Technology
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I understand preppers now
A zombie apocalypse is unlikely, but not impossible. More likely to happen is that the world will fundamentally change for the commoner in a way we are already well aware of, but haven’t really thought enough about. Yes we could all die as the nuclear arsenals are foisted upon each other by the capitalist classes… Continue reading
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A common thread of focus
A thread of common financial focus runs though the documentaries I am about to write about. As always I have to point out that I do not have all the facts, what is said in this piece is just my thoughts on something that I came to mull after watching these and other documentaries that… Continue reading
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The graph for everything
I often repeat myself, I know this. I am going to return to a thing I have blah’d on about more than once. The reason is that I think (yes me, that ego), there is a lot more to it than initially surmised. In question we have my absolute fav, the Dunning-Kruger Effect, a scientific… Continue reading
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Rendered Useless
Some of the joy in life is provided by going forward in a meaningful way. It is a beautiful and worthwhile thing to grow as a person, to develop new skills, to have new conversations, to become a better person or operator of the tennis racket. What AI, big data, and bio-metric interventions (technologies built… Continue reading
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Watching
The panopticon was a theorised building that Jeremy Bentham came up with, its purpose was to watch without being watched. He imagined a structure designed so that any person within it could be observed at all times, that all persons would realise that this was so and therefore assume that they were always being watched,… Continue reading
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Inventing our own stupidity
I watch a lot of YouTube videos, not the ones with cats though, the ones where ideas are posted and discussed. I, like everyone else, form my ideas and thoughts as a mash-up of other people’s thoughts and output, that which I find compelling, not pleasing, compelling in an intellectual sense, then I perform a… Continue reading
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Fear the machine
Policeman John walks his beat, today accompanied by one of the new law enforcement units, it has no name but it is designated PO7-32-Z$. As they pass each house the unit accesses a report built from various dBs, a report that holds all the info on the assets and occupants. Suddenly in a flurry of… Continue reading
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Nothing random
I’m going to have a go at something tough, free will verses determinism.. Some folks think we make choices and decisions, some think we are merely reacting to stimulus and our choices are predictable, as if we would always do the thing we think we are choosing, and some believe that everything is determined because… Continue reading
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