological Research, 5(1), 3-73.
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