 What does Stephen think is the most important impact of trying to be more efficient in using resources?
It is bringing together a diverse community of some of the world's best researchers, philosophers, psychologists, lawyers and computer scientists. That means bringing together the technologists and the experts at developing these algorithms together with social scientists, philosophers, legal scholars and so forth. We want to create a space where many different disciplines can come together and develop a shared language, learn from each other’s approaches, and hopefully very quickly move to be able to actually develop new ideas, new conclusions, together. The current dominant political and economic ideologies, along with growing isolationist sentiment, runs contrary to the bipartisan, collaborative approaches needed to solve global issues like climate change. One of the problems with intervention, generally, is that we cannot control the course of events.
 The earth has been hurt by previous technological developments and it could be partly counteracted
 It is cheaper for any technology to operate if it has to rely on fewer resources  The resources availalbe on the Earth are finite and are running low enough to possibly impede technological progress  The earth has been hurt by previous technological developments and it could be partly counteracted  Having fewer cars on the road would mean a safer environment for most drivers