I really liked this talk as well. One part that I'm not sure I can fully agree with, though, is the idea of fully re-conceptualizing the self. It is possible to self-author, and partially change...but I have never heard of nor met anyone who just became a totally different person. I'm willing to concede that he may have been speaking hypothetically, or that maybe the idea of changing the self will be more accessible to AGI rather than for humanity.
If anybody that runs the website is here, may I suggest the ability to filter/sort the talks by language? Several of the talks are given in a language I'm not fluent in, and not all contain translations.
Addition: At least last year, they would often reupload videos with more languages later on. So if the talk you are interested in is not available in a language you speak, check back later.
As someone who went to CCC more than once, it's a very international conference. Everything official related to the conference is in English (or bilingual). Some talks are in German, but a large majority is in English (at least this is how I remember it). Anyway the point is that the organisers care about non- german speakers, so it's not an unreasonable request.
Though being able to filter out talks by language might still be useful, because there are enough non-German talks to make that worthwhile. (Also for people who only speak, say, German and Polish, and might not want to bother with the English talks.)
Talks, not articles, and it's a significant fraction (less than half, more than 10%, I'd guess). What doesn't help is that sometimes the title could be partially and completely in English even for talks that are in German (e.g. due to referencing technical terms or memes).
I know that I am old-fashioned, but I find it slightly disturbing that there is this outstanding talk showing vulnerabilities of the German power grid, and on the other side they seem to encourage exactly this kind of attacks on the power infrastructure in the opening ceremony ( https://media.ccc.de/v/38c3-opening-ceremony#t=1140 ).
What do you mean by "exactly these kinds of attacks"? Besides both mentioning power infrastructure, they are completely different things.
One is "hey, terrorists or enemy states could destroy our entire grid, we'd all be fucked if this happened, here's what needs to be done to protect ourselves", the other is "hey, these powerful groups are destroying the planet for personal gain, do you think it might be justified to sabotage the tools they use to do that?"
Mass outages harm the public, sabotaging fossil fuel infrastrusture protects it. Even if the methods of the grid talk were applicable to such sabotage, which they really aren't, I don't see how hosting both of these discussions is a bad thing.
Sabotaging any infrastracture harms people. Transitioning to clean energy can be (and is being) sped up by actual peaceful actions.
The second talk is especially ridiculous when the speaker suggests to sabotage datacenters, because they use a lot of resources. I guess it is part of the "degrowth" ideology, which I find deeply flawed.
> sabotaging fossil fuel infrastrusture protects it.
Oh, is it that simple, really? Or does it come with a lot of unintended consequences, fueling conflict and paving the way for a more suppressive government?
not really disturbing, but rather expected. The price of freedom is disobedience. Here a headline from 2018 by The Guardian about RisingUp and Extincion-Rebellion:
> 'We have a duty to act': hundreds ready to go to jail over climate crisis
This article is more than 6 years old
> Rowan Williams backs call for mass civil disobedience ‘to bypass the government’s inaction and defend life itself’
We have several groups like that in Germany, one of which became quite prominent for repeatedly blocking roads and other actions like that. On balance, they have probably done more harm than good by infuriating people and turning their attention away from the actual issue of climate change towards a discussion of the actions of these groups which have found very little support overall.
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This is saying the opposite?
I would guess it comes from not knowing what you want. If you don't go through the Uberman process, then you end up saying things like that.
Edit: the dubbing (like everything at the conference) is done by volunteers.
You can also contribute the language filtering yourself: https://github.com/voc/voctoweb
The team is working very hard to make this happen. Still, they are all volunteers.
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One is "hey, terrorists or enemy states could destroy our entire grid, we'd all be fucked if this happened, here's what needs to be done to protect ourselves", the other is "hey, these powerful groups are destroying the planet for personal gain, do you think it might be justified to sabotage the tools they use to do that?"
Mass outages harm the public, sabotaging fossil fuel infrastrusture protects it. Even if the methods of the grid talk were applicable to such sabotage, which they really aren't, I don't see how hosting both of these discussions is a bad thing.
The second talk is especially ridiculous when the speaker suggests to sabotage datacenters, because they use a lot of resources. I guess it is part of the "degrowth" ideology, which I find deeply flawed.
Oh, is it that simple, really? Or does it come with a lot of unintended consequences, fueling conflict and paving the way for a more suppressive government?
> 'We have a duty to act': hundreds ready to go to jail over climate crisis This article is more than 6 years old
> Rowan Williams backs call for mass civil disobedience ‘to bypass the government’s inaction and defend life itself’
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