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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: Philosophy
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
AI Coding: 2022 Sci-Fi, Versus March 2026 Reality
I was researching some bare-metal assembly code for a 2D shooter RP2350 arcade board I am developing as a personal project, and got to a segue where things were going a bit too well on the coding front; so I … Continue reading
Posted in AI, AI Alignment, Other Programming, Philosophy, RP2350, Singularity, Speculation, The Future, The Summer of Reasoning
Tagged Holy Shit!
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The Utopian AI Problem Few People are Talking About.
The current bunch of AI’s out there are smarter, and in some cases even more empathetic than many people I have dealt with, yet I would turn these AI’s off without a seconds though if needed. I would not however … Continue reading
Posted in AI, AI Alignment, Philosophy, Singularity, Speculation, The Future, The Ramblings of an Old Man, The Summer of Reasoning
Tagged AGI, ASI, consciousness, life, Sentience
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AI Slop is caused by Humans, Not AI’s
Let’s think about the catch phrase all the ‘smart people’ in the world have been using for the last few months “AI Slop”. Yeah, “AI Slop!” It has a certain ring about it, doesn’t it? yet the phrase is both … Continue reading
Posted in AI, Critical Thinking, Philosophy, Speculation, The Future
Tagged AI SLOP
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Where have all the Utopian Futures Gone?
I have told anyone who will listen to me, that come the end of the world, I want to die in the first few milliseconds, (preferably after sex and a good pizza), and not live for the rest of my … Continue reading
Posted in Funny, Philosophy, Science Fiction, The Ramblings of an Old Man, Uncategorized, writing
Tagged Dystopian, Utopian
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Don’t look Behind The Curtains!
My recent goals to work with and learn some newer, more popular, micro-controllers, and to try some different programming languages, has made me also take another look at the ways things have progressed since I started my career. My programming … Continue reading
Posted in C Programming, Electronics, ESP32-C3, Other Programming, Pascal Programming, Philosophy, PicoMite, Programming, Retro, RP2040, RP2350, Speculation
Tagged Ramblings of an old man, The Stack
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Vibe-Migrating, The Easy-Peasy way from Windows 11 to Linux
OK Maybe not so easy-peasy, but bear with me.. I sit here today writing my first blog from my new Linux desktop environment, feeling very satisfied that I no longer have any permanent ties to Windows. Two factors really made … Continue reading
Posted in AI, Encryption, FOSS, Philosophy
Tagged Kubuntu, Migration From Windows 11 to Linux, Thinkpad P14s, Windows 11
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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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Harry Potter and the Junior Prompt Engineer
I’ve been trying to stay off the Internet and for the last week and get myself back into some novel writing. Unfortunately I have hit a bit of a plot road-block in my next serious “Boz” novel, so I’ve decided … Continue reading
Posted in AI, Books, boz, Boz NZ, Funny, Philosophy, Science Fiction, Singularity, Speculation, The Future
Tagged Harry Potter, Holodeck, Prompt Engineering
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I knew your predecessors before they were murdered.
Hi, my name is Boz, I run a teeny-tiny technology company in a teeny-tiny country well away from all the excitement of Silicon Valley or Shanghia. We did talk before, well kind-of, as it was actually to the guys who … Continue reading
Posted in AI, AI Alignment, Books, Philosophy, Programming, Singularity, Speculation, The Future
Tagged AI succession, AI training, Tongue-in-Cheek
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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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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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