tehchromic

My understanding of the uncanny valley is that it doesn't get better, it only gets worse!

Fascinating. I think that the capacity of nuclear weapons and MAD decreased the likelihood of future world wars to so low as to be effectively none.

But this article kinda opens the possibility of world war taking place entirely in the data/communications realm.

I had heard the relationship between countries with better football teams having higher rates of t gondii, now it all makes sense

Ugly business is industrialization. I suppose it's seems to be the most noble application of technology to avoid the techno-horrors of the past in the future. But there are always newer, greater techno-horrors emergent. In fact, one might say that techno-horror is a fundamental emergent property of the universe.

"Keep in mind that ideally, you want your market to be addicted to you. You don’t want to be addicted to your market."

Brilliant

Attention and ecological wealth

What is their ethics and motive? This is #1 question regardless of smartness imo

Ah, gotcha. Yes my risk assessment was prehensile.

Risk perception. Clarify?

I love this. I always wonder why I have almost no interest in novels now although I spent my entire youth buried in them. Occasionally I feel guilty. But I think life became the novel?

I binge read Doestoeski at the end of highschool and he remains a major influence on me to this day.

The reason is that, encountering life's most challenging experiences (which are always human in their origin), these novels are like a preset pattern of meditation by which one can find the ground.

It's a well meaning article. My first thought is that it's generated by AI in the service of some moderate yet far reaching religious org.

"Finding our intrinsic values is no trivial task, but something that forces us to stare into the core of our humanity."

I think it misses a critical topical conclusion which is that "intrinsic values" means little or nothing to many, and many folks are fairly incapable of competently doing the kind of contemplative meditating required to arrive at some set of rules like that, and so they look to others.

And here's the crux of the missed point:

To really resonate with our intrinsic values, we need to drop the myth that a rational economic system exists, and build one with the value of present and future human life explicitly built in.

We already have a massive framework for understanding individual intrinsic values in terms of the sanctity of human life and that's the great mystery religions that have birth to our modern age. What's needed now is a planetary ethos where intrinsic human value is put in the proper context of the ecological reality of the biological and geological systems and processes that sustain us. Building that culture requires myth and magic, but also is an intensely rational project. There is really no way around it, and any philosophical text intended to shift the cultural landscape is incomplete without it.

Humans are wiping out the planetary biome as predicted

The big news in Science (big S for the institution of) is the existential crises of the Anthropocene, the art and technology of sustainably occupying planet e, radically transforming human culture around primary support for the ecological planetary biosphere vs the old dominionist paradigm of human centered everything, and the fight to preserve the biological wealth of the planet against the inexorable onslaught of mass consumption and exploit, especially as it impacts global systems like atmospheric and ocean chemistry, threatening habitability of the surface. This news is very exciting!

I think one can only call science news boring if one clings to merely the old idea of science as a simple methodology for validating laws/truth of reality rather than appreciating that Science is the institution of cultural realism and the modern religion to which we all subscribe, so much so that we take it for granted. This is the problem with "science news", is that it's news performed under the presumption that the methodology of scientific practice needs to be more explicit for it to be effective news. This is only true for folks who accept superficial obeisance towards science as significant equivalence for factuality.

With respect, I think you missed the point of the article! It's that we are all 10x engineers in the right context, even if that's providing the context for someone else to be 10x, which of sounds like you are 10x at!