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Will AIs Take All Our Jobs and End Human History—or Not? Well, It’s Complicated…

Stephen Wolfram

And that term immediately brings to mind wages, economics, etc. And, yes, plenty of what people do (at least in the world as it is today) is driven by issues of economics. There are things we “just want to do”—as a “social matter”, for “entertainment”, for “personal satisfaction”, etc. We’ve been talking about “jobs”.

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Charting a Course for “Complexity”: Metamodeling, Ruliology and More

Stephen Wolfram

It seemed as if there was a vast new domain that had suddenly been made accessible to scientific exploration. And in it I could see so much great science that could be done, and so many wonderful opportunities for so many people. But it really wasn’t physics, or computer science, or math, or biology, or economics, or any known field.

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Urban farming for urban families

Futurum

Food insecurity is a longstanding global problem that is tied to political, economic and social inequalities and inequities. I am proud to be training a new generation of students who are laser-focused on social justice. If you have access to a garden or an allotment, grow your own food and share it with friends and family.

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How Did We Get Here? The Tangled History of the Second Law of Thermodynamics

Stephen Wolfram

There was one major exception, however, in 1738, when—as part of his eclectic mathematical career spanning probability theory, elasticity theory, biostatistics, economics and more— Daniel Bernoulli (1700–1782) published his book on hydrodynamics. Planck’s book came in a sense from the Clausius tradition.

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