by Omega | Apr 20, 2023 | Culture
The blueprint also says that “automated systems should be developed with consultation from diverse communities, stakeholders, and domain experts to identify concerns, risks and potential impacts of the system.” This is crucial, and it would be interesting to see the...
by Omega | Apr 15, 2023 | Resilience
Professor Thomas Homer-Dixon is the executive director of the Cascade Institute at Royal Roads University. His studies look at the “polycrisis,” looking to find what common threads can be found across multiple serious global problems. Climate change, the war in...
by Omega | Apr 15, 2023 | Culture
In 2018, Sundar Pichai, the chief executive of Google — and not one of the tech executives known for overstatement — said, “A.I. is probably the most important thing humanity has ever worked on. I think of it as something more profound than electricity or fire. Ezra...
by Omega | Apr 15, 2023 | Culture
All of this is a way of saying something we don’t say as often as we should: humans are good enough. We don’t require improvement. We can solve the challenges we face, as humans. It may take us longer than if we can employ some “new form of intelligence,” but slow and...
by Omega | Apr 15, 2023 | Environment
The Great Simplification #66 Nate Hagens with Kim Stanley Robinson On this episode, Nate is joined by climate science fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson to discuss how he contributes to the discussion of climate and pro-social changemaking through writing. There have...
by Omega | Apr 15, 2023 | Pandemics
By David Wallace-Wells Sure knowledge of the pandemic’s experimental origin might’ve been a horror to contemplate, given that a lab leak would mean both that the responsibility for all those deaths was human and that it was most likely the result of a tragic...
by Stanley Wu | Apr 13, 2023 | Polycrisis
The Long View aims to support our shared understanding of these challenging times. We offer an Omega news digest on a global systems view of interconnected and interacting stressors called the polycrisis. Our team is dedicated to delivering a concise set of the most...
by Omega | Apr 13, 2023 | Culture
Q&A with Noam Chomsky about the Future of our world. We asked Noam Chomsky about the future of our world, our systems of government and power and our need to come together to address the challenges of our time. The laureate professor and public intellectual shared...
by Omega | Apr 13, 2023 | Culture
This video is from a presentation at a private gathering in San Francisco on March 9th with leading technologists and decision-makers with the ability to influence the future of large-language model AIs. This presentation was given before the launch of GPT-4. Link to...
