Just joined up today. My name is Ben, 39 from the Hunter Valley in Australia - grew up and lived most of my life in Sydney a few hours away. I have a BA majoring in philosophy and political science and an honours in philosophy which focused on compelxity, coordination and reflection on the societal scale as envisaged by Jurgen Habermas and Nikals Luhmann. I also finished a Masters in Public Communication a couple of years ago.
My main reason for registering here is to discuss and learn about AI safety, which is what I wish to spend my life contributing t...
Not from Canada but you have a fascinating topic. Wish I could be there.
What I found most intriguing about r/place is that my intuitions were that at the end of the experiment a lot of the canvas would still be in flux or highly controversial / conflict prone. This was very wrong. If I recall, the majority of the map was reasonably settled by the end with many participants defending what had already been created from interference, along with some lingering pockets of dynamic change right up to the end. The emergence of large scale order was a surprise, f