Idea: doomsday clock that runs on kairos rather than chronos. Every tick-tock is a semantically marked up real-world event that is appended to a live global gaming card feed with some tags and computed metrics like threat points, time horizon, etc. Narrative dice.
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You could sell a subscription service where gamers could say: give me a random event of 1-6 threat points with tags {politics, Africa, climate change}. App shows such card and you use it in game play
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You’re right as far as it goes. But, there’s a deeper epistemological problem with the whole concept, which is that it claims the prevailing factors will keep prevailing. It is mild prophesy. Claiming to know the contents of future discoveries.
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That would have to be a permanent caveat, of course (which is why a clock, with its closed-loop imagery, is not a good scale here). But civilizational risks _compound_ for the most part, so having an open scale with predictable tipping points plus room for unknowns seems useful.
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Do it.
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What are your ideas?
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Yeah, but have you considered https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Most_Unusual_Camera …
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The BoAS includes climate change rather heavily, judging by their tweets.
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This would be an inmensely fun topic for an episode of
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How will you distinguish between fake and real signals in the era of fake news? I assume your models will need data that are human-produced and not just sensor data.
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