Regarding some ideas of how to determine the utility of a project to be funded, Luke has always been primarily concerned with CO2 emission, so one of the objective benefits/harms could relate to projected change in net carbon emissions versus realized change in net carbon emissions. Ultimately though, in our…

Thanks for responding. I have read your article, but I'm not clear on how attaining self-knowledge, your proposed alternative course of action, is supposed to get us from here to a better future specifically, or how it's supposed to work as a way of organizing society, determining what work needs…

A Contributionist Debate About What to Put on the Banknotes By MARTIN REZNY In communist Czechoslovakia, you could read on every banknote that the currency is “backed by the labor of the Czechoslovakian people”. What did that mean? Well, nothing, really, as far as I can tell. People sure worked…

Or a new way to work toward the common good (that I’m making up) By MARTIN REZNY So, we had a first project meeting last weekend with Luke Macmichael and Nova MacCourt, as we’re trying to develop a new social media system that would allow for productive communication. Apparently, the…

Or Extreme Tales of Soft Disclosure and Plausible Deniability By MARTIN REZNY Usually, I only study conspiracy theories, but today, today I feel like maybe inventing one. Be warned, ye who read — it’s just a theory! Also, sorry. You know, I love this show. I have seen it several…

When science becomes useless in advancing our understanding By MARTIN REZNY As a historic UFO hearing fast approaches in the U.S., and as Barbieheimer dominates the theaters, I can’t help but think about the effectiveness and accuracy of the scientific method and of the academia as a whole. Sure, there’s…

I'm definitely a fan of the technology and I believe its full potential wasn't reached yet, not by far, but I'm not sure AGI is ever going to be it, let alone soon, within the current theoretical and technological framework. But I guess it may be a definition problem …

Or how to make the education engage with you By MARTIN REZNY Following the recent developments in the field of artificial intelligence, particularly in text and image or animation generation, it is becoming clear that some version of an artificial teacher or learning aid is coming in the near future…

Exploring the learning paths of fire, water, air, and earth By MARTIN REZNY Following the mythological inspiration for our system even further, there is a more intuitive and philosophically deeper way to conceptualize learning paths. Instead of elementary school, we propose an elemental one. …