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

AI that I'm building will likely kills us all, but I'm optimistic that ppl will stop me in time.. - CEO of Google

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

#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…

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…

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

We turned up in our droves outside Google DeepMind's office to hold them accountable for their broken promises. 🧵

"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…

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.

🔥🦀🖥️🔥 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

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.

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 ..

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 ...

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