Full Name
George Benson
About George Benson
Curious, kind, and righteous.
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Vancouver, BC
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Curious, kind, and righteous.
BC continues to debate the opportunities, costs, and need for liquefied natural gas (LNG) as an export. Both the climate and economic benefits are overstated, and represent not only a serious risk, but also diversion of needed resources.
The number of Canadians living in raw, material deprivation appears to be decreasing as compared to spikes in the 1990s, but the ability of low-income Canadians to participate in the benefits of increased economic outputs in relative terms appears fairly flat. We need more solutions to address this.
AI companies are drawing on massive datasets to build large language models (LLM), often breaking various aspects of copyright law. We need new and better systems to share the value created from these kinds of systems.