Nerd Nite ChCh #33
Event description
Are you ready to get nerdy!?
Think TED talks with beer. Discovery Channel meets Drunk History.
Be there AND be square!
Speakers
"Fish are sucking up our emissions + your tiny ocean locals"
by Dr Joyce Yager
Marine animals are not just passive victims of climate change—they also play an active role in cleaning up our mess and sequestering carbon dioxide. Joyce will talk about how fish that live in the ocean twilight zone help remove carbon from the atmosphere and discuss fishing for them could mean for the carbon cycle. She’ll then seamlessly transition to part two: about Whakaraupō Lyttleton harbour’s tiny marine animals and how our actions on land impact them.
Joyce studied marine science, biology, and geology as an undergrad and got majorly bummed out about climate change. She did a PhD on climate change 200 million years ago—back when it wasn’t her fault. A few years and deep breaths later and she is back to working on the modern ocean, looking specifically at how marine life impacts ocean chemistry and vice versa. Joyce thinks there are plenty of people outside of formal science careers who want to do science and runs a project in Whakaraupō aimed at facilitating marine science participation for all.
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"Olympians: Using humanity to solve the AI control problem"
by Dan McKay
Dan explains the dangers of artificial superintelligence, why it might be safer to use a person as the foundation for a superintelligence, and what kind of person we'd want to pick.
Dan is a philosopher working at Canterbury University specializing in ethics, and he's pretty keen for humanity not to be wiped out by an artificial superintelligence
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by Angus McGregor
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