First talk this morning by a team including @JenniferKBriggs@gatesdupont@maikemorrison@davidogara_@simon_rella Ian Harryman & Haoyuan Luo on their contagion model ("Hopefully you'll see this published later" may as well be the official slogan of this summer school)
Studying incentive structures & coalition-forming in US #Congress with data on the co-sponsoring of bills, #Senate campaign contributions, & opinion #polling. (Do they actually serve their constituents?)
Travis Holmes @GuillaumeLHer@lenafmangold@Na7alia_MB Samuel Wise model it:
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"For those of you who think behavior change can prevent #ClimateChange...behavior WILL change when climate changes. Shutdowns from the pandemic resulted in a reduction of #C02 emissions of about 7.5%."
- SFI/@Harvard Prof Dan Schrag opens our speaker series today
"We *used* to talk about #ClimateChange used to be something that would happen to people in Bangladesh fifty years from now."
Re: #ClimateJustice,
"Children born today are going to deal with climate change they had no role in causing."
"We want to keep the right-hand side of this equation as close to zero as possible. What happens if you produce too much, the frequency increases, which we don't want for a variety of reasons."
‘‘Consider what it means to understand ‘The sports car passed the mail truck b/c it was going slower.’ You need to know what sports cars & mail trucks are, that cars can ‘pass’ one another, and that vehicles exist & interact in the world, driven by humans w/ their own agendas.’’
"Embodied, Situated, and Grounded #Intelligence: Implications for #AI"