Monthly Archives: May 2022

Leadership?

Posted on May 31, 2022 by Ted Howard NZ

What would it take to elect leaders who have the requisite wisdom and compassion to serve the people rather than themselves? [ 18/April/22 ] Not actually a useful question. A better question is, what is required for us to develop … Continue reading →

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Ukraine again, and beyond

Posted on May 31, 2022 by Ted Howard NZ

[ 13/April/22 Need to stop the aggression in Ukraine] While I agree with almost all that you have written Pete, I wish it was as simple as you describe. I have no doubt that the USA and other players were … Continue reading →

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Vital Syllabus project

Posted on May 31, 2022 by Ted Howard NZ

The Vital Syllabus – project update part 2 Vital Syllabus [ 13/April/22 ] The Vital Syllabus as at 13 April 22 is a great start, but needs restructure. Numeracy needs to be number 2. Strategy number 3. Students need to … Continue reading →

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AI -time series forecasting

Posted on May 31, 2022 by Ted Howard NZ

The Best Deep-Learning Methods for Time Series Forecasting in 2022 Linked to this article [ 13/April/22 ] Starting to get there.Still not sufficiently recursive in those specific implementations but a reasonable simple set of steps to get there. To me … Continue reading →

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Ukraine – some of the complexities

Posted on May 31, 2022 by Ted Howard NZ

[ 8/April/22 ] I don’t speak Ukrainian, but this still moved me to tears. If we as a species are to survive long term, then we must have technology that lets us mitigate the risks that we know have caused … Continue reading →

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Life extension

Posted on May 31, 2022 by Ted Howard NZ

London Futurists Anti-Aging newsletter and discussion [ 8/April/22 ] Great newsletter David. For me, getting a feeling for the classes of issues present when we consider indefinite life extension requires understanding the strategic conditions required for the evolution of complexity. … Continue reading →

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Knowledge and pattern

Posted on May 31, 2022 by Ted Howard NZ

Knowledge is ongoingly provisional-updatable, the exclusive content of which consisting of structural relationships (patternings). [ 6/April/22 From patterning patterns derive all our notions.] Yes – kind of, and it is more complex. Sometimes an absence of pattern is part of … Continue reading →

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Objective reality

Posted on May 31, 2022 by Ted Howard NZ

[ 6/April/22 ] I think we can be very confident that there is some sort of objective matrix out there beyond our simplistic models of it. We can also be very confident that at some scales it does very closely … Continue reading →

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On Elon’s focus on going to Mars

Posted on May 31, 2022 by Ted Howard NZ

[ 5/April/22 ] I disagree.Mars is in reality little safer from Nukes than the Earth. What is required is a level of awareness of strategic underpinnings of the evolution of complexity such that all agents appreciate the fundamental requirement for … Continue reading →

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Evonomics – Rethinking foundations

Posted on May 31, 2022 by Ted Howard NZ

The Making of “Rethinking the Theoretical Foundation of Economics” [ 5/April/22 ] All good, and essential in a sense, and it is necessarily deeply more complex than that. And we all have this necessary set of evolutionary systems within our … Continue reading →

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