Climate Emotions and the Wisdom Our Bodies Carry
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Tuesday, June 25, 2024
7-8:30 p.m. EDT
Our emotional reactions to the climate crisis are highly individual, and shaped by our personalities, resources, circles of care, the news and media we absorb—and by inherited ways of thinking about the future. In this trauma-informed workshop, led by climate change chaplain Rabbi Ora Nitkin-Kaner, we will cast a gentle light on our climate emotions, and deepen our awareness of how they show up in our hearts and bodies. Learn how our reactions to climate change may be shaped by our ancestors’ experiences, and how we can expand our capacity for ease, connection, and action in this moment.
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When you run a survey you are getting responses from people
who are made aware of the survey
who are given access to the survey
who are willing to respond
who are able to respond
People who are disenfranchised, living with disabilities, struggling with time, money and/or language/literacy generally will not respond.
Surveys are rarely representative because the time and effort required to make surveys inclusive is not invested.
The effect of surveys is then that people who are made invisible by society are made even more invisible by organisations that often call themselves data-driven.
...research in organizational learning a long time ago.
When I read about what was happening in AI, it struck me. #Embodiment is the key. The ship has already sailed. Nothing can stop it anymore. All key pieces are in place and all major playors are in a race for the finish line.
« The AI sector is utterly dependent on criti-hype. They are burning tens of billions of dollars on engineering salaries, custom chip fabs, human data annotation, data-center rents, racks and racks of GPUs and ASICs, whole gridsworth of electricity and entire aquifers’ worth of fresh water for cooling.
They are hemorrhaging a river of cash, but that river’s source is an ocean-sized reservoir of even more cash.
To keep that reservoir full, the AI industry needs to convince fresh rounds of “investors” to give them hundreds of billions of dollars on the promise of a multi-trillion-dollar payoff.
That’s where the “AI Safety” story comes in. You know, the tech bros who run around with flashlights under their chins, intoning “ayyyyyy eyeeeee,” and warning us that their plausible sentence generators are only days away from becoming conscious and converting us all into paperclips. »
@axbom
Sounds a repeat of the Dutch #Tulipmania of the 1600's.
I' really buy a bottle of champagne 🍾, if you were right.
Alas, my assessment is they are burning enough cash an #embodiment will do the trick. Once #PeterThiel gets his way with the #AI geneneral and robots like the ones from #BostonDynamics are hooked up to it...No the would be the next step.
IMO, the singularity/AGI will happen before that: once trillions of sensors and actors from automation are fed...
...on #embodiment, and several companies are working on that front. The very basic reason being 3-fold:
IMO real-time and sensory data access is necessary for consciousness
several (non-computer) scientists agree that a corporal, physical presence is a step in evolution.
The moment an #AI is hooked up to sensory data world wide, it will be a tremendous amount of data very different from texts and videos. Once it learns to use it somewhere, all connected #AIs know this at once.
Yes, because IMO #embodiment is the key, from a sociologial and systems-dynamics perspective, and probably also from a computer-science one, too, as the main thrust comes from this field.
The great thing is, that I think we will not have to wait that long for #AGI to happen. IMO, it will be the first of the three.
IDK if you have read the beanchmark short novel "The Lifecycle of Software Objects"* by Ted Chiang, not only...
The #AIWar, as of today, seems lost to me. The most powerful men, corporations, and institutions are engaged in an arms race, which has even more momentum than the #ICBM race + the ensuing #OverkillCapacity. #Embodiment, the (IMHO not arguably) final step towards a self-aware artificial general intelligence has already begun. The train's left the station.**
* https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/109894787077782438 @Bugaboo@barney
... the medium term, as it
could provide a whole new treasure trove of real-life data for training #LLMs going forward.
Brave New World!
"Apple Patent Says Siri Could Be Trained to Read Your Lips
iPhones, AirPods, or even 'smart glasses' could use motion sensing tech to record users' subtle facial movements. Siri could use the help."
I'm finally using my standing desk and holy crap is it making a difference to how alive I feel. In case anyone else needs the motivation to get out of that chair today. #mindfulness#embodiment
A quick overview of current #AI regulations proposals in the legislative process
(1/n)
Today, I read about someone still using #Google that in his search, he had the first 3 pages of hits with "junk" results which he attributed to #AI generated pages.
#Dems introduced a Bill Requiring Political Ads to Disclose AI Use at the beginning of May, 2023. Even though sensible, I don't see it getting passed due to the distribution of power in Congress,unless there...
... have been great, if the legislation process would have been fast-tracked. At present, I cannot see how the exponential growth in Chat-GPT's evolution can be matched, in particular, if #embodiment is being pursued. (5)
...the two agree that #embodiment is needed, interestingly drawing on the period im earth's history that made me support the adirmentioned article, the #PrecambianExplosion: eye development,...
"It’s increasingly looking like this may be one of the most hilariously inappropriate applications of AI that we’ve seen yet." I am riveted by the extensive documentation of how ChatGPT-powered Bing is now completely unhinged. @simon has chronicled it beautifully here: https://simonwillison.net/2023/Feb/15/bing/
...they use advanced prediction/statistical models and might show some #nascent (or just inexplicable?) form of "#intelligence," but that’s about it.
As I have posted elsewhere this week, most recent
research seems to indicate that #SentientBeings/#intelligences need a corporal form #embodiment) to really comprehend language.
This is why I find the combination of #robotics and #GAI so dangerous, as I'm quite...