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One Wish to Fix the World's Polycrisis
Original: Thought experiment: imagine you are granted 1 wish to solve the poly-crisis of global heating, collapse of biodiversity,
A mathematics researcher has posed a thought experiment asking what single wish people would make to resolve the world's overlapping crises: global heating, biodiversity collapse, societal polarization and risks from artificial intelligence. The constraint is that the wish must produce a new natural state of the world rather than a magical fix, forcing participants to choose one systemic change over another.
Why now: The framing invites people to weigh competing global crises against each other at a time when all of them dominate public debate.
Daniel Hoffmannglobal heatingbiodiversity collapseartificial intelligence
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- Thought experiment: imagine you are granted 1 wish to solve the poly-crisis of global heating, collapse of biodiversity, societal polarization, AI apocalypse, etc. Specifically, you can wish for attaining a new natural state of the world (i.e. no magical kingdom). What would be… · Daniel_Hoffmann@mathstodon.xyz
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