A set of major challenges facing contemporary society – challenges which undermine any notion that social development has somehow already reached a desirable “end of history” A set of technological innovations, which Bastani calls the “Third Disruption”, with the potential not only to solve the...
Veganising the biosphere will pose many challenges: Salamander-eating plants ("Researchers discover meat-eating plant in Ontario, Canada") We can overturn the "fundamental fact" of biology but not of physics... Global Veganism Veganism and choline Being a lazy vegan is potentially bad for one...
Their book is a subtle and sophisticated analysis of how the life sciences are shifting our view of ourselves and the challenges this is posing. The title stems from a simple but telling observation: that it is the role of the sciences to “make things visible that could not previously be ...
So long as “informational sensitivity" to good and bad stimuli is retained, critical insight and social responsibility can be preserved too. Indeed, there is no technical reason why experience below "hedonic zero" need be conserved at all. For an existence-proof that life based on gradients of...
While basic geometric identification is reasonably mature, enabled by the rapid development of sophisticated sensors 24 and lasers, significant challenges remain for more complex perception tasks, such as identifying objects and their properties in a cluttered field of view. As such, tasks that relate...