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When liberty is taken away by force it can be restored by force. When it is relinquished voluntarily by default, it can never be recovered. - Dorothy Thompson.
Category Archives: Politics
Preparing For the AI Future Should be Top of Your List!
Humans are creatures of habit, and you may not like this, but almost everything meaningful you do in your day to day life can be reduced to a series of prompts. Ditto for your work, especially if you are sat … Continue reading
Why Do We Still Pay For International Calls in 2025?
We live in an era where global communication is instant, continuous, and, thanks to apps like WhatsApp, Zoom and Messenger, usually completely free. Yes, technically the data is drawn down from your cellular data allowance, but free wi-fi is prevalent … Continue reading
Download My First Book Trilogy eBook For Free!
After finishing a painful two month round of editing of my first book series The Summer of Reasoning, based on some readers feedback (big thank you to Steve and Jen in the UK). I have cut out a few threads … Continue reading
Posted in AI, Books, Philosophy, Politics, Publishing, Science Fiction, Singularity, Speculation, The Future, The Summer of Reasoning, Uncategorized
Tagged Free eBook, Free ePub, the summer of reasoning
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Humanity Needs Aliens to Survive
We are a weird bunch. Does it really matter if somebody likes Android over iPhone, a Ford over a BMW, or even the Labour party over the Conservative party, considering none of these entities have any interest in you whatsoever … Continue reading
Posted in AI, Books, boz, Funny, Philosophy, Politics, Speculation, The Future
Tagged Aliens
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I’m an ASI. Ask Me Anything.
I apologise in advance for the click-bait title that got you here, yet this isn’t really click-bait, this underlines an important philosophical topic, one that many people are expecting to be reality soon. What questions will we ask of our … Continue reading
Posted in AI, AI Alignment, boz, End Game, Philosophy, Politics, Science Fiction, Singularity, Singularity, Speculation, The Future, The Phoney War, The Summer of Reasoning
Tagged AGI, AMA, ASI, Einstein, Reality Check, Sentient AI
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The Timeline for my First Book is Now Playing Out!
Just like it takes more and more energy to get closer to the speed of light, LLM looks to be currently trending a similar asymptote curve, requiring more and more compute and data to get to the maximum human level … Continue reading
Posted in AI, AI Alignment, Boz NZ, New Zealand, NZ, Politics, Singularity, Speculation, The Future
Tagged AGI, AI.2027, ASI, Daniel Kokotailo, Dwarkesh Patel, Intelligence Explosion, LLM, Scott Alexander, singularity, The Phoney War
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The Utopian and Dystopian Future of Vibe Coding.
Lets face it, being an expert in a particular programming language is coming to an end. In the past two months I have used my usual languages, C, SQL and Pascal, ones that I guess I am kind of “expert” … Continue reading
Posted in AI, AI Alignment, Efficiency, Electronics, Politics, Programming, Singularity, Singularity, Speculation, The Future, The Summer of Reasoning
Tagged Chip Printers, Future of Programming, Vibe Coding
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Please don’t read this if you are in the EU.
This site probably uses cookies and might store some information about you using them. I don’t really know and don’t really care, but if you are accessing it from Europe then it’s (and therefore I’m) likely not complying with EU … Continue reading
Posted in Bad Management, Boz NZ, Efficiency, Funny, Management, New Zealand, Politics, Speculation
Tagged Annoyances!, Cookies, GDPR, Safety, Security, Tongue-in-Cheek
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AI Can’t Take Over Soon Enough For Me.
Like many people I want to live a rich life, see the people around me happy, see humanities finest technical innovations, science, arts and sports thrive and mankind to somehow grow in this infinite universe we have. However, while I … Continue reading
Posted in AI, Bad Management, Books, Efficiency, End Game, Funny, Philosophy, Politics, Publishing, Science Fiction, Singularity, Singularity, Speculation, The Future, The Phoney War, The Summer of Reasoning
Tagged Tongue-in-Cheek
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Technology for Everyone.. Are You Sure?
Seriously! Does everyone at your company really need a computer or a mobile phone? Giving a computer or phone to any member of staff should always be thought through very carefully and is not the cut-and-dried decision you think it … Continue reading
Posted in Bad Management, Efficiency, Funny, IT Failures, Management, MRP, Office Politics, Other Programming, Politics, Project Management, Speculation, Uncategorized
Tagged cell-phones, Factory MRP, mobile platforms, Touchscreens, we-enabled
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Protecting your Work. Is it Even Worth The Effort?
Have you ever wondered if you own the Kindle eBook you bought? Well to cut a long story short, you don’t. With a normal eBook downloaded onto kindle or a book with DRM enabled from another eBook provider, you have … Continue reading
Posted in A Level of Consciousness, AI, Politics, Publishing
Tagged a level of consciousness, AI, DRM
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Poisoning the Brand!
Again, a short, and hopefully obvious post on why you should be very careful on what you blog about, and especially what you post on social media. Humans disagree on everything, sometimes fervently, and we have all seen or heard … Continue reading
Posted in Bad Management, Office Politics, Politics, Speculation
Tagged business, reputation, Social Media
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New Book – A Level of Consciousness
This is a thought provoking techno-thriller set in a world not unlike our own, and a woman who might have lived in it. It is a story about a witch who was not a witch, and a dragon that was … Continue reading
Posted in A Level of Consciousness, boz, Boz NZ, Politics, Publishing, Science Fiction, Speculation, The Future
Tagged a level of consciousness, boz, boz nz, ebook, epub, kindle, publisher, publishing
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