I think the question we must ask now is: if machine intelligence is going to be able to produce much more sophisticated and well-sourced knowledge than human brains, shouldn't we start thinking about what kinds of cognition and wisdom we actual will need and want to develop going forward?
I think that is exactly the right question. If machine intelligence is going to be able to produce much more sophisticated and well-sourced knowledge than human brains, maybe we should start thinking about the kinds of cognition and wisdom we need and want to have going forward?
Thanks for sharing.
Intellectual work is no longer strictly a human affair. It is now distributed across complex assemblages of humans, algorithms, and planetary-scale datasets. This transformation may mark the moment when the so-called "postmodern condition" finally arrives.
A new paper, by an international team of researchers, reviews the latest evidence and says global temperatures must cool to around 1°C above pre-industrial levels in the long term. tinyurl.com/52xyujnf
“A Canadian oil and gas industry group is backing a proposal to consolidate Alberta's two largest river basins, a move that would make it easier for industry to transfer water in that area without requiring legislative approval.”
#BadGov #CdnPoli #Treaty #EIA
Solar farms could increase global crop yields by hundreds of billions of pounds, thanks to the protective microclimate created beneath their panels.
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From @newscientist.com:
“Since 2014, the planet has been warming by about 0.36°C per decade, according to an analysis of five temperature datasets, raising fears that climate tipping points could be crossed earlier than expected.”
Goodnight my bluesky friends 😴 💙 💕
"The nine big retailers account for 94.5% of all retail food. That’s nine companies, using just 131 distribution centres. In drone war, that’s a sitting duck.” - Professor Tim Lang, the doyen of UK food system studies for 40 years
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The Epstein class continues to push their agenda of profit before people and planet by cutting down crucial old growth forests.
PLEASE take 1min to help defend against this atrocity b following the link.
“Ecological modernization as a theory and a practice has thus come to stand principally for an anti-ecological stance in that it puts capitalist social relations before issues of humanity and nature, while the accumulation of capital remains the supreme object of the system.”
Unifying Ecology Across Scales - Gordon Research Conference.
With @jennsunday.bsky.social as Chair
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The guy is world-class tool.
The Story of Capital, What Everyone Should Know About How Capital Works is now available from @versobooks.bsky.social
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It doesn’t matter whether the rate of global warming is increasing. It’ll never cease to amaze me that people don’t care that it’s happening at all. It should be the most alarming thing ever.
Hello! One month from today I’m releasing my new book about our majestic universe, which thinks with poetry, quantum physics, relativity, Zhou kingdom philosophy, galaxies, particles, Akan aphorisms, Black feminism, Star Trek, Alice in Wonderland. AND it’s for all readers. 📚💙
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My TED Talk on Saving Ourselves is OUT! Tune in to learn why we ALL need to be apocalyptic optimists: Prepared for the climate shocks that are coming and ready to rally as activists, disruptors, and bridge-builders to save ourselves from the climate crisis. go.ted.com/danarfisher
“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist”
James Baldwin
"It’s worth noting the degree to which experimental writing and political history are intimately, perhaps even inextricably intertwined. A single speech act can bring an entire geopolitical world of possibility into being": grayskythinking.substack.com/p/reading-ge...
Best obscure reference of the week!
Strategy is fundamentally all about developing a sophisticated theory of the mind of one’s opponent.
With MAGA’s Iran Adventure, guess we’re going to see what a modern war almost totally devoid of anything we’d call “strategy” looks like.
As an ecosystem scientist, I get why the majority of politicians don't perceive severe environmental degradation risks, even to food security. They've lived in magic worlds: the economy, military, public policy. But now we know. And *all* governments had best be very proactive & judicious right now.
People see conservation as an exciting, romantic field to work in
But it's a tough life watching the places you love, study and fight for being destroyed
“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth...It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken."
-Carl Sagan
NEW EPISODE: FE6.8 - For Peat's Sake
We explore the wonders and the mysteries of peatlands through the story of one very special (and threatened) bog just outside of Vancouver.
Meet the scientists who fought for its protection, and the folks who are studying it and restoring it to this day
In our latest edition of Hyphaedelity, @ehiggs.bsky.social sits down with @lauralgovers.bsky.social all about bringing eel grass back to the Netherlands' Wadden Sea (and what "environmental restoration" even means in times like these).
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Our new paper presents a framework for analysing the processes that generate novel ecosystems, discussing different conceptual and practical approaches across ecological disciplines. You can read it, open access, in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social
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