Laura Pike Seeley
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Laura Pike Seeley
Neighborhoods that “improve” due to gentrification may do so in a manner that serves everyone living there—new sidewalks, more trees, more streetlights, cleaner streets—but how long can existing residents remain in a landscape that becomes rapidly unaffordable and alienating to them?
The Five Senses of Gentrification
This heightened attitude of censoriousness has led many to believe that the internet is no longer the free and open platform it once was. And while this may be true to some extent, there is still one corner of the internet that remains relatively untouched by censorship: The decentralized web, or Web3.
Daniel Saito • Fighting back: Web3 as the ultimate catalyst of censorship resistance
Scientists have long been developing machines that attempt to imitate the human brain. Just as humans are exposed to systemic injustices, machines learn human-like stereotypes and cultural norms from sociocultural data, acquiring biases and associations in the process. Our research shows that bias is not only reflected in the patterns of language,... See more
Managing the risks of inevitably biased visual artificial intelligence systems
The more I think about it, the more I think this is why so many of us, myself included, are attracted to data-based optimization. We’re painfully aware that we are vulnerable, fallible creatures. Our shame about that is reflected in Western religious traditions: The Bible tells us that upon first creating the world, God “saw that it was good,” but... See more
You can’t optimize your way to being a good person
elected leaders continue to insist that well-being be measured mostly by economic growth, and when the U.S. media breathlessly reports quarterly economic growth data, with increases deemed “good” and decreases deemed “bad.”
Why shouldn’t free time and its benefits be included in the equation? Why aren’t figures on the social costs of unlimited... See more
Why shouldn’t free time and its benefits be included in the equation? Why aren’t figures on the social costs of unlimited... See more
Gary Cross • Why is free time still so elusive?
The idea is to make urban areas less dependent on cars as part of the fight against climate change. The 15-minute city framework emphasizes bringing the essentials of daily life — work, entertainment, schools and green space — within a short walk or bicycle ride from home, reducing vehicle use and dramatically cutting carbon and pollution... See more
A Global Push for More ‘15-Minute Cities’
The brain is continually making predictions about the causes of the sensory information it receives, and it uses that information to update its predictions. In other words, we live in a “controlled hallucination” that remains tied to reality by a dance of prediction and correction, but which is never identical to that reality.
The big idea: do we all experience the world in the same way?
Understanding the nature of creativity can help one avoid misinterpreting its challenges as lack of skill.