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Concepts, Percepts, Affects... you can't 'live' without them...
An intellectually deep and beautifully written essay on consciousness and AI, by neuroscientist Anil Seth | Why consciousness is more likely a property of life than of computation and why creating conscious, or even conscious-seeming AI, is a bad idea | @anilkseth in @NoemaMag noemamag.com/the-mythology-o… noemamag.com/the-mythology-o…
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An intellectually deep and beautifully written essay on consciousness and AI, by neuroscientist Anil Seth | Why consciousness is more likely a property of life than of computation and why creating conscious, or even conscious-seeming AI, is a bad idea | @anilkseth in @NoemaMag noemamag.com/the-mythology-o… noemamag.com/the-mythology-o…
A lack of nuance built on ignorance. Complete misrepresentation of the class struggle that actually took place. See @bcmerchant’s #bloodinthemachine or even Pynchon’s essay “Is it O.K. to be a Luddite?”
The Luddites had the romance and the whiff of doomed tragedy, but ultimately they did not have power to prevent the widespread adoption of technology. We explain why economist.com/finance-and-ec…
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Dark money, anonymous companies, and secretive elites with hidden wealth aren’t limited to distant dictatorships on palm-fringed islands. They’re here in America, now—and they’re enabling democracy’s decay, @anneapplebaum and @peterpomeranzev explain: theatlantic.com/podcasts/arc…
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🦀🐝🧠🤖 How should we make decisions when faced with systems of uncertain sentience? My new book The Edge of Sentience: Risk and Precaution in Humans, Other Animals, and AI is available online for free at academic.oup.com/book/57949. Please download it! Just click on PDF to get a PDF of the whole book. Individual chapters are also available as PDFs - just click on whichever chapters you want. The book is completely free to everyone and I'm grateful for all shares and forwards.
Would Boeing murder a whistleblower? Before this month I'd have said it depends. I didn't think Boeing would kill a middle manager who never worked on the 737 Max & left in 2017.
What surprised me was how many more informed observers felt Boeing...might
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On Apr 25 my brilliant @INETOxford colleague Doyne Farmer will publish his book Making Sense of Chaos, a powerful call for why the world needs complexity economics. Here's a sneak preview inet.ox.ac.uk/news/making-se…
#ClimateEmergency #ClimateCrisis #Cities - the two most optmistic scenarios. Imagine high-income and upper middle-income countries failing to meet targets... #whiteswan worldbank.org/en/home
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If this is for real, fuck an actual duck.
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Time to acknowledge that a privately owned tool for a public conversation poses an illogical concentration of power, which is ultimately unacceptable. Hope to continue the conversation on @Mastodon
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Optimistic: urgency to reduce ecological footprint forges synergy btw new politics/policy & new urban forms - allowing structural renewal of the collective domain to slowly materialize. Pessimistic: Many countries would need a class war to achieve a stronger collective domain.
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2010: Focus on the collective is key to sustainable urbanism. Cities instead of sprawl needed to reduce humanity’s ecological footprint. Urgent ‘recalibration’ btw public & private domain pls: simultaneous change in projects & politics. 2022: come again?
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‘Watching Don’t Look Up made me see my whole life of campaigning flash before me’| George Monbiot theguardian.com/commentisfre…
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‘A tragic loss of intimacy with complexity’
Merchants of distraction in the business of manufacturing indifference.
Too true: “It's the structural stupidity ... the anti-intellectualism ... the absence of moral seriousness ... the reflexive alignment with the status quo, whatever it may be ...”
Very powerful moving read:
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Merchants of distraction in the business of manufacturing indifference.
Too true: “It's the structural stupidity ... the anti-intellectualism ... the absence of moral seriousness ... the reflexive alignment with the status quo, whatever it may be ...”
Very powerful moving read:
It’s not a pathology to cry about the state of the planet. It’s a pathology not to.
My column.
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Looking @ 2021 this forum on #innovation & #local #prosperity is a highlight bostonreview.net/forum/what-… thx @BostonReview @DebChasman @jcohen570 @yuenyuenang @RoKhanna @phat_controller @Andrejcisneros @JayDeeDubyu @fordschool @RussellProf @Chartwell_Ideas @OUPAcademic @munkschool
High-density cities, esp. in advanced economies, can have lower per capita energy demand than low-density cities. Results highlight the need for #strategicurbanplanning to maximize beneficial elements of cities and mitigate their negative impacts. openknowledge.worldbank.org/…