Last week, I made a video reaction to David Oks' viral Substack essay titled How Funerals Keep Africa Poor. I thought I might expand on my reaction a little further. So, enjoy this: https://t.co/vU89ij6hZ8
I’m collaborating with
@apartresearch to host a London hub for The Global South AI Safety hackathon. If you’re participating or interested in participating, come join us
@RamenClubHQ this Saturday, 20th June at 10AM
This kind of technology is what will separate “environmentalists” into people who actually care about the wellbeing of the Earth vs. people who just want to see human endeavors fail
autonomous robot driving through the field at night. no chemicals. no pesticides. just UV light killing pathogens and pests while everyone sleeps. this is @tricrobotics.
this is what chemical-free pest control looks like at scale.
He is kind of right. We lived as hunter-gatherers for the vast majority of our existence, until the Neolithic Revolution, of course. The population of a typical band of hunter-gatherers is somewhere between 20 and 40 people. You could go your entire life without meeting foreigners, except when you crossed path with warring tribes.
@paromxzy@Bond_not_james You didn’t respond to his point though. If juju is real, how come the white man came and plundered our land? How come they stole our idols and artifacts? Why couldn’t juju stop the white man when he came to enslave Africans?