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Many people in the global north tend to think that it is their right and that it is normal to consume the amount that we consume today,” says Vivian Frick, sustainability researcher at the Institute for Ecological Economy Research in Germany. “They often completely forget that the consumption level that we have depends on exploiting other countries, having cheap resources from other countries, and having cheap labor. Prices would actually be very different if they were fair.”
Overconsumption Is Killing the Planet. What Can We Do?
Richa Syal
Think about the future of your own career. The core shift of the 21st century, according to these sources, is the rapid movement away from having traditional jobs inside firms and moving toward a reality of humans interfacing with infrastructure systems. Just imagine a world where your daily tasks aren’t given to you by a human manager, but are assigned dynamically, second by second, by a coordinating algorithm optimizing for planetary efficiency.
An Interesting Experiment With LLMs
jjn1
This is what thinking is: not the decision itself but what goes into the decision, the consideration, the assessment. It’s testing your own responses and weighing the available evidence; it’s grasping, as best you can and with all available and relevant senses, what is, and it’s also speculating, as carefully and responsibly as you can, about what might be. And it’s knowing when not to go it alone, and whom you should ask for help.
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