The reference to Children of Men is just Children of, lacking the Men. Which made me wonder if I had missed a signature dystopian film 20 years ago. Or AI has subtly sabotaged your review and that movie somehow holds some solution, or at least AI has identified a possibly threat to itself in said movie and is attempting to shove it down the memory hole word by word. Title first.
https://planetcity.world this is a really interesting science fictiony, speculative book with essays written by sociologists and ecologists . Saskia Sassen is someone I studied with at Columbia and she was the first person I heard talk about the effects of the internet on global capital.
The Planet City book is based on the film by director and designer Liam Young, set in an imaginary city for 10 billion people, who have surrendered the rest of the world to a global scaled wilderness and the return of stolen lands. The work imagines a radical reversal of planetary sprawl, where we retreat from our vast network of cities and entangled supply chains into one hyper-dense metropolis housing the entire population of earth.
The book features original short stories set within the city by American climate fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson, Chinese sci fi writers Stanley Qifan Chen and Xia Jia, Caribbean Canadian author Nalo Hopkinson, indigenous Australian comic creator and director of the Cleverman TV series Ryan Griffen and essays from urbanists Saskia Sassen, Ben Bratton and Ashley Dawson, Environmental social scientist Holly Jean Buck, ecological economist Giorgos Kallis, architects Amaia Sanchez-Velasco and Andrew Toland and curator Ewan McEoin with book design by Stuart Geddes.
Your analogy to Kunstler's Peak Oil miscalculation is fasinating. The parallel is that both scenarios hinge on asumptions about resource constraints and technological progress. Yudkowsky's thesis might similarly underestimate human adaptability or fail to acount for breakthroughs we can't yet anticipate. The compute proliferation model is intriguing, but you're right to question the practicality. How do we enforce compute tracking globally when nations like China and even private actors are racing ahead?
The reference to Children of Men is just Children of, lacking the Men. Which made me wonder if I had missed a signature dystopian film 20 years ago. Or AI has subtly sabotaged your review and that movie somehow holds some solution, or at least AI has identified a possibly threat to itself in said movie and is attempting to shove it down the memory hole word by word. Title first.
Curious whether you had a chance to listen to the critiques presented here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dystopia-now/id1794217765?i=1000734637304
https://planetcity.world this is a really interesting science fictiony, speculative book with essays written by sociologists and ecologists . Saskia Sassen is someone I studied with at Columbia and she was the first person I heard talk about the effects of the internet on global capital.
The Planet City book is based on the film by director and designer Liam Young, set in an imaginary city for 10 billion people, who have surrendered the rest of the world to a global scaled wilderness and the return of stolen lands. The work imagines a radical reversal of planetary sprawl, where we retreat from our vast network of cities and entangled supply chains into one hyper-dense metropolis housing the entire population of earth.
The book features original short stories set within the city by American climate fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson, Chinese sci fi writers Stanley Qifan Chen and Xia Jia, Caribbean Canadian author Nalo Hopkinson, indigenous Australian comic creator and director of the Cleverman TV series Ryan Griffen and essays from urbanists Saskia Sassen, Ben Bratton and Ashley Dawson, Environmental social scientist Holly Jean Buck, ecological economist Giorgos Kallis, architects Amaia Sanchez-Velasco and Andrew Toland and curator Ewan McEoin with book design by Stuart Geddes.
Your analogy to Kunstler's Peak Oil miscalculation is fasinating. The parallel is that both scenarios hinge on asumptions about resource constraints and technological progress. Yudkowsky's thesis might similarly underestimate human adaptability or fail to acount for breakthroughs we can't yet anticipate. The compute proliferation model is intriguing, but you're right to question the practicality. How do we enforce compute tracking globally when nations like China and even private actors are racing ahead?