Tag: Technology — 16 posts
Engineering Escape Velocity - A 5 year Plan for Europe
This three-part Reckoning series began with a question about what China’s history, including its 19th-century failures and its 20th century successes, can teach Europe about its 21st-century moment of crisis. China failed to adapt to geopolitical changes in the 19th century and that mistake gave rise to a century of humiliation. China learned from that failure and is now a superpower.
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The Stackelberg Trap and how Europe must deal with the American criminal enterprise, China & Russia
Continuing the series:
" It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change."
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Part 1: The Search for a Stable Orbit and the Mathematics of Human Survival
The fourth article in the European Reckoning series. Following on from:
The Rape of Europa: Sovereignty, Security & The Ethical Tech Opportunity
The era of American security guarantees, which formed the bedrock of European stability since WW2, has transitioned into a “three-body problem” of unstable unpredictable gravitational interactions between Washington, Beijing, and Brussels. The war in Ukraine has accelerated Russian decline and it has been drawn closer to the Chinese geopolitical mass.
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[code] Are Large Language Models anti-poets? [/code]
If great craft in poetry was predicated on plausibility, LLMs would outshine most humans. However, to be better at poetry, LLMs would need to be programmed with rewards for useful unusualness - for finding unlikely pathways across the linguistic landscape. They would need to understand the value of friction, the feeling a poet gets when something unresolved works its way through and out of the subconscious demanding attention and exploration.
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“you cannot step into the same river, for fresh waters are ever flowing"1
Entropy is a fundamental concept representing change and flow in the universe. It reflects the transformation of usable energy and the complexity of information uncertainty navigated by life-forms.
In a recent article on inequality I incorporated the concept of entropy, so it seemed worthwhile explaining this much misunderstood concept:
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**" Blame it on the black star
Blame it on the falling sky
Blame it on the satellite **
….**this is killing me “**1
In Part 2 we looked at the many risks arising from Elon Musk’s ownership of the social media platform X, his development of Grok and Grokipedia and his promotion of disinformation and hate.
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In Part 1 we looked at how Musk takes all of the wrong lessons from the literary greats he apparently admires:
In this Part 2, we will examine the integrity of Musk’s views on free speech, and the engines of hate speech and disinformation he is developing.
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This article has been created using a new public AI Notebook:
Climate Change, Ecological Disaster and Civilisational Risks
The Notebook features a range of key scientific and cultural sources. The complexity of these issues and depth of the data lends itself to a publicly available database for people to conduct their own queries. I hope it is useful, particularly for a new generation more interested in solving the problems we face than getting rich whilst watching the world burn.
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This AI assisted blog synthesises some of the information contained within a public Google Notebook I created to triage submissions made to the Australian Select Committee on Information Integrity on Climate Change and Energy.
I was inspired by a comment of Dr Julia Steinberger (though she did not suggest using AI). I created the AI Notebook to help people (including students, journalists, scientists, policymakers) easily access and query the 227 submissions made to the Select Committee to help review how industry bodies and experts respond to the climate crisis and energy debate.
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I have created a public notebooklm as a resource to provide people with an accessible way to learn about AI as a technology and its ethical implications for humans. It includes most of the existing International AI laws, guidance and standards.
Aim: I hope it is a useful tool for analysts, technologists, AI developers, journalists, students, policymakers and anyone with a general interest in AI Law & Ethics.
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“I feel that the four big AI CEOs in the U.S. are modern-day prophets with four different versions of the Gospel ..telling the same basic story that this is so dangerous and so scary that I have to do it and nobody else.”1
(Max Tegmark)
We enter a new age of AI , with some American snake-oil salesmen promising AI (and themselves) as a saviour to solve all of our ills (a new era of ‘psychohistory’ - but more Wizard of Oz style). Thank goodness for Demis Hassabis.
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AI image
How to use AI positively (and carefully)
AI art
If you are a creative, don’t run away just yet!
Actual real art is being made using AI by people like Refik Anadol:
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Other than this introduction and the section below on the coming US Brain Drain, this article was prepared entirely by AI (Gemini Deep Research) without any edits by me. For an example of how these Reports look when they are created and their depth of research see:
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“As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this..is no democracy.”
(Abraham Lincoln) August 1, 1858
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AI generated podcast version:
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I have created an AI podcast version with additional information from my article ‘Direct Decentralised Democracy’:
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A kingfisher in a shaking flight over the river Berkel in Vreden / Germany / NRW, Joefrei
“…As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame;
As tumbled over rim in roundy wells
Stones ring; like each tucked string tells, each hung bell ’s
Bow swung finds tongue to fling out broad its name;
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