In the Brave New World of technologically-facillitated hyper-profits and extravagant digital interconnectivity, most of us are just products and revenue sources. There are only so many seats on the corporate Lear Jet of extreme affluence. The true costs of all of this mad rush into information-abundance and wealth-generation are not being rationally assessed…
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Catastrophy Beyond Imagination
Some dawning realities are so vast that we do not even have words, let alone cognitive methods, to characterise or represent them. Climate Change is one of these realities.
A certain talent for inflammatory monosyllabic rhetoric and self-aggrandising histrionics might never have percolated up through the selection processes of liberal democracy had these qualities not already been a greater part and functional necessity of the political game…
Justice or fairness is not implicit in the world; we have to continuously define, cultivate and maintain it ourselves.
What does an attempt to generate an artificially intelligent Theory of Mind (of the existence of intentions, experiences and inference of probable future actions) in other entities reveal about our own existential circumstances and the fundamental uncertainties of our own experience ?
An epidemiological approach to violent crime ? It has proven to be a successful strategy and seems to me to be eminently sensible.
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Spontaneous Savant ?
Spontaneous savant syndrome…
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Revolutionary Fallacy ?
Sic semper tyrannis…
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Climate Change: Time is Running Out
This is how it starts: the heatwaves, the droughts, the fires, the extreme weather…
A national Executive unfurling inarticulate and episodic errors of judgement and failures of intelligence like ragged, torn and soiled toilet paper across history’s grand cartography…
I imagine that part of the beauty of an equation in physics lies in the sense in which it serves as an algorithmic information compression of the phenomena, system or relationship it describes…
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Student Debt: Paid Off
What else can this be but an embarrassment that a nation now hard-codes the impossibility of economic success into the methods required to obtain it ?
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