Laura Pike Seeley
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Laura Pike Seeley
Building new urban homes from wood instead of concrete and steel could save about 10% of the carbon budget needed to limit global heating to 2C this century.
Timber cities ‘could cut 100bn tons of CO2 emissions by 2100’
This cognitive bias can push people into more extreme ideological positions | BPS
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To combat climate change, the nonprofit group C40 Cities is partnering with a Danish firm to pilot walkable neighborhoods in five global cities.
A Global Push for More ‘15-Minute Cities’
Experts have already seen and documented more than 60 smaller-scale examples of AI systems trying to do something other than what their designer wants (for example, getting the high score in a video game, not by playing fairly or learning
game skills but by hacking the scoring system).
The case for slowing down AI
Managers could benefit from thinking more like hackers. Hacking helps us take a step back from the worn-out management tenets of efficiency, long-term planning, hierarchical decision-making, and full information, to adopt instead more adaptable strategies.
Why Managers Should Think More Like Hackers
Perhaps the most important insight is this: when we criticize our technology, we’re really criticizing ourselves. And when we try to imagine better systems, we’re really trying to imagine better ways of being human.
Joan Westenberg • The Original Sin of Everything
Even if content moderation were implemented perfectly, it would still miss a whole host of issues that are often portrayed as moderation problems but really are not. To address those non-speech issues, we need a new strategy: treat social media companies as potential polluters of the social fabric, and directly measure and mitigate the effects... See more
Social media is polluting society. Moderation alone won’t fix the problem
Rituals have been crucial for humans throughout history – and we still need them
theconversation.comSocial Rituals and