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Contributor Christine Peterson spoke with many of the U.S. Forest Service and Department of Interior employees who lost their jobs on Friday in the latest round of cuts to the federal workforce. She explains who lost their jobs, the reason given, and what it means for anyone who hunts, fishes, or recreates on federal public lands. Edited by Mike Pedersen / Eighty Five Audio. Produced and hosted by executive editor Natalie Krebs. Guest is OL contributor Christine Peterson. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
First up this week on the show, uncounted kilometers of fences are strung across the globe. Researchers know they interfere with wildlife migrations and sometimes make finding food and safety difficult for animals. But they don't know where all these fences are. Freelancer science journalist Christine Peterson joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss how artificial intelligence and aerial photos could help create fence inventories and eventually reopen spaces for native species. Next, Azizi Seixas, interim chair of the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine's department of informatics and health data science and a professor in the department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, discusses his review on decentralized randomized trials. Randomized, controlled trials based in a research center or centers have long been the gold standard for determining the effectiveness of a medical intervention. This week on the podcast, Seixas argues that distributed research designs with home-based measurements and reporting have the potential to speed up research, allow greater participation, and make the results of studies more equitable. This week's episode was produced with help from Podigy. About the Science Podcast Authors: Sarah Crespi, Christine Peterson About the Science Podcast: https://www.science.org/content/page/about-science-podcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
First up this week on the show, uncounted kilometers of fences are strung across the globe. Researchers know they interfere with wildlife migrations and sometimes make finding food and safety difficult for animals. But they don't know where all these fences are. Freelancer science journalist Christine Peterson joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss how artificial intelligence and aerial photos could help create fence inventories and eventually reopen spaces for native species. Next, Azizi Seixas, interim chair of the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine's department of informatics and health data science and a professor in the department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, discusses his review on decentralized randomized trials. Randomized, controlled trials based in a research center or centers have long been the gold standard for determining the effectiveness of a medical intervention. This week on the podcast, Seixas argues that distributed research designs with home-based measurements and reporting have the potential to speed up research, allow greater participation, and make the results of studies more equitable. This week's episode was produced with help from Podigy. About the Science Podcast Authors: Sarah Crespi, Christine Peterson About the Science Podcast: https://www.science.org/content/page/about-science-podcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Welcome back to the second part of our coverage of the inaugural Wyoming Sportsperson Conservation Forum! In this episode, we continue our deep dive into the topic of Celebrating Our Hunting Heritage with Joshua Coursey as the moderator. If you missed the first part, we previously featured insightful discussions with Christine Peterson and Alex Livingston, who shared their unique perspectives on wildlife and hunting traditions. In this second part, we are excited to highlight Charlie Booher. Charlie is a professional member of the Boone and Crockett Club and a consultant at Watershed Results. He has an impressive background in government relations and brings a wealth of experience to the table. Growing up hunting, fishing, camping, and paddling with his family in Michigan and Wisconsin, Charlie's passion for the outdoors is evident. His positions with The Wildlife Society, the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership, Texas Parks & Wildlife Department, and Michigan United Conservation Clubs have further solidified his expertise. Mark your calendars for the next Wyoming Sportsperson Conservation Forum, tentatively set for May 22nd, 2025 (watch for news confirming date). This is an event you won't want to miss, as we continue to celebrate and preserve our rich hunting traditions. Additionally, this episode features a short Q&A session with some of the public. Stay tuned, subscribe to our podcast for updates, and follow us on social media to stay connected with the latest in Wyoming's conservation initiatives. Find more on this years event here. Don't miss out on furthering the journey with Wild Things & Wild Places. Become a member of the Muley Fanatic Foundation and help make a difference. Join an organization that gets things done. Find out more here.
If you couldn't make it to the inaugural Wyoming Sportsperson Conservation Forum, don't worry! You can catch some of the insightful discussions and panels at your convenience with our podcast. Governor Gordon recently hosted the inaugural Wyoming Sportsperson Conservation Forum in Dubois, an event dedicated to celebrating and preserving the rich hunting heritage of Wyoming. This forum brought together key figures in the wildlife and conservation community, marking a significant milestone for Wyoming's outdoor enthusiasts. The forum kicked off with introductory remarks by Brian Nesvik and Governor Gordon, setting the stage for a series of engaging discussions. In the first part of this two-part podcast series, we spotlight the panel on Celebrating Our Hunting Heritage, moderated by Joshua Coursey. This panel highlights the voices of individuals deeply connected to Wyoming's hunting traditions. Our featured guests in this episode include Christine Peterson, a freelance journalist who has extensively covered wildlife and conservation topics. Christine's articles have been featured in prestigious publications such as National Geographic, providing her with a unique perspective on the challenges and triumphs of wildlife conservation. Also joining the discussion for part 1 is Alex Livingston, daughter of the well-known outfitter Lee Livingston. Alex brings a personal and familial connection to the world of outfitting and hunting, sharing stories and insights that underscore the importance of preserving these traditions for future generations. This podcast episode is the first of a two-part series, offering listeners a comprehensive look at the inaugural Wyoming Sportsperson Conservation Forum. In Part 2, we will continue to explore the discussions and insights from the forum, featuring additional speakers and topics that further highlight Wyoming's commitment to conservation and hunting heritage. Don't miss out on furthering the journey with Wild Things & Wild Places. Become a member of the Muley Fanatic Foundation and help make a difference. Join an organization that gets things done. Find out more here.
Some onX users wonder where all their data is stored, if we're being tracked in the most remote spaces in the country, and if our waypoints could one day be sold. This episode is brought to you by Alabama's Beaches. Read the full story here: https://www.outdoorlife.com/conservation/the-onx-effect/ Edited by Mike Pedersen / Eighty Five Audio. Hosted by editor-in-chief Alex Robinson. Reporting by Christine Peterson. Produced by Natalie Krebs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The COP28 climate conference has concluded with a new global goal: “transitioning away” from fossil fuels. It's an outcome that was disappointing for those calling for the agreement to include a phase-out, but for others it was historic for even oil producing nations to sign up to the commitment. It's a goal that shipping has already been grappling with. In today's episode, industry stakeholders speak at the climate gathering to discuss the challenges of reaching net zero. We hear from Hoegh Autoliners' Andreas Enger, Lynn Loo of the Global Centre for Maritime Decarbonisation, Rajalingam Subramaniam of MISC, the ITF's Steve Cotton, Ingrid Irigoyen of the Zero Emission Maritime Buyers Alliance and the City of Los Angeles' Christine Peterson.
Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Boundaries-based security and AI safety approaches, published by Allison Duettmann on April 12, 2023 on LessWrong. [This part 3 of a 5 part sequence on security and cryptography areas relevant for AI safety, published and linked here a few days apart.] There is a long-standing computer security approach that may have directly useful parallels to a recent strand of AI safety work. Both rely on the notion of ‘respecting boundaries'. Since the computer security approach has been around for a while, there may be useful lessons to draw from it for the more recent AI safety work. Let's start with AI safety, then introduce the security approach, and finish with parallels. AI safety: Boundaries in The Open Agency Model and the Acausal Society In a recent LW post, The Open Agency Model, Eric Drexler expands on his previous CAIS work by introducing ‘open agencies' as a model for AI safety. In contrast to the often proposed opaque or unitary agents, “agencies rely on generative models that produce diverse proposals, diverse critics that help select proposals, and diverse agents that implement proposed actions to accomplish tasks”, subject to ongoing review and revision. In An Open Agency Architecture for Safe Transformative AI, Davidad expands on Eric Drexler's model, suggesting that, instead of optimizing, this model would ‘depessimize' by reaching a world that has existential safety. So rather than a fully-fledged AGI-enforced optimization scenario that implements all principles CEV would endorse, this would be a more modest approach that relies on the notion of important boundaries (including those of human and AI entities) being respected. What could it mean to respect the boundaries of human and AI entities? In Acausal Normalcy, Andrew Critch also discusses the notion of respecting boundaries with respect to coordination in an acausal society. He thinks it's possible that an acausal society generally holds values related to respecting boundaries. He defines ‘boundaries' as the approximate causal separation of regions, either in physical spaces (such as spacetime) or abstract spaces (such as cyberspace). Respecting them intuitively means relying on the consent of the entity on the other side of the boundary when interacting with them: only using causal channels that were endogenously opened. His examples of currently used boundaries include a person's skin that separates the inside of their body from the outside, a fence around a family's yard that separates their place from neighbors, a firewall that separates the LAN and its users from the rest of the internet, and a sustained disassociation of social groups that separates the two groups. In his Boundaries Sequence, Andrew Critch continues to formally define the notions of boundaries to generalize them to very different intelligences. If the concept of respecting boundaries is in fact universally salient across intelligences, then it may be possible to help AIs discover and respect the boundaries humans find important (and potentially vice versa). Computer security: Boundaries in the Object Capabilities Approach Pursuing a similar idea, in Skim the Manual, Christine Peterson, Mark S. Miller, and I reframe the AI alignment problem as a secure cooperation problem across human and AI entities. Throughout history, we developed norms for human cooperation that emphasize the importance of respecting physical boundaries, for instance to not inflict violence, and cognitive boundaries, for instance to rely on informed consent. We also developed approaches for computational cooperation that emphasize the importance of respecting boundaries in cyberspace. For instance, in object-capabilities-oriented programming, individual computing entities are encapsulated to prevent interference with the contents of other objects. The fact that ...
Link to original articleWelcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Boundaries-based security and AI safety approaches, published by Allison Duettmann on April 12, 2023 on LessWrong. [This part 3 of a 5 part sequence on security and cryptography areas relevant for AI safety, published and linked here a few days apart.] There is a long-standing computer security approach that may have directly useful parallels to a recent strand of AI safety work. Both rely on the notion of ‘respecting boundaries'. Since the computer security approach has been around for a while, there may be useful lessons to draw from it for the more recent AI safety work. Let's start with AI safety, then introduce the security approach, and finish with parallels. AI safety: Boundaries in The Open Agency Model and the Acausal Society In a recent LW post, The Open Agency Model, Eric Drexler expands on his previous CAIS work by introducing ‘open agencies' as a model for AI safety. In contrast to the often proposed opaque or unitary agents, “agencies rely on generative models that produce diverse proposals, diverse critics that help select proposals, and diverse agents that implement proposed actions to accomplish tasks”, subject to ongoing review and revision. In An Open Agency Architecture for Safe Transformative AI, Davidad expands on Eric Drexler's model, suggesting that, instead of optimizing, this model would ‘depessimize' by reaching a world that has existential safety. So rather than a fully-fledged AGI-enforced optimization scenario that implements all principles CEV would endorse, this would be a more modest approach that relies on the notion of important boundaries (including those of human and AI entities) being respected. What could it mean to respect the boundaries of human and AI entities? In Acausal Normalcy, Andrew Critch also discusses the notion of respecting boundaries with respect to coordination in an acausal society. He thinks it's possible that an acausal society generally holds values related to respecting boundaries. He defines ‘boundaries' as the approximate causal separation of regions, either in physical spaces (such as spacetime) or abstract spaces (such as cyberspace). Respecting them intuitively means relying on the consent of the entity on the other side of the boundary when interacting with them: only using causal channels that were endogenously opened. His examples of currently used boundaries include a person's skin that separates the inside of their body from the outside, a fence around a family's yard that separates their place from neighbors, a firewall that separates the LAN and its users from the rest of the internet, and a sustained disassociation of social groups that separates the two groups. In his Boundaries Sequence, Andrew Critch continues to formally define the notions of boundaries to generalize them to very different intelligences. If the concept of respecting boundaries is in fact universally salient across intelligences, then it may be possible to help AIs discover and respect the boundaries humans find important (and potentially vice versa). Computer security: Boundaries in the Object Capabilities Approach Pursuing a similar idea, in Skim the Manual, Christine Peterson, Mark S. Miller, and I reframe the AI alignment problem as a secure cooperation problem across human and AI entities. Throughout history, we developed norms for human cooperation that emphasize the importance of respecting physical boundaries, for instance to not inflict violence, and cognitive boundaries, for instance to rely on informed consent. We also developed approaches for computational cooperation that emphasize the importance of respecting boundaries in cyberspace. For instance, in object-capabilities-oriented programming, individual computing entities are encapsulated to prevent interference with the contents of other objects. The fact that ...
On this episode of the Travel With Meaning podcast, we meet Christine Peterson, a freelance writer based in southeast Wyoming. TWM podcast host Mike Schibel met Christine on a trip to Ganglers Lodge in Northern Manitoba. This conversation shares the unique adventure of Gangelers Lodge and Christine's lens as a journalist covering wildlife, the environment, hunting, fishing, outdoor recreation, and public lands. Her work has appeared in National Geographic, High Country News, Outside, Outdoor Life, and many other publications. When she's not writing, she's wandering the West with her husband, 6-year-old daughter, and two yellow Labradors (one greying, the other very much a puppy). Give Christine a follow on Instagram @ she.will.roam As Always we appreciate the support. Please like, and share this episode to help spread meaningful and memorable travel stories. BIG thank you to our episode sponsor UnCruise, the small boat adventure company (www.uncruise.com)
Christine Peterson is our guest on the Outdoor Adventure Series today. Christine is an Outdoor Enthusiast and Freelance Journalist. She is the past president of the Outdoor Writers Association of America. She has written for Outdoor Life, National Geographic, High Country News, and TROUT.Topics We DiscussedWhat is important about focusing on the environment and outdoor recreationWhat's your favorite part of being a journalist and writerHope for the futureInsight2go“Aldo Leopold wrote: ‘A peculiar virtue in wildlife ethics is that the hunter ordinarily has no gallery to applaud or disapprove of his conduct. Whatever his acts, they are dictated by his own conscience rather than by a mob of onlookers.' We should all still live by that.”Media & Resourceshttps://www.outdoorlife.com/conservation/future-trout-fishing-out-west/https://www.hcn.org/issues/54.11/birds-to-protect-eagles-hunters-and-conservationists-rebuild-old-allianceshttps://www.outsideonline.com/business-journal/brands/patagonia-new-corporate-structure-analysis/Next Steps To learn more about Christine and her work, visit her website at https://christine-peterson.com.Click here to find Christine on Instagram.Link: https://www.instagram.com/she.will.roam/SponsorThank you to Rock Creek Coffee Roasters, home of small-batch, freshly roasted coffee. Click here to visit their website and online store.Link: https://rockcreekcoffee.com/?ref=W6tDYn7ZThe Outdoor Adventure Series is a production of Fox Coaching, Inc.
Have you ever played Civilization? In the game, you're discovering technologies that unlock new levels, one capability at a time. But not all innovations are equal. Better technologies of cooperation could unlock new levels of progress across the board. Opportunities for bright futures enabled by bio, nano, and computing technologies are now within our reach. This book explores how technologies of intelligent voluntary cooperation can help us navigate the traps. This is a recording from this living book and book club about technologies for intelligent voluntary cooperation by Allison Duettmann, Mark S. Miller, and Christine Peterson, Foresight Institute. This episode goes through chapter 4 of the book: SKIM THE MANUAL | Intelligent Voluntary Cooperation. Session summary: (425) David Friedman: Intelligent Voluntary Cooperation | Gaming the Future Book Club Chapter 4 - YouTubeThe Foresight Institute is a research organization and non-profit that supports the beneficial development of high-impact technologies. Since our founding in 1987 on a vision of guiding powerful technologies, we have continued to evolve into a many-armed organization that focuses on several fields of science and technology that are too ambitious for legacy institutions to support.Allison Duettmann is the president and CEO of Foresight Institute. She directs the Intelligent Cooperation, Molecular Machines, Biotech & Health Extension, Neurotech, and Space Programs, Fellowships, Prizes, and Tech Trees, and shares this work with the public. She founded Existentialhope.com, co-edited Superintelligence: Coordination & Strategy, co-authored Gaming the Future, and co-initiated The Longevity Prize. Apply to Foresight's virtual salons and in person workshops here!We are entirely funded by your donations. If you enjoy what we do please consider donating through our donation page.Visit our website for more content, or join us here:TwitterFacebookLinkedInEvery word ever spoken on this podcast is now AI-searchable using Fathom.fm, a search engine for podcasts. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
What's at Stake in the Game of Civilization? We explore how technologies of intelligent voluntary cooperation can help us navigate the traps. Cryptocommerce enables decentralized, secure cooperation across humans – and AIs.Mark S. Miller is the chief scientist of Agoric, a pioneer of agoric (market-based secure distributed) computing and smart contracts, the main designer of the E and Dr. SES distributed persistent object-capability programming languages, inventor of Miller Columns, an architect of the Xanadu hypertext publishing system, a representative to the ECMAScript committee, a former Google research scientist, and a senior fellow of the Foresight Institute.Christine Peterson is cofounder and senior fellow at Foresight Institute. She writes and lectures to general audiences on a wide variety of topics including nanotechnology, longevity, and computer security. Allison Duettmann is the president and CEO of Foresight Institute. She leads Foresight's longevity, molecular machines, neurotechnology, computing, and space programs, and shares their results with the public.Session summary: M. Miller, C. Peterson, A, Duettman: What's at Stake in the Game? | Gaming the Future Ch. 1,2 - Foresight InstituteThe Foresight Institute is a research organization and non-profit that supports the beneficial development of high-impact technologies. Since our founding in 1987 on a vision of guiding powerful technologies, we have continued to evolve into a many-armed organization that focuses on several fields of science and technology that are too ambitious for legacy institutions to support.Allison Duettmann is the president and CEO of Foresight Institute. She directs the Intelligent Cooperation, Molecular Machines, Biotech & Health Extension, Neurotech, and Space Programs, Fellowships, Prizes, and Tech Trees, and shares this work with the public. She founded Existentialhope.com, co-edited Superintelligence: Coordination & Strategy, co-authored Gaming the Future, and co-initiated The Longevity Prize. Apply to Foresight's virtual salons and in person workshops here!We are entirely funded by your donations. If you enjoy what we do please consider donating through our donation page.Visit our website for more content, or join us here:TwitterFacebookLinkedInEvery word ever spoken on this podcast is now AI-searchable using Fathom.fm, a search engine for podcasts. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
And if it can't, who's going to pay to conserve the state's wildlife and habitat? The list of obstacles looming before Golden State hunters reads like a doomsday letter: Megafires close millions of acres of forest during deer season and consume precious quail habitat; urban sprawl eats up increasingly large sections of wild land; drought turns reservoirs to puddles and puddles to cracked earth; duck populations struggle and deer numbers plummet; predator populations expand; ammunition becomes harder to find and much more complicated to purchase; and the possibility of a ballot initiative banning hunting lingers in a state with 63 percent fewer hunters than it had 50 years ago. But don't worry—there's good news in this episode, too. This episode is based on the story Can Hunting Survive in California? by Christine Peterson, which appeared in the No. 1, 2022 Issue of Outdoor Life. You can read more stories from this issue on Apple News, and subscribers can access them our iOS, Android, and Outdoor Life apps. Hosted by Editor-in-Chief Alex Robinson. Edited and produced by Senior Deputy Editor Natalie Krebs. Theme song by Harrison Black, Zep Jameson, and Emerson Lee. News clips in this episode include excerpts from The Sacramento Bee, ABC 7 News, ABC10, 23ABC News, with sound effects from the National Park Service and FreeSound.org.
What could our human future look like in the very long term?Speakers include: Adam Brown, StanfordChris Kemp, AstraChristine Peterson, Foresight InstituteGaia Dempsey, MetaculusRobin Hanson, George Mason UniversityMusic: I Knew a Guy by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100199Artist: http://incompetech.com/Remarks: The length of this recording has been altered.Session summary: The Far Future & Space Tech Tree: Space & Longtermism | Vision Weekend US 2021 - Foresight InstituteThe Foresight Institute is a research organization and non-profit that supports the beneficial development of high-impact technologies. Since our founding in 1987 on a vision of guiding powerful technologies, we have continued to evolve into a many-armed organization that focuses on several fields of science and technology that are too ambitious for legacy institutions to support.Allison Duettmann is the president and CEO of Foresight Institute. She directs the Intelligent Cooperation, Molecular Machines, Biotech & Health Extension, Neurotech, and Space Programs, Fellowships, Prizes, and Tech Trees, and shares this work with the public. She founded Existentialhope.com, co-edited Superintelligence: Coordination & Strategy, co-authored Gaming the Future, and co-initiated The Longevity Prize. Apply to Foresight's virtual salons and in person workshops here!We are entirely funded by your donations. If you enjoy what we do please consider donating through our donation page.Visit our website for more content, or join us here:TwitterFacebookLinkedInEvery word ever spoken on this podcast is now AI-searchable using Fathom.fm, a search engine for podcasts. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Host Bob St.Pierre is joined by MeatEater's Ryan “Cal” Callaghan for an entertaining conversation that took place during National Pheasant Fest & Quail Classic 2022 in Omaha. Known for his big game adventures on MeatEater, the host of Cal's Week in Review dives deep into his love for Labrador retrievers, bird hunting, and wild upland places. Episode Highlights: • Throughout the episode, Cal marks his journey in the outdoors through the lives of four female yellow Labrador retrievers. • Cal also talks about the harrowing experience to save his new pup, Snort's, life after a rattlesnake bite in the deep Idaho wilderness last September. Every bird dog owner who hunts “Snake Country” should listen and learn from this one. • The guys close the episode with thoughts on the Grasslands Act and the panel Cal moderated during Pheasant Fest & Quail Classic devoted to the legislative #ActForGrasslands concept. This is the final installment of three episodes recorded live from the show floor at National Pheasant Fest & Quail Classic in Omaha. Be sure to check out our previous two episodes with Doug Duren and Christine Peterson.
Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: My Recollection of How This All Got Started, published by G Gordon Worley III on April 6, 2022 on LessWrong. I've told this story to various folks one-on-one. They usually want to know something like "how did you get into AI safety" or "how did you get into EA". And although I expect to keep telling it one-off, I'll write it down for those of you I'll never get to meet. Why should you read it? Because my story is partially the story of how all this got started: LessWrong, AI safety, EA, and so on. I'm not saying it's the whole story, I'm just saying I've been hanging around what I think of as this community for over 20 years now, so my story is one facet of how we got here. My story starts in the late 90s. I was hanging around this mailserv called "extropians". How I ended up there I don't recall, but my best guess is I wandered over directly or indirectly from something I found on Slashdot. I'm pretty sure nanobots or cryonics were involved. This guy Eli-something-or-other wrote some posts about how most people are unable to think coherently about future tech that's too many "shock levels" above what they already know about. He started a mailing list that split off from extropians to talk coherently about the most shocking stuff: the Shock Level 4 stuff. Thus the community began to come into existence with the creation of the SL4 mailserv. We talked about all kinds of wild ideas on there, but the big one was AGI. An important topic in those days was figuring out if AGI was default safe or dangerous. Eliezer said default dangerous and made lots of arguments that this was the case. I was eventually convinced. Some remain unconvinced to this day. Big names I remember from this time include Hal Finney, Christine Peterson, Max Moore, Eric Drexler, Ben Goertzel, and Robin Hanson. I'm not sure who was on the list and who wasn't. I also remember some other names but we were not among the big players. The list started to die down after a couple years, but around this time we started hanging out on IRC. It was a lot of fun, but a huge time suck. This helped bring the community more together in real time, but everyone was still spread out. Somewhere along the way the Singularity Institute started. Around this time Eliezer started to get really into heuristics and biases and Bayes' Theorem, claiming it was the secret of the universe or something. After I studied a bunch of information theory and thermodynamics I basically believed it, although I still prefer to think in the cybernetic terms I picked up from my engineering education. We also all got interested in quantum physics and evolutionary psychology and some other stuff. Eliezer was really on about building Friendly AI and had been since about the start of the SL4 mailing list. What that meant got clearer over time. What also got clearer is that we were all too stupid to help even though many of us were convinced AGI was going to be dangerous (I remember a particular exchange where Eliezer got so frustrated at my inability to do some basic Bayesian reasoning that he ended up writing a whole guide to Bayes' Theorem). Part of the problem seemed to be not that we lacked intelligence, but that we just didn't know how to think very good. Our epistemics were garbage and it wasn't very clear why. Eliezer went off into the wilderness and stopped hanging out on IRC. The channel kind of died down and went out with a whimper. I got busy doing other stuff but tried to keep track of what was happening. The community felt like it was in a lull. Then Overcoming Bias started! Eliezer and Robin posted lots of great stuff! There was an AI foom debate. Sequences of posts were posted. It was fun! Then at some point LessWrong started. Things really picked up. New people emerged in the community. I found myself busy and sidelined at this time,...
Link to original articleWelcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: My Recollection of How This All Got Started, published by G Gordon Worley III on April 6, 2022 on LessWrong. I've told this story to various folks one-on-one. They usually want to know something like "how did you get into AI safety" or "how did you get into EA". And although I expect to keep telling it one-off, I'll write it down for those of you I'll never get to meet. Why should you read it? Because my story is partially the story of how all this got started: LessWrong, AI safety, EA, and so on. I'm not saying it's the whole story, I'm just saying I've been hanging around what I think of as this community for over 20 years now, so my story is one facet of how we got here. My story starts in the late 90s. I was hanging around this mailserv called "extropians". How I ended up there I don't recall, but my best guess is I wandered over directly or indirectly from something I found on Slashdot. I'm pretty sure nanobots or cryonics were involved. This guy Eli-something-or-other wrote some posts about how most people are unable to think coherently about future tech that's too many "shock levels" above what they already know about. He started a mailing list that split off from extropians to talk coherently about the most shocking stuff: the Shock Level 4 stuff. Thus the community began to come into existence with the creation of the SL4 mailserv. We talked about all kinds of wild ideas on there, but the big one was AGI. An important topic in those days was figuring out if AGI was default safe or dangerous. Eliezer said default dangerous and made lots of arguments that this was the case. I was eventually convinced. Some remain unconvinced to this day. Big names I remember from this time include Hal Finney, Christine Peterson, Max Moore, Eric Drexler, Ben Goertzel, and Robin Hanson. I'm not sure who was on the list and who wasn't. I also remember some other names but we were not among the big players. The list started to die down after a couple years, but around this time we started hanging out on IRC. It was a lot of fun, but a huge time suck. This helped bring the community more together in real time, but everyone was still spread out. Somewhere along the way the Singularity Institute started. Around this time Eliezer started to get really into heuristics and biases and Bayes' Theorem, claiming it was the secret of the universe or something. After I studied a bunch of information theory and thermodynamics I basically believed it, although I still prefer to think in the cybernetic terms I picked up from my engineering education. We also all got interested in quantum physics and evolutionary psychology and some other stuff. Eliezer was really on about building Friendly AI and had been since about the start of the SL4 mailing list. What that meant got clearer over time. What also got clearer is that we were all too stupid to help even though many of us were convinced AGI was going to be dangerous (I remember a particular exchange where Eliezer got so frustrated at my inability to do some basic Bayesian reasoning that he ended up writing a whole guide to Bayes' Theorem). Part of the problem seemed to be not that we lacked intelligence, but that we just didn't know how to think very good. Our epistemics were garbage and it wasn't very clear why. Eliezer went off into the wilderness and stopped hanging out on IRC. The channel kind of died down and went out with a whimper. I got busy doing other stuff but tried to keep track of what was happening. The community felt like it was in a lull. Then Overcoming Bias started! Eliezer and Robin posted lots of great stuff! There was an AI foom debate. Sequences of posts were posted. It was fun! Then at some point LessWrong started. Things really picked up. New people emerged in the community. I found myself busy and sidelined at this time,...
Host Bob St.Pierre is joined by Christine Peterson, president & board chair for the Outdoor Writer's Association of America. A professional journalist, Peterson has written and reported for Outdoor Life, National Geographic and Outside magazines. She also served as a speaker on the Public Lands Stage at National Pheasant Fest & Quail Classic 2022 in Omaha. Episode Highlights: • Peterson shares her journey of becoming a hunter as an adult and the funny story of bagging her first rooster pheasant. • St.Pierre talks about his appreciation for Peterson's Instagram account @she.will.roam, and Peterson explains her goal of portraying an outdoor lifestyle as the parent of a young child through the social media channel. Peterson also talks about her family's excitement around the arrival of a new puppy to follow immediately after returning from Omaha. • Peterson was born and raised in Wyoming and talks about the state's under-rated stature as a bird hunting destination along with the state's controversial “Corner Crossing” public lands court case. This is the second installment of three episodes recorded live from the show floor at National Pheasant Fest & Quail Classic in Omaha. Look for next week's episode with MeatEater's Ryan “Cal” Callaghan.
Host Bob St.Pierre is joined by MeatEater's Doug Duren and PF biologist Matt Morlock for a conversation recorded at Pheasant Fest & Quail Classic in Omaha. Duren talks about his personal conservation ethic, “It's not ours, it's just our turn,” as well as his new endeavor linking private landowners with people willing to work on habitat improvements to gain public access known as “Sharing the Land.” Episode Highlights: • Known for hosting whitetail, turkey, and rabbit hunts on Meateater episodes, Duren explains his passion for “The Habitat Organization” and why he's been a speaker on the Pheasant Fest & Quail Classic's Habitat Stage the last five consecutive events. • Having appeared on plenty of podcasts with Steven Rinella and Joe Rogan, St.Pierre asks Duren what question those famous interviewers should have ask but didn't. That leads to a conversation ranging from the Grateful Dead to Duren's family connection to the character Ricky “Wild Thing” Vaughn from the famous baseball movie, Major League. • Morlock, PF's state coordinator for both North Dakota and South Dakota, provides a late winter review of how each state's pheasant populations are surviving dramatically different winter weather conditions. This is the first installment of three episodes recorded live from the show floor at National Pheasant Fest & Quail Classic in Omaha. Look for episodes with public lands advocate and journalist Christine Peterson and Meateater's Ryan “Cal” Callaghan in the coming weeks.
This week on America Outdoors Radio we'll talk with two writers whose work is featured in the current edition of Outdoor Life. Tyler Freel will let you know about a petition circulating in Northwest Alaska that could cut out all hunters from hunting caribou except for the locals who live there. Christine Peterson shares the interesting history of trophy hunting in America along with the resurgence of meat hunting, especially by new hunters. Ryan Sparks with Shimano introduces you to some new bass rods and an affordable steelhead rod/reel combo. Finally, Walker Smith, Managing Editor at Wired2Fish, has some great advice for baas anglers fishing warm days and cold days this time of year. http://www.americaoutdoorsradio.com
“In a 100 years from now, where are we going to be with human health? The science is looking super encouraging. I would be surprised if we can't make substantial, major improvements on human health and longevity significantly within a 100 years from now.” In the first episode of the Existential Hope Podcast, we interviewed Christine Peterson, co-founder and former President of Foresight Institute. Christine leads Foresight's technical workshops and Feynman Prizes in Nanotechnology. Full transcript, list of resources, and art piece: Christine Peterson | On a Positive Turning Point for Human LongevityExistential Hope was created to collect positive and possible scenarios for the future, so that we can have more people commit to the creation of a brighter future, and to start mapping out the main developments and challenges that need to be navigated to reach it. Find all previous podcast episodes here.The Foresight Institute is a research organization and non-profit that supports the beneficial development of high-impact technologies. Since our founding in 1987 on a vision of guiding powerful technologies, we have continued to evolve into a many-armed organization that focuses on several fields of science and technology that are too ambitious for legacy institutions to support.Allison Duettmann is the president and CEO of Foresight Institute. She directs the Intelligent Cooperation, Molecular Machines, Biotech & Health Extension, Neurotech, and Space Programs, Fellowships, Prizes, and Tech Trees, and shares this work with the public. She founded Existentialhope.com, co-edited Superintelligence: Coordination & Strategy co-authored Gaming the Future and co-initiated The Longevity Prize. Beatrice Erkers is Chief of Operations at Foresight Institute and program manager of the Existential Hope group. She has a background in publishing and years of experience working with communication at Foresight and at a publishing house. Apply to Foresight's virtual salons and in-person workshops here!We are entirely funded by your donations. If you enjoy what we do please consider donating through our donation page.Visit our website for more content, or join us here:TwitterFacebookLinkedInEvery word ever spoken on this podcast is now AI-searchable using Fathom.fm, a search engine for podcasts. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Introducing the Simon Institute for Longterm Governance (SI), published by maxime, konrad on the Effective Altruism Forum. (Konrad Seifert & Maxime Stauffer) have the pleasure to announce the Simon[1] Institute for Longterm Governance (SI): simoninstitute.ch The website caters to our initial target audience of international policymakers. This post introduces our theory of change and provides additional information relevant to the EA community and potential funders. The following is structured into: An overview of SI Key decisions we made in founding SI and underlying assumptions An overview of the value SI provides to the EA community Call for support How to get in touch Ask us anything We thank Nora Ammann, Haydn Belfield, Ollie Base, Michael Aird, Devon Fritz, Rumtin Sepasspour, Christine Peterson, Julia Wise and Helen Toner for their invaluable feedback on this announcement. All errors and shortcomings are ours. 1. Overview of SI Our theory of change SI aims to contribute to the long-term flourishing of civilization. For 1., humanity needs to anticipate and mitigate global catastrophic risks (GCRs) and build resilient systems so that civilization can survive and flourish. Policymaking in national governments and international organizations is the most influential form of explicit value-driven coordination and can, therefore, be used to achieve 2. To build long-term governance there are at least four improvements we can make to 3.: a. The dominant societal narratives require the inclusion of future generations and an understanding of human progress on long timeframes b. Institutions must be reformed to take the interests of future generations into account (e.g. see Tyler John's EAGxVirtual talk (2020) and Gonzalez-Ricoy & Gosseries (2016)). c. Policy agendas must account for tail risks and their interaction effects (e.g. Avin et al. (2018)). For example, the post-2030 UN agenda should include GCRs beyond climate change. d. Decision-making needs to (i) be more anchored in ethics, (ii) use more scientific evidence and sound reasoning, (iii) navigate complex systems and understand tail risks, (iv) make better decisions in the face of uncertainty and urgency, and (v) deal more productively with diverging preferences and groupthink. SI focuses on 4.d. to build the capacity for achieving 4.a.-c. and contribute to 2. and 1. Our first working paper will outline this theory of change in more detail. A first draft will be published on our website in April 2021. Our approach SI aims to embed concern for future generations within the incentive structures and decision-making processes of the international public policy ecosystem, leveraging our personal connections to the United Nations[2] and European Union systems. We are building organizational capacity via three focus areas: Policy support: We develop training programs aiming to improve the collective capacity of policy networks[3] to make sense of tail risks, the abundance of information, competing objectives, complexity and uncertainty in a timely manner. Field-building: We strengthen research coordination and policy decisions by building a Geneva-based community of longtermist international civil servants and researchers to share knowledge and exchange strategic insights. Research: We seek to understand and improve long-term policymaking by synthesising research, formalizing system dynamics and empirically testing tools and hypotheses in policy contexts. Current projects include a table-top exercise on pandemic preparedness for the ecosystem of the UN Biological Weapons Convention; building a Geneva-based network of long-term focused international civil servants & GCR governance researchers; and writing working papers operationalizing what it might take for public policymaking to benefit the long-term future. See here fo...
In the previous episodes, we looked at the rise of patents and software and their impact on the nascent computer industry. But a copyright is a right. And that right can be given to others in whole or in part. We have all benefited from software where the right to copy was waved and it's shaped the computing industry as much, if not more, than proprietary software. The term Free and Open Source Software (FOSS for short) is a blanket term to describe software that's free and/or whose source code is distributed for varying degrees of tinkeration. It's a movement and a choice. Programmers can commercialize our software. But we can also distribute it free of copy protections. And there are about as many licenses as there are opinions about what is unique, types of software, underlying components, etc. But given that many choose to commercialize their work products, how did a movement arise that specifically didn't? The early computers were custom-built to perform various tasks. Then computers and software were bought as a bundle and organizations could edit the source code. But as operating systems and languages evolved and businesses wanted their own custom logic, a cottage industry for software started to emerge. We see this in every industry - as an innovation becomes more mainstream, the expectations and needs of customers progress at an accelerated rate. That evolution took about 20 years to happen following World War II and by 1969, the software industry had evolved to the point that IBM faced antitrust charges for bundling software with hardware. And after that, the world of software would never be the same. The knock-on effect was that in the 1970s, Bell Labs pushed away from MULTICS and developed Unix, which AT&T then gave away as compiled code to researchers. And so proprietary software was a growing industry, which AT&T began charging for commercial licenses as the bushy hair and sideburns of the 70s were traded for the yuppy culture of the 80s. In the meantime, software had become copyrightable due to the findings of CONTU and the codifying of the Copyright Act of 1976. Bill Gates sent his infamous “Open Letter to Hobbyists” in 1976 as well, defending the right to charge for software in an exploding hobbyist market. And then Apple v Franklin led to the ability to copyright compiled code in 1983. There was a growing divide between those who'd been accustomed to being able to copy software freely and edit source code and those who in an up-market sense just needed supported software that worked - and were willing to pay for it, seeing the benefits that automation was having on the capabilities to scale an organization. And yet there were plenty who considered copyright software immoral. One of the best remembered is Richard Stallman, or RMS for short. Steven Levy described Stallman as “The Last of the True Hackers” in his epic book “Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution.” In the book, he describes the MIT Stallman joined where there weren't passwords and we didn't yet pay for software and then goes through the emergence of the LISP language and the divide that formed between Richard Greenblatt, who wanted to keep The Hacker Ethic alive and those who wanted to commercialize LISP. The Hacker Ethic was born from the young MIT students who freely shared information and ideas with one another and help push forward computing in an era they thought was purer in a way, as though it hadn't yet been commercialized. The schism saw the death of the hacker culture and two projects came out of Stallman's technical work: emacs, which is a text editor that is still included freely in most modern Unix variants and the GNU project. Here's the thing, MIT was sitting on patents for things like core memory and thrived in part due to the commercialization or weaponization of the technology they were producing. The industry was maturing and since the days when kings granted patents, maturing technology would be commercialized using that system. And so Stallman's nostalgia gave us the GNU project, born from an idea that the industry moved faster in the days when information was freely shared and that knowledge was meant to be set free. For example, he wanted the source code for a printer driver so he could fix it and was told it was protected by an NDAQ and so couldn't have it. A couple of years later he announced GNU, a recursive acronym for GNU's Not Unix. The next year he built a compiler called GCC and the next year released the GNU Manifesto, launching the Free Software Foundation, often considered the charter of the free and open source software movement. Over the next few years as he worked on GNU, he found emacs had a license, GCC had a license, and the rising tide of free software was all distributed with unique licenses. And so the GNU General Public License was born in 1989 - allowing organizations and individuals to copy, distribute, and modify software covered under the license but with a small change, that if someone modified the source, they had to release that with any binaries they distributed as well. The University of California, Berkley had benefited from a lot of research grants over the years and many of their works could be put into the public domain. They had brought Unix in from Bell Labs in the 70s and Sun cofounder and Java author Bill Joy worked under professor Fabry, who brought Unix in. After working on a Pascal compiler that Unix coauthor Ken Thompson left for Berkeley, Joy and others started working on what would become BSD, not exactly a clone of Unix but with interchangeable parts. They bolted on the OSI model to get networking and through the 80s as Joy left for Sun and DEC got ahold of that source code there were variants and derivatives like FreeBSD, NetBSD, Darwin, and others. The licensing was pretty permissive and simple to understand: Copyright (c) . All rights reserved. Redistribution and use in source and binary forms are permitted provided that the above copyright notice and this paragraph are duplicated in all such forms and that any documentation, advertising materials, and other materials related to such distribution and use acknowledge that the software was developed by the . The name of the may not be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission. THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED ``AS IS AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. By 1990 the Board of Regents at Berkley accepted a four clause BSD license that spawned a class of licenses. While it's matured into other formats like a 0 clause license it's one of my favorites as it is truest to the FOSS cause. And the 90s gave us the Apache License, from the Apache Group, loosely based on the BSD License and then in 2004 leaning away from that with the release of the Apache License 2 that was more compatible with the GPL license. Given the modding nature of Apache they didn't require derivative works to also be open sourced but did require leaving the license in place for unmodified parts of the original work. GNU never really caught on as an OS in the mainstream, although a collection of tools did. The main reason the OS didn't go far is probably because Linus Torvalds started releasing prototypes of his Linux operating system in 1991. Torvalds used The GNU General Public License v2, or GPLv2 to license his kernel, having been inspired by a talk given by Stallman. GPL 2 had been released in 1991 and something else was happening as we turned into the 1990s: the Internet. Suddenly the software projects being worked on weren't just distributed on paper tape or floppy disks; they could be downloaded. The rise of Linux and Apache coincided and so many a web server and site ran that LAMP stack with MySQL and PHP added in there. All open source in varying flavors of what open source was at the time. And collaboration in the industry was at an all-time high. We got the rise of teams of developers who would edit and contribute to projects. One of these was a tool for another aspect of the Internet, email. It was called popclient, Here Eric S Raymond, or ESR for short, picked it up and renamed it to fetchmail, releasing it as an open source project. Raymond presented on his work at the Linux Congress in 1997, expanded that work into an essay and then the essay into “The Cathedral and the Bazaar” where bazaar is meant to be like an open market. That inspired many to open source their own works, including the Netscape team, which resulted in Mozilla and so Firefox - and another book called “Freeing the Source: The Story of Mozilla” from O'Reilly. By then, Tim O'Reilly was a huge proponent of this free or source code available type of software as it was known. And companies like VA Linux were growing fast. And many wanted to congeal around some common themes. So in 1998, Christine Peterson came up with the term “open source” in a meeting with Raymond, Todd Anderson, Larry Augustin, Sam Ockman, and Jon “Maddog” Hall, author of the first book I read on Linux. Free software it may or may not be but open source as a term quickly proliferated throughout the lands. By 1998 there was this funny little company called Tivo that was doing a public beta of a little box with a Linux kernel running on it that bootstrapped a pretty GUI to record TV shows on a hard drive on the box and play them back. You remember when we had to wait for a TV show, right? Or back when some super-fancy VCRs could record a show at a specific time to VHS (but mostly failed for one reason or another)? Well, Tivo meant to fix that. We did an episode on them a couple of years ago but we skipped the term Tivoization and the impact they had on GPL. As the 90s came to a close, VA Linux and Red Hat went through great IPOs, bringing about an era where open source could mean big business. And true to the cause, they shared enough stock with Linus Torvalds to make him a millionaire as well. And IBM pumped a billion dollars into open source, with Sun moving to open source openoffice.org. Now, what really happened there might be that by then Microsoft had become too big for anyone to effectively compete with and so they all tried to pivot around to find a niche, but it still benefited the world and open source in general. By Y2K there was a rapidly growing number of vendors out there putting Linux kernels onto embedded devices. TiVo happened to be one of the most visible. Some in the Linux community felt like they were being taken advantage of because suddenly you had a vendor making changes to the kernel but their changes only worked on their hardware and they blocked users from modifying the software. So The Free Software Foundation updated GPL, bundling in some other minor changes and we got the GNU General Public License (Version 3) in 2006. There was a lot more in GPL 3, given that so many organizations were involved in open source software by then. Here, the full license text and original copyright notice had to be included along with a statement of significant changes and making source code available with binaries. And commercial Unix variants struggled with SGI going bankrupt in 2006 and use of AIX and HP-UX Many of these open source projects flourished because of version control systems and the web. SourceForge was created by VA Software in 1999 and is a free service that can be used to host open source projects. Concurrent Versions System, or CVS had been written by Dick Grune back in 1986 and quickly became a popular way to have multiple developers work on projects, merging diffs of code repositories. That gave way to git in the hearts of many a programmer after Linus Torvalds wrote a new versioning system called git in 2005. GitHub came along in 2008 and was bought by Microsoft in 2018 for 2018. Seeing a need for people to ask questions about coding, Stack Overflow was created by Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky in 2008. Now, we could trade projects on one of the versioning tools, get help with projects or find smaller snippets of sample code on Stack Overflow, or even Google random things (and often find answers on Stack Overflow). And so social coding became a large part of many a programmers day. As did dependency management, given how many tools are used to compile a modern web app or app. I often wonder how much of the code in many of our favorite tools is actually original. Another thought is that in an industry dominated by white males, it's no surprise that we often gloss over previous contributions. It was actually Grace Hopper's A-2 compiler that was the first software that was released freely with source for all the world to adapt. Sure, you needed a UNIVAC to run it, and so it might fall into the mainframe era and with the emergence of minicomputers we got Digital Equipment's DECUS for sharing software, leading in part to the PDP-inspired need for source that Stallman was so adamant about. General Motors developed SHARE Operating System for the IBM 701 and made it available through the IBM user group called SHARE. The ARPAnet was free if you could get to it. TeX from Donald Knuth was free. The BASIC distribution from Dartmouth was academic and yet Microsoft sold it for up to $100,000 a license (see Commodore ). So it's no surprise that people avoided paying upstarts like Microsoft for their software or that it took until the late 70s to get copyright legislation and common law. But Hopper's contributions were kinda' like open source v1, the work from RMS to Linux was kinda' like open source v2, and once the term was coined and we got the rise of a name and more social coding platforms from SourceForge to git, we moved into a third version of the FOSS movement. Today, some tools are free, some are open source, some are free as in beer (as you find in many a gist), some are proprietary. All are valid. Today there are also about as many licenses as there are programmers putting software out there. And here's the thing, they're all valid. You see, every creator has the right to restrict the ability to copy their software. After all, it's their intellectual property. Anyone who chooses to charge for their software is well within their rights. Anyone choosing to eschew commercialization also has that right. And every derivative in between. I wouldn't judge anyone based on any model those choose. Just as those who distribute proprietary software shouldn't be judged for retaining their rights to do so. Why not just post things we want to make free? Patents, copyrights, and trademarks are all a part of intellectual property - but as developers of tools we also need to limit our liability as we're probably not out there buying large errors and omissions insurance policies for every script or project we make freely available. Also, we might want to limit the abuse of our marks. For example, Linus Torvalds monitors the use of the Linux mark through the Linux Mark Institute. Apparently some William Dell Croce Jr tried to register the Linux trademark in 1995 and Torvalds had to sue to get it back. He provides use of the mark using a free and perpetual global sublicense. Given that his wife won the Finnish karate championship six times I wouldn't be messing with his trademarks. Thank you to all the creators out there. Thank you for your contributions. And thank you for tuning in to this episode of the History of Computing Podcast. Have a great day.
In this unique conversation, Melissa Speck and Christine Peterson, faculty leads for IvyOnline, and I sit down to discuss IvyOnline, statewide courses, and academic freedom. It was a fun and challenging conversation as we tackle concepts that are nuanced and subtle. To view Ivy Tech's academic freedom statement, visit www.ivytech.edu/policies. The statement is at the top of the policy manual. Please continue to ask great questions about academic freedom to your statewide faculty leads and others. We'd love to reprise this episode again with more questions and more voices in the conversation. Get in Touch You can connect with Kara Monroe on Twitter @KNMTweets Reach out with show ideas, comments, or questions via Twitter or at our email address - ourcollegeyourvoices@ivytech.edu. Leave us a voice mail at 317-572-5049. Respond to the Call for Action, ask a question, give a shout-out to a colleague, or an episode suggestion. Check out show notes, listen to past episodes, and get instructions on how to access the podcast on our website at http://www.ivytech.edu/podcast.
In memory of the passing of George Peterson III, it's only right his episode from The Voice & Rizzles is re-uploaded to celebrate Georges's life. George tragically and suddenly passed away a few days away from the 2021 Mr. Olympia. He as many have said was and is one of the most humble, hard-working, amazing people that have graced this earth. And if you had the opportunity to get to know George personally, that was a blessing all on its own. We will constantly be reminded of George on a daily basis, and will continue to remember him at his best; a top 3 Olympia winner, Arnold Classic champion, and amazing soul. George is survived by his mother Christine Peterson; sisters: Kimberly Peterson and Reneé Peterson-McFadden.Share this episode with everyone so we can continue to remember the laughter and love he shared with all of us.Rest In Peace King (June 20, 1984 - October 18, 2021)
“The reality is some people would like to be uploaded and live in cyberspace.”Meatspace and cyberspace often conflict. But how can we make the best out of both of them?This episode features Christine Peterson, she is Co-founder and former President of Foresight Institute. She lectures and writes about nanotechnology, AI, and longevity. She advises the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, Global Healthspan Policy Institute, National Space Society, startup Ligandal, and the Voice & Exit conference. She coined the term ‘open source software.' She holds a bachelor's degree in chemistry from MIT.If you enjoy what we do please support us via Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/foresightinstitute. If you are interested in joining these meetings consider donating through our donation page: https://foresight.org/donate/ Music: I Knew a Guy by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Session Summary: Christine Peterson | Meatspace & Cyberspace: How Can We Get the Best of Both | VISION WEEKEND 2019 - Foresight InstituteThe Foresight Institute is a research organization and non-profit that supports the beneficial development of high-impact technologies. Since our founding in 1987 on a vision of guiding powerful technologies, we have continued to evolve into a many-armed organization that focuses on several fields of science and technology that are too ambitious for legacy institutions to support.Allison Duettmann is the president and CEO of Foresight Institute. She directs the Intelligent Cooperation, Molecular Machines, Biotech & Health Extension, Neurotech, and Space Programs, Fellowships, Prizes, and Tech Trees, and shares this work with the public. She founded Existentialhope.com, co-edited Superintelligence: Coordination & Strategy, co-authored Gaming the Future, and co-initiated The Longevity Prize. Apply to Foresight's virtual salons and in person workshops here!We are entirely funded by your donations. If you enjoy what we do please consider donating through our donation page.Visit our website for more content, or join us here:TwitterFacebookLinkedInEvery word ever spoken on this podcast is now AI-searchable using Fathom.fm, a search engine for podcasts. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
The megadrought in the West and High Plains is hurting big game like mule deer and cold-water fish species like trout and salmon. Scorching temps are evaporating moisture from browse and creating dry tinder for the wildfires that are growing bigger and more frequent. Meanwhile, drought is hitting the Dakotas hard and causing problems in the prairie pothole region. The real question: Is this the new normal? Produced and edited by Senior Deputy Editor Natalie Krebs. Reporting by contributor Christine Peterson and Hunting & Conservation Editor Andrew McKean.
In the spring semester of 2021 from April 7-16, the Strategy 5.2 Committee invited all employees throughout the state to participate in Ivy Tech's first statewide Idea Dash. The HMW question was “How might we improve brand advocacy for Ivy Tech among faculty and staff?”. The virtual sessions were scheduled over a two-week period for a duration of 2-3 hours and accommodated 20 participants per session. Findings from the extensive Ivy Tech branding study were shared with the participants through a video to offer insights into how the public perceives the value of an Ivy Tech education and where Ivy Tech can improve its efforts in recruiting and retaining students. Meet the Panel Dr. Allyn Decker, Vice Chancellor, Warsaw Trent Hawker, Assistant Director of Talent Development, Systems Office Justin Dammeier, Executive Director, Educational Technology Dr. Leighann Rechtin, Communication/General Studies Department Chair, Lawrenceburg Dr. Christine Peterson, IvyOnline Health Sciences Faculty Lead; Asst. Prof. Paramedic Science Shabbir Qutbuddin, Director of IT Sector Partnership, South Bend/Elkhart Get in Touch You can connect with Kara Monroe on Twitter @KNMTweets Reach out with show ideas, comments, or questions via Twitter or at our email address - ourcollegeyourvoices@ivytech.edu. Leave us a voice mail at 317-572-5049. Respond to the Call for Action, ask a question, give a shout-out to a colleague, or an episode suggestion. Check out show notes, listen to past episodes, and get instructions on how to access the podcast on our website at http://www.ivytech.edu/podcast.
Hunting regulations vary widely, and seemingly illogically, from state to state. This is partly because states have different habitats, species, and hunting traditions. But, it's also because hunters (and the general public) can't seem to agree on ethical hunting practices. This week, contributor Christine Peterson explains how she recently got into reporting on hunting ethics and regulations while writing a story about a persistence antelope hunter. The hunter, Mike Wolfe, was attempting to run down an antelope and shoot it with a traditional bow. Read that feature story here. And find Christine's report on differing hunting regulations here. Produced and edited by Senior Deputy Editor Natalie Krebs. Reporting by Christine Peterson. Music is by Loren Shane Humphrey (APM music). Clarification: Rifle hunters in Idaho are allowed to use scopes containing battery powered or tritium lighted reticles.
Three good decades ago, Richard Stallman founded the free software movement and gave it a name. Two good decades ago there was a fork and Eric S. Raymond, Bruce Perens and others founded the open source software movement, and neglected to tell us who gave it a name. (it was Christine Peterson[0]) Ever since then, the free software side of the two movements has been careful to guard the boundary between the two, see Richard Stallman's essay "Open Source Misses the Point".[1] But lately a lot of people have increasingly been feeling that free software misses the point. Ironically a lot of this has been coming from the open source side of things, as the official free software philosophy has been firmly anchored with Stallman, and he hasn't been interested in moving his philosophy in more inclusive directions. For sure, there are a lot of people in free software who have been wanting to go in this direction as well. I've been thinking of it as a "free software plus", as it builds on the free software philosophy, but adds aspects of social responsibility. The fact that Stallman was forced to resign from being Free Software Foundation president two years ago was a sign that people inside free software cared about more than just the code and what freedoms it gives the recipient. A month ago, if you are listening to this on April the 20th 2021, a manifesto was published called "Towards A Communal Software Movement", and I'll get to that in a minute. I mentioned the names of the drivers of the previous movements, but this author has said "I intentionally left authors' names out of it"[2], and I think that makes sense. Part of the problems with previous movements has been this Great Man of History fallacy, which may have kept them focused and on track, but it has also held them back. The movement is young and has already changed names once as I was writing about it. The manifesto is now "Towards A Cooperative Technology Movement", and I have updated the shownotes and my commentary to reflect that. https://misskey.de/notes/8k0igd5tcd I see the difference between free software and cooperative technology similarly as the difference between open source and free software. There are certainly people within open source and on the Open Source Initiative board that look further than just the license, and treat open source like just another brand name for free software. But at its core, the Open Source Definition is all about the licensing and that document is the shared common ground for all open source. People write code for different reasons and there's a license and contribution model that allow them to come together without those differences of purpose getting too much in the way. So if the software and the license is "what" we're building, the philosophical documents of free software provide the guidance on "why" we are building it: We want to get away from proprietary software, we want to control our own computing, we want the freedoms to use, learn, modify and share, etc. Free software is about our freedoms. So just like "free" is right there in the name, maybe the "community" in "communal software" or the "cooperative" in "cooperative technology" is all about the "who": Who gets the freedom, who has the influence, who is affected. And again, lots of people in free software do care about community principles beyond code, care about social responsibility, but the shared baseline is the care for formal, technical and individual user freedom: If you receive the code, you are allowed the technical rights to update the code, the code or license should not restrict your freedoms, you, the recipient of the software, the hacker, the code contributor. It says nothing about practical user freedom and it says nothing about the community beyond the immediate user. That was my commentary. Now let's read the manifesto. https://cooperativetechnology.codeberg.page/ Before I saw the manifesto, I had written a draft list of aspects beyond licensing and contribution that determine the social good of your project: https://libranet.de/display/0b6b25a8-3060-61f6-28df-cae554943983 The conversations that led directly to the creation of the manifesto: https://social.polymerwitch.com/@polymerwitch/105934078911643041 https://fosstodon.org/@be/105952735879246194 [0] https://opensource.com/article/18/2/coining-term-open-source-software [1] https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.en.html [2] https://fosstodon.org/@be/105952960559032774 Towards A Cooperative Technology Movement In response to the surprise, undemocratic reinstatement of Richard Stallman to the board of directors of the Free Software Foundation after his resignation in September 2019, the Free and Open Source Software movement is in the midst of a reckoning. The authors of this document recognize and honor the contributions Richard Stallman has made to this movement while unequivocally condemning his harmful behavior which has pushed many capable, dedicated people away from the movement. Regardless of what happens in the Free Software Foundation, we believe it is time to reflect on the shortcomings of our advocacy so we can grow into a more effective and inclusive movement for justice. Towards this end, we believe the movement will benefit from new terminology to describe what we do and what we aim for. Richard Stallman authored the free software definition in 1986. This term has always created difficulties communicating the ideas behind it because of the different meanings of the word "free" in English. Moreover, it is not the freedom of machines we are concerned with, but the freedom of humans. In response to this and other issues, in 1998, the term open source was promoted using an adapted version of the Debian Free Software Guidelines. The history of computing in the past 23 years have validated critiques that the term "open source" is insufficient for communicating the values behind it. The term "open source" and the ecosystem of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) is today used by powerful companies, governments, and other institutions to harm people on enormous scales through surveillance and violence. These institutions use FOSS to minimize economic costs by benefitting from decades of work done by others, much of which was done by unpaid volunteers motivated by curiosity, passion, and the ideals of the FOSS movement. We believe a significant reason for the failures of both "free software" and "open source" to prevent this cooptation is that the men who coined and initially promoted these terms did not and do not critique capitalism. Richard Stallman has generally dodged the question of whether free software is opposed to capitalism. In the historical context of the United States in the 1980s, that may have been a wise decision. But that was then, and now it is 2021. The promoters of "open source" emphasize its compatibility with capitalism and go out of their way to distance "open source" from critiques of capitalism. We believe we need to build on the FOSS movement with an explicitly anticapitalist political movement which proactively collaborates with other movements for justice. We propose the term "cooperative technology" for this movement. By "cooperative technology", we mean technology that is constructed by and for the people whose lives are affected by its use. While this builds on the Free and Open Source Software movement, we aim to apply the same principles to hardware as well, although the criteria by which we evaluate hardware and software will of course not be identical. It is not sufficient to narrowly focus on the people who directly interact with computers. Cooperative software which is run on a server should not be controlled solely by the administrator of the server, but also by the people who interact with the server over a network. Similarly, the data generated by the technology and the data which it requires to function should be in the control of the people who are affected by the technology. Cooperative software that uses cameras should not be controlled solely by the people who own the cameras, but also the people who are observed by the cameras. Cooperative electronic medical record systems should not be designed for the interests of insurance companies or hospital administrators, but for the interests of patients and the clinicians who directly use it. We aim for a world in which all technology is cooperative technology and recognize that any amount of proprietary technology is in conflict with this goal. As an anticapitalist movement, we recognize that any institution which motivates people to put money, power, or self-interest above the welfare of humans is in conflict with our goals. Corporations are beholden to their shareholders who can hold the corporation legally liable for spending money in a way that is not intended to further enrich the shareholders. Other capitalist forms of enterprise have similar problems, incentivizing the profit of an elite few over the impact their activities have on others. We are not opposed to exchanges of money being involved in the creation or distribution of software or hardware. However, we should carefully consider the motivational structures of the institutions which fund technology development. Who benefits from the technology and who determines the priorities of its development and design? These are questions we ask about technology whether money is involved or not. It is in our interest to use safeguards to ensure that technology always remains controlled by the community which develops and uses it. Copyleft is one such safeguard, but it is insufficient on its own to prevent cooptation of our movement. Any cooperative technology project that receives funding from a for-profit enterprise must institute governance structures which prioritize community interests over profit in case there is a conflict between the two. We oppose business models which are in conflict with community interests such as "open core"/proprietary relicensing. Similarly, we are opposed to authoritarian and hierarchical governance structures of technology projects such as "benevolent dictators for life". Cooperative technology is developed democratically; no single individual should have ultimate authority in cooperative projects. While we recognize the need for leadership and private communication, discussions regarding cooperative technology should take place in public unless there is a specific reason for communications to be private. Organizations which advocate for cooperative technology should likewise operate democratically and transparently. We recognize that creating high quality technology requires much more than engineering skills. Cooperative technology is not only for people who have the skills of writing code (unless the software is for writing code such as a compiler) nor the skills to design hardware. Cooperative technology strives to be easy to use, including for people with disabilities, and acknowledges that this is best accomplished by continual dialog between engineers and users. Providing such feedback is a valuable way to contribute to the construction of cooperative technology without needing engineering skills. Ideally, the engineers of the technology should also be using it themselves. Moreover, there are many ways to contribute to cooperative technology without programming skills such as imagining ideas for new features, reporting bugs, writing documentation, graphic design, translation, promotion, and financial support. The free software movement has failed to create a world in which humans in technological societies can live without using proprietary software unless one chooses to live the ascetic lifestyle of Richard Stallman. Expecting people to not use any proprietary technology and judging people for not meeting this standard pushes people away from our movement. People who are coerced into using proprietary technology deserve our empathy and invitation into our movement, not condescension. Let us criticize institutions which pressure people into using proprietary technology, not the people who choose to use it. To that end, we strive to use cooperative technology tools as much as possible in our efforts to build cooperative technology. The purpose of this document is not to proclaim a legalistic set of criteria for determining what technology is cooperative and what technology is not. History has demonstrated that this is not an effective political tactic for the reasons explained above. The free software definition and the open source definition are useful criteria for evaluating copyright licenses for code, but an effective political movement cannot be so narrowly focused on legalistic and binary judgements of copyright licenses to judge whether certain technology aligns with our goals. We believe the focus of the cooperative technology movement should be on the practical impacts that the use of technology has on humans and the universe we inhabit. The scope of this extends beyond humans and must consider the environment around us. Moreover, we believe it is counterproductive to have a small self-appointed group of privileged men determine what our movement's terminology, goals, and tactics are. We encourage anyone interested in building a better world through technology to engage in discussions with your own communities about what you want "cooperative technology" to mean. While we agree with the Ethical Software Movement that we must resist when our efforts are coopted for unjust purposes, we reject putting restrictions on the ways people may use software through copyright licenses as a wise tactic for achieving our goals. The history of the Free and Open Source Software movement has shown that the proliferation of incompatible copyright licenses which prohibit software from being legally combined creates more obstacles than opportunities for our movement. Any new copyright licenses for use with cooperative software must be written with this consideration in mind to intentionally avoid fracturing the software ecosystem. Adopting incompatible copyright licenses for different software would make it easy for our adversaries to divide and suppress the movement. Language is constructed collectively and is always evolving. It is counterproductive to our movement to refuse to collaborate with people because they use the words "open source" or "free software" to describe their work. They may even disagree with the entire premise of this document. That does not mean we should not work together towards shared goals, but we should be conscious that our goals may not perfectly align and this may cause tension in our communities from time to time. We invite anyone to collaborate with us who is interested in building a better world and treats us and others in our communities with dignity and respect. This document is licensed under the CC0 license. Contributions are welcome on Codeberg. If you disagree with parts of this, feel free to fork it and say what you want to say.
The US House of Representatives prepares to pass President Biden's $1.9 trillion economic stimulus package to help provide support during the Covid-19 Pandemic, we speak to the Wall Street Journal's Christine Peterson about what new measures the bill includes. Plus Pokemon hits 25, we find out just how the creature collecting game has kept everyone catching 'em all for so long
Hear the story of how the United Way of Central Mass. got a $5M donation from famous billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott as part of a larger $4B giving effort, as told by the President and CEO of the United Way of Central Mass. Tim Garvin. Photo from Christine Peterson of the Telegram (T&G).
Christine Peterson Christine has been covering outdoors for the Casper (Wyo.) Star-Tribune and other publications for almost a decade. She makes her home in Wyoming with her husband and young daughter where they spend every available moment looking for the peace of wild things and wild places. Facebook Twitter Instagram The Outdoor Biz Podcast Please give us a rating and review HERE Show Notes Sponsors Eastern Mountain Sports Tee Public Things we talked about Casper Wyoming Casper Wyoming Star-Tribune Mentors Outdoor Writers Association of America (OWAA) Colleen Miniuk - Photographer and Author Matt Miller- editor of the Cool Green Science blog Kris Millgate Michael Furman Mark Freeman Christine's clients Cool Green Science blog Bugle, Rocky mountain foundations magazine Trout Unlimited Backcountry Journal Advice It's a tough one and, and you'll read about it and read about how it is. The media landscape is changing so much, but I also think that it's very possible, And this is going to be the sort of same cliched advice that you would give in most professions, but just get started. And that's something that I think just getting going is the biggest hurdle. The nice part about right now is that there is a media landscape where you can write things and put them out and have people read them. Like, start writing regular Facebook posts. Have a blog like Colleen, who we talked about a little bit earlier. She writes a weekly advice column on photography called dear bubbles, it's very popular. And she just started doing it right. And put it out on our network and people come to rely on it. I think that's something that people can do and they can do today. They could listen to this and then think, okay, darn it. I'm going to start posting pictures regularly, or I'm going to start writing these articles, and I'm gonna do it regularly and I'm gonna offer it up and then I'm gonna see where it goes. And then my only request is that when somebody starts, when publications approach you and want you to write for them, you being their listeners, don't do it for free. Show Banner "nature and everyone in it has a story if you listen" Favorite Gear Coleman two-burner stove Favorite Books Fishing Through the Apocalypse, by Matt Miller My Place Among Men, by Kris Millgate The Feather Thief by Kirk Wallace Johnson Connect with Christine Instagram: instagram.com/she.will.roam/ Twitter: @PetersonOutside Website: christine-peterson.com Email: petersonoutside@gmail.com Please subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or anywhere you get your podcasts Snippets 6:05- 6:50 Become an Outdoor Writer 28:30 - 30:10 Books 35:08 - 36:34 Gear 22:22 - 24:09 Advice
Future of FLOSS, open-source think tank, blockchain. Christine Peterson is a Cofounder, and Senior Fellow at Foresight Institute, a leading think tank, and public interest non-profit organization focused on emerging world-shaping technologies. Christine is also credited with coining the term 'Open Source Software'. Host Doc Searls and Simon Phipps discuss with Christine the start of the open-source movement and the future of the module of open source. Christine also expresses her concerns with Blockchain. Hosts: Doc Searls and Simon Phipps Guest: Christine Peterson Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email floss@twit.tv. Thanks to Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, web designer and musician, for our theme music. Sponsors: barracuda.com/floss privacy.com/floss
Future of FLOSS, open-source think tank, blockchain. Christine Peterson is a Cofounder, and Senior Fellow at Foresight Institute, a leading think tank, and public interest non-profit organization focused on emerging world-shaping technologies. Christine is also credited with coining the term 'Open Source Software'. Host Doc Searls and Simon Phipps discuss with Christine the start of the open-source movement and the future of the module of open source. Christine also expresses her concerns with Blockchain. Hosts: Doc Searls and Simon Phipps Guest: Christine Peterson Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email floss@twit.tv. Thanks to Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, web designer and musician, for our theme music. Sponsors: barracuda.com/floss privacy.com/floss
Future of FLOSS, open-source think tank, blockchain. Christine Peterson is a Cofounder, and Senior Fellow at Foresight Institute, a leading think tank, and public interest non-profit organization focused on emerging world-shaping technologies. Christine is also credited with coining the term 'Open Source Software'. Host Doc Searls and Simon Phipps discuss with Christine the start of the open-source movement and the future of the module of open source. Christine also expresses her concerns with Blockchain. Hosts: Doc Searls and Simon Phipps Guest: Christine Peterson Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email floss@twit.tv. Thanks to Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, web designer and musician, for our theme music. Sponsors: barracuda.com/floss privacy.com/floss
Future of FLOSS, open-source think tank, blockchain. Christine Peterson is a Cofounder, and Senior Fellow at Foresight Institute, a leading think tank, and public interest non-profit organization focused on emerging world-shaping technologies. Christine is also credited with coining the term 'Open Source Software'. Host Doc Searls and Simon Phipps discuss with Christine the start of the open-source movement and the future of the module of open source. Christine also expresses her concerns with Blockchain. Hosts: Doc Searls and Simon Phipps Guest: Christine Peterson Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email floss@twit.tv. Thanks to Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, web designer and musician, for our theme music. Sponsors: barracuda.com/floss privacy.com/floss
Future of FLOSS, open-source think tank, blockchain. Christine Peterson is a Cofounder, and Senior Fellow at Foresight Institute, a leading think tank, and public interest non-profit organization focused on emerging world-shaping technologies. Christine is also credited with coining the term 'Open Source Software'. Host Doc Searls and Simon Phipps discuss with Christine the start of the open-source movement and the future of the module of open source. Christine also expresses her concerns with Blockchain. Hosts: Doc Searls and Simon Phipps Guest: Christine Peterson Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email floss@twit.tv. Thanks to Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, web designer and musician, for our theme music. Sponsors: barracuda.com/floss privacy.com/floss
Future of FLOSS, open-source think tank, blockchain. Christine Peterson is a Cofounder, and Senior Fellow at Foresight Institute, a leading think tank, and public interest non-profit organization focused on emerging world-shaping technologies. Christine is also credited with coining the term 'Open Source Software'. Host Doc Searls and Simon Phipps discuss with Christine the start of the open-source movement and the future of the module of open source. Christine also expresses her concerns with Blockchain. Hosts: Doc Searls and Simon Phipps Guest: Christine Peterson Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email floss@twit.tv. Thanks to Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, web designer and musician, for our theme music. Sponsors: barracuda.com/floss privacy.com/floss
Future of FLOSS, open-source think tank, blockchain. Christine Peterson is a Cofounder, and Senior Fellow at Foresight Institute, a leading think tank, and public interest non-profit organization focused on emerging world-shaping technologies. Christine is also credited with coining the term 'Open Source Software'. Host Doc Searls and Simon Phipps discuss with Christine the start of the open-source movement and the future of the module of open source. Christine also expresses her concerns with Blockchain. Hosts: Doc Searls and Simon Phipps Guest: Christine Peterson Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email floss@twit.tv. Thanks to Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, web designer and musician, for our theme music. Sponsors: barracuda.com/floss privacy.com/floss
Future of FLOSS, open-source think tank, blockchain. Christine Peterson is a Cofounder, and Senior Fellow at Foresight Institute, a leading think tank, and public interest non-profit organization focused on emerging world-shaping technologies. Christine is also credited with coining the term 'Open Source Software'. Host Doc Searls and Simon Phipps discuss with Christine the start of the open-source movement and the future of the module of open source. Christine also expresses her concerns with Blockchain. Hosts: Doc Searls and Simon Phipps Guest: Christine Peterson Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email floss@twit.tv. Thanks to Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, web designer and musician, for our theme music. Sponsors: barracuda.com/floss privacy.com/floss
Award-winning outdoor journalist Christine Peterson joins the National Wildlife Federation Outdoors Podcast to discuss the role of conservation in outdoor media, her career as an award-winning outdoor writer, the Outdoor Writers Association of America, adventures with her family and the epic treks of her four-year-old daughter, becoming an adult-onset hunter, diversity in the outdoors, and some of the biggest conservation issues she's covered like predator management, invasive species, and climate change. The National Wildlife Federation Outdoors Podcast is sponsored by Hunt To Eat. Music provided by National Park Radio. Additional Resources Christine-Peterson.com: http://www.christine-peterson.com/ Outdoor Writers Association of America: https://www.owaa.org/ National Wildlife Federation Outdoors: www.nwf.org/outdoors Christine Peterson articles: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2018/07/can-grizzly-bears-survive-hunting-animals/ https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2020/07/yellowstone-wolves-reintroduction-helped-stabilize-ecosystem/ https://www.hcn.org/issues/51.18/hunting-faced-with-chronic-wasting-disease-whats-a-hunting-family-to-do https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2019/06/how-to-eradicate-yellowstone-lake-trout/
Worcester Medical Director Dr. Michael Hirsh talked to us this morning about where we stand in terms of COVID-19, and what that means as we begin to open up the state on May 18th. Stay up to date with timely and medically accurate COVID information- ONLINE: www.worcesterma.gov/coronavirus PHONE: 508-799-1019 • Photo from Christine Peterson of the T&G • Interview originally aired on Monday, May 11th, 2020
As we continue to stay quarantined and try to flatten the curve, we know that the wave is going to hit, all we can do is be as prepared as possible. Mayor Joe Petty came on with us to talk about all the things that the City is doing to blunt this thing, and what steps we are taking to make sure everyone gets the care they need. Learn more at www.worcesterma.gov/coronavirus Because things are changing so rapidly, we are time-stamping our COVID-19 interviews. This conversation took place on Wednesday, April 1st, 2020. // Photo from Christine Peterson of the Telegram & Gazette
Wyoming native and star outdoor reporter, with nine years of writing the outdoors column for the Casper Star-Tribune, Christine Peterson has been immersed in Wyoming’s hunting and fishing, mountains, rivers, plains and wilderness in a way few people will ever match. She talks with Hal about that life – the deadlines, the adventures, the stress and the love of newspapers and reporting – and her decision to leave it behind after the birth of her daughter Miriam, to take up freelancing full time and own the freedom to focus on a new life as an outdoor mother and writer.
It's a jam-packed podcast as, first off, Victor Infante and Bill Shaner discuss Bill's "Most Worcester Moments" of 2019, and then Victor and photographer Christine Peterson talk about the epic photo shoot behind the "Favorite New England Albums of 2019."
We are happy to announce our newest session for The Library is Open Podcast! Today's session features an interview with Christine Peterson, Engagement and Emerging Technologies Coordinator at Amigos Library Services. Christine talks to us today about their involvement in the SimplyE project developed by the New York Public Library. SimplyE was developed as an open source project that allows libraries to provide a single platform for their ebook collections. Listen as Christine discusses hosting, marketing and their support of the SimplyE platform. About SimplyE SimplyE is The New York Public Library's free e-reader app that makes it easier than ever to borrow e-books. Developed by NYPL as an open source initiative, now other libraries can provide a consolidated and clear view of their e-book collections. Read more at: NYPL SimplyE SimplyE Open Reading Platform on GitHub: An Open Source Ebook platform to simplify finding and reading ebooks from libraries. About Amigos Library Services Amigos is a not-for-profit membership-based organization dedicated to serving libraries. They are one of the largest library service networks in the nation. Whether it's for continuing education, member discounts, or professional advice, they are there for their members. Amigos Library Services is a hosting provider for the SimplyE app, which combines titles from multiple ebook and audiobook providers into a single, easy-to-use list for your patrons. Browsing, searching, and downloading is simple, without the complication of Adobe IDs for your patrons. Read more about Amigos at: SimplyE About Christine Peterson, Engagement And Emerging Technologies Coordinator As the Engagement & Emerging Technologies Coordinator, Christine works with members to identify their needs and create services to assist them. She also follows technology trends to discover how Amigos can promote and support these project, possibly bringing them to our members as Amigos services. Currently, she guides the implementation of the SimplyE service, an open source app that brings multiple ebook feeds into a single, easy-to-use interface for patrons. She is also known for her technology training throughout the Southwest, making complicated topics easy for librarians to understand. Prior to joining Amigos, she was the Manager for Continuing Education & Consulting at the Texas State Library & Archives Commission, guiding and supporting libraries statewide. She also worked for both San Antonio College and the Florida Institute of Technology as their systems librarian, converting their library catalogs to automated systems.
Many technologies that we use today are the product of decades of research. Christine Peterson, Co-founder of the Foresight Institute and CEO at a Stealth company is researching technologies that are of fundamental importance to the human future. One of them is nanotechnology. Christine explained what nanotechnology is and challenges it can tackle in renewable energy, improving health and longevity, supplying clean water among others. We also talked about the misuses of nanotechnology and important things to have in place to prevent them. In 1998 Christine coined the term open source. She explained how that came to be and the impact it had in the software community.
Rebroadcast: this episode was originally released in October 2017. Take a trip to Silicon Valley in the 70s and 80s, when going to space sounded like a good way to get around environmental limits, people started cryogenically freezing themselves, and nanotechnology looked like it might revolutionise industry – or turn us all into grey goo. In this episode of the 80,000 Hours Podcast, Christine Peterson takes us back to her youth in the Bay Area, the ideas she encountered there, and what the dreamers she met did as they grew up. Links to learn more, episode summary & full transcript Today Christine helps runs the Foresight Institute, which fills a gap left by for-profit technology companies – predicting how new revolutionary technologies could go wrong, and ensuring we steer clear of the downsides. We also explore: * Whether the poor security of computer systems poses a catastrophic risk for the world. Could all our essential services be taken down at once? And if so, what can be done about it? * Can technology ‘move fast and break things’ without eventually breaking the world? Would it be better for technology to advance more quickly, or more slowly? * Will AIs designed for wide-scale automated hacking make computers more or less secure? * Would it be good to radically extend human lifespan? Is it sensible to cryogenically freeze yourself in the hope of being resurrected in the future? * Could atomically precise manufacturing (nanotechnology) really work? Why was it initially so controversial and why did people stop worrying about it? * Should people who try to do good in their careers work long hours and take low salaries? Or should they take care of themselves first of all? * How she thinks the the effective altruism community resembles the scene she was involved with when she was wrong, and where it might be going wrong. Get this episode by subscribing to our podcast on the world’s most pressing problems and how to solve them: type '80,000 Hours' into your podcasting app. The 80,000 Hours Podcast is produced by Keiran Harris.
In their premiere episode, Chris and Serge jump into a variety of topics: Corporate control of Free Software, Time management systems, Free Software mobile devices and PDAs that ran GNU/Linux.Come with them in thier first journey into podcasting (and be forgiving)!Links to some of the things discussed in the showLinux Sucks Forever - The latest in the "Linux Sucks" videos talking about corporate control of Linux and Free Software in generalThe Halloween Documents - The documents describing Microsoft's strategy of "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish"Quality Standards, Service Orientation, and Power in Airbnb and Couchsurfing - Benjamin Mako Hill discussing CouchsurfingOn Usage of The Phrase "Open Source" - Bruce Perens describing the origins of Open SourceHow I coined the term 'open source' - Christine Peterson discusses how she invented the term 'Open Source'Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution - The book from the 1980s describing the origin of the Hacker movementF-Droid - A software repository of Free and Open Source Software for the Android platformReplicant - A 100% Free Software operating system for mobile phonesLineageOS - A Free and Open Source operating system for mobile devicesLibreM 5 - A new 100% Free Software, Privacy Oriented Mobile Phone coming soonOpenMoko - A project to create a Free mobile smartphone in/around 2007/2008 that never fully took offOrg Mode - A system for keeping track of everything in your life in plain text through EmacsOrgzly - An Org mode compatible editor for AndroidThe Hipster PDA - The Hipster PDATime Management for System Administrators - The book where Serge learned the Cycle system for time managamentRudel - Distributed real-time editing editing in Emacs; apparently supports the Gobby protocol and others (we haven't tried this ourselves!)The Agenda VR3 - The first Linux-based Personal Digital AssistantSharp Zaurus - A more capable Linux-based PDAEmacs appointment notifications via XMPP - A pretty good notification setup in case you can't project org-mode straight into your eyeballs
In their premiere episode, Chris and Serge jump into a variety of topics: Corporate control of Free Software, Time management systems, Free Software mobile devices and PDAs that ran GNU/Linux.Come with them in thier first journey into podcasting (and be forgiving)!Links to some of the things discussed in the showLinux Sucks Forever - The latest in the "Linux Sucks" videos talking about corporate control of Linux and Free Software in generalThe Halloween Documents - The documents describing Microsoft's strategy of "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish"Quality Standards, Service Orientation, and Power in Airbnb and Couchsurfing - Benjamin Mako Hill discussing CouchsurfingOn Usage of The Phrase "Open Source" - Bruce Perens describing the origins of Open SourceHow I coined the term 'open source' - Christine Peterson discusses how she invented the term 'Open Source'Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution - The book from the 1980s describing the origin of the Hacker movementF-Droid - A software repository of Free and Open Source Software for the Android platformReplicant - A 100% Free Software operating system for mobile phonesLineageOS - A Free and Open Source operating system for mobile devicesLibreM 5 - A new 100% Free Software, Privacy Oriented Mobile Phone coming soonOpenMoko - A project to create a Free mobile smartphone in/around 2007/2008 that never fully took offOrg Mode - A system for keeping track of everything in your life in plain text through EmacsOrgzly - An Org mode compatible editor for AndroidThe Hipster PDA - The Hipster PDATime Management for System Administrators - The book where Serge learned the Cycle system for time managamentRudel - Distributed real-time editing editing in Emacs; apparently supports the Gobby protocol and others (we haven't tried this ourselves!)The Agenda VR3 - The first Linux-based Personal Digital AssistantSharp Zaurus - A more capable Linux-based PDAEmacs appointment notifications via XMPP - A pretty good notification setup in case you can't project org-mode straight into your eyeballs
In their premiere episode, Chris and Serge jump into a variety of topics: Corporate control of Free Software, Time management systems, Free Software mobile devices and PDAs that ran GNU/Linux.Come with them in thier first journey into podcasting (and be forgiving)!Links to some of the things discussed in the showLinux Sucks Forever - The latest in the "Linux Sucks" videos talking about corporate control of Linux and Free Software in generalThe Halloween Documents - The documents describing Microsoft's strategy of "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish"Quality Standards, Service Orientation, and Power in Airbnb and Couchsurfing - Benjamin Mako Hill discussing CouchsurfingOn Usage of The Phrase "Open Source" - Bruce Perens describing the origins of Open SourceHow I coined the term 'open source' - Christine Peterson discusses how she invented the term 'Open Source'Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution - The book from the 1980s describing the origin of the Hacker movementF-Droid - A software repository of Free and Open Source Software for the Android platformReplicant - A 100% Free Software operating system for mobile phonesLineageOS - A Free and Open Source operating system for mobile devicesLibreM 5 - A new 100% Free Software, Privacy Oriented Mobile Phone coming soonOpenMoko - A project to create a Free mobile smartphone in/around 2007/2008 that never fully took offOrg Mode - A system for keeping track of everything in your life in plain text through EmacsOrgzly - An Org mode compatible editor for AndroidThe Hipster PDA - The Hipster PDATime Management for System Administrators - The book where Serge learned the Cycle system for time managamentRudel - Distributed real-time editing editing in Emacs; apparently supports the Gobby protocol and others (we haven't tried this ourselves!)The Agenda VR3 - The first Linux-based Personal Digital AssistantSharp Zaurus - A more capable Linux-based PDAEmacs appointment notifications via XMPP - A pretty good notification setup in case you can't project org-mode straight into your eyeballs
We talk positive and negative visions of the future with the founder of the Foresight Institute, Christine Peterson. The Foresight Institute holds a conference looking forward to future technology and society: Vision Week, held December 2-3, 2017.
Phil, Stephen, and PJ welcome Christine Peterson and Allison Duettmann for a two-part discussion on what's new with the Foresight Institute and what's going to be happening at the upcoming Foresight Vision Weekend December 2-3. What Is the Vision Weekend? A member-gathering dedicated to taking stock of the most compelling ideas of today, turn them into coherent visions for a better future and get to work on them. Keynote panels will explore: Longevity: Reaching Escape Velocity Blockchains: Master Key To Unlock The Future? Intelligence: The Brain As Next Frontier? The Long-Term: So Much To Do, So Little Time In part two of our discussion, we discuss: Innovative ways to assess longevity Blockchain technologies beyond the crypto-currency hype Blockchain risks and opportunities SPECIAL OFFER: World Transformed listeners can get a 50% discount off the ticket price for the Vision Weekend (which also requires membership in the Foresight Institute -- you can join when you buy your ticket.) Just use the discount code transformed. About Our Guests: Christine Peterson writes, lectures, and briefs the media on world transforming technologies. She is the Co-Founder and former President of Foresight Institute, the leading nanotech public interest group. Allison Duettmann is the chair of the Foresight Institute’s Vision weekend. She also conducts research, authors reports, and hosts the invitational technical workshops and public events. WT 366-677
Phil, Stephen, and PJ welcome Christine Peterson and Allison Duettmann for a two-part discussion on what's new with the Foresight Institute and what's going to be happening at the upcoming Foresight Vision Weekend December 2-3. What Is the Vision Weekend? A member-gathering dedicated to taking stock of the most compelling ideas of today, turn them into coherent visions for a better future and get to work on them. Keynote panels will explore: Longevity: Reaching Escape Velocity Blockchains: Master Key To Unlock The Future? Intelligence: The Brain As Next Frontier? The Long-Term: So Much To Do, So Little Time In part one of our discussion, Allison explains why Existential Hope will be a major theme for the Vision Weekend. Plus Christine, Phil, and PJ reflect on the imact of past Foresight vision events SPECIAL OFFER: World Transformed listeners can get a 50% discount off the ticket price for the Vision Weekend (which also requires membership in the Foresight Institute -- you can join when you buy your ticket.) Just use the discount code transformed. About Our Guests: Christine Peterson writes, lectures, and briefs the media on world transforming technologies. She is the Co-Founder and former President of Foresight Institute, the leading nanotech public interest group. Allison Duettmann is the chair of the Foresight Institute’s Vision weekend. She also conducts research, authors reports, and hosts the invitational technical workshops and public events. WT 366-677
In this edition of Fast Forward, Christine Peterson, co-founder of the Foresight Institute, talks with our hosts Phil Bowermaster and Stephen Gordon about her ongoing work exploring and educating the public about coming powerful technologies, including nanotechnology and related technologies. Are we witnessing the dawn of a new industrial revolution? If so, how will it impact the economy, the environment, and our day-to-day lives? Topics Defining nanotechnologyThe end of the nanotechnology debateA new industrial revolution?Nanotechnology and space explorationNanotechnology and medicineThe relationship between nanotechnology, open source software, and artificial intelligenceThe Foresight Institute Vision Weekend About our guest Christine writes, lectures, and briefs the media on world transforming technologies. She is the Co-Founder and former President of Foresight Institute, the leading nanotech public interest group. Foresight educates the public, technical community, and policymakers on nanotechnology and its long-term effects. She serves on the Advisory Board of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, and has served on California's Blue Ribbon Task Force on Nanotechnology and the Editorial Advisory Board of NASA's Nanotech Briefs. She has directed numerous Foresight Conferences on Molecular Nanotechnology, organized Foresight Institute Feynman Prizes, and chaired Foresight Vision Weekends. Learn more About the Foresight Institute About the Foresight Vision Weekend Music: www.bensound.com FF 002-676
Take a trip to Silicon Valley in the 70s and 80s, when going to space sounded like a good way to get around environmental limits, people started cryogenically freezing themselves, and nanotechnology looked like it might revolutionise industry – or turn us all into grey goo. Full transcript, coaching application form, overview of the conversation, and extra resources to learn more: In this episode of the 80,000 Hours Podcast Christine Peterson takes us back to her youth in the Bay Area, the ideas she encountered there, and what the dreamers she met did as they grew up. We also discuss how she came up with the term ‘open source software’ (and how she had to get someone else to propose it). Today Christine helps runs the Foresight Institute, which fills a gap left by for-profit technology companies – predicting how new revolutionary technologies could go wrong, and ensuring we steer clear of the downsides. We dive into: * Whether the poor security of computer systems poses a catastrophic risk for the world. Could all our essential services be taken down at once? And if so, what can be done about it? * Can technology ‘move fast and break things’ without eventually breaking the world? Would it be better for technology to advance more quickly, or more slowly? * How Christine came up with the term ‘open source software’ (and why someone else had to propose it). * Will AIs designed for wide-scale automated hacking make computers more or less secure? * Would it be good to radically extend human lifespan? Is it sensible to cryogenically freeze yourself in the hope of being resurrected in the future? * Could atomically precise manufacturing (nanotechnology) really work? Why was it initially so controversial and why did people stop worrying about it? * Should people who try to do good in their careers work long hours and take low salaries? Or should they take care of themselves first of all? * How she thinks the the effective altruism community resembles the scene she was involved with when she was wrong, and where it might be going wrong. Get free, one-on-one career advice We’ve helped dozens of people compare between their options, get introductions, and jobs important for the the long-run future. If you want to work on any of the problems discussed in this episode, find out if our coaching can help you.
Phil, Stephen, and Michael D. welcome PJ Manney and Christine Peterson to discuss Convergence '08 an unconference that evolved from the Foresight Nanotech Institute's Topics for the unconference: nanotech, biotech, cogtech, and infotech. The gang brainstorms possible unconference topics: A discussion room in which participants stand up to speculate about how/when their own jobs will be made obsolete. Networking opportunities Fab lab printing of human organs The versatility of buckypaper Programmable matter Virology -- both fighting viruses and using viruses to our ends. [First aired November 2, 2008.]
Christine Peterson is cofounder and past president of Foresight institute, the leading nanotech public interest group. She writes, lectures, and briefs the media on coming powerful technologies, especially nanotechnology and life extension. Peterson holds a bachelor's degree in chemistry from MIT. Christine Peterson, future tech expert and board advisor for the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, sees into the future in a way that most cannot. In the constantly advancing world of technology and research, it is her job to look at what is happening and frame it in the larger concept of societal development, how it might affect humanity, and what it might mean for the human body itself. There are a lot of amazing technologies being developed that are under the radar that have the potential to drastically change the quality of life for humanity, within decades. Christine and I sit down to discuss everything from nanotechnology to cryogenics to finding a soulmate, all in the effort of getting the most out of your body, your health, and your life. Machines are getting smarter, and we are getting more informed on the decisions we are making that affect our body. Because of it, some of the breakthroughs are absolutely amazing. And listening in, you might just hear some speculations that may startle you - in a fantastic way. For instance, Christine paints a potential picture of what the future might hold that involves: · nanobots that make repairs to DNA on a cell-by-cell basis · the end of cancer - and all disease · a 10,000 year life span · finding a life partner through manipulation of chemical processes in the brain For complete shownotes and more, please head over to www.optimizedgeek.com/christinepeterson Get Optimized! Order a blood test and set up an appointment to go over what your deficiencies are. Check out examine.com to see what type of supplements might be best for you. Test your hormones to determine the source of sleep problems. LINKS & RESOURCES MENTIONED: BulletProof The Quantified Self SENS ALCOR MIRI (Machine Intelligence Research Institute) THANK YOU FOR LISTENING! As always, thank you for tuning in. Please feel free to drop by the website to contact me or leave a comment. If you enjoyed this episode, please share it! -Stephan STAY CONNECTED Reboot and Improve Your Life - Free Guide | Twitter | Facebook
Christine Peterson is not only the co-founder and past president of the Foresight Institute for Nanotechnology but also the person credited with coining the term open source software. More recently her interests have evolved to include longevity and life extension technologies and she is currently the CEO of Health Activator. During my Singularity 1 on 1 interview with […]
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