Laura Pike Seeley
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Laura Pike Seeley
It seems a radical idea, but as the climate crisis deepens, ‘sustainable design’ and ‘doing less harm’ are not enough to avert catastrophe – we have to find ways to replenish ecosystems while meeting our own needs.
Malaika Byng • Regenerative design: meet the creatives taking a rooting interest in learning from nature
A lot of people believe meaningful work is only for people in helping professions, nonprofits, or social impact work. While it’s true that some jobs are engineered for meaning, any job can be meaningful—even (especially) those that our culture might deem “mundane.”
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Numerous psychological studies have found that we seek out information that supports our pre-existing views – and avoid information that might contradict them.
This cognitive bias can push people into more extreme ideological positions | BPS
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Regenerative design: meet the creatives taking a rooting interest in learning from nature
Malaika Byngwallpaper.com
In her ideal world, we’d halt work on making AI more powerful for the next five to 10 years. In the meantime, society could get used to the very powerful systems we already have, and experts could do as much safety research on them as possible until they hit diminishing returns. Then they could make AI systems slightly more powerful, wait another
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No matter how much a workplace may practice radical candor or cultivate an environment of psychological safety, folks will always hold back some of their idea and thoughts.
How Asynchronous Work Helps You Leverage Your Team’s Diversity
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).