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Meta-singularity

Planetary Council
September 08
Debt. Interest. Compound interest. Exponential growth. Finite planet.
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AI alignment metric: LIFE

Comments on Hacker News (mirror does not support comments)
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Paradigm shapeshifting climate action

António Guterres, Secretary-General of the UN calls for urgent dramatic radical action.
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WorldVote - WorldCoin - ETH Global Paris hackathon project

Showcase on the official website:
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Measuring impact — EA bias towards numbers?

TLDR: Effective Altruism likes numbers, therefore there is bias towards projects that are easily quantifiable. What about big impactful ideas that make intuitive sense but are not that easy to put into a spreadsheet?

Stop the boats?

Example of the current situation in the UK: #StopTheBoats 🤷‍♀️
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Reasons for urgent action. Strategic Food Reserve.

There is Strategic Petroleum Reserve and when fuel was getting more expensive, president Biden increased the supply:
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Singularity Activation

SUMMARY: These are the current options how to unite humanity:
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Metacrisis pressure points

Addressing #Metacrisis the most impactful changes: #RestructureDebt, #StopEcocide, new definition of value (accounting for externalities, not externalising harm)