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Category Archives: Technology
1080
[ 22/10/20 Mischele posted a newspaper clip on her facebook page – 1080 Detected in workers] If you’ve been eating puha, then you might detect 1080 in your body. It occurs naturally in puha, at very low levels – not … Continue reading
Posted in Nature, Technology, understanding
Tagged 1080, complexity, nature, understanding
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What will the Internet do for the future of humans?
[ 21/10/20 ] The internet is a powerful tool. Like all tools, it can be used for good or ill. What it will be used for will depend upon the choices we make. We all have a roll in that. … Continue reading
Lifeboat foundation link to Neuralink
[ 12/10/20 Lifeboat foundation link to Neuralink] So many levels of trust required for that to happen that I simply do not have in the economic and political and technological systems we have at present. Far too much incentive to … Continue reading
Posted in Brain Science, Our Future, Philosophy, Technology, understanding
Tagged cooperation, freedom, technology
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Covid and response
[ 2/10/20 Mischele’s Facebook rant about response to covid and withdrawing from the UN] No! Certainly – we need to respect individual rights, and individual lives; and that demands multiple levels of responsibility from each and every one of us, … Continue reading
Posted in Nature, Our Future, Politics, Technology, understanding
Tagged complexity, covid, freedom, future, Politics, understanding
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Climate change video
Spinoff – Facebook post on Climate Change video [ 2/10/20 ] This is a good look at a couple of dimensions of a highly dimensional issue. Yes, the potential for climate change is real, and we are seeing it. And … Continue reading
Posted in Nature, Our Future, Politics, Technology, understanding
Tagged Climate change, complexity, understanding
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If everyone disappeared for a day
If all the humans in the world disappeared/lost consciousness suddenly for 24 hours, what would be the impact? [ 1/10/20 ] Rather large. Consider the number of processes like smelters that need constant tending to be productive, and if not … Continue reading
Governance, evolution and AI
When and if artificial intelligence gets to the point that it’s indistinguishable from sentient beings, how will humans know who governs them? [ 14/9/20 ] Why would anyone want to be governed by any external agent? What do we mean … Continue reading
Posted in Ideas, Philosophy, Politics, Technology, understanding
Tagged AI, complexity, creativity, risk mitigation, technology
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Comment to 2020 Clean Coders Keynote – complexity
Comment to 2020 Clean Coders Keynote [ 14/9/20 ] Reality does actually seem to be complex. What we need is programming languages that give power, and coders who understand when it is powerful to constrain that power and when those … Continue reading
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Tagged complexity, freedom, future, technology, understanding
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Quora – Can everyone agree, it is the super rich versus everyone else?
Can everyone agree, it is the super rich versus everyone else? [ 18/8/20 ] No. It is cooperate or perish. We either wake up to the mathematical and logical reality that all new levels of complexity require new levels of … Continue reading
Posted in economics, Ideas, Longevity, Nature, Our Future, Philosophy, Politics, Technology, understanding
Tagged Abundance, complexity, cooperation, freedom, future, Longevity, Philosophy, Politics, Responsibility, risk mitigation, technology, understanding, values
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Quora – Why are social networks not helping to improve the entire society, when in theory sharing infinite knowledge and connecting everyone is an extraordinary advance?
Why are social networks not helping to improve the entire society, when in theory sharing infinite knowledge and connecting everyone is an extraordinary advance? [ 17/8/20 ] Tony Castaldo has part of the answer – the profit motive. Thomas Ruddick … Continue reading
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Tagged complexity, Philosophy, risk mitigation, technology, understanding
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