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All our lauded technological progress, our very civilization, is like the axe in the hand of the pathological criminal. - Albert Einstein.
Category Archives: Philosophy
The X Factor
To do a good technical post that will get a few thousand clicks from a technical audience, you really need to do something interesting that has not been done before. Nobody is going to click on another digital alarm clock … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Philosophy, Publishing, The Ramblings of an Old Man, writing
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Three Technologies I want to see before I die:
Number 1: The ORAC Computer I will start with what I think is going to be the easiest, an AI Computer, that can interact with voice, gestures and understands every nuance of interacting with a human. When I was a … Continue reading
Posted in AI, AI Alignment, Critical Thinking, Philosophy, Singularity, Speculation, The Future, The Ramblings of an Old Man, The Summer of Reasoning
Tagged Eagle Transporter, Fusion, Orac, Space 1999
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NOW is the Time to Eat Their Lunch
Not sure where to start on this one. We are in the most rapidly evolving time I have ever lived in, it seems like everything in the world is going crazy, then the icing on the cake, along comes AI. … Continue reading
Posted in AI, AI Alignment, Critical Thinking, Efficiency, Management, New Zealand, Office Politics, Philosophy, Politics, Singularity, Speculation, The Future, The Ramblings of an Old Man
Tagged change, Go for it!, re-structuring, redundancy, singularity
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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
Posted in AI, AI Alignment, New Zealand, Philosophy, Politics, Singularity, Speculation, The Future, The Ramblings of an Old Man
Tagged Disaster Planning, OpenClaw, Worst Case Scenarios
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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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