Tag: politics
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Podcast series: Imagine a World, by the Future of Life Institute
https://worldbuild.ai/podcast/ I’m working my way through this podcast series from the Future of Life Institute, and have enjoyed every episode so far. I love the (mostly) optimistic perspectives that are nonetheless embedded in what you might call less-than-ideal contexts. The stories aren’t utopian or dystopian; they’re in an in-between space that’s entirely plausible, if not…
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Comment: Eskom is in a death spiral, so it’s time to change the energy ballgame.
This combination of public, private and community-based delivery of renewable energy is an advanced, sophisticated vision (consistent with practice in a number of countries), that breaks from the simplistic view that renewables can only be efficiently delivered by IPPs in a highly competitive market. We must avoid a pure market solution that incentivises a race…
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Joseph Stiglitz on artificial intelligence: ‘We’re going towards a more divided society’
“If we don’t change our overall economic and policy framework, what we’re going towards is greater wage inequality, greater income and wealth inequality and probably more unemployment and a more divided society. But none of this is inevitable,” he says. “By changing the rules, we could wind up with a richer society, with the fruits…