Daniel Munro
@dkmunro
Director, Research & Innovation, Actua. Co-Director, Shift Insights. Senior Fellow, Munk School. Recovering political philosopher. MIT PhD. Innovation. Science policy. Ethics. Skills. Space. JAWS. Running. Chronic napping. 🇨🇦 www.shiftinsights.ca
In developing his “future-oriented ethics” Jonas suggests a few times that sci-fi/speculative fiction serves a critical role in extending our imagination about what is possible and what risks we face from new technologies, and implies that reading sci-fi through these lenses may be a moral duty.
Today’s lesson was a study in discipline. Not the most fun, but it’s important to get those fundamentals down.
Hey Ottawa. If you’re going to Bluesfest tonight, before you head over to see (probably) Angine de Poitrine, go check out my friend’s kid’s band, Thunder Queens. Would mean a lot to her, me and them. Also, they’re ridiculously good. On at 6. www.facebook.com/thunderqueen...
The C-Suite is already all about this. Canada’s Minister of AI in 2025: macleans.ca/technology-3...
Super solid day record shopping. Two albums that have an incalculable nostalgic hold on me.
You really have to crouch low to get through this at the ruins. I suppose you could crawl. But then you’d be crawling. And that’s a big commitment.
Been a couple years since I hiked to the Wilson Carbide ruins in Gatineau Park.
Snowbirds. Managed to catch them 6 times today. My heart broke a little on that last flyover. 🇨🇦
Free to home with questionable taste: 3 dozen black jelly beans. Because ew.
From what I gathered from my research, the chin strap is what helps you fly. So, yes. Definitely.
I shared a shortlist with my wife who was going book browsing and she decided on this for me. Thanks for the recommendation! Looking forward to it.
Highly recommended cleaning your closet. You might find your long lost favourite T.
Space PR: Look kids! Isn’t space just amazing? The stars, the planets, the views of Earth from the Moon. Wow! Space industry: “What’s the best way to monetize space energy?”
I knew this shirt combo had a middle aged dad in a cover band vibe when I put them on. Calculated risk. I did not expect an “Excuse me, do you work here?” in the comic book store vibe. Guess this is my comic book guy shirt combo now.
Has anyone written on the epistemic challenges of prediction market “events”? Reading some rules has me wondering how decisions can be made about events “happening” - especially given unreliability of some sources and general fragmentation of shared reality. Like, what do you do with this…