Perspectives
Perspectives
Global Change Research for a More Secure World
Earlier this month, Benjamin L. Preston, Hila Levy, Heather Tallis, Rod Schoonover and Jane Lubchenco published an opinion piece in Eos Buzz by this title....
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Climate change, faith… and the Golden Rule.
Generally speaking, our successive thoughts are connected, rather than disjoint; hence, metaphors such as “train of thought” and “stream of...
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Remedial reading: AI and faith.
My dad, the statistician, used to lecture my brother and me on the importance of population size. He would say...
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Problem formulation techniques applied to climate change.
Happy Earth Day 2024. Ask people worldwide “is climate change a problem?” and the answer is usually a clear “yes.”...
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AI prompting? Not to worry. The horse is learning to whisper to us.
As discussed in the previous LOTRW post, university computer science curricula nationwide are offering courses in AI-prompting – a new...
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The future belongs to the AI-whisperers – it’s time to be disciplined about your “prompting”!
Animal whisperers are said to: …practice the art of telepathic animal communication. They also use other intuitive gifts to find...
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Daniel Kahneman – and the rest of us: a perspective informed by Ecclesiasticus.
A final postscript on Daniel Kahneman. Last week I had lunch with my economist friend of more than half a...
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End notes on Daniel Kahneman (and a connection to March Madness).
“I criticize; therefore I am.” – (what Descartes might have said if had lived today?) Daniel Kahneman’s brilliant critiques of...
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What’s a thinker to think? What’s a thinker to do?
“Je pense, donc je suis…irrationnel” – (with apologies to both Rene Descartes and Daniel Kahneman) According to Psychology Today, …dreams...
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Thinking, fast and slow – about Daniel Kahneman.
With the passing of Daniel Kahneman on March 27, the world lost a distinguished intellect. A Nobel prizewinner, his impact...
