Anthropocene

This includes things like state propaganda uses, as well as what were likely to be terrorist groups that were trying to develop software for weapons design and development.

So very interesting to see all this malicious activity that Anthropocene said that they spotted.

And what's interesting here, Jake, is that this is kind of an argument for these closed models.

These are anthropics models, open AI models that live on their systems because that means that they can monitor for this type of activity.

Yeah.

she's so warm she's so smart she's not caring you know she's doing so much work around the brain and music and helping people and um she really knows her voice she picks really interesting projects and uh we did a several times a project together called the Anthropocene project which is all about the music and the natural world and environment and she's she's a quiet and powerful advocate for so many things alongside also her music making so she's i i i think the world of her

she's wonderful and i suspect also it seems to me the fact that she had uh and has had a very long career in television as well that she brings that to it so she's she's very conscious of what that will bring to the room and also that everybody knows her

absolutely she's and you know and then you know presidential potential inaugurations she sings, you know, any kind of key moments in American life, she's often there.

And then it also, the fact that that is the case also raises these questions of geological epoch.

Are we in a new, you know, Anthropocene epoch? When did that start, if we are? And then, ironically, all these people kind of have to say, well...

It's not really Anthropocene because it doesn't actually start with the advent of humanity.

It starts with the Industrial Revolution, is what they'll usually say, right? But really, it starts with capitalism.

And then people, the Marxists will say, well, it's the capitalist scene, but that's just kind of a...

The theory behind it is correct.

Yeah, it's something with capital, right? So what this guy half is saying is, OK, think of the biosphere, the hydrosphere, the cryosphere, all these big geospheric systems, and let's understand technology like that.

And it's very interesting because he's saying, let's understand technology like this, not humanity, right? And this is really why I pull in from this geomorphology thing rather than the Anthropocene kind of theorists, because he's really saying like, look, there's this other thing that's going on.

You're very welcome to add something.

Yeah, I mean, we know that we are in the age of Anthropocene.

That is very new to us.

And the climate change brings stress to the ecological system that we haven't seen.

Uh, I think alterhumanism is deeply grounded in southern Chile in this conservation frontier, but it also speaks to different regions around the globe.

Uh, as you know, the encounters between settler, between settler and, uh, Indigenous people and scientists, environmentalists is more and more frequent, uh, to be observed around the globe, and also it speaks to a much wider set of question about environmental crisis in the Anthropocene.

The conservation frontier can be a refuge, can be a site of green capital accumulation, uh, as many political scientists, uh, political economists, uh, write about, and a space for political and a collaborative experimentation at all once.

So looking beyond Chile, what can alterhumanism tells us about living with forest, human others, and non-human others amid climate and environmental crisis?

That's something that I've been thinking about for, for a long time, and I'm not sure I have a, a clear answer to it.

But I think one, one of the other inspiration for thinking about this idea is the, um, the different sources.

One, one source is, of course, the idea of the Anthropocene, and I think I like to take the Anthropocene as a, as a, as a source, a starting point in a reflection of, of the meaning of humanity.

So-- And I think the Anthropocene is not, it's not clear, it's ambiguous, and it's, it's, uh, that's exactly its value.