Ada Lovelace devised the first program. Grace Hopper wrote the first complier. Margaret Hamilton started the field of software engineering. Women have always been and will always be essential to the advance of computing.https://twitter.com/louisemensch/status/1015775582263627776 …
A first step might be the creation of a global brain: a family of completely comprehensive and transparent model of climate, ecology, economy and politics on earth. I expect that it will meet much resistance but we cannot lie to ourselves any more.
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One would hope better visibility would help matters, but good dashboards are already here and not getting the attention they deserve eg vital signs of the planet: https://climate.nasa.gov/ A global brain needs a global conscience: where will/should its moral compass(es) come from?
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I don't think that moral values can be universal, they have to be negotiated. Factual models need to be the basis of that negotiation. It cannot work the other way around. At the moment, our preferences often lead to a severe publication bias that lets us to underestimate risks.
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