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James C. Spohrer is a computer scientist best known for having led the development of a new science of service… more

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Check out Stanislaw Lem's "The Cyberiad" - lots of fables of constructors who can build anything. Read it 50 years ago - thought it good. Re-reading it now - Lem was a time traveler - great stuff.
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Bend in the road
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Looks good. I need to stop by.
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Thanks for the excellent town hall meet

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Homestead Avenue 2
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Gunsmoke “The photographer”
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Homestead A enue
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Here is the photo with my mentor!
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New notions of infinity challenge a plan to define the mathematical universe: "Is Mathematics Mostly Chaos or Mostly Order?" @quantamagazine.bsky.social
(Plus- John Allen Paulos @ja-paulos.bsky.social)

Get down with Godel: roughlydaily.com/2025/07/04/a...
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Wilder Ranch near Santa Cruz

by Jim Spohrer

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Coastal fog - in retreat.
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Thanks Sam Arbesman for sending me a copy!
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Cowell-Purisma Coastal Trail
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From Nichols Kristoff on NYT

www.aeinstein.org/198-methods-...
198 Methods of Nonviolent Action — AEI/ Empowering Humankind
www.aeinstein.org
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by Jim Spohrer

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Samuel Arbesman’s recent book looks great!
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Carl Sagan: Goal For Human Species
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🌍 Learning for Sustainability
I post on systems thinking, facilitation, co-design & evaluation — grounded in practice and shared learning.

📄 Worth revisiting: Systems thinking and systemic design: working with complexity
🔗 learningforsustainability.net/post/systems...

🧪 #LfSinsights
Systems thinking and systemic design: working with complexity - learningforsustainability.net
Systems design explained, with key concepts and links to tools that support systems thinking, planning, and collaboration in complex contexts.
learningforsustainability.net
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Coyote Lake in the distance

by Jim Spohrer

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How fast is AI getting better at long tasks?
Seems to be doubling every 7 months
URL: metr.org/blog/2025-03...

Bottomline
AI is impressive, but imperfect - but it is getting better.
Measuring AI Ability to Complete Long Tasks
We propose measuring AI performance in terms of the *length* of tasks AI agents can complete. We show that this metric has been consistently exponentially increasing over the past 6 years, with a doub...
metr.org

by Jim Spohrer

spohrer.bsky.social
AI is not very good at:
Truth - it makes many mistakes
Properly citing sources
Long complex tasks - it gets lost in the weeds

by Jim Spohrer

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AI is very good at:
24x7 access
Fast response
Summarization
Point-of-views
All languages
Generating multiple-choice questions for learning
Generating explanations of wrong answers for teacher guides
Generating python code

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Orion over Apple spaceship
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Neighbors napping
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Blue sky
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Delighted this arrived today!
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Above the clouds
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Oak tree
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New Year 2025

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rodneyabrooks.bsky.social
Every Jan 1 I post a scorecard on predictions I made, with dates, on Jan 1, 2018 on cars (self-driving), robots, AI, & ML, and on human spaceflight. Besides telling which turned out right and which wrong in the last year I also talk a lot of smack about these topics. rodneybrooks.com/predictions-...
Predictions Scorecard, 2025 January 01 – Rodney Brooks
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Distant storm
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