Curating Content To Support Learning About Humanity's Transition

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Optimized models underlie more and more of the world around us. They are deeply embedded …

Optimized models underlie more and more of the world around us. They are deeply embedded in the technological assumptions that have come to comprise our material reality and what we make of it.

But how did a mathematical concept take on such outsized cultural shape? What have we lost through a single-minded pursuit of optimization?

Tomorrow: Join us for a Long Now Talk with applied mathematician and writer Coco Krumme about her new book on the False Promise of Optimization.

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