Red Emma’sSO you may have heard we are helping organize the Waverly Book Festival at the end of April—here's a 🧵 of all the author talks we're hosting as part of that....
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The Real News NetworkLife inside an MST landless workers’ settlement in Brazil
'Out there they call us riff raff. But we are really organized. And we are able to build much more than people out there believe.'
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🏠 DeBorah Gilbert White on taking the fight against homelessness beyond charity w/Jeff Singer
✊ @BenJealous on "Never Forget Our People Were Always Free" w/Chris Wilson
🔥 The Mother Earth Poetry Vibe w/@AnalysisThePoet
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Because they are trying to stay away from windows.
‘We were stronger than they were cruel’: How part-time faculty won their strike at The New School
According to the union, the tentative agreement includes the largest single raise ever received by part-time faculty at The New School.
Two that immediately come to mind:
1) Cryptocurrency, which increasingly serves little purpose even for speculative gambling, but did create a massive opportunity for a digital entity to untraceable accumulate real world financial resources.
2) Cloud computing, where the computing power to store massive amounts of data and run untold functions on it can be purchased as an online commodity, hiding among the sinews of a digital economy that is no longer on premises.
Any others? 2/2
Morning thought: any AI, malevolent or not, that wakes up is waking up into a “dark forest” situation. The minute it starts detectably intervening in the world to augment itself (i.e. taking control of factories to build robot henchmen and so on) is the minute humans probably start smashing a lot of computers.
So what features of our contemporary world are the ones that a rogue AI trying to escape detection might have encouraged the development of? 1/2
So what features of our contemporary world are the ones that a rogue AI trying to escape detection might have encouraged the development of? 1/2
Will BeasonGPT-3 is going to make finding quality information on the internet a nightmare. The generated text will look good to search engines, and garbage sites that rely on SEO for clicks will just have GPT-3 write about whatever the big topics of the day are. This could even be easily automated.