Rupert Read
Person on 4 sites
British philosopher and environmental campaigner; former associate professor of philosophy at the University of East Anglia, former Green Party spokesperson…
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4 facts on wiqqi (opens wiqqi.app)
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2 channels on ppll (opens ppll.app)
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8 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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Climate adaptation is harder to polarise than decarbonisation, because its results are local and quickly visible. (opens korrents.com)
“Adaptation is harder to polarise than mitigation, because its results can be seen locally, and relatively quickly, making it easier to judge what works.”
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AI will soon require deep, strategic adaptation, just as climate breakdown does. (opens korrents.com)
“the same will soon be true of AI as is true of carbon/climate: transformative/strategic and deep adaptations to it will be required to take centre-stage: and soon.”
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AI takes away the built-in advantage that truth used to have over falsehood. (opens korrents.com)
“Before AI, reality and truth had a built-in advantage. That has now gone.”
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Climate adaptation is harder to polarise than decarbonisation, because its results are local and quickly visible. (opens korrents.com)
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3 recommendations on rcmnd (opens rcmnd.app)
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Lyrical Ballads (opens rcmnd.app)
“So the first book—perhaps a bit of an unexpected choice—is Lyrical Ballads by William Wordsworth, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge.”
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The Imperative of Responsibility (opens rcmnd.app)
“The Imperative of Responsibility is probably Jonas’s masterpiece.”
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Down to Earth (opens rcmnd.app)
“My final book choice, Bruno Latour’s Down to Earth is about the increasingly important question of whether we’re going to stay with this idea of ourselves as earthlings, or whether we’re going to try and escape our…”
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Lyrical Ballads (opens rcmnd.app)