14 papers · ranked by Valyu relevance
Robert T. Nachtrieb, Steven J. Smith
At any sustained positive growth rate of energy demand, depletion of all terrestrial energy resources, including non-renewable deuterium fusion and renewable solar, occurs within a remarkably compressed period. The time to depletion is inversely proportional to the demand growth rate. Artificial Intelligence (AI) has…
Serguei Saavedra, Chengyi Long, Sonia Kéfi, Simon A. Levin + 3 more
Energy is the fundamental currency of life. Every organism requires a minimum intake to meet maintenance needs, and every trophic transfer dissipates part of the energy flow as heat. Classical theory has emphasized lower bounds on supply—the minimum resource level required for consumers to persist—yet the possible…
Mikko Mönkkönen, Clemens Blattert, Jérémy Cours, Rémi Duflot + 5 more
Planetary-level analyses indicate that we are exceeding the ecological limits. However, we need approaches to implement global sustainability frameworks regionally, using natural resources at levels that allow for their regeneration. We present a framework to define limits beyond which ecosystems are threatened to…
Patrik Baard, Anders Melin
In this paper, we apply the capabilities approach-with the addition of capability ceilings-to energy justice. We argue that, to ensure energy justice, energy policies and scenarios should consider enabling not only minimal capability thresholds but also maximum capability ceilings. It is permissible, perhaps even…
Audrey Babic, Isabelle Hansez
Despite significant promotion of diversity in companies, as well as legislation for equal opportunities for women and men, it must be noted that women still remain largely in the minority in decision-making positions. This observation reflects the phenomenon of the glass ceiling that constitutes vertical discrimination…
Chirag Dhara, Vandana Singh
A transformative approach to addressing complex social-environmental problems warrants reexamining our most fundamental assumptions about sustainability and progress, including the entrenched imperative for limitless economic growth. Our global resource footprint has grown in lock-step with GDP since the industrial…
Truong Xuan Khanh, Truong Quynh Hoa
We argue that a central limitation of contemporary AI systems lies not in capability per se, but in the premature fixation of their performance frontier. To address this issue, we introduce the concept of a Dynamic Intelligence Ceiling (DIC), defined as the highest level of effective intelligence attainable by a system…
Helen Dakin, Apostolos Tsiachristas
Cost-utility analysis may not be sufficient to support reimbursement decisions when the assessed health intervention requires a large proportion of the healthcare budget or when the monetary healthcare budget is not the only resource constraint. Such cases include joint replacement, coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)…
Dorian S Abbot, Anup Malani
Whether there are imminent physical limits to economic growth has been the focus of a long-standing debate, often (but not exclusively) pitting natural scientists against economists. One side of the debate posits that finite resources constrain human economic growth, the other that productivity improvements and…
Yaonan Jin, Pinyan Lu
| 1 | Introduction | | 1 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | | 1.1 | Technical overview | 3 | | 2 | | Structural Results | 12 | | | 2.1 | The forward direction: Bayesian Nash Equilibria | 13 | | | 2.2 | The inverse direction: Bid-to-value mappings | 17 | | | 2.3 | Reformulation for the Price of Anarchy problem | 24 | | 3 | |…
Roland W. Scholz, Friedrich W. Wellmer
There is increasing demand for science to contribute to solving societal problems (solutionism). Thereby, scientists may become normative activists for solving certain problems (advocacy). When doing this, they may insufficiently differentiate between scientific and political modes of reasoning and validation…
Maolin Yang, Zewei Chen, Xu Jiang, Nan Guan + 1 more
—Real-time scheduling and locking protocols are fundamental facilities to construct time-critical systems. For parallel real-time tasks, predictable locking protocols are required when concurrent sub-jobs mutually exclusive access to shared resources. This paper for the first time studies the distributed…
Ashish A. Malik, Jeremy Puissant, Tim Goodall, Steven D. Allison + 1 more
Resource acquisition and growth yield are fundamental traits of microorganisms that have consequences for ecosystem functioning. However, there is a lack of empirical observations linking these traits. Using a landscape-scale survey of temperate near-neutral pH soils, we show tradeoffs in key community-level parameters…
Levi Solomyak, Aviv Emanuel, Eran Eldar
The ability to determine how much the environment can be controlled through our actions has long been viewed as fundamental to adaptive behavior. While traditional accounts treat controllability as a fixed property of the environment, we argue that real-world controllability often depends on the effort, time and money…