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If you truly claim to represent the people of the future, Frank asks — people who have the exact same right to a livable planet that we do — doesn’t that mean you should be willing to kill in their defense? Not as a first choice, not as the only choice — but can you really take it off the table? “If your organization represents the people who will be born after us, well, that’s a heavy burden! It’s a real responsibility! You have to think like them! You have to do what they would do if they were here,” Frank argues. “I don’t think they would countenance murder,” retorts Mary, to which Frank replies, “Of course they would!”
Final de cicle La crisi cubana no té una única causa. L'embargament dels Estats Units ha condicionat durant dècades el desenvolupament de l'illa i amb la nova presidència de Donald Trump, el reforçament de les sancions agreugen l'asfíxia econòmica. Però moltes veus assenyalen també el bloqueig intern: l'immobilisme polític, la falta de reformes, la corrupció i la incapacitat del sistema per respondre a les necessitats de la població.
The RPG Analogy (since we're on a roll) If we extend our earlier mapping: RPG Concept RAG Equivalent Consulting a lore book or bestiary Querying the vector database Making a Knowledge check before acting Retrieval step before generation Casting Augury / divination Getting real-time external data before deciding The agent doesn't just rely on its "backstory" (training data) — it actively researches the current situation before acting, like a wizard flipping through their spellbook or a ranger consulting their map. RAG pairs naturally with the agent/skills architecture: the agent's identity says when to retrieve, and the retrieval system becomes a kind of "Research" skill in the agent's skill tree.
"This Whole Thing Smacks Of Gender," i holler as i overturn my uncle's barbeque grill and turn the 4th of July into the 4th of Shit
We can put the first provisional formulation of Hegel’s idealism in this way: It is a view that the way the world shows up for living creatures depends on the nature of the creature and that the world “shows up” for creatures with a capacity for self-consciousness in a way that it cannot for non-self-conscious creatures. Put in this way, it is not the thesis that the mind creates the world or that what is really fundamental or more basically real are mental things, nor is it the idea the world is inherently spiritual and not material, nor is it the idea that subjects “construct” (either socially or individually) these kinds of things, nor finally that subjects impose conceptual meaning on some kind of distinct and neutral sensible information. The world is not dependent on us for its existence or its structure, but what “shows up” as salient in our world is a function of our species interests as the beings we are.
Still, only a quarter of Phoenix homes had AC by 1960. When a strike halted home construction in 1965, contractors focused on existing homes and many were converted from evaporative to refrigerated cooling. Air conditioning transformed Phoenix life and fueled the city’s growth. Some opined that it even changed Arizona’s political landscape. “Historically, the Democrats were the dominant party until the 1950s, about the same time as air conditioning became available in homes and affordable,” Marshall Trimble, Arizona’s state historian, says. “That caused one old stalwart Democrat to lament, ‘We didn’t have any damn Republicans until they invented air conditioning.’” A COOL TIMELINE Improvements in air conditioning helped drive Phoenix’s population growth. 1920 – Population: 29,053 1928 – Phoenix’s first air-conditioned commercial buildings debut. 1930 – Population: 48,118 1932 – Local cottage industry starts building early versions of evaporative coolers. 1940 – More than 30 Phoenix companies are manufacturing evaporative coolers.
I support peace. I do not support this. Our government supports this; so does most of our people. It is one of the greatest outrages of our century. Those people will never allow themselves to read this. Never. You “support Ukraine”? You are too cowardly to even read it. https://babel.ua/texts/127938-shturmoviy-polk-skelya-maye-boyovi-zaslugi-i-dobre-zabezpechennya-a-shche-kazhut-ochevidci-tam-katuyut-i-zabivayut-lyudey-na-smert-rozsliduvannya-babelya
3.5. Degrowth properly constructed In summary, by degrowth, we refer to a compass of classless, egalitarian societies of frugal abundance—of personal sobriety, socialized sufficiency (an organising principle of production as it is in the commons), and collective luxury. Sufficiency is a core principle for degrowth, not only in ecological terms, but also because it is necessary for reducing/minimizing cost-shifting. The more one wants and needs, the more they have to shift the costs of satisfying these ‘needs’ onto others. Degrowth-oriented societies will therefore satisfy human needs and wellbeing with a fraction of the current levels of energy and resource use characteristic of contemporary high-income economies. To move in this direction could mean upending capitalist relations of production and confronting the interests of capital at various moments of its production, reproduction, and realization, including consumption, the extraction of energy and resources, the appropriation of unpaid carework, and the international expropriation of cheap resources and labour. Such a transformation of provisioning systems does not only integrate different socio-metabolic profiles and political-economic features (Schaffartzik et al., 2021), but would require a coevolution of structure and superstructure, a corresponding culture, and a set of new common senses together with new forms of planning and economic organization.
"that which remains above what is used or needed," late 14c., from Old French sorplus "remainder, extra" (12c., Modern French surplus), from Medieval Latin superplus "excess, surplus," from Latin super "over" (see super-) + plus "more" (see plus). As an adjective from late 14c.
Why the two totally different moral assessments of starvation? Why does Malthus consider the starvation of indigenous peoples to be a moral tragedy while he considers the starvation of European poor to be a moral necessity? In the Coda the authors suggest that Malthus's revulsion at the plight of indigenous peoples makes him a man for the twenty-first century. But he is never likely to experience that recognition until his two very different moral stances are reconciled. It is possible that in his mind both stances flowed directly from the principle of population. In a world where numbers and resources are in balance, Malthus sees “possession,” especially “prior possession,” as offering a bulwark to protect all of human kind from being driven into poverty. The inequality found in a “world already possessed” is a virtue that allows at least some to live in prosperity and plenty. Is it possible that simple prior possession explains why Malthus thought that the indigenous peoples of the new worlds had an intrinsic right to their lands? Did his revulsion at their starvation derive from this source, and not from a simple natural reaction to the presence of great human suffering? There still remain some unanswered questions surrounding Malthus's population thinking—but many fewer than before the publication of this very insightful volume.
## Impacte emocional L'anomenada 'intel·ligència artificial' em fa sentir trist. Em fa sentir trist perquè, com els passa a molts treballadors, sobretot d'empreses grans, se'ns fa obligatori el seu ús a l'àmbit professional. No vull parlar de les raons que justificarien una concepció negativa de l'IA, ja que aquestes les donc per suposades. Vull parlar de com afrontar l'ús obligatori d'una tecnologia tan summament nefasta per tot el que és viu. Des de les nostres subjectivitats, com hem de gestionar els nostres processos afectius davant d'una tecnologia que vol apoderar-se del coneixement humà a canvi d'accelerar les crisis globals mediambientals? L'ús de l'IA és especialment greu per l'obligació de fer-la servir. En altres àmbits que contribuiexen negativament a la crisi climàtica, a la pèrdua de biodiversitat, o a la contaminació de les mars i terres del món, ens pot semblar tenir més llibertat a l'hora de modificar el nostre comportament. Podem deixar de fer servir l'aviació, per exemple, o podem instal·lar plaques solars dalt de l'edifici on vivim. Podem reduir el nostre consum de combustibles fòssils, o plàstics, o carn. Sabem, per altra banda, que canvis de la nostra pròpia activitat no afectaran l'activitat de les companyies petrolieres, però com a mínim ens deixen la capacitat d'escollir, mínimament, el nivell de consumpció que volem.
Rinta-Kahila’s own work reinforces these concerns. In 2018, he published a study on a group of accountants who had been using an automated, non-AI accounting system continuously for more than a decade4. His team found that, when the tool was taken away, the accountants had forgotten how to do several routine work tasks. He anticipates that AI systems will affect work in various ways as they take over basic tasks that were once performed by early-career professionals. “Next generations of programmers may not understand the foundations of coding that well at all, if they lack the hands-on experience,” he says. “The same goes for many other knowledge-intensive professions such as accounting and law.”
In this report, the Center for Media Engagement provides one of the first efforts to document the frequency with which people engage in various anonymous civic participation behaviors – both as senders and receivers. Second, it examines how those anonymous behaviors might vary based on key identity-centered differences among communicators. We found that: The most frequent anonymous behaviors (averaging a few times each year) were anonymously searching for information online, completing anonymous surveys/polls, and reading/hearing about anonymous government leaks. The least frequent anonymous behaviors (averaging once or twice in a three-year period) were blowing the whistle anonymously, anonymous reports to tip lines, anonymous uploads to WikiLeaks or similar sources, receiving an anonymous complaint, and sending an anonymous letter to the media. Men engaged in every anonymous behavior assessed more frequently than did women. For several different forms of civic participation, anonymous behaviors were more frequent among highly educated, younger, more liberal users who spend more time online.
c. 1400, hobi, "small, active horse," short for hobyn (mid-14c.; late 13c. in Anglo-Latin), probably originally a proper name for a horse (compare dobbin), a diminutive of Robert or Robin. Old French hobi, hobin, once considered possible sources, now are held to be borrowings from English.The modern sense of "a favorite pursuit, object, or topic" is from 1816, a shortening of hobbyhorse (q.v.) in this sense, which is attested from 1670s. Earlier it meant "a wooden or wickerwork figure of a horse," as a child's toy or a costume in the morris-dance, the connecting notion being "activity that doesn't go anywhere." Hobby as a shortening of hobbyhorse also was used in the "morris horse" sense (1760) and the "child's toy horse" sense (1680s).
He paced at the front of the room and started to show slides of A.I. videos from the last several years. A fake image of the Pentagon exploding had briefly rattled the stock market in 2023, erasing more than $500 billion in a few minutes. Deepfakes from the war in Ukraine were still fairly easy to identify, with discolored explosions and misshaped buildings. Gaza fakes were much better. By the start of the Iran war, short A.I. footage was essentially indistinguishable from real video. Now thousands of North Korean government operatives were applying for remote jobs at U.S. companies, using A.I. to impersonate Americans in real time on Zoom calls and then funding a nuclear weapons program with their salaries. A nontechnical criminal, Farid said, could now use a still photograph and a 10-second audio clip to shape shift into anyone online. “You might think you can look and tell the difference while you’re sitting there doom scrolling,” he said. “Believe me, you can’t. That’s where our methods come in.”
“Computational Intelligence is the manifest destiny of computer science,” Edward Feigenbaum wrote more than twenty years ago: “the goal, the destination, the final frontier.” Mathematical boomers share Feigenbaum’s romantic vision; in this they are encouraged by funding agencies like the National Science Foundation (NSF), whose new Institute for Computer-Aided Reasoning in Mathematics at Carnegie Mellon aims to “empower mathematicians to take advantage of new technologies for mathematical reasoning,” as well as by established industry labs and startups like Axiom, which promises, “We stand at the threshold of a mathematical renaissance.” The collective market capitalization of such ventures would suffice to fund 200 math PhDs—the number lost this year in the United States due to cuts to graduate programs—every year for the next 500 years.
Hegel's well-known shorthand for his philosophy of history was that it progresses from ancient despotism (where only one-the emperor-is thought to be free) to the aristocratic societies of the ancient world (where only some were thought to be free) and from there to the modern idea which commits itself to the proposition that all are in principle free. This shows, so Hegel thought, that there was something about European practice that made this conception of universal freedom into a reality and that there was something about the practices of other civilizations that made it impossible for them to reach this conclusion until they had thoroughly transformed themselves. What was it about European practices and institutions that not merely allowed for that development but also put a pressure on themselves to actualize it? In answering that question, Hegel's own classicism and his own blinders led him awry and ultimately, in many instances, into a distortion of his own views on the right shape of order of thoughts. But that does not mean that he failed utterly to make his case.
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Most importantly, Jason and I do not disagree on what happened in the past. We do disagree on what the past tells us about the future. Yes, material footprint increased along with recycling (PACE, 2020). Yes, energy consumption and carbon emissions have increased with economic growth (IPCC, 2014). I just do not think that the past is always a robust guide to what is possible in the future. There are massive uncertainties as to how much decoupling between GDP and the environmental footprint is possible. Will we be able to decouple "enough," and fast enough, to reduce the footprint to a level that the global environment can manage sustain-ably? I do not think anybody has a definitive answer to this question, especially when looking into the very far future.
Perhaps there’s a plateau for intelligence that can’t be exceeded. They may already have reached it when they visited the Moon. After all, it has yet to be proved that intelligence has real survival value.” “I can’t accept that!” protested Bowman. “Surely, our intelligence has made us what we are—the most successful animals on the planet!”
In order to banish philosophy from the scene, from any claim over a language restored to its purity and thus to the pure authority of the structuralist linguist, Weatherby denies that Saussure has any real interest in what he (Weatherby) deems a ‘metaphysical concept’: the priority of speech over writing. ‘The model does not require speech to be privileged’ (72).[15] Weatherby is engaged in an odd—but not atypical—pattern of argumentation here. He has, apparently unwittingly, taken a premise from Derrida’s text and treated it as a critique of Derrida. In fact, such gestures were so common in attempted criticisms of Derrida that Derrida gave them a nickname in his famous debate with John Searle.[16] He referred to Searle’s argumentative technique, borrowing ideas from Derrida’s text and then pretending they critique that very text, as the objection à Sec (‘LI’, 47),[17] ‘Sec’ being an abbreviation for the title of the essay Searle was critiquing, ‘Signature Event Context’, as well as the French adjective meaning dry. The English translator, Samuel Weber, sometimes renders the phrase à Sec as ‘from/to Sec’, given that these ‘objections to Sec’ are nonetheless derived from it (à has senses that move in both directions). Weber also suggests we hear these as ‘Dried-out-objections’, emphasizing their shopworn,
Porto, Milan and Malaga also stand out among Europe’s most strained rental markets. In Porto, tenants spend over 85% of their salary on rent, while Milan and Malaga both require roughly three-quarters of monthly income for centrally located housing. It seems that affordability problems are no longer confined to Europe’s traditional financial capitals; they now affect mid-sized cities and tourism-heavy destinations, as well. Southern Europe appears particularly exposed. Along with the aforementioned locations, Spanish and Italian cities dominate the upper end of the affordability rankings, with Barcelona, Valencia, Naples and Rome all requiring between 60% and 70% of average net wages for rent. In many of these cities, tourism demand, short-term rental growth and limited housing supply continue to push prices beyond what local incomes can realistically support.
It's absolutely insane how the Nasdaq changed rules around its exchange to include SpaceX just 15 days of trading, allow less than 5% of free float, and require a weighting of multiple its float in the index. This is the largest wealth transfer in history from everyone's retirement to Elon. The exit liquidity for insiders at SpaceX will be everyone's 401ks and pension funds that are required to buy stocks within the index as part of index funds. It's so criminal what they're doing. Not just the blatant raiding of retirement funds but changing the rules to allow for this.
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Condoning AI for research but forbidding any use of its prose might be the most intuitive stance. It is certainly the most convenient: We have no reliable way to tell when AI was used to brainstorm ideas, research facts, or help a writer shape the framing of a story. But as the neuroscientist Tim Requarth pointed out in Slate, it is those hidden uses of AI in the writing process that give rise to our most valid concerns. The real threat the technology poses is not the overuse of the word “delve” in academic papers or the profusion of strained metaphors in literary fiction. It’s that we lose something essential when we outsource to machines the hard work of discovering the truth and interpreting the world around us (or, in the case of fiction, the worlds within us). It’s that the biases embedded in language models trained on dubious sources and controlled by tech companies will seep into the narratives that shape our understanding of reality. Are we sure that using AI to turn a phrase is worse than using it to decide what to write about in the first place?
Commodities are enormously important to ​the real economy, but as investable markets they are small relative to stocks and bonds. Within the S&P 500, energy and materials together account for only about 6% of the index, compared with more than 30% for the "Magnificent Seven" tech giants. Size matters because price is set at the margin. If even a modest amount of capital rotates out of broad equities or bonds and into commodities – whether through physical exposure or listed derivatives – the impact on prices could be outsized. A relatively small market can absorb only so much new capital before price adjusts.
PART TWO: THE DOCTRINE OF ESSENCE The logic of essence—the most difficult part of the deduction—contains the treatise on the “essential unity of immediacy and mediation” in still-incomplete, imperfect formulations up to the bridge to the actual concept, via (a) reflection in itself (Reflexion in ihm selbst), (b) appearance (Erscheinung), and (c) actuality (Wirklichkeit).134 In the Science of Logic, Hegel escapes the Catch-22 of immediacy and mediation in a logical way. The Scylla and Charybdis to avoid are mere immediacy and one-sided mediation, pure indifference and pure difference. “The entire second part of the Logic, the part on being, is a treatise on the essentially self-determining unity of immediacy and mediation” (GW 20:107). Immediacy and mediation must be an essential unity, in “indivisibility” (GW 20:52). There is nothing between heaven and earth that does not fulfill this symbiosis, and this identity is to be understood as an entity that posits itself.