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2nd Renaissancer & Life Itself-er. Also data. Radically wiser world.

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Google DeepMind have broken the promises they made to the government. Join us in London as we stand up to reckless AI development.

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Latest Seeds of a #SecondRenaissance newsletter covers Donella Meadows and her work on #SystemsChange news.secondrenaissance.net/p/donella-mead…

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#Digital capitalism is deeply dysfunctional. It's a casino where you have to run as fast as you can and only a tiny few make it ... lifeitself.org/blog/2018/06/0…

#Digital capitalism is deeply dysfunctional. It's a casino where you have to run as fast as you can and only a tiny few make it ...

lifeitself.org/blog/2018/06/0…
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A brief introduction to Donella Meadows' concept of "leverage points": places where a small change could make a big impact in complex systems. news.secondrenaissance.net/p/donella-mead…

A brief introduction to Donella Meadows' concept of "leverage points":  places where a small change could make a big impact in complex systems. 
news.secondrenaissance.net/p/donella-mead…
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Manda Scott on Initiation Cultures Listen to the full dialogue “Manda Scott: Weaving Thrutopias Beyond Climate Crisis and Capitalism’s Collapse” on the Life Itself Podcast on Spotify & Youtube now. Full Podcast: youtu.be/krpbHKrX87I

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"In a world that is far too vast and messy to be perfectly predicted or controlled – what kind of approach to problem solving, decision making and social change is needed?" Read the latest issue of 🌱Seeds of a Second Renaissance🌱 on #DonellaMeadows: news.secondrenaissance.net/p/donella-mead…

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Ex-OpenAI researcher Steven Adler: "I'm not content with turning over control to digital God ... I think there are actually quite large risks entailed in doing that."

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This argument is unanswerable. The moment you think this through this logic is there and every smart person has been saying that explicitly or implicitly.

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🔥🦀🖥️🔥 My absurdly ambitious debut feature at Aeon Magazine is up — enjoy! This long read on human-technology co-evolution detours through sci-fi history, memeology, military history, etymology, thermodynamics, scaling laws, and more. It is one of the few pieces this year they've

🔥🦀🖥️🔥 My absurdly ambitious debut feature at <a href="/aeonmag/">Aeon Magazine</a> is up — enjoy!  This long read on human-technology co-evolution detours through sci-fi history, memeology, military history, etymology, thermodynamics, scaling laws, and more. 

It is one of the few pieces this year they've
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Amazing thread on how early "errors" (or publication bias e.g. file-drawer) in early studies turn into TED-style claim "oxytocin => trust" which gets amplified into mainstream books and general discourse. NB: science is gradually doing its job of checking and finding no effect.

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That's a pretty brutal no-result result ... This will likely get published given the quality and size but the irony is that this kind of thing is harder to publish (especially in a prestigious journal) than a small sample size "exciting result". Though this is slowly changing ..

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Started a knowledgebase about Plum Village github.com/life-itself/pl… focusing on its structure, evolution, and ecology of practice rather than its core teachings. @plumvillage is a great example of a #SecondRenaissance pioneer and pocket ...