John Kurien
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What fish can teach us about AI: Reflections on reading ‘What a Fish Knows’ alongside ‘Scary Smart (opens the original)
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Having worked extensively with small-scale fishing communities around the world, I am acutely aware of fishers’ perspectives about the fish they harvest. They train themselves to perceive the way fish think, feel, and know. All this is key to a successful harvest. Fishers educated me to think about fish not merely as a natural resource. Knowing my interest in fishers and fish, a friend recently presented me with a book I would never otherwise have discovered – What a Fish Knows: The Inner Lives
India’s poorest will pay the most for ethanol-fuel push (opens the original)
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I first learned to think about ethanol as a fault line in conversations with my friend Joan Martinez Alier, a political ecologist. We met in 1987, drawn together by a shared question: how much energy really goes into producing our food once you count what nature and human labour truly cost? My own interest was in the energetics of marine fisheries: the input-output balance of energy in that world. Ethanol was one of the clearest examples Alier used of that balance being falsified elsewhere. Ener
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