The data seem to suggest an urgent need for solar radiation management because reducing fossil fuel consumption to a negative value isn't really a viable plan, as it turns out. Instead, we will have to use technology to solve the problem, surprise surprise.
Calcium carbonate has the benefit of de acidifying the ocean.
1. Translating 1000s of NeoLatin, Chinese and Sanskrit books for the first time
At the Embassy of the Free Mind in Amsterdam, we’ve created https://SourceLibrary.org, a collection of over 15,000 translations of Renaissance and premodern books in NeoLatin, Chinese, Sanskrit, etc. There are a lot of beautiful books to look at — and you can use it with Claude code. API keys available: https://SourceLibrary.org/developers.
2. Replicating the design patterns of contemporary AI services
I’ve created a web app, desktop application and API for organizations needing European hardware and data protections. It’s a nice interface on top of Scaleway in France, so low carbon too. See https://makemode.eu
Support, feedback or even participation on these projects is very welcome.
https://SourceLibrary.org has about 16,000 rare books translated — most for the first time. 50,000 books archived (will be translated when we have $$ for it). More tokens than English Wikipedia and about .75 petabytes.
Not sure if we will qualify for a bounty, but happy to share! Btw, we are looking for funding from small or large donors who want to help us translate the Renaissance…
Binaries are executed by machines but are not yet understandable by machines. (Now that we live in an era where machines can understand, imperfectly, like us)
Sir, I would suggest that if Europe fails to be economically competitive, the downstream implications on European society will produce much worse outcomes than (for instance) data transparency…
Doing things with ethical intentions does not necessarily produce outcomes that are beneficial for society at large.
I used to write detailed prompts. Now I find the benefits of strategic ambiguity — rather than speaking imperatively, I emphasize my vision and then Claude can often figure out a method.
This doesn’t always work better. But often enough.
Cybernetics is a precursor to AI and has a different intellectual tradition. Is it a long lost alternative name for AI? Kind of. I mean, if you look at how Sutton and Norvig define AI systems, it’s just goal directed agents with sensors and actuators.
That said, yes, they are different fields and traditions. Cybernetics is much broader, because it studies feedback control systems in natural/biological phenomena as well as the design of artificially intelligent systems.
Norbert Wiener’s cybernetics was based on automated killing — which he beautifully disavowed in peacetime [1]. Which historically is one of the main reasons we think about “Artificial Intelligence” instead of cybernetics (Wiener kind of pissed off the defense dept).
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