- Until now, I have been thinking that I want to reduce constraints through technology.
- Removing the constraints of physical time
- Even in the government’s moonshot goals, they talk about achieving a society where people are freed from the constraints of the body, brain, space, and time by 2050, and various interesting research is emerging from this.
- However, I also had doubts about the claim that “reducing constraints and increasing possibilities and choices” is always a good thing.
- Details: Having Many Options is Justice
https://twitter.com/blu3mo/status/1715916638720049569
I thought that instead of “freedom from constraints,” we should aim for “versatility of constraints.” Just having unlimited choices without any constraints might actually be overwhelming for people, so it would be great if we had the ability to control the constraints that affect our choices from a meta perspective. (This could apply to things like sports rules, screen time on smartphones, gravity in VR, etc.)
https://twitter.com/aestheticsAZCII/status/1715926068740444582
This somewhat overlaps with what I previously talked about regarding necessary truths and contingent truths, but the ideas in 20th-century art were quite close to this concept of recognizing (visualizing) and manipulating constraints.
Various propositions (such as “realistic or not,” “monochrome or color,” etc.) form the basis of certain artworks, and the innovation in art history is the value of “visualizing the necessary (invisible) propositions (constraints) through the creation of counterexamples and enabling the freedom to choose them from then on.” Possible Worlds
Perhaps we should consider the constraints of the environment and the constraints of human decision-making separately.