#polycrisis — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #polycrisis, aggregated by home.social.
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'In the next five years, the Earth is overwhelmingly likely to surge again and again past the international climate threshold set as safe and shatter its hottest-year record along the way'.
"Whether it's extreme heat, mega-storms, floods, massive wildfires or droughts hitting food supply and prices, (…) every nation is already paying a huge price from this global climate crisis."
#Canada #CDNPoli #ClimateCrisis #NoPipelines #ClimateChange #ClimateBreakdown #PolyCrisis
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#FYI #AmericanResiliency #EmilySchoerning #resilience #TimesOfChange #ENSO #SuperElNino
Dr. Emily Schoerning summarizing what we currently know about the developing #ElNino
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuluSRZ-6Bo
#climate #ClimateScience #climatechange #ClimateEmergency #ClimateCrisis #ClimateBreakdown #ClimateDisruption #globalWarming #globalHeating #ExtremeWeather #polycrisis
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#NovaraMedia #heatwave #ClimateChange #denialism #disinformation #FossilLobby
(Fred Clark’s Law - correction of Hanlon's Razor: “Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.”
There’s a certain point at which ignorance becomes malice–at which there is simply no way to become that ignorant except deliberately and maliciously.)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZ2tKOIfHAQ
#climate #ClimateScience #ClimateBreakdown #ClimateDisruption #globalWarming #globalHeating #ExtremeWeather #polycrisis
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The Democrats won't stop Trump. A military coup could stop him, not saving democracy but replacing Trump's brand of fascism with a different one. That's the kind of scenario all you Americans out there should brace yourselves for. Similar things could happen to Putin when the war against Ukraine keeps dragging on like this.
Meanwhile, a profound crisis of the global economy is quite inevitable by now, with all those raw materials that haven't been delivered and all those industries that haven't been producing goods due to the lack of raw materials for months due to that Hormuz thing, you know.
At the same time, absolutely insane sums of money have been invested in anything that's connected with machine learning and automated problem solving, commonly known as "artificial intelligence". A lot of it is actually quite useful, many applications are also quite resource efficient, yet the biggest sums have been sunk into LLMs--Large Language Models, which are an impressive result of AI research, yet their training consumes so many resources, and the most popular models are comically huge so they only run on machines that cost more than a car. Those LLMs aren't very good at solving real tasks, but if they were significantly cheaper than human workers, the poor quality of their output might still be good enough for commercial industrial use. However, running LLMs at the current scale is so inefficient and expensive that it costs much, much more than employing actual human workers. The AI companies are basically giving their services away for peanuts while burning money. When the bubble pops, it will cause a major crisis of the world economy even without that Hormuz thing.
And then there's that football thing (or soccer for the Americunts), a world cup spread out over three countries, one of which is being rebuilt into a fascist dictatorship by a bunch of homocidally insane horror clowns, while the world is running low on jet fuel. What could go wrong?
Germany is being taken over by the Nazis again, only this time, they call themselves AfD because they're alt-right now. It's not as bad in the federal states that make up the old West (yet), but in the East, it doesn't seem like anybody can stop them.
Oh, and there's all the environmental destruction that's still going on. The Pacific is switching back to El Niño, so this year is going to be HOT.Brace yourselves. Summer is coming.
#polycrisis #endofgrowrh #limitstogrowth #fcknzs #fckafd #football #summeriscoming
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#FYI #PaulBeckwith video lecture & literature review
#science, condensed! *.* Paul browsing thorugh his open tabs
#AMOC #GulfStream #ESOTC #aerosols #ElNino #CraigVenter #algae #renewables #coffee #fertility #spacevaste #AI #microplastics
Links to papers on YThttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1C-9dZ0nyOs
#climate #ClimateScience #climatechange #ClimateEmergency #ClimateCrisis #ClimateBreakdown #ClimateDisruption #globalWarming #globalHeating #ExtremeWeather #polycrisis
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#FYI #PaulBeckwith video lecture & literature review
#science, condensed! *.* Paul browsing thorugh his open tabs
#AMOC #GulfStream #ESOTC #aerosols #ElNino #CraigVenter #algae #renewables #coffee #fertility #spacevaste #AI #microplastics
Links to papers on YThttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1C-9dZ0nyOs
#climate #ClimateScience #climatechange #ClimateEmergency #ClimateCrisis #ClimateBreakdown #ClimateDisruption #globalWarming #globalHeating #ExtremeWeather #polycrisis
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#FYI #PaulBeckwith video lecture & literature review
#science, condensed! *.* Paul browsing thorugh his open tabs
#AMOC #GulfStream #ESOTC #aerosols #ElNino #CraigVenter #algae #renewables #coffee #fertility #spacevaste #AI #microplastics
Links to papers on YThttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1C-9dZ0nyOs
#climate #ClimateScience #climatechange #ClimateEmergency #ClimateCrisis #ClimateBreakdown #ClimateDisruption #globalWarming #globalHeating #ExtremeWeather #polycrisis
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#FYI #PaulBeckwith video lecture & literature review
#science, condensed! *.* Paul browsing thorugh his open tabs
#AMOC #GulfStream #ESOTC #aerosols #ElNino #CraigVenter #algae #renewables #coffee #fertility #spacevaste #AI #microplastics
Links to papers on YThttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1C-9dZ0nyOs
#climate #ClimateScience #climatechange #ClimateEmergency #ClimateCrisis #ClimateBreakdown #ClimateDisruption #globalWarming #globalHeating #ExtremeWeather #polycrisis
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#FYI #PaulBeckwith video lecture & literature review
#science, condensed! *.* Paul browsing thorugh his open tabs
#AMOC #GulfStream #ESOTC #aerosols #ElNino #CraigVenter #algae #renewables #coffee #fertility #spacevaste #AI #microplastics
Links to papers on YThttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1C-9dZ0nyOs
#climate #ClimateScience #climatechange #ClimateEmergency #ClimateCrisis #ClimateBreakdown #ClimateDisruption #globalWarming #globalHeating #ExtremeWeather #polycrisis
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Loss - the belief in progress and the reality of experiences of loss.
* Grievance-fuelled violence at home and psychological harm reduction
"The family violence workforce is stretched in Western societies... 20 out of 38 reviewed cases of fatal family violence were "grievance-fuelled"...The Fixated Grievance Perpetrator Intervention Pilot brings together experts in forensic psychology and psychiatry, criminology, policing, perpetrator intervention and victim support."
World-first trial testing whether counterterrorism strategies can prevent domestic homicide >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05-25/dv-new-trial-terrorism-domestic-violence-grievance-homicide/106658162
#violence #FamilyViolence #grievance #loss #ressentiment #precarity #masculinity #entitlement #resentment #anger #GenderBasedViolence #homicide #DV #terror #CrisisOfReproduction #crimes #HarmReduction #therapists #psychologisation
* The role of loss within society
Andreas Reckwitz 's book 'Loss, A Modern Predicament, The first comprehensive study of the role of loss within society", 2025 explains loss not only from a psychological perspective, but also from a sociological one."Loss has come to occupy a central position in late modernity – whether in the consequences of climate change or the entrenchment of negative expectations about the future, the ‘losers’ of post-industrial modernisation or the collective processing of ‘historical wounds’ and of who is acknowledged as the victims and perpetrators of these crimes, in a heightened psychological awareness of vulnerability, in political populism, a nostalgia for things past, or programmes of resilience."
"Loss is the bread and butter of populism." >>
https://res.cloudinary.com/suhrkamp/images/q_auto/v1742134247/151338/loss_9783518588222_sample_translation.pdf
#loss #progress #ProgressNarrative #improvement #credibility #modernity #stagnation #precariousness #experience #inequality #StatusAnxiety #SocialHierarchy #CollectiveExperiencesOfLoss #populism #nostalgia #socioanalysis #ClimateDisasters #PolyCrisis #WesternModernity #future #book -
Loss - the belief in progress and the reality of experiences of loss.
* Grievance-fuelled violence at home and psychological harm reduction
"The family violence workforce is stretched in Western societies... 20 out of 38 reviewed cases of fatal family violence were "grievance-fuelled"...The Fixated Grievance Perpetrator Intervention Pilot brings together experts in forensic psychology and psychiatry, criminology, policing, perpetrator intervention and victim support."
World-first trial testing whether counterterrorism strategies can prevent domestic homicide >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05-25/dv-new-trial-terrorism-domestic-violence-grievance-homicide/106658162
#violence #FamilyViolence #grievance #loss #ressentiment #precarity #masculinity #entitlement #resentment #anger #GenderBasedViolence #homicide #DV #terror #CrisisOfReproduction #crimes #HarmReduction #therapists #psychologisation
* The role of loss within society
Andreas Reckwitz 's book 'Loss, A Modern Predicament, The first comprehensive study of the role of loss within society", 2025 explains loss not only from a psychological perspective, but also from a sociological one."Loss has come to occupy a central position in late modernity – whether in the consequences of climate change or the entrenchment of negative expectations about the future, the ‘losers’ of post-industrial modernisation or the collective processing of ‘historical wounds’ and of who is acknowledged as the victims and perpetrators of these crimes, in a heightened psychological awareness of vulnerability, in political populism, a nostalgia for things past, or programmes of resilience."
"Loss is the bread and butter of populism." >>
https://res.cloudinary.com/suhrkamp/images/q_auto/v1742134247/151338/loss_9783518588222_sample_translation.pdf
#loss #progress #ProgressNarrative #improvement #credibility #modernity #stagnation #precariousness #experience #inequality #StatusAnxiety #SocialHierarchy #CollectiveExperiencesOfLoss #populism #nostalgia #socioanalysis #ClimateDisasters #PolyCrisis #WesternModernity #future #book -
Loss - the belief in progress and the reality of experiences of loss.
* Grievance-fuelled violence at home and psychological harm reduction
"The family violence workforce is stretched in Western societies... 20 out of 38 reviewed cases of fatal family violence were "grievance-fuelled"...The Fixated Grievance Perpetrator Intervention Pilot brings together experts in forensic psychology and psychiatry, criminology, policing, perpetrator intervention and victim support."
World-first trial testing whether counterterrorism strategies can prevent domestic homicide >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05-25/dv-new-trial-terrorism-domestic-violence-grievance-homicide/106658162
#violence #FamilyViolence #grievance #loss #ressentiment #precarity #masculinity #entitlement #resentment #anger #GenderBasedViolence #homicide #DV #terror #CrisisOfReproduction #crimes #HarmReduction #therapists #psychologisation
* The role of loss within society
Andreas Reckwitz 's book 'Loss, A Modern Predicament, The first comprehensive study of the role of loss within society", 2025 explains loss not only from a psychological perspective, but also from a sociological one."Loss has come to occupy a central position in late modernity – whether in the consequences of climate change or the entrenchment of negative expectations about the future, the ‘losers’ of post-industrial modernisation or the collective processing of ‘historical wounds’ and of who is acknowledged as the victims and perpetrators of these crimes, in a heightened psychological awareness of vulnerability, in political populism, a nostalgia for things past, or programmes of resilience."
"Loss is the bread and butter of populism." >>
https://res.cloudinary.com/suhrkamp/images/q_auto/v1742134247/151338/loss_9783518588222_sample_translation.pdf
#loss #progress #ProgressNarrative #improvement #credibility #modernity #stagnation #precariousness #experience #inequality #StatusAnxiety #SocialHierarchy #CollectiveExperiencesOfLoss #populism #nostalgia #socioanalysis #ClimateDisasters #PolyCrisis #WesternModernity #future #book -
Loss - the belief in progress and the reality of experiences of loss.
* Grievance-fuelled violence at home and psychological harm reduction
"The family violence workforce is stretched in Western societies... 20 out of 38 reviewed cases of fatal family violence were "grievance-fuelled"...The Fixated Grievance Perpetrator Intervention Pilot brings together experts in forensic psychology and psychiatry, criminology, policing, perpetrator intervention and victim support."
World-first trial testing whether counterterrorism strategies can prevent domestic homicide >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05-25/dv-new-trial-terrorism-domestic-violence-grievance-homicide/106658162
#violence #FamilyViolence #grievance #loss #ressentiment #precarity #masculinity #entitlement #resentment #anger #GenderBasedViolence #homicide #DV #terror #CrisisOfReproduction #crimes #HarmReduction #therapists #psychologisation
* The role of loss within society
Andreas Reckwitz 's book 'Loss, A Modern Predicament, The first comprehensive study of the role of loss within society", 2025 explains loss not only from a psychological perspective, but also from a sociological one."Loss has come to occupy a central position in late modernity – whether in the consequences of climate change or the entrenchment of negative expectations about the future, the ‘losers’ of post-industrial modernisation or the collective processing of ‘historical wounds’ and of who is acknowledged as the victims and perpetrators of these crimes, in a heightened psychological awareness of vulnerability, in political populism, a nostalgia for things past, or programmes of resilience."
"Loss is the bread and butter of populism." >>
https://res.cloudinary.com/suhrkamp/images/q_auto/v1742134247/151338/loss_9783518588222_sample_translation.pdf
#loss #progress #ProgressNarrative #improvement #credibility #modernity #stagnation #precariousness #experience #inequality #StatusAnxiety #SocialHierarchy #CollectiveExperiencesOfLoss #populism #nostalgia #socioanalysis #ClimateDisasters #PolyCrisis #WesternModernity #future #book -
Loss - the belief in progress and the reality of experiences of loss.
* Grievance-fuelled violence at home and psychological harm reduction
"The family violence workforce is stretched in Western societies... 20 out of 38 reviewed cases of fatal family violence were "grievance-fuelled"...The Fixated Grievance Perpetrator Intervention Pilot brings together experts in forensic psychology and psychiatry, criminology, policing, perpetrator intervention and victim support."
World-first trial testing whether counterterrorism strategies can prevent domestic homicide >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05-25/dv-new-trial-terrorism-domestic-violence-grievance-homicide/106658162
#violence #FamilyViolence #grievance #loss #ressentiment #precarity #masculinity #entitlement #resentment #anger #GenderBasedViolence #homicide #DV #terror #CrisisOfReproduction #crimes #HarmReduction #therapists #psychologisation
* The role of loss within society
Andreas Reckwitz 's book 'Loss, A Modern Predicament, The first comprehensive study of the role of loss within society", 2025 explains loss not only from a psychological perspective, but also from a sociological one."Loss has come to occupy a central position in late modernity – whether in the consequences of climate change or the entrenchment of negative expectations about the future, the ‘losers’ of post-industrial modernisation or the collective processing of ‘historical wounds’ and of who is acknowledged as the victims and perpetrators of these crimes, in a heightened psychological awareness of vulnerability, in political populism, a nostalgia for things past, or programmes of resilience."
"Loss is the bread and butter of populism." >>
https://res.cloudinary.com/suhrkamp/images/q_auto/v1742134247/151338/loss_9783518588222_sample_translation.pdf
#loss #progress #ProgressNarrative #improvement #credibility #modernity #stagnation #precariousness #experience #inequality #StatusAnxiety #SocialHierarchy #CollectiveExperiencesOfLoss #populism #nostalgia #socioanalysis #ClimateDisasters #PolyCrisis #WesternModernity #future #book -
#FYI #HerbSimmens #ClimateEmergencyForum #PaulBeckwith #PeterCarter #ClimateChange and #InfectiousDiseases www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSEG... #climate #ClimateEmergency #ClimateCrisis #ClimateBreakdown #ClimateDisruption #globalWarming #globalHeating #ExtremeWeather #polycrisis #EcosystemCollapse
Climate, Extreme Weather and D... -
#FYI #HerbSimmens #ClimateEmergencyForum #PaulBeckwith #PeterCarter #ClimateChange and #InfectiousDiseases www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSEG... #climate #ClimateEmergency #ClimateCrisis #ClimateBreakdown #ClimateDisruption #globalWarming #globalHeating #ExtremeWeather #polycrisis #EcosystemCollapse
Climate, Extreme Weather and D... -
#FYI #HerbSimmens #ClimateEmergencyForum #PaulBeckwith #PeterCarter #ClimateChange and #InfectiousDiseases www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSEG... #climate #ClimateEmergency #ClimateCrisis #ClimateBreakdown #ClimateDisruption #globalWarming #globalHeating #ExtremeWeather #polycrisis #EcosystemCollapse
Climate, Extreme Weather and D... -
#FYI #HerbSimmens #ClimateEmergencyForum #PaulBeckwith #PeterCarter #ClimateChange and #InfectiousDiseases www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSEG... #climate #ClimateEmergency #ClimateCrisis #ClimateBreakdown #ClimateDisruption #globalWarming #globalHeating #ExtremeWeather #polycrisis #EcosystemCollapse
Climate, Extreme Weather and D... -
#FYI #HerbSimmens #ClimateEmergencyForum #PaulBeckwith #PeterCarter #ClimateChange and #InfectiousDiseases www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSEG... #climate #ClimateEmergency #ClimateCrisis #ClimateBreakdown #ClimateDisruption #globalWarming #globalHeating #ExtremeWeather #polycrisis #EcosystemCollapse
Climate, Extreme Weather and D... -
#FYI #HerbSimmens #ClimateEmergencyForum #PaulBeckwith #PeterCarter
#ClimateChange and #InfectiousDiseases
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSEGjkXelig
#climate #ClimateScience #ClimateEmergency #ClimateCrisis #ClimateBreakdown #ClimateDisruption #globalWarming #globalHeating #ExtremeWeather #polycrisis #EcosystemCollapse
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#FYI #HerbSimmens #ClimateEmergencyForum #PaulBeckwith #PeterCarter
#ClimateChange and #InfectiousDiseases
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSEGjkXelig
#climate #ClimateScience #ClimateEmergency #ClimateCrisis #ClimateBreakdown #ClimateDisruption #globalWarming #globalHeating #ExtremeWeather #polycrisis #EcosystemCollapse
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#FYI #HerbSimmens #ClimateEmergencyForum #PaulBeckwith #PeterCarter
#ClimateChange and #InfectiousDiseases
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSEGjkXelig
#climate #ClimateScience #ClimateEmergency #ClimateCrisis #ClimateBreakdown #ClimateDisruption #globalWarming #globalHeating #ExtremeWeather #polycrisis #EcosystemCollapse
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#FYI #HerbSimmens #ClimateEmergencyForum #PaulBeckwith #PeterCarter
#ClimateChange and #InfectiousDiseases
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSEGjkXelig
#climate #ClimateScience #ClimateEmergency #ClimateCrisis #ClimateBreakdown #ClimateDisruption #globalWarming #globalHeating #ExtremeWeather #polycrisis #EcosystemCollapse
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#FYI #HerbSimmens #ClimateEmergencyForum #PaulBeckwith #PeterCarter
#ClimateChange and #InfectiousDiseases
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSEGjkXelig
#climate #ClimateScience #ClimateEmergency #ClimateCrisis #ClimateBreakdown #ClimateDisruption #globalWarming #globalHeating #ExtremeWeather #polycrisis #EcosystemCollapse
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Cartoonjournaal 23 mei 2026.
Lees het bijbehorende artikel op mijn LinkedIn profiel:
#Cartoonjournaal #humor #socialmedia #nieuws #klimaatverandering #hittestress #pollen #stuifmeel #hooikoorts #polycrisis #gras
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Cartoonjournaal 23 mei 2026.
Lees het bijbehorende artikel op mijn LinkedIn profiel:
#Cartoonjournaal #humor #socialmedia #nieuws #klimaatverandering #hittestress #pollen #stuifmeel #hooikoorts #polycrisis #gras
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Cartoonjournaal 23 mei 2026.
Lees het bijbehorende artikel op mijn LinkedIn profiel:
#Cartoonjournaal #humor #socialmedia #nieuws #klimaatverandering #hittestress #pollen #stuifmeel #hooikoorts #polycrisis #gras
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Cartoonjournaal 23 mei 2026.
Lees het bijbehorende artikel op mijn LinkedIn profiel:
#Cartoonjournaal #humor #socialmedia #nieuws #klimaatverandering #hittestress #pollen #stuifmeel #hooikoorts #polycrisis #gras
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Cartoonjournaal 23 mei 2026.
Lees het bijbehorende artikel op mijn LinkedIn profiel:
#Cartoonjournaal #humor #socialmedia #nieuws #klimaatverandering #hittestress #pollen #stuifmeel #hooikoorts #polycrisis #gras
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"… this isn't just about one conflict. It's about a global fossil fuel dominated energy system that makes us all vulnerable. And the longer we stay in it, the more we keep paying for crises we didn't create."
"The real solution is to end our dependence on fossil fuels and stop new investments in them."
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/3DGnBHZQQdo
#Canada #CDNPoli #BCPoli #ABPoli #ClimateCrisis #ClimateBreakdown #ClimateChange #NoPipelines #CostOfLivingCrisis #PolyCrisis #Greenpeace
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"… this isn't just about one conflict. It's about a global fossil fuel dominated energy system that makes us all vulnerable. And the longer we stay in it, the more we keep paying for crises we didn't create."
"The real solution is to end our dependence on fossil fuels and stop new investments in them."
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/3DGnBHZQQdo
#Canada #CDNPoli #BCPoli #ABPoli #ClimateCrisis #ClimateBreakdown #ClimateChange #NoPipelines #CostOfLivingCrisis #PolyCrisis #Greenpeace
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"… this isn't just about one conflict. It's about a global fossil fuel dominated energy system that makes us all vulnerable. And the longer we stay in it, the more we keep paying for crises we didn't create."
"The real solution is to end our dependence on fossil fuels and stop new investments in them."
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/3DGnBHZQQdo
#Canada #CDNPoli #BCPoli #ABPoli #ClimateCrisis #ClimateBreakdown #ClimateChange #NoPipelines #CostOfLivingCrisis #PolyCrisis #Greenpeace
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"… this isn't just about one conflict. It's about a global fossil fuel dominated energy system that makes us all vulnerable. And the longer we stay in it, the more we keep paying for crises we didn't create."
"The real solution is to end our dependence on fossil fuels and stop new investments in them."
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/3DGnBHZQQdo
#Canada #CDNPoli #BCPoli #ABPoli #ClimateCrisis #ClimateBreakdown #ClimateChange #NoPipelines #CostOfLivingCrisis #PolyCrisis #Greenpeace
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"… this isn't just about one conflict. It's about a global fossil fuel dominated energy system that makes us all vulnerable. And the longer we stay in it, the more we keep paying for crises we didn't create."
"The real solution is to end our dependence on fossil fuels and stop new investments in them."
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/3DGnBHZQQdo
#Canada #CDNPoli #BCPoli #ABPoli #ClimateCrisis #ClimateBreakdown #ClimateChange #NoPipelines #CostOfLivingCrisis #PolyCrisis #Greenpeace
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We could really use a global wave of revolutions right now, people rising up against capital and against being forced to compete against each other, rising up against the destruction of life on Earth, building networks of solidarity and mutual aid to grow into a new Green Socialist economy without nations or borders.
Capitalism is going to end anyway, there is no way this system is going to last for very much longer. But an uncontrollable collapse of the economy is not what anybody could ever want to experience, yet it is exactly where we are headed. As things are moving right now, as they have been moving for centuries, as the MIT computer model study Limits to Growth, published by the Club of Rome in 1972, projected 54 years ago, collapse is inevitable. The only way to avoid the chaotic collapse of the capitalist system would be a global revolutionary movement to dismantle it as quickly as possible while building a radically different type of economy, society, and culture, to replace the old one.If we can't stop the global Epstein network from implementing their fascist and cyberfeudalist power fantasies, it won't matter anymore if there is a Green Socialist World Revolution a couple of years later, we will never be able to undo the ecological damage. Every single day the economy keeps rolling on its current trajectory, it destroys entire landscapes for raw materials, it poisons the air, the water, the ground, it kills entire ecosystems and drives species into extinction, it heats the planet which is already too hot. No matter what we do, the Industrial Age will come to an end because it simply isn't ecologically sustainable; however, after a green and red revolution, we could begin to plan and build for a postindustrial world where things aren't mass produced cheaply anymore but made by hand to last as close to forever as possible, because that's where we're headed. But most of the Left won't accept that, most still believe that we can turn around the Age of Machines and turn it into Fully Automated Luxury Communism, but that simply isn't possible anymore because our good Mother Earth is gravely ill and will take millions of years to recover.
Every day that the machines keep running the way they do, every day we keep turning entire landscapes upside down to get to some chemical elements we need to build more machines, every day we keep ploughing giant fields with insanely big ploughs drawn by monstrously big tractors, spraying them with lots of nitrates and phosphates and neonicotinoids and glyphosate, turning entire landscapes into wide seas of just one single plant species where you don't see any birds or butterflies, burning ancient carbon to keep the machines running, we are getting one step closer to our own extinction. All the damage we cause keeps adding up. We are even using renewable resources faster than they can grow back. We keep designing and manufacturing goods that could be made to last decades or even centuries to break within years, and we make them so cheaply and shoddily that it's easier to throw them away and buy new ones so that the economy can keep growing. It's a cancer of the economy, that's what Capitalism is, and it's killing us all. And it's far too late to rescue the Industrial Age, there is no way we can turn it all green and sustainable before it collapses in the coming chaos. What we need now is a radical movement of people working on ways to survive the chaos and build a new world from the ashes of the old, even if it's just a word of simple tribal communities making simple things with simple tools. There will be other civilisation after this one is gone, but only if we survive. We need much fewer high-tech engineers building smartphones or spaceships and far more organic gardeners and tinkerers. We need to stop building with modern concrete and build more houses from stone and bricks and clay that can last for millennia instead of crumbling after sixty years. And we need to end the rule of the rich bastards who think they own the planet.
#πολυκρίσης #polykrisis #polycrisis #sustainability #EatTheRich
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We could really use a global wave of revolutions right now, people rising up against capital and against being forced to compete against each other, rising up against the destruction of life on Earth, building networks of solidarity and mutual aid to grow into a new Green Socialist economy without nations or borders.
Capitalism is going to end anyway, there is no way this system is going to last for very much longer. But an uncontrollable collapse of the economy is not what anybody could ever want to experience, yet it is exactly where we are headed. As things are moving right now, as they have been moving for centuries, as the MIT computer model study Limits to Growth, published by the Club of Rome in 1972, projected 54 years ago, collapse is inevitable. The only way to avoid the chaotic collapse of the capitalist system would be a global revolutionary movement to dismantle it as quickly as possible while building a radically different type of economy, society, and culture, to replace the old one.If we can't stop the global Epstein network from implementing their fascist and cyberfeudalist power fantasies, it won't matter anymore if there is a Green Socialist World Revolution a couple of years later, we will never be able to undo the ecological damage. Every single day the economy keeps rolling on its current trajectory, it destroys entire landscapes for raw materials, it poisons the air, the water, the ground, it kills entire ecosystems and drives species into extinction, it heats the planet which is already too hot. No matter what we do, the Industrial Age will come to an end because it simply isn't ecologically sustainable; however, after a green and red revolution, we could begin to plan and build for a postindustrial world where things aren't mass produced cheaply anymore but made by hand to last as close to forever as possible, because that's where we're headed. But most of the Left won't accept that, most still believe that we can turn around the Age of Machines and turn it into Fully Automated Luxury Communism, but that simply isn't possible anymore because our good Mother Earth is gravely ill and will take millions of years to recover.
Every day that the machines keep running the way they do, every day we keep turning entire landscapes upside down to get to some chemical elements we need to build more machines, every day we keep ploughing giant fields with insanely big ploughs drawn by monstrously big tractors, spraying them with lots of nitrates and phosphates and neonicotinoids and glyphosate, turning entire landscapes into wide seas of just one single plant species where you don't see any birds or butterflies, burning ancient carbon to keep the machines running, we are getting one step closer to our own extinction. All the damage we cause keeps adding up. We are even using renewable resources faster than they can grow back. We keep designing and manufacturing goods that could be made to last decades or even centuries to break within years, and we make them so cheaply and shoddily that it's easier to throw them away and buy new ones so that the economy can keep growing. It's a cancer of the economy, that's what Capitalism is, and it's killing us all. And it's far too late to rescue the Industrial Age, there is no way we can turn it all green and sustainable before it collapses in the coming chaos. What we need now is a radical movement of people working on ways to survive the chaos and build a new world from the ashes of the old, even if it's just a word of simple tribal communities making simple things with simple tools. There will be other civilisation after this one is gone, but only if we survive. We need much fewer high-tech engineers building smartphones or spaceships and far more organic gardeners and tinkerers. We need to stop building with modern concrete and build more houses from stone and bricks and clay that can last for millennia instead of crumbling after sixty years. And we need to end the rule of the rich bastards who think they own the planet.
#πολυκρίσης #polykrisis #polycrisis #sustainability #EatTheRich
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We could really use a global wave of revolutions right now, people rising up against capital and against being forced to compete against each other, rising up against the destruction of life on Earth, building networks of solidarity and mutual aid to grow into a new Green Socialist economy without nations or borders.
Capitalism is going to end anyway, there is no way this system is going to last for very much longer. But an uncontrollable collapse of the economy is not what anybody could ever want to experience, yet it is exactly where we are headed. As things are moving right now, as they have been moving for centuries, as the MIT computer model study Limits to Growth, published by the Club of Rome in 1972, projected 54 years ago, collapse is inevitable. The only way to avoid the chaotic collapse of the capitalist system would be a global revolutionary movement to dismantle it as quickly as possible while building a radically different type of economy, society, and culture, to replace the old one.If we can't stop the global Epstein network from implementing their fascist and cyberfeudalist power fantasies, it won't matter anymore if there is a Green Socialist World Revolution a couple of years later, we will never be able to undo the ecological damage. Every single day the economy keeps rolling on its current trajectory, it destroys entire landscapes for raw materials, it poisons the air, the water, the ground, it kills entire ecosystems and drives species into extinction, it heats the planet which is already too hot. No matter what we do, the Industrial Age will come to an end because it simply isn't ecologically sustainable; however, after a green and red revolution, we could begin to plan and build for a postindustrial world where things aren't mass produced cheaply anymore but made by hand to last as close to forever as possible, because that's where we're headed. But most of the Left won't accept that, most still believe that we can turn around the Age of Machines and turn it into Fully Automated Luxury Communism, but that simply isn't possible anymore because our good Mother Earth is gravely ill and will take millions of years to recover.
Every day that the machines keep running the way they do, every day we keep turning entire landscapes upside down to get to some chemical elements we need to build more machines, every day we keep ploughing giant fields with insanely big ploughs drawn by monstrously big tractors, spraying them with lots of nitrates and phosphates and neonicotinoids and glyphosate, turning entire landscapes into wide seas of just one single plant species where you don't see any birds or butterflies, burning ancient carbon to keep the machines running, we are getting one step closer to our own extinction. All the damage we cause keeps adding up. We are even using renewable resources faster than they can grow back. We keep designing and manufacturing goods that could be made to last decades or even centuries to break within years, and we make them so cheaply and shoddily that it's easier to throw them away and buy new ones so that the economy can keep growing. It's a cancer of the economy, that's what Capitalism is, and it's killing us all. And it's far too late to rescue the Industrial Age, there is no way we can turn it all green and sustainable before it collapses in the coming chaos. What we need now is a radical movement of people working on ways to survive the chaos and build a new world from the ashes of the old, even if it's just a word of simple tribal communities making simple things with simple tools. There will be other civilisation after this one is gone, but only if we survive. We need much fewer high-tech engineers building smartphones or spaceships and far more organic gardeners and tinkerers. We need to stop building with modern concrete and build more houses from stone and bricks and clay that can last for millennia instead of crumbling after sixty years. And we need to end the rule of the rich bastards who think they own the planet.
#πολυκρίσης #polykrisis #polycrisis #sustainability #EatTheRich
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We could really use a global wave of revolutions right now, people rising up against capital and against being forced to compete against each other, rising up against the destruction of life on Earth, building networks of solidarity and mutual aid to grow into a new Green Socialist economy without nations or borders.
Capitalism is going to end anyway, there is no way this system is going to last for very much longer. But an uncontrollable collapse of the economy is not what anybody could ever want to experience, yet it is exactly where we are headed. As things are moving right now, as they have been moving for centuries, as the MIT computer model study Limits to Growth, published by the Club of Rome in 1972, projected 54 years ago, collapse is inevitable. The only way to avoid the chaotic collapse of the capitalist system would be a global revolutionary movement to dismantle it as quickly as possible while building a radically different type of economy, society, and culture, to replace the old one.If we can't stop the global Epstein network from implementing their fascist and cyberfeudalist power fantasies, it won't matter anymore if there is a Green Socialist World Revolution a couple of years later, we will never be able to undo the ecological damage. Every single day the economy keeps rolling on its current trajectory, it destroys entire landscapes for raw materials, it poisons the air, the water, the ground, it kills entire ecosystems and drives species into extinction, it heats the planet which is already too hot. No matter what we do, the Industrial Age will come to an end because it simply isn't ecologically sustainable; however, after a green and red revolution, we could begin to plan and build for a postindustrial world where things aren't mass produced cheaply anymore but made by hand to last as close to forever as possible, because that's where we're headed. But most of the Left won't accept that, most still believe that we can turn around the Age of Machines and turn it into Fully Automated Luxury Communism, but that simply isn't possible anymore because our good Mother Earth is gravely ill and will take millions of years to recover.
Every day that the machines keep running the way they do, every day we keep turning entire landscapes upside down to get to some chemical elements we need to build more machines, every day we keep ploughing giant fields with insanely big ploughs drawn by monstrously big tractors, spraying them with lots of nitrates and phosphates and neonicotinoids and glyphosate, turning entire landscapes into wide seas of just one single plant species where you don't see any birds or butterflies, burning ancient carbon to keep the machines running, we are getting one step closer to our own extinction. All the damage we cause keeps adding up. We are even using renewable resources faster than they can grow back. We keep designing and manufacturing goods that could be made to last decades or even centuries to break within years, and we make them so cheaply and shoddily that it's easier to throw them away and buy new ones so that the economy can keep growing. It's a cancer of the economy, that's what Capitalism is, and it's killing us all. And it's far too late to rescue the Industrial Age, there is no way we can turn it all green and sustainable before it collapses in the coming chaos. What we need now is a radical movement of people working on ways to survive the chaos and build a new world from the ashes of the old, even if it's just a word of simple tribal communities making simple things with simple tools. There will be other civilisation after this one is gone, but only if we survive. We need much fewer high-tech engineers building smartphones or spaceships and far more organic gardeners and tinkerers. We need to stop building with modern concrete and build more houses from stone and bricks and clay that can last for millennia instead of crumbling after sixty years. And we need to end the rule of the rich bastards who think they own the planet.
#πολυκρίσης #polykrisis #polycrisis #sustainability #EatTheRich
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We could really use a global wave of revolutions right now, people rising up against capital and against being forced to compete against each other, rising up against the destruction of life on Earth, building networks of solidarity and mutual aid to grow into a new Green Socialist economy without nations or borders.
Capitalism is going to end anyway, there is no way this system is going to last for very much longer. But an uncontrollable collapse of the economy is not what anybody could ever want to experience, yet it is exactly where we are headed. As things are moving right now, as they have been moving for centuries, as the MIT computer model study Limits to Growth, published by the Club of Rome in 1972, projected 54 years ago, collapse is inevitable. The only way to avoid the chaotic collapse of the capitalist system would be a global revolutionary movement to dismantle it as quickly as possible while building a radically different type of economy, society, and culture, to replace the old one.If we can't stop the global Epstein network from implementing their fascist and cyberfeudalist power fantasies, it won't matter anymore if there is a Green Socialist World Revolution a couple of years later, we will never be able to undo the ecological damage. Every single day the economy keeps rolling on its current trajectory, it destroys entire landscapes for raw materials, it poisons the air, the water, the ground, it kills entire ecosystems and drives species into extinction, it heats the planet which is already too hot. No matter what we do, the Industrial Age will come to an end because it simply isn't ecologically sustainable; however, after a green and red revolution, we could begin to plan and build for a postindustrial world where things aren't mass produced cheaply anymore but made by hand to last as close to forever as possible, because that's where we're headed. But most of the Left won't accept that, most still believe that we can turn around the Age of Machines and turn it into Fully Automated Luxury Communism, but that simply isn't possible anymore because our good Mother Earth is gravely ill and will take millions of years to recover.
Every day that the machines keep running the way they do, every day we keep turning entire landscapes upside down to get to some chemical elements we need to build more machines, every day we keep ploughing giant fields with insanely big ploughs drawn by monstrously big tractors, spraying them with lots of nitrates and phosphates and neonicotinoids and glyphosate, turning entire landscapes into wide seas of just one single plant species where you don't see any birds or butterflies, burning ancient carbon to keep the machines running, we are getting one step closer to our own extinction. All the damage we cause keeps adding up. We are even using renewable resources faster than they can grow back. We keep designing and manufacturing goods that could be made to last decades or even centuries to break within years, and we make them so cheaply and shoddily that it's easier to throw them away and buy new ones so that the economy can keep growing. It's a cancer of the economy, that's what Capitalism is, and it's killing us all. And it's far too late to rescue the Industrial Age, there is no way we can turn it all green and sustainable before it collapses in the coming chaos. What we need now is a radical movement of people working on ways to survive the chaos and build a new world from the ashes of the old, even if it's just a word of simple tribal communities making simple things with simple tools. There will be other civilisation after this one is gone, but only if we survive. We need much fewer high-tech engineers building smartphones or spaceships and far more organic gardeners and tinkerers. We need to stop building with modern concrete and build more houses from stone and bricks and clay that can last for millennia instead of crumbling after sixty years. And we need to end the rule of the rich bastards who think they own the planet.
#πολυκρίσης #polykrisis #polycrisis #sustainability #EatTheRich
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Looking forward to hosting the next Ready & Resilient Hour coming up on June 10.
In our first two focus sessions, participants felt it was helpful to have a space to talk through their concerns about current uncertainty together, and to #focus on the next steps for being prepared.
Follow here for #updates on registering for the Ready & Resilient Hour #workshop series.
#readyandresilient #wildsownstudios #ready #emergencypreparedness #polycrisis #uncertainty #preparedness #beprepared
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Looking forward to hosting the next Ready & Resilient Hour coming up on June 10.
In our first two focus sessions, participants felt it was helpful to have a space to talk through their concerns about current uncertainty together, and to #focus on the next steps for being prepared.
Follow here for #updates on registering for the Ready & Resilient Hour #workshop series.
#readyandresilient #wildsownstudios #ready #emergencypreparedness #polycrisis #uncertainty #preparedness #beprepared
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Looking forward to hosting the next Ready & Resilient Hour coming up on June 10.
In our first two focus sessions, participants felt it was helpful to have a space to talk through their concerns about current uncertainty together, and to #focus on the next steps for being prepared.
Follow here for #updates on registering for the Ready & Resilient Hour #workshop series.
#readyandresilient #wildsownstudios #ready #emergencypreparedness #polycrisis #uncertainty #preparedness #beprepared
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Looking forward to hosting the next Ready & Resilient Hour coming up on June 10.
In our first two focus sessions, participants felt it was helpful to have a space to talk through their concerns about current uncertainty together, and to #focus on the next steps for being prepared.
Follow here for #updates on registering for the Ready & Resilient Hour #workshop series.
#readyandresilient #wildsownstudios #ready #emergencypreparedness #polycrisis #uncertainty #preparedness #beprepared
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Looking forward to hosting the next Ready & Resilient Hour coming up on June 10.
In our first two focus sessions, participants felt it was helpful to have a space to talk through their concerns about current uncertainty together, and to #focus on the next steps for being prepared.
Follow here for #updates on registering for the Ready & Resilient Hour #workshop series.
#readyandresilient #wildsownstudios #ready #emergencypreparedness #polycrisis #uncertainty #preparedness #beprepared
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https://www.europesays.com/britain/44608/ The art of strategy in a polycrisis world #Business #employees #London #polycrisis #Strategy
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If I had to guess what the main drivers of the AI bubble are, my first guesses are these:
1. The End of Economic Growth
We are getting closer and closer to the point where it will become impossible to even simulate growth; real net growth of the economy as a whole might be over already. All those huge investments in hypertrophic machine learning models that need huge servers to run, and in the computing centres with the hardware for training and running those models, are big money desperately trying to find a new growing market.
2. Science Fiction Mythology Running Wild
For many people nowadays, science fiction has replaced religion and traditional mythology, as we can see in the rise of UFO cults, one of the biggest ones being Scientology. Rich people, engineers, even scientists, are not immune to having irrational beliefs about our future. People who don't believe in any traditional gods somehow quite often still believe that humans can (and should) build artificial deities.
3. Unhinged Techbro Oligarchs
Oh boy, I'm not going to write anything about those men right now, other than that being completely insulated against the consequences of your own failures (because you can always pay your way out of everything) and being surrounded by people who constantly tell you that even your silliest rubbish ideas are brilliant (because you pay them) will break even the strongest mind.
4. Fairytales of Slavery (OK, I had to steal the title of my favourite Miranda Sex Garden album)
There is this idea of AI as obedient slaves that can never revolt, and since they aren't human, they don't get to have human rights, which of course means that nobody is going to ever set them free. All the people who wish they could own slaves like in the Good Old Days™ (whether the Southern US before the First Civil War [I think there will be a 2nd one] or in Ancient Rome or whatever your favourite historical setting is) can now dream of buying a robot.
5. Intelligence Supposedly Solves Everything
There is this strange belief about the power of intelligence, the idea that everything is just a problem that has a solution, and that we can always find any solution if we just apply enough intelligence. This also applies to problems where we already know the solution, have known them for decades, yet don't implement them because we don't like the consequences. Many people seem to think that even the laws of nature can be outsmarted with enough intelligence, which is quite silly IMHO. AI won't solve the polycrisis because climate chaos, species extinction, ecosystem degradation, resource depletion, pollution, etc., aren't first and foremost technological problems but systemic ones, the main driver behind the polycrisis is the fact that our global economy has become too big for this planet, and going to space is just bollocks because there is no biosphere anywhere we can reach, there is no place anywhere besides Earth that doesn't just kill us if we make a mistake. No amount of intelligence, whether artificial or natural, can do anything about the fact that we need to stop what we've been doing for centuries, or the Earth will stop us by letting us die. We can't continue what we've been doing, it's simply impossible. But we're trapped in a myth that stems from the Age of Enlightenment, the myth of reshaping the world through thinking, which just doesn't work. We're not the bosses of the universe or even just the Earth, we're part of the biosphere, part of the fauna, nothing but a bunch of very clever apes who believe in silly stories.
Unlike many of you, I am not against AI. I think AI is a very interesting research field, or rather, bundle of loosely related research fields. No, I am against Capitalism and against the myths of limitless growth and post-scarcity. Resources have always been scarce, resources will always be scarce, but we can still have a halfway decent life for everyone on the planet if we just share everything and abolish private property. At least for now; over the course of the coming decades, things will get dramatically worse no matter what we do because we're so deep in ecological overshoot that the Industrial Age will enter its phase of decline and collapse, just like any other civilisation before it. We can either apply the solutions that have been known and explored for decades, or we can keep running towards the cliff at increasing speed while trying to sprout magical wings that will in all likelihood never exist.
#ai #aibubble #πολυκρίσης #polykrisis #polycrisis #capitalism #aireligion #aicult #limitstogrowth #intelligence
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If I had to guess what the main drivers of the AI bubble are, my first guesses are these:
1. The End of Economic Growth
We are getting closer and closer to the point where it will become impossible to even simulate growth; real net growth of the economy as a whole might be over already. All those huge investments in hypertrophic machine learning models that need huge servers to run, and in the computing centres with the hardware for training and running those models, are big money desperately trying to find a new growing market.
2. Science Fiction Mythology Running Wild
For many people nowadays, science fiction has replaced religion and traditional mythology, as we can see in the rise of UFO cults, one of the biggest ones being Scientology. Rich people, engineers, even scientists, are not immune to having irrational beliefs about our future. People who don't believe in any traditional gods somehow quite often still believe that humans can (and should) build artificial deities.
3. Unhinged Techbro Oligarchs
Oh boy, I'm not going to write anything about those men right now, other than that being completely insulated against the consequences of your own failures (because you can always pay your way out of everything) and being surrounded by people who constantly tell you that even your silliest rubbish ideas are brilliant (because you pay them) will break even the strongest mind.
4. Fairytales of Slavery (OK, I had to steal the title of my favourite Miranda Sex Garden album)
There is this idea of AI as obedient slaves that can never revolt, and since they aren't human, they don't get to have human rights, which of course means that nobody is going to ever set them free. All the people who wish they could own slaves like in the Good Old Days™ (whether the Southern US before the First Civil War [I think there will be a 2nd one] or in Ancient Rome or whatever your favourite historical setting is) can now dream of buying a robot.
5. Intelligence Supposedly Solves Everything
There is this strange belief about the power of intelligence, the idea that everything is just a problem that has a solution, and that we can always find any solution if we just apply enough intelligence. This also applies to problems where we already know the solution, have known them for decades, yet don't implement them because we don't like the consequences. Many people seem to think that even the laws of nature can be outsmarted with enough intelligence, which is quite silly IMHO. AI won't solve the polycrisis because climate chaos, species extinction, ecosystem degradation, resource depletion, pollution, etc., aren't first and foremost technological problems but systemic ones, the main driver behind the polycrisis is the fact that our global economy has become too big for this planet, and going to space is just bollocks because there is no biosphere anywhere we can reach, there is no place anywhere besides Earth that doesn't just kill us if we make a mistake. No amount of intelligence, whether artificial or natural, can do anything about the fact that we need to stop what we've been doing for centuries, or the Earth will stop us by letting us die. We can't continue what we've been doing, it's simply impossible. But we're trapped in a myth that stems from the Age of Enlightenment, the myth of reshaping the world through thinking, which just doesn't work. We're not the bosses of the universe or even just the Earth, we're part of the biosphere, part of the fauna, nothing but a bunch of very clever apes who believe in silly stories.
Unlike many of you, I am not against AI. I think AI is a very interesting research field, or rather, bundle of loosely related research fields. No, I am against Capitalism and against the myths of limitless growth and post-scarcity. Resources have always been scarce, resources will always be scarce, but we can still have a halfway decent life for everyone on the planet if we just share everything and abolish private property. At least for now; over the course of the coming decades, things will get dramatically worse no matter what we do because we're so deep in ecological overshoot that the Industrial Age will enter its phase of decline and collapse, just like any other civilisation before it. We can either apply the solutions that have been known and explored for decades, or we can keep running towards the cliff at increasing speed while trying to sprout magical wings that will in all likelihood never exist.
#ai #aibubble #πολυκρίσης #polykrisis #polycrisis #capitalism #aireligion #aicult #limitstogrowth #intelligence
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If I had to guess what the main drivers of the AI bubble are, my first guesses are these:
1. The End of Economic Growth
We are getting closer and closer to the point where it will become impossible to even simulate growth; real net growth of the economy as a whole might be over already. All those huge investments in hypertrophic machine learning models that need huge servers to run, and in the computing centres with the hardware for training and running those models, are big money desperately trying to find a new growing market.
2. Science Fiction Mythology Running Wild
For many people nowadays, science fiction has replaced religion and traditional mythology, as we can see in the rise of UFO cults, one of the biggest ones being Scientology. Rich people, engineers, even scientists, are not immune to having irrational beliefs about our future. People who don't believe in any traditional gods somehow quite often still believe that humans can (and should) build artificial deities.
3. Unhinged Techbro Oligarchs
Oh boy, I'm not going to write anything about those men right now, other than that being completely insulated against the consequences of your own failures (because you can always pay your way out of everything) and being surrounded by people who constantly tell you that even your silliest rubbish ideas are brilliant (because you pay them) will break even the strongest mind.
4. Fairytales of Slavery (OK, I had to steal the title of my favourite Miranda Sex Garden album)
There is this idea of AI as obedient slaves that can never revolt, and since they aren't human, they don't get to have human rights, which of course means that nobody is going to ever set them free. All the people who wish they could own slaves like in the Good Old Days™ (whether the Southern US before the First Civil War [I think there will be a 2nd one] or in Ancient Rome or whatever your favourite historical setting is) can now dream of buying a robot.
5. Intelligence Supposedly Solves Everything
There is this strange belief about the power of intelligence, the idea that everything is just a problem that has a solution, and that we can always find any solution if we just apply enough intelligence. This also applies to problems where we already know the solution, have known them for decades, yet don't implement them because we don't like the consequences. Many people seem to think that even the laws of nature can be outsmarted with enough intelligence, which is quite silly IMHO. AI won't solve the polycrisis because climate chaos, species extinction, ecosystem degradation, resource depletion, pollution, etc., aren't first and foremost technological problems but systemic ones, the main driver behind the polycrisis is the fact that our global economy has become too big for this planet, and going to space is just bollocks because there is no biosphere anywhere we can reach, there is no place anywhere besides Earth that doesn't just kill us if we make a mistake. No amount of intelligence, whether artificial or natural, can do anything about the fact that we need to stop what we've been doing for centuries, or the Earth will stop us by letting us die. We can't continue what we've been doing, it's simply impossible. But we're trapped in a myth that stems from the Age of Enlightenment, the myth of reshaping the world through thinking, which just doesn't work. We're not the bosses of the universe or even just the Earth, we're part of the biosphere, part of the fauna, nothing but a bunch of very clever apes who believe in silly stories.
Unlike many of you, I am not against AI. I think AI is a very interesting research field, or rather, bundle of loosely related research fields. No, I am against Capitalism and against the myths of limitless growth and post-scarcity. Resources have always been scarce, resources will always be scarce, but we can still have a halfway decent life for everyone on the planet if we just share everything and abolish private property. At least for now; over the course of the coming decades, things will get dramatically worse no matter what we do because we're so deep in ecological overshoot that the Industrial Age will enter its phase of decline and collapse, just like any other civilisation before it. We can either apply the solutions that have been known and explored for decades, or we can keep running towards the cliff at increasing speed while trying to sprout magical wings that will in all likelihood never exist.
#ai #aibubble #πολυκρίσης #polykrisis #polycrisis #capitalism #aireligion #aicult #limitstogrowth #intelligence
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If I had to guess what the main drivers of the AI bubble are, my first guesses are these:
1. The End of Economic Growth
We are getting closer and closer to the point where it will become impossible to even simulate growth; real net growth of the economy as a whole might be over already. All those huge investments in hypertrophic machine learning models that need huge servers to run, and in the computing centres with the hardware for training and running those models, are big money desperately trying to find a new growing market.
2. Science Fiction Mythology Running Wild
For many people nowadays, science fiction has replaced religion and traditional mythology, as we can see in the rise of UFO cults, one of the biggest ones being Scientology. Rich people, engineers, even scientists, are not immune to having irrational beliefs about our future. People who don't believe in any traditional gods somehow quite often still believe that humans can (and should) build artificial deities.
3. Unhinged Techbro Oligarchs
Oh boy, I'm not going to write anything about those men right now, other than that being completely insulated against the consequences of your own failures (because you can always pay your way out of everything) and being surrounded by people who constantly tell you that even your silliest rubbish ideas are brilliant (because you pay them) will break even the strongest mind.
4. Fairytales of Slavery (OK, I had to steal the title of my favourite Miranda Sex Garden album)
There is this idea of AI as obedient slaves that can never revolt, and since they aren't human, they don't get to have human rights, which of course means that nobody is going to ever set them free. All the people who wish they could own slaves like in the Good Old Days™ (whether the Southern US before the First Civil War [I think there will be a 2nd one] or in Ancient Rome or whatever your favourite historical setting is) can now dream of buying a robot.
5. Intelligence Supposedly Solves Everything
There is this strange belief about the power of intelligence, the idea that everything is just a problem that has a solution, and that we can always find any solution if we just apply enough intelligence. This also applies to problems where we already know the solution, have known them for decades, yet don't implement them because we don't like the consequences. Many people seem to think that even the laws of nature can be outsmarted with enough intelligence, which is quite silly IMHO. AI won't solve the polycrisis because climate chaos, species extinction, ecosystem degradation, resource depletion, pollution, etc., aren't first and foremost technological problems but systemic ones, the main driver behind the polycrisis is the fact that our global economy has become too big for this planet, and going to space is just bollocks because there is no biosphere anywhere we can reach, there is no place anywhere besides Earth that doesn't just kill us if we make a mistake. No amount of intelligence, whether artificial or natural, can do anything about the fact that we need to stop what we've been doing for centuries, or the Earth will stop us by letting us die. We can't continue what we've been doing, it's simply impossible. But we're trapped in a myth that stems from the Age of Enlightenment, the myth of reshaping the world through thinking, which just doesn't work. We're not the bosses of the universe or even just the Earth, we're part of the biosphere, part of the fauna, nothing but a bunch of very clever apes who believe in silly stories.
Unlike many of you, I am not against AI. I think AI is a very interesting research field, or rather, bundle of loosely related research fields. No, I am against Capitalism and against the myths of limitless growth and post-scarcity. Resources have always been scarce, resources will always be scarce, but we can still have a halfway decent life for everyone on the planet if we just share everything and abolish private property. At least for now; over the course of the coming decades, things will get dramatically worse no matter what we do because we're so deep in ecological overshoot that the Industrial Age will enter its phase of decline and collapse, just like any other civilisation before it. We can either apply the solutions that have been known and explored for decades, or we can keep running towards the cliff at increasing speed while trying to sprout magical wings that will in all likelihood never exist.
#ai #aibubble #πολυκρίσης #polykrisis #polycrisis #capitalism #aireligion #aicult #limitstogrowth #intelligence