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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: The Ramblings of an Old Man
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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Random Emails from Strangers are Still Nice to Get.
The one positive aspect from having a blog site, and being an author is the occasional person who decides to write you an email out of the blue. The first time it happened was back in 2017, I had written … Continue reading
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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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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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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