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“AI companies use the future to justify the present, as though speculative benefits should outweigh actual, ongoing damages. This temporal shell game, destroying the world to save it, would be comedic if the consequences weren’t so severe.”
— @jamesosullivan.bsky.social
#agi #superintelligence #ai
— @jamesosullivan.bsky.social
#agi #superintelligence #ai
The Politics Of Superintelligence | NOEMA
Today’s tech “prophets” push a narrative that God-like artificial superintelligence is inevitable, and only they can ensure humanity’s safety from their creations.
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December 9, 2025 at 6:00 PM
“AI companies use the future to justify the present, as though speculative benefits should outweigh actual, ongoing damages. This temporal shell game, destroying the world to save it, would be comedic if the consequences weren’t so severe.”
— @jamesosullivan.bsky.social
#agi #superintelligence #ai
— @jamesosullivan.bsky.social
#agi #superintelligence #ai
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My latest essay, 'The Politics of Superintelligence', has just been published by @noemamag.com.
Read it here:
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#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #GenAI #GenerativeAI #politics #Superintelligence
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#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #GenAI #GenerativeAI #politics #Superintelligence
The Politics Of Superintelligence | NOEMA
Today’s tech “prophets” push a narrative that God-like artificial superintelligence is inevitable, and only they can ensure humanity’s safety from their creations.
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December 9, 2025 at 4:52 PM
My latest essay, 'The Politics of Superintelligence', has just been published by @noemamag.com.
Read it here:
www.noemamag.com/the-politics...
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #GenAI #GenerativeAI #politics #Superintelligence
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#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #GenAI #GenerativeAI #politics #Superintelligence
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“A growing ecological movement sees the solution in bioregionalism: the idea of reorganizing social and economic life around the natural boundaries of the ecosystems that host and sustain us.”
By @dougbierend.bsky.social for @noemamag.com
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By @dougbierend.bsky.social for @noemamag.com
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Inside Bioregionalism’s Tech-Driven Revival | NOEMA
As the climate crisis deepens, an old green dream is returning — with new tools and technologies.
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December 6, 2025 at 6:57 PM
“A growing ecological movement sees the solution in bioregionalism: the idea of reorganizing social and economic life around the natural boundaries of the ecosystems that host and sustain us.”
By @dougbierend.bsky.social for @noemamag.com
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By @dougbierend.bsky.social for @noemamag.com
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“The origins of virtue, egalitarianism and morality are more ancient than our own species.” www.noemamag.com/the-moral-au... @noemamag.com
The Moral Authority Of Animals | NOEMA
For millennia before we showed up on the scene, social animals — those living in societies and cooperating for survival — had been creating cultures imbued with ethics.
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December 6, 2025 at 2:31 PM
“The origins of virtue, egalitarianism and morality are more ancient than our own species.” www.noemamag.com/the-moral-au... @noemamag.com
“With the U.N. calling for an overhaul of food systems, insects — as reluctant as I am to imagine a future where my chicken is replaced with cicadas — could be a part of that transformation.”
—Rebecca Root
—Rebecca Root
Would You Eat This Bug To Save The World? | NOEMA
Insects could play a key role in the future of the human diet with their high nutritional value and low environmental footprint, especially compared to meat.
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December 8, 2025 at 5:31 PM
“With the U.N. calling for an overhaul of food systems, insects — as reluctant as I am to imagine a future where my chicken is replaced with cicadas — could be a part of that transformation.”
—Rebecca Root
—Rebecca Root
“Human agency & volition are becoming more & more difficult to locate, as people’s tastes & desires dissolve into the algorithm & its authoritarian prophecies.”
— @mikesmariani.bsky.social
— @mikesmariani.bsky.social
How We Became Captives Of Social Media | NOEMA
Today’s social media has shifted from social networking platforms to AI-enhanced conveyor belts of vapid entertainment. Is there any escape?
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December 7, 2025 at 5:30 PM
“Human agency & volition are becoming more & more difficult to locate, as people’s tastes & desires dissolve into the algorithm & its authoritarian prophecies.”
— @mikesmariani.bsky.social
— @mikesmariani.bsky.social
“The Gulf’s delicate social contract, which has kept royal families in power since the end of the colonial era, is under threat as the globe teeters on the brink of climate disaster.”
— @mariannedhe.bsky.social
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— @mariannedhe.bsky.social
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The Gulf World That Air Conditioning Wrought | NOEMA
From Saudi Arabia to Qatar, rulers have used modern air conditioning to control landscapes and lives, forgoing traditional methods of keeping cool.
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December 6, 2025 at 5:30 PM
“The Gulf’s delicate social contract, which has kept royal families in power since the end of the colonial era, is under threat as the globe teeters on the brink of climate disaster.”
— @mariannedhe.bsky.social
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— @mariannedhe.bsky.social
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December 6, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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“History has repeatedly demonstrated that societies with inclusive political & economic institutions thrive & sustain themselves, while extractive societies, where wealth & power are concentrated at the top, ultimately fragment & fail.”
—Nathan Gardels
#democracy #politics
—Nathan Gardels
#democracy #politics
A New Governing Ecosystem Is Evolving | NOEMA
Institutions of citizen deliberation are a counterweight to partisan electoral politics.
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December 5, 2025 at 6:38 PM
“History has repeatedly demonstrated that societies with inclusive political & economic institutions thrive & sustain themselves, while extractive societies, where wealth & power are concentrated at the top, ultimately fragment & fail.”
—Nathan Gardels
#democracy #politics
—Nathan Gardels
#democracy #politics
“A growing ecological movement sees the solution [to the climate crisis] in bioregionalism: the idea of reorganizing social & economic life around the natural boundaries of the ecosystems that host & sustain us.”
— @dougbierend.bsky.social
#climatecrisis #bioregionalism #esg
— @dougbierend.bsky.social
#climatecrisis #bioregionalism #esg
Inside The Push To Rebuild Society Around Ecosystems | NOEMA
As the climate crisis deepens, an old green dream is returning — with new tools and technologies.
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December 4, 2025 at 6:28 PM
“A growing ecological movement sees the solution [to the climate crisis] in bioregionalism: the idea of reorganizing social & economic life around the natural boundaries of the ecosystems that host & sustain us.”
— @dougbierend.bsky.social
#climatecrisis #bioregionalism #esg
— @dougbierend.bsky.social
#climatecrisis #bioregionalism #esg
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What happens to a progressive social democracy when it normalises the worldview of the far right?
My latest longform journalism piece, co-authored with Helle Malmvig, in Noema magazine.
My latest longform journalism piece, co-authored with Helle Malmvig, in Noema magazine.
“The Danish case is less a model than a warning about what happens to democratic politics when politicians from the center & center-left move to the right to regain or retain power, rather than deliberating, informing & modeling responsibility & respect.”
—Helle Malmvig & Fabrizio Tassinari
—Helle Malmvig & Fabrizio Tassinari
Inside Denmark’s Hardline Immigration Experiment | NOEMA
Once a beacon of progressivism, the Scandinavian nation has normalized the worldview of the far right.
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December 2, 2025 at 9:06 PM
What happens to a progressive social democracy when it normalises the worldview of the far right?
My latest longform journalism piece, co-authored with Helle Malmvig, in Noema magazine.
My latest longform journalism piece, co-authored with Helle Malmvig, in Noema magazine.
“The Danish case is less a model than a warning about what happens to democratic politics when politicians from the center & center-left move to the right to regain or retain power, rather than deliberating, informing & modeling responsibility & respect.”
—Helle Malmvig & Fabrizio Tassinari
—Helle Malmvig & Fabrizio Tassinari
Inside Denmark’s Hardline Immigration Experiment | NOEMA
Once a beacon of progressivism, the Scandinavian nation has normalized the worldview of the far right.
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December 2, 2025 at 6:32 PM
“The Danish case is less a model than a warning about what happens to democratic politics when politicians from the center & center-left move to the right to regain or retain power, rather than deliberating, informing & modeling responsibility & respect.”
—Helle Malmvig & Fabrizio Tassinari
—Helle Malmvig & Fabrizio Tassinari
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November 25, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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Glad to commission this from @peterpomerantsev.bsky.social on his long-term study of the techniques journalists can (and now must) use to counter authoritarian propaganda.
— @noemamag.com
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Journalism In An Age Of Authoritarianism | NOEMA
The media needs to rethink its role in protecting democracy — rather than just chronicling its demise.
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November 26, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Glad to commission this from @peterpomerantsev.bsky.social on his long-term study of the techniques journalists can (and now must) use to counter authoritarian propaganda.
— @noemamag.com
www.noemamag.com/journalism-i...
— @noemamag.com
www.noemamag.com/journalism-i...
“Conflating intelligence & technology is an assumption worth challenging. True intelligence may know not to use the technologies we so dearly cling to as we plumb our planet’s riches to exhaustion.”
— @miquai.bsky.social
— @miquai.bsky.social
What Searching For Aliens Reveals About Ourselves | NOEMA
Looking for life beyond Earth changes the way we perceive life right here at home.
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December 1, 2025 at 5:05 PM
“Conflating intelligence & technology is an assumption worth challenging. True intelligence may know not to use the technologies we so dearly cling to as we plumb our planet’s riches to exhaustion.”
— @miquai.bsky.social
— @miquai.bsky.social
“Our willingness to surrender health information so freely not only jeopardizes individual privacy & autonomy but also poses significant risks to societal health.”
—Júlia Keserű
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—Júlia Keserű
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The Future Of Health Data In The Age Of AI | NOEMA
Sensitive data about your health used to be relatively safe and anonymous. AI is making it much easier for that information to be used against you in opaque ways.
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November 30, 2025 at 5:30 PM
“Our willingness to surrender health information so freely not only jeopardizes individual privacy & autonomy but also poses significant risks to societal health.”
—Júlia Keserű
www.noemamag.com/the-future-o...
—Júlia Keserű
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“The great surprise of the first quarter of the 21st century has been the endurance of Africa’s colonial borders.”
—Alden Young
—Alden Young
The Surprising Durability Of Africa’s Colonial Borders | NOEMA
Why has Africa, long imagined as riven by ethnic and tribal conflict, preserved the arbitrary borders and multiethnic states it inherited from European colonial powers?
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November 29, 2025 at 5:30 PM
“The great surprise of the first quarter of the 21st century has been the endurance of Africa’s colonial borders.”
—Alden Young
—Alden Young
“By 2050 we will need to be removing around 7 to 9 billion metric tons of CO2 annually & permanently to avoid a dangerous rise in sea levels, catastrophic wildfires & crop failures around the world… removing this much CO2 from the atmosphere is mind-boggling.”
— @cjpreston.bsky.social
— @cjpreston.bsky.social
‘Climate Delusion’ Or Vital Solution? Carbon Capture’s Uphill Battle | NOEMA
Industrial carbon capture is a climate strategy environmentalists love to hate. Those committed to its development are trying to win back allies they sorely need.
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November 28, 2025 at 3:30 PM
“By 2050 we will need to be removing around 7 to 9 billion metric tons of CO2 annually & permanently to avoid a dangerous rise in sea levels, catastrophic wildfires & crop failures around the world… removing this much CO2 from the atmosphere is mind-boggling.”
— @cjpreston.bsky.social
— @cjpreston.bsky.social
“If people in the past could be so wrong about so much, what makes us so sure that our own beliefs won’t be scrutinized & criticized by future generations?”
—Francis Gavin
—Francis Gavin
The Lost Art Of Thinking Historically | NOEMA
To understand the world today, we must see it as actors of the past did: through a foggy windshield, not a rearview mirror, facing a future of radical uncertainty.
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November 26, 2025 at 3:30 PM
“If people in the past could be so wrong about so much, what makes us so sure that our own beliefs won’t be scrutinized & criticized by future generations?”
—Francis Gavin
—Francis Gavin
“In a world where power is misused, public morality has become slippery & dishonesty lurches sickeningly through public speech, animals can offer vital lessons for human ethics, political wisdom & social health.”
— @jay-griffiths.bsky.social
#moralcompass #animals #ethics
— @jay-griffiths.bsky.social
#moralcompass #animals #ethics
The Moral Authority Of Animals | NOEMA
For millennia before we showed up on the scene, social animals — those living in societies and cooperating for survival — had been creating cultures imbued with ethics.
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November 25, 2025 at 4:21 PM
“In a world where power is misused, public morality has become slippery & dishonesty lurches sickeningly through public speech, animals can offer vital lessons for human ethics, political wisdom & social health.”
— @jay-griffiths.bsky.social
#moralcompass #animals #ethics
— @jay-griffiths.bsky.social
#moralcompass #animals #ethics
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November 25, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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“The ‘health’ of a specific human community is inseparable from the health of its watershed, airshed, surrounding ecosystems &, ultimately, the planetary system as a whole.”
—@nilsgilman.bsky.social et al
—@nilsgilman.bsky.social et al
The Future Of Health On A Damaged Planet | NOEMA
The future of health will be planetary or there will be no future health at all.
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November 23, 2025 at 5:30 PM
“The ‘health’ of a specific human community is inseparable from the health of its watershed, airshed, surrounding ecosystems &, ultimately, the planetary system as a whole.”
—@nilsgilman.bsky.social et al
—@nilsgilman.bsky.social et al
“Our job in understanding consciousness & experience is not to explain it away via the formal systems of mathematical physics.”
— @adamfrank4.bsky.social
— @adamfrank4.bsky.social
Why Science Hasn’t Solved Consciousness (Yet) | NOEMA
To understand life, we must stop treating organisms like machines and minds like code.
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November 22, 2025 at 5:30 PM
“Our job in understanding consciousness & experience is not to explain it away via the formal systems of mathematical physics.”
— @adamfrank4.bsky.social
— @adamfrank4.bsky.social
We can’t keep hitting up the richest to meet today’s affordability challenge. In an economy where the top 10% own 93% of all equities in financial markets, “it can only be met by spreading the wealth of ownership more broadly in the first place,” argues Nathan Gardels.
#aiwealth #ubi #affordability
#aiwealth #ubi #affordability
Address ‘Affordability’ By Spreading AI Wealth Around | NOEMA
The emergent “coalition of the precariat” should embrace the idea of universal basic capital.
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November 21, 2025 at 7:27 PM
We can’t keep hitting up the richest to meet today’s affordability challenge. In an economy where the top 10% own 93% of all equities in financial markets, “it can only be met by spreading the wealth of ownership more broadly in the first place,” argues Nathan Gardels.
#aiwealth #ubi #affordability
#aiwealth #ubi #affordability
“As AI continues to advance, what will stop chatbots from using the vast knowledge in their training set about how humans think & act … against us in real life?”
—Martin Skladany
#aiguardrails #airegulation #ai
—Martin Skladany
#aiguardrails #airegulation #ai
The Case For AI ‘Datarails’ | NOEMA
We must prevent AI models from learning about human weaknesses by banning certain data from their training sets.
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November 20, 2025 at 6:05 PM
“As AI continues to advance, what will stop chatbots from using the vast knowledge in their training set about how humans think & act … against us in real life?”
—Martin Skladany
#aiguardrails #airegulation #ai
—Martin Skladany
#aiguardrails #airegulation #ai