[✔️] October 2, 2023- Global Warming News Digest | Brain promotes Doomsday book, Daniel Schmachtenberger, Yale AI lecture, Jem Bendel on collapse Acceptance, 2008 Biden-Pailin

[Richard Pauli]

/*October 2*//*, 2023*/

/[ clips from a longer WRAL article - summary links 
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]
/*Just how bad is climate change? It’s worse than you think, says 
Doomsday author
*by Marshall Brain — September 29, 2023 .

    Editor’s note: Marshall Brain – futurist, inventor, NCSU professor,
    writer and creator of “How Stuff Works” –  is a contributor to WRAL
    TechWire.  He’s also author of “The Doomsday Book: The Science
    Behind Humanity’s Greatest Threats.” Brain has written several posts
    recently about the threat of climate change. His exclusive columns
    written for TechWire are published on Fridays.

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RALEIGH – Last week I wrote an article on the coming collapse of our 
ecosystem and our civilization:
We have destroyed our ecosystem – now we await the collapse of 
civilization...
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To those on this “positive” or “hopium” end of the spectrum, here is 
something to consider: Things are way, way worse than you think. The 
reason people can believe that everything is going to be OK is because 
they have not taken the time to comprehend all the different things that 
are going wrong simultaneously, nor how seriously these things are going 
wrong.

Therefore, let’s take a dive into the unfolding catastrophe that climate 
change is creating for humanity and the planet’s ecosystems

*#1 LOOKING BACK AT THE PARIS CLIMATE AGREEMENTS OF 2016*
The first thing to grasp is that humanity is doing nothing of any 
significance to stop climate change. Humanity continues to burn fossil 
fuels like there is no tomorrow. How do we know this? Think back to the 
famous “Paris Climate Accords” from 2016. Nearly 200 members of the 
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) signed 
the agreement (only 3 have not). Here is a quick summary of the agreement:

Paris Agreements – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Agreement

“The Paris Agreement’s long-term temperature goal is to keep the rise in 
mean global temperature to well below 2 °C (3.6 °F) above pre-industrial 
levels, and preferably limit the increase to 1.5 °C (2.7 °F), 
recognizing that this would substantially reduce the effects of climate 
change. Emissions should be reduced as soon as possible and reach net 
zero by the middle of the 21st century. To stay below 1.5 °C of global 
warming, emissions need to be cut by roughly 50% by 2030.”...

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*#2 RECORD HEAT ACROSS THE PLANET*
The headlines about the heat this year have been nearly impossible to 
believe, but when you look at 10 of them at once you can get a sense of 
how bad things are. The heat is happening all over the planet, on land, 
in the oceans, in Antarctica, everywhere:

    Earth just had its hottest summer on record, U.N. says, warning
    “climate breakdown has begun”
    –
    https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hottest-summer-on-record-2023-un-says-climate-change-global-warming-data/

    Antarctica experienced the most intense heat wave ever recorded
    –
    https://www.earth.com/news/antarctica-experienced-the-most-intense-heat-wave-ever-recorded/

    Record-breaking temperatures across South America prompt concerns of
    scorching summer and wildfires
    –
    https://au.news.yahoo.com/record-breaking-temperatures-across-south-125130980.html

    The ominous signs pointing to extreme heat and fire in Australia
    this summer
    –
    https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/24/australia/australia-el-nino-heat-fire-summer-climate-intl/index.html

    Exxon says world set to fail 2°C global warming cap by 2050
    –
    https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/exxon-projects-oil-gas-be-54-worlds-energy-needs-2050-2023-08-28/

    China’s summer of climate destruction
    – https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-66616699

    The North Atlantic is experiencing a ‘totally unprecedented’ marine
    heat wave
    –
    https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/20/europe/marine-heatwave-north-atlantic-climate-scn-intl/index.html

    ‘Off-the-charts records’: has humanity finally broken the climate?
      –
    https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/aug/28/crazy-off-the-charts-records-has-humanity-finally-broken-the-climate

    Gulf Coast temperatures surge to highest levels ever observed
    –
    https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/gulf-coast-temperatures-surge-to-highest-levels-ever-observed/ar-AA1fTCtr

    These places baked the most during Earth’s hottest month on record
    –
    https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2023/08/02/july-hottest-month-global-temperatures/...

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*#3 WHERE DOES ALL THIS HEAT COME FROM?*
Why is all this heat happening? Humanity has added so much carbon 
dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide to the atmosphere that this heating 
is unstoppable. Humanity adds roughly a gigaton of carbon dioxide to the 
atmosphere every week and a half. This graph comes from Statista:

Annual carbon dioxide (CO₂) emissions worldwide from 1940 to 2022 (in 
billion metric tons)
– https://www.statista.com/statistics/276629/global-co2-emissions...

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*#4 WILDFIRES ALSO ADD CARBON DIOXIDE TO THE ATMOSPHERE*
Fossil fuels are one big source of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. But 
wildfires also play a part. The huge wildfires in Canada in 2023 emitted 
another gigaton of carbon dioxide this year:

Canadian wildfires have released 1 billion tons of CO2 this 
year—equivalent to annual airline emissions – 
https://www.fastcompany.com/90932998/canadian-wildfires-co2-airline-emissions

“This year, more than 5,100 fires have burned across Canada. They’ve 
sent smoke plumes around the world, blanketing parts of the East Coast 
in an eerie haze and even drifting over to Europe. They’ve burned 13 
million hectares of land, or about 32 million acres, a size equivalent 
to the country of Greece. And they’ve already released one billion tons 
of carbon dioxide emissions into the air, according to one 
estimate—about the same as the global airline industry emits in a year, 
or a year’s worth of driving from more than 222 million gas-powered cars.”

The Amazon rainforest is doing the same thing on its way toward collapsing:

    Amazon rainforest now emitting more CO2 than it absorbs
    –
    https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jul/14/amazon-rainforest-now-emitting-more-co2-than-it-absorbs...

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*#5 BAD NEWS ON SEVERAL FRONTS IN THE ARCTIC*
The Arctic tundra is getting ready to do the same thing as the Arctic 
Circle region thaws out:

Arctic Tundra Leaking Greenhouse Gases – 
https://www.science.org/content/article/arctic-tundra-leaking-greenhouse-gases

“’The concern is what will happen in the future as global warming 
increases and melting permafrost exposes more of this buried carbon to 
be respired and released into the atmosphere,’ he says. As it does, this 
cold place could turn up the heat on the rest of the planet.”

This is a huge concern because the Arctic Circle is warming so fast:
The Arctic is warming nearly four times faster than the rest of the world
– 
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/the-arctic-is-warming-nearly-four-times-faster-than-the-rest-of-the-world...

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*#6 THE “TIPPING POINTS” AND “POSITIVE FEEDBACK LOOPS” WILL RELEASE EVEN 
MORE CARBON DIOXIDE*
The Tundra represents one of the so-called “tipping points” or “positive 
feedback loops” in climate change. As global heating increase, the 
Tundra melts faster. The Tundra emits its own carbon dioxide into the 
atmosphere, which speeds up global heating even more. Which releases 
more carbon dioxide from the Tundra. And so on. This video does a nice 
job of summarizing the tipping point that the permafrost is getting 
ready to spring on humanity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpqZTqIKMxs

The Tundra tipping point will be exacerbated by the expected arrival of 
a Blue Ocean Event (BOE) in the Arctic Ocean. A BOE will occur once all 
the artic ice disappears in the summer:

    Arctic Could Be Sea Ice-Free in the Summer by the 2030s
    –
    https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/arctic-could-be-sea-ice-free-in-summer-by-2030s-180982326/

“Summer sea ice in the Arctic could melt almost completely by the 
2030s—roughly a decade earlier than projected—even if humans cut back 
drastically on greenhouse gas emissions, new research suggests. ‘We are 
very quickly about to lose the Arctic summer sea-ice cover, basically 
independent of what we are doing,’ Dirk Notz, a climate scientist at the 
University of Hamburg in Germany tells the New York Times’ Raymond 
Zhong. ‘We’ve been waiting too long now to do something about climate 
change to still protect the remaining ice.’”

There are 16 of these tipping points that the UN has identified, and 
several are getting ready to trigger in the near future:
World on brink of five ‘disastrous’ climate tipping points, study finds
– 
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/sep/08/world-on-brink-five-climate-tipping-points-study-finds...

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*#7 THE PLANET IS RUNNING OUT OF FRESH WATER FOR HUMANS TO DRINK*
In the previous quote it mentions “the loss of almost all mountain 
glaciers”. For example, the rate at which the glaciers are melting in 
Switzerland is accelerating rapidly:

Swiss glaciers lose 10% of volume in worst two years on record – 
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/swiss-glaciers-lose-10-volume-worst-two-years-record-2023-09-28/

“Switzerland’s glaciers suffered their second worst melt rate this year 
after record 2022 losses, shrinking their overall volume by 10% in the 
last two years, monitoring body GLAMOS said on Thursday. The one-two 
punch for Swiss glaciers during the country’s third hottest summer on 
record means they lost as much ice in two years as in the three decades 
before 1990, it said, describing the losses as ‘catastrophic’.”

You might be thinking, “So what? Who needs glaciers?” The problem is 
that the accelerating loss of these glaciers represents just one of the 
many ways that humanity will be running out of fresh water. Think about 
the freshwater situation in India and Pakistan:

As Himalayan Glaciers Melt, a Water Crisis Looms in South Asia – 
https://e360.yale.edu/features/himalayas-glaciers-climate-change

“These changes could have far-reaching consequences for hazard risk and 
food and water security in a heavily populated region. More than a 
billion people depend on the Indus, Ganges, and Brahmaputra river 
systems, which are fed by snow and glacial melt from the Hindu Kush 
Himalaya region, known as the world’s “Third Pole” because it contains 
so much ice. Peaking in summer, meltwater can be a lifesaver at a time 
when other water sources are much diminished.”

Meanwhile, in the United States we have multiple reasons to worry about 
the freshwater supplies in many parts of the country:

New Orleans braces for drinking water emergency from drought-stricken 
Mississippi River – 
https://www.nbcnews.com/science/environment/new-orleans-braces-drinking-water-emergency-drought-stricken-mississip-rcna117218
America is using up its groundwater like there is no tomorrow – 
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/08/28/climate/groundwater-drying-climate-change.html
The Colorado River drought crisis: How did this happen? Can it be fixed? 
– 
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/02/05/colorado-river-drought-explained/
With the Ogallala Aquifer drying up, Kansas ponders limits to irrigation 
– 
https://www.kcur.org/2023-04-04/with-the-ogallala-aquifer-drying-up-kansas-ponders-limits-to-irrigation
‘We are dropping about 2,000 acre feet a day, that’s never happened’ | 
What it will take to fill up Central Texas lakes – 
https://www.kcentv.com/amp/article/tech/science/environment/what-will-take-fill-central-texas-lakes/500-77a448cc-98e4-45ac-8e0e-6e4924940f82
Rivers like the Mississippi river and the Colorado river are drying up. 
The aquifers in states like Kansas and California are drying up. The 
reservoir lakes in states like Texas are drying up.

Meanwhile there are unbelievable situations happening all over the 
western United States – situations that consume huge amounts of fresh 
water. This video talks about farming alfalfa for Saudi Arabia in 
water-scarce Arizona – it is impossible to believe it is true given what 
is at stake: https://youtu.be/b78owYAd0iw&t=47...

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*#8 MASSIVE DROUGHTS ARE HAPPENING ALL OVER THE PLANET*
Unless you are personally affected by a drought, it is easy to forget 
that droughts are happening all over the planet. Here are several examples:
Brazil’s Amazon rainforest faces a severe drought that may affect around 
500,000 people – 
https://apnews.com/article/brazil-amazon-environment-drought-201b4f16a12118f71f1966f453b1b9fb
Major Exporter Vietnam Tells Some Rice Farmers to Plant Early on Drought 
Risks – 
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-09-28/vietnam-tells-some-rice-farmers-to-plant-early-on-drought-risks
Rapid onset drought risk for Alabama – 
https://whnt.com/weather/valleywx-blog/rapid-onset-drought-risk-for-alabama/
Bolivia: Hottest winter on record ends in drought for more than half the 
country – 
https://reliefweb.int/report/bolivia-plurinational-state/bolivia-hottest-winter-record-ends-drought-more-half-country
Horn of Africa suffering from worst drought in 40 years – 
https://www.dw.com/en/horn-of-africa-is-suffering-from-worst-drought-in-40-years/video-66714546
EIA: historic drought at the Panama Canal causes delays – 
https://www.hydrocarbonengineering.com/petrochemicals/28092023/eia-historic-drought-at-the-panama-canal-causes-delays/
Over 70% of India reporting drought-like conditions – 
https://www.downtoearth.org.in/news/environment/over-70-of-india-reporting-drought-like-conditions-91964
France’s Water War Has No End in Sight – 
https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/09/25/france-water-crisis-climate-environment-drought-agriculture/
Severe drought is a worst-case scenario for human survivability. Without 
sufficient water there can be no agriculture, no livestock, and 
therefore no humans...

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*#9 PARADOXICALLY THERE IS ALSO INCREASED FLOODING IN OTHER PARTS OF THE 
WORLD*
This article from CNN describes how serious the threat of flooding is 
becoming:
Ten countries and territories saw severe flooding in just 12 days. Is 
this the future of climate change? 
https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/16/world/global-rain-flooding-climate-crisis-intl-hnk/index.html...

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*#10 WHEN DROUGHTS + FLOODS + HEAT COMBINE, IT LEADS TO CROP FAILURES*
There are plenty of places on planet Earth experiencing various crop 
failures:
The high plains drought is so bad that Kansas is importing wheat from 
Europe – 
https://www.kcur.org/news/2023-06-05/the-high-plains-drought-is-so-bad-that-kansas-is-importing-wheat-from-europe
Australia faces further wheat crop losses as September heat dents yields 
– 
https://www.hellenicshippingnews.com/australia-faces-further-wheat-crop-losses-as-september-heat-dents-yields/
China’s wheat growers face ‘disaster’ after heavy rain batters crop – 
https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/chinas-wheat-growers-face-disaster-after-heavy-rain-batters-crop-2023-06-07/
Wheat Crops in U.S. and China May Be Threatened by Unprecedented Heat 
and Drought – 
https://scitechdaily.com/wheat-crops-in-u-s-and-china-may-be-threatened-by-unprecedented-heat-and-drought/
Chinese farmers hit by floods and drought say extreme weather is getting 
worse – 
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/china-floods-drought-farming-wheat-climate-change-rcna96111
India’s ban on rice exports raises fear of global food price rises – 
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/jul/21/india-ban-on-rice-exports-raises-fear-of-global-food-price-rises
After being hit by heat last year, wheat crop suffers from excessive, 
untimely rains this year – 
https://india.mongabay.com/2023/04/indias-wheat-crop-again-suffered-from-extreme-weather/...

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*#11 THINGS ARE LOOKING BAD IN ANTARCTICA*
Since Antarctica is in the southern hemisphere, winter is just finishing 
up in Antarctica. Therefore, we would expect Antarctic sea ice to be at 
its maximum. Unfortunately, this year’s maximum is woefully low:

Antarctic sea ice shrinks to lowest annual maximum level on record, data 
shows – 
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/26/antarctic-sea-ice-shrinks-to-lowest-annual-maximum-level-on-record-data-shows...

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*#12 THEREFORE, SEA LEVELS ARE RISING*
If Antarctica is melting, and Greenland is melting, and the mountain 
glaciers are melting, and the Arctic ice is melting… all because of the 
warming created by carbon dioxide… then we would expect sea levels to be 
rising. And in fact, they are:

Antarctica warming much faster than models predicted in ‘deeply 
concerning’ sign for sea levels – 
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/08/antarctica-warming-much-faster-than-models-predicted-in-deeply-concerning-sign-for-sea-levels...

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*#13 MASS EXTINCTION IS ALREADY HAPPENING*
With all the heat, the droughts, the floods, the increasing pressure of 
8 billion humans destroying habitat… We would expect the natural world 
to be withering. And it is. We can see the withering through the 
extinction of species:

Mass Extinction: Entire Branches on Tree of Life Are Dying, Scientists 
Warn – 
https://www.sciencealert.com/mass-extinction-entire-branches-on-tree-of-life-are-dying-scientists-warn

“Over the past few months the sixth mass extinction has become 
devastatingly visible. We’ve witnessed mass seabird deaths, shores have 
been littered with droves of dead fish, and sea lions poisoned by 
heat-induced algal blooms. Last year entire populations of penguins 
failed to breed and for years now researchers have been investigating an 
alarming reduction in insect life.”...

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The natural world is dying as the ecosystem collapses.

*WHAT IT ALL MEANS*
Think about everything we have discussed in this article:

     1. Massive heat waves across the planet
     2. Rising fossil fuel emissions
     3. Heating of 1.5 degrees C in 2023
     4. Failure of the 2016 Paris agreements
     5. Huge wildfires in Canada
     6. Wildfires burning in the Amazon rainforest
     7. Arctic Tundra thawing out and tripping a climate feedback loop
     8. Other climate tipping points getting ready to trigger
     9. The acceleration of Arctic warming
    10. The coming Blue Ocean Event in the Arctic to make Arctic heating
        even worse
    11. All the mountain glaciers are melting
    12. Rivers are drying up
    13. Aquifers are drying up
    14. Reservoir lakes are drying up
    15. Aquifers and farmland are becoming contaminated with salt water
    16. Massive droughts across the planet
    17. Massive floods in other parts of the planet
    18. Crop failures
    19. Heating and melting in Antarctica
    20. Threats from the Thwaites glacier
    21. Sea level rise around the world
    22. Mass extinction events in every area

All these phenomena are happening simultaneously, and they will all be 
accelerating. If you can wrap your head around the convergence of these 
22 problems, you can begin to understand how bad things are getting.
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  Think about it this way: If we get together again next year in 
October, after humanity has released another 37 gigatons of carbon 
dioxide into the atmosphere, are any of these 22 things going to get 
better? What about in three years, after humanity has released another 
100 gigatons of carbon dioxide? What about in 10 years, after humanity 
has released another 300 gigatons of carbon dioxide? And then add in the 
unknowns:

    What if the Amazon rainforest collapses and releases another 100
    gigatons of carbon dioxide?
    What if a large glacier in Antarctica collapses?
    What if all the ice in the Arctic disappears and we experience a
    blue ocean event?
    What if positive feedback loops like the Tundra really engage?
    What if droughts and floods and heat increase enough to cause major
    crop failures?

Unfortunately, it does not look like the world’s leaders are going to do 
anything significant to address climate change. The Paris agreements 
were a chance for them to do something, and we have seen that they 
failed. This is why in last week’s article I had this quote:

    We have destroyed our ecosystem – now we await the collapse of
    civilization
    https://wraltechwire.com/2023/09/22/doomsday-authors-analysis-we-have-destroyed-our-ecosystem-now-we-await-the-collapse-of-civilization/

“The next best thing would be the appearance of super-intelligent AI 
that wants to help the planet recover and lead humanity down a better 
path. The super-intelligent AI would need to establish a beneficent 
global dictatorship that takes over the operations of humanity on planet 
Earth. By replacing all the governments of the world with a single 
super-intelligent government, and by taking control of the planet’s 
industries, there is some hope that a super-intelligent AI could bring 
humanity in for an imperfect but soft landing for the benefit of all.”

What might the super-intelligent AI do once it has taken control? It 
would do all the things that human leaders are refusing to do but that 
must be done. The AI would cut through all the noise, disinformation, 
corruption, propaganda, naysaying, and bickering, moving positive 
actions forward to solve the climate change problem quickly. I 
hypothesize that the AI would take steps like these:

      * The AI would take immediate steps to cool the planet down with
        geoengineering techniques. The excessive heat is causing so many
        problems that there needs to be immediate relief.
      * The AI would replace fossil fuels with carbon neutral synthetic
        fuels by inventing techniques and rapidly scaling up production.
        This would allow the rapid decarbonization of agriculture and
        transportation.
      * The AI would upgrade the grid and rapidly decarbonize
        electricity production with renewables and modular reactors.
      * The AI would eliminate absurdities like private jets and SUVs,
        then move toward more efficient public transit systems.
      * The AI would move to protect vulnerable areas like rainforests,
        Antarctica, the Arctic circle, etc.
      * The AI would stabilize Greenland and the AMOC
      * The AI would eliminate all cattle
      * The AI would rapidly advance educational initiatives worldwide
        so that all humans are highly-educated beings
      * The AI would start efficiently extracting CO2 from the
        atmosphere and oceans
      * The AI would find ways to reduce the risks from crop failures
        and diminishing fresh water supplies
      * The AI would eliminate both wealthy people and poverty

And so on
If all these things (and many others) happened quickly and with 
conviction, things would not be perfect. There are certain aspects of 
climate change that are baked in and will cause damage regardless. But 
it would limit the worst-case scenarios. It would be an imperfect but 
soft landing, and humanity would benefit in so many ways.

Unfortunately, an omniscient super-intelligent AI is unlikely to appear 
in time to save us. Thus, “we,” humanity, will get to witness our own 
downfall. It is quite possible that in the history books, 2024 or 2025 
could mark the peak of human civilization on planet Earth unless there 
is a superhuman change of direction.
https://wraltechwire.com/2023/09/29/just-how-bad-is-climate-change-its-worse-than-you-think-says-doomsday-author/



/[ climate philosopher - from a year ago - have we been lucky for 3 
billion years?  ]/
*Norrsken Sessions #2 l Daniel Schmachtenberger*
Norrsken Foundation
Oct 24, 2022
The Meta-crisis and how we survive it.

On October 20th, 2022, Daniel Schmachtenberger visited Norrsken House 
Stockholm for a one-off talk, moderated by Sara Kappelmark, Norrsken 
Foundation COO.
Daniel is a social philosopher and founding member of The Consilience 
Project. His thinking has had a long-term and profound impact on 
Norrsken's strategy and worldview.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbg8nHuNggU


/
/

/[ this attempts to define how an AI problem can be difficult to solve 
--  and the human climate predicament will be difficult for AI to solve ]/
*The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values with Brian 
Christian*
Yale University
Apr 6, 2022  Science & Technology - Lectures
Yale University’s Wu Tsai Institute and the Schmidt Program on 
Artificial Intelligence, Emerging Technologies, and National Power 
co-host the talk, “The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human 
Values,” by Brian Christian, an award-winning author and Science 
Communicator in Residence at the Simons Institute for the Theory of 
Computing at University of California – Berkeley.

Christian is recognized as a leading authority on artificial 
intelligence and the ethical challenges associated with emerging 
technologies. His latest book, “The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning 
and Human Values,” is a blend of history and on-the-ground reporting, 
tracing the explosive growth of machine learning and the wide range of 
resulting risks, opportunities, and unintended consequences. The book is 
a Los Angeles Times Finalist for Best Science & Technology Book of the 
Year, and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has named it one of the five books 
that inspired him in 2021.

Christian is the author of the acclaimed bestsellers “The Most Human 
Human” and “Algorithms to Live By.” His writing has appeared in The New 
Yorker, The Atlantic, Wired, and The Wall Street Journal, as well as 
peer-reviewed journals. He holds degrees in computer science, 
philosophy, and poetry from Brown University and the University of 
Washington.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6atNBhItBs



/[ A difficult change -- from Jem Bendell]/
*The Benefits of Collapse Acceptance – Part 1*
Posted on September 21, 2023
I recommend you reflect for yourself. In addition, you could engage 
others in similar conversations either via the Deep Adaptation Forum, or 
via the post doom discussions (which Karen sometimes hosts).

The first seven benefits of collapse acceptance as Karen Perry first 
wrote them:

    1. FREEDOM – the move away from shoulds to the open doors of coulds.
    “Get off the hamster wheel to stop building the castle, live
    where/how desired if possible.”

    2. URGENCY – ‘No time like the present’ has never meant more. “Take
    that trip, quit that job, buy that house, do that thing — now.”

    3. PARAMETERS – playing the game with a different framework and
    lens. “Baby or not? Pre-emptive medical procedures? Tax penalty
    concerns?”

    4. PRESENCE – focus on today with heightened awareness of being here
    now. “Acceptance is the meditation. Be-ing is more important than
    do-ing.”

    5. GRATITUDE – impossible to ignore all we’ve been given (and
    taken). “Make the list: hot showers, full grocery stores, internet,
    trash pickup, on demand everything…”

    6. CALM GROUNDING – not disrupted by catastrophic information. “‘Can
    you believe it? The (fill in the blank) happened/is getting worse!’
    (Yawn), yes I can.”

    7. COMMUNITY / LOCALISM – ability to affect those in close
    proximity. “Restore a nearby land base, push back on development
    projects, connect with neighbors.”
    ..more to come next week.

https://jembendell.com/2023/09/21/the-benefits-of-collapse-acceptance-part-1/



/[The news archive - looking back at a Joe Biden ]/
/*October 2, 2008*/
October 2, 2008: Vice-presidential candidates Joe Biden and Sarah Palin 
spar over climate and energy issues in their lone debate, moderated by 
Gwen Ifill.

http://youtu.be/5qhox5P_jCg




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