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Venkatesh Rao • Placemaking vs. Mission-Shaping - By Venkatesh Rao
Along these lines, one recalls, too, Arendt’s warning in the prologue to The Human Condition: “The future man, whom the scientists tell us they will produce in no more than a hundred years, seems possessed by a rebellion against human existence as it has been given, a free gift from nowhere (secularly speaking), which he wishes to exchange, as it
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many who find the report useful overall argue that these ‘boundary’ points should not be written in stone, but viewed as a heuristic. “Ever since early humans discovered fire and the benefits of collaborative systems such as collective hunting and social learning, human systems, not the classic biophysical limits that still constrain other species,
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Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
A singularidade está próxima: quando os humanos transcendem a biologia (Coleção Os Livros do Observatório) (Portuguese Edition)
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Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
- Technical safety: Concrete technical measures to alleviate possible harms and maintain control. 2. Audits: A means of ensuring the transparency and accountability of technology. 3. Choke points: Levers to slow development and buy time for regulators and defensive technologies. 4. Makers: Ensuring responsible developers build appropriate controls
Mustafa Suleyman • The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma
Humanity in a technological world
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