Is English Language human intel advancing?
2015 DCAI--AI & Childhood Cancer .Before AI lifted off in late 200s 3 underacknowlefgen Jappenings: 1 steve jobs hosted Fazle Abed's 65 th birthday party silicon valley 2001; .jensen hunag and steve jobs went from coding binary to cosinf pixels; Fazle abed clarified that paulo freire culture celebrated poorest asian womens ebd poverty networking miracle -- largest NGO, providing education, health services, microcredit and livelihood creation programmes for a significant part of the population of Bangladesh. What lies behind this huge success, Caroline Hartnell asked Fazle Abed, founder of BRAC and still very much at the helm. Questioning everything they do and being prepared to tackle whatever is needed to make their programmes successful are certainly part of the secret behind the success of this extraordinarily entrepreneurial organization. The secret of success? Asked what lies behind BRAC’s phenomenal success, the first thing Fazle Abed mentions is determination: ‘We were determined to bring about changes in the lives of poor people.’ The second thing is thinking in national terms: ‘We always had a national goal; we never thought in terms of working in a small area. We thought, all right, if we work with the poorest people in this community, who’s going to work with the poorest people in that other community? So we felt that whatever we do, we should try and replicate it throughout the nation if we can.’ The third thing he mentions is inspiration. ‘We always thought nationally, worked locally, and looked for inspiration globally. We were inspired by Paolo Freire’s work on the pedagogy of the oppressed, which he came out with in 1972. It was wonderful to have a thinker who was thinking about poor people and how they can become actors in history and not just passive recipients of other people’s aid. He made us realize that poor people are human beings and can do things for themselves, and it’s our duty to empower them so they can analyse their own situation, see how exploitation works in society, and see what they need to do to escape these exploitative processes.’ Finally, he says, ‘one needs to have not only ambition but also the ability to do the work. The organization must be competent to take on national tasks. That confidence we got from the campaign for oral rehydration, to cut down diarrhoeal mortality, in the 1980s. That involved going to every household in rural Bangladesh, 13 million households, and it took ten years to do it. Then we became a little more ambitious. We thought that if we can go to every household, then we can cover the whole country with everything we do.
...AP July 2025 - INTELLIGENCE ENGINEERING'S ALPHABET : World Class Biobrains: Drew Endy, Matt Scullin, Daniel Swiger++- BI BioIntelligence, the most collaborative human challenge Mother Earth has ever staged?
NB any errors below are mine alone chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk but mathematically we are in a time when order of magnitude ignorance can sink any nation however big. Pretrain to question everything as earth's data is reality's judge
Its time to stop blaming 2/3 of humans who are Asian for their consciously open minds and love of education. Do Atlantic people's old populations still trust and celebrate capability of generating healthy innovative brains? What's clear to anyove visting Washington DC or Brussels is a dismal mismatch exists between the gamechanging future opportunities listed below and how freedom of next generation learning has got muddled by how old male-dominated generations waste money on adevrtising and bossing. Consider the clarity of Stanford's Drew Endy's Strange Competition 1 2:
Up to “60% of the physical inputs to the global economy”7 could be made via biotechnology by mid-century, generating ~$30 trillion annually in mostly-new economic activity. 8 Emerging product categories include consumer biologics (e.g., bioluminescent petunias,9 purple tomatoes,10 and hangover probiotics11 ), military hard power (e.g., brewing energetics12 ), mycological manufacturing (e.g., mushroom ‘leather’ 13 ), and biotechnology for technology (e.g., DNA for archival data storage14 ). Accessing future product categories will depend on unlocking biology as a general purpose technology15 (e.g., growing computers16 ), deploying pervasive and embedded biotechnologies within, on, and around us (e.g. smart blood,17 skin vaccines,18 and surveillance mucus19 ), and life-beyond lineage (e.g., biosecurity at birth,20 species de-extinction21 ).		.

notes on drew endy testimony on bio tech 2025 strange competition

Natural living systems operate and manufacture materials with atomic precision on a planetary scale, powered by ~130 terawatts of energy self-harvested via photosynthesis

Biotechnology enables people to change biology. Domestication and breeding of plants and animals for food, service, and companionship began millennia ago. Gene editing, from recombinant DNA to CRISPR, is used to make medicines and foods, and is itself half-a-century old. Synthetic biology is working to routinize composition of bioengineered systems of ever-greater complexity

 https://colossal.com/  20 https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/34914  19 https://2020.igem.org/Team:Stanford  18 https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2024/12/skin-bacteria-vaccine.html  17 https://www.darpa.mil/news/2024/rbc-factory  16 https://www.src.org/program/grc/semisynbio/semisynbio-consortium-roadmap/  15 https://www.scsp.ai/2023/04/scsps-platform-panel-releases-national-action-plan-for-u-s-leadership-in-biotechnology/  14 https://dnastoragealliance.org/  13 https://www.mycoworks.com/  12 https://serdp-estcp.mil/focusareas/3b64545d-6761-4084-a198-ad2103880194  11  https://zbiotics.com/  10 https://www.norfolkhealthyproduce.com/  9 https://light.bio/     8 https://web.archive.org/web/20250116082806/https:/www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/BUILDIN G-A-VIBRANT-DOMESTIC-BIOMANUFACTURING-ECOSYSTEM.pdf  7 https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/life-sciences/our-insights/the-bio-revolution-innovations-transforming-econo mies-societies-and-our-lives     6 https://www.nationalacademies.org/our-work/safeguarding-the-bioeconomy-finding-strategies-for-understanding-ev aluating-and-protecting-the-bioeconomy-while-sustaining-innovation-and-growth   5 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2650-9  

  4 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-40199-9

 AIH- May 2025.Billion Asian womens end poverty networking 2006-1976 is most exciting case of Entrepreneurial Revolution (survey Xmas 1976 Economist by dad Norman Macrae & Romano Prodi). In 2007, dad sampled 2000 copies of Dr Yunus Social Business Book: and I started 15 trips to Bangladesh to 2018- many with apprentice journalists. This is a log of what we found - deepened after dad's death in 2010 by 2 kind remembrance parties hoist by Japan Embassy in Dhaka with those in middle of digital support of what happened next. We witnessed a lot of conflicts - i can try and answer question chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk or see AI20s updates at http://povertymuseums.blogspot.com. I live in DC region but see myself as a Diaspoira Scot. Much of dad's libraries we transfreered with Dr Yunus to Glasgow University and enditirs og journals of social business, new economics and innovators of Grameen's virtual free nursing school.
Bangladesh offers best intelligence we have seen for sdgs 5 through 1 up to 2008, Search eg 4 1 oldest edu 4.6 newest edu ; .620th century intelligence - ending poverty of half world without electricity -although Keynes 1936 (last chapter General Theiory: Money, Interest, Employment) asked Economists to take hippocratic oath as the profession that ended extreme poverty, most economists have done the opposite. What's not understandable is how educators failed to catalogue the lessons of the handful who bottom-up empowered villages to collaboratively end poverty. There are mainly 2 inteligences to understand- Borlaug on food science -arguable the forst Biointeligence rising ar1950 on; fazle abed on everything that raised life expectancy in tropical village (zero-electricity) asia from low 40s to 60s (about 7 below norm of living with electricity and telecomes). Between 1972 and late 1990s, Abed's lessons catalogued in this mooc had largely built the nation of Bangladesh and been replicated with help of Unicef's James Grant acroo most tropical asian areas. What's exciting is the valley's mr ad mrs steve jobs invted Fazle Abed to share inteligences 2001 at his 65th birthday party. The Jobs and frineds promised to integrate abed's inteligence into neighborhod university stanfrd which in any event wanted Jobs next great leap the iphone. The Valley told abed to start a university so that women graduates from poor and rich nations could blend inteligence as Abed's bottom of the pyramid vilage began their journey of leapfrog modles now that grid infrastructures were ni longer needed for sdiar and mobile. Abed could also help redesign the millennium goals which were being greenwashed into a shared worldwide system coding frame by 2016. There at Abed's 80th birtday party , the easy bit was checking this mooc was uptodate. The hard bit - what did Abed mean by his wish to headhunt a Taiwanese American to head the university's 3rd decade starting 2020?

Friday, May 29, 2026

 Studyng Fazle Abed (BRAC) is fascinating: world's best educator; world's best at designining businesses that poorest women could scale across communities


this generalises to being networking's 3rd force from efficient government and efficient corporates (of the sort that suck out community value every quarter) to be the model traingularising gaols the UN calls sustainability


In many ways if brac went into a sector where traditional businesses compete it needed to be better at lest in delecering the baics of efficient effective expandavle - the 3 e's abed looked for


We house intelligence neeed to deeply linkin sustainability at caholicuni.com as Fazle Abed said the value system that inspired him was Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of the oppressed -ie the Franciscan system at its purest 


There are 3 interesting stoeies about St Francis way which I would leave researchers to verify or deny


Most recently it is said that when north americans proved landinnf on the moon was possible, latin america hosted a near contiennt wide debate. The issue being if soon anyhting ay be possible what are our cultural values (we know they were inherited from being settled by portufuese abds spabish) but catholicism has varaints; according to this story it was the franciscan way that the majority of latin americans hoped the late 20th C would expand as tech nade nothing impossible


Iy is said that in st francis time- arabs and catholics were in conflict with each other until st francis explained any maen wjo network with me ate to love diversity of mother nature- to help design solutions matching local diversity; and in parallel female networks the clares are to specialise in serving maternal and infant health. 


 A thord paradox is the bat that connects the san francisco region to silicon valley extends betwene 2 once spanish towns - that of Francis and of Clare.


Ok these re just stories. I am interested in some worldwide questions:


are there any other organsdiation dessigned like brac - arguably india's tata is - my understanding is it competes in many ciropate markets but reinvests its profits in a trsut for the development of all Indian people. Again verification is needed.


There aare several rules of thumb of brac

1 Fazle Abed never wanted to be mainly reliant on charity; he did feel that about 25% aid was the optimal mix because he wanted to compete in solutions the world needed; if you study where brac got the most aid it was in solutions eg oral rehydration that needed open sourcing wherever rural kids died of sairrhea - one in 3 infants doing so when bangladesh ws founded in 1971 as poorest and 8th most populous nation on earth; 


sometimes abed would develop a solution which he wanted government to take over with a taxation model; again this fiited aid as an initial source as it wasnt going to be an intergenrational positive cash flow contributor to brac


some people mistkenly believe abed's goal at birt if nation was measurable in say raiaising poorest earnings from say a dolar a day to 2 dolars a day- it wasnt; it ws raising life expectancy from low 40s to mid 60s. When life expectancy is in low 40s many sad things happen; in male dominated socieries women are expected to be baby factories birthing say 10 children so that at least 2 boys survive to grow up as men; another reason for not defining end poverty in monetary terms is that vilage women swapped many solutions without monetary exchnage;  at the very poorest level counting up paper money isnt helpful; indeed handling of very small amounts of cashflow is also impossible to top down bank for.

It turns out that abed had to reinvent the oragsnaiation twice abd as ai links in tyhe world I desperately wish he was here for a third innovation


between 1972 and the late 1990s - rural meant no access to electricity; each vilage was in some wys a separate market; however what happened in mid 1990s was solar and mobile both brough extrordinary opportunities for vilage grwth and indeed trabfer of rural peo[les to city and to foreign lands where oftern a nation's most healthy boy was expected to remit wages back to the family; even today about one third of foreign exchnaged owned is remittances alongside about a third from food which bangladesh is ma=iracilusly a net expoerted - and most of the other thrd comes from the garment industry.. Whether Bangladesh can expect to continue to be in worlds top 3 as garment manufacturer seems an urgent question to include in data soveresignty mapping of bangadesh; if you look at the geography bangaldesh is still boxed in with no access to superport or world calss rail service due to the diastrous nation og myanmar (which literally spills over a million poorest refugees into bangladesh) and India which hasnt yet resolved conflicts with muslim,s alllbeint msot troubles of this sort coming from the west. It is particulrly sad if you follow coastline north of mtanmar to note much of asia's rising trade that bangladesh's part of bay of bengal is curt off from since the english partitioned sunbcominnet of india int 3 at ime of independence. Historically Calutta was all og benagl people port; after aprtition it was owned by india

We can develop acronym sHE*Lf)F around un's 5 deepest goals she-too health educationion land-finance food

trabforamtion is clealy needed Y-WE (vauing youth water and energy)

to  some extent goals 1 to 8 can be resolved if ai scales apps communities need (layer 5 ai as jensen hunang maps it) though other UN gials such as peace climate ocean (free see trade) land trade clearly require a world where human slove each other  more than the 120 years of wars since einstein oublished e=mcsquared


when demis hassabis says he hopes to agent einstein brain power wherever needed through AI by 2030, its time to ask chats what joys of human intelgence netwirking they would prioriise if ai does indeed have einstein brain power and access to deep data mapping aligned to natures sciences


see part of our survey at www.economistdiary.com/2026/05 - and help look at un sdgoals as possible codes - we have arranged year 2001 to 2016  of this blog to relate to associated un chalenges but need lot more help cataloguing effective efficuent and expandable apps communities and youth need to tranform world around if intelligence not ignorance is to bless the coming decade



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