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The Dark Side of A I ?
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2025-05-23
Is A I all it's cracked up to be?
Certainly Martin Geddes believes it to be very useful in making sense of legal issues, where exhaustive searches of legal precedent (or even merely of the Statute Book!) are beyond the reach of most.
And yet ... on the other side, there are those who believe that an AI that eliminates the need for people to work in their traditional employment may not be in the interests of the population at large.
The Luddites thought similarly when factories introduced automation to handle jobs previously undertaken by humans, but if they had had their way, modern man would look and live much like pre-automation man and the labour-saving technology that today we take for granted would be unknown. Who now would willingly give up the plumbed-in washing machine for a tin tub and washboard?
Which is not to assert that automation at any price is invariably to be welcomed!
Clearly there are balances to be struck, nuances to be respected, and introduction of the new should be done in a way that optimises benefits whilst minimising losses and disruption.
Neil Oliver discusses the issue, with particular regard to the protection of copyrights - not to mention the rule of law and the conduct of government.
Clearly there is work to be done.
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Starkey on Starmer
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2025-05-22
David Starkey, historian, constitutional expert, and eloquent champion of the native English.
Here he discusses whether there is any substance at all underpinning Starmer's ever mutating rhetoric, and analyses how his superficiality has alienated almost everybody in the country.
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A Penetrating Glimpse of the Obvious?
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2025-05-22
It's not rocket science.
It is logic.
But politicians have proven over many years that they don't "do" logic.
So here, Sebastian Sas spells it out in uncompromising terms, in the vain hope that perhaps some of the said politicians might get at least part of the message. A small fraction would be nice, as it might indicate some residual ability that could be built on in the hope of making eventual progress.
Meanwhile, it is entertaining in a rather futile way, but it does make one wonder if perhaps an AI might make a better job of world leadership ..?
Or do they act so dumb in a desperate attempt to hide their true motivations?
"By their fruits shall ye know them" - Matthew 7:16
It's your view that counts.
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Overview post Putin-Trump Conversation
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2025-05-22
Harley Schlanger reviews the state of British/European geopolitics in the wake of the phone call.
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Green is Dead - Long Live Nuclear!
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2025-05-22
The EU has been flirting with nuclear power for years - but mighty Germany has been determinedly anti nuclear ever since the tsunami washed into Fukushima.
But since the Putin-Trump telephone call it seems that it has begun to dawn, even on German politicians, that the Dunkelflaute may not have what it takes to resurrect German industry in recreating the necessary armaments industries to face up to the challenge from the East.
All of which is a welcome if unexpected outbreak of good sense (even if for all the wrong reasons) since if both Germany and France support nuclear then that's probably enough to sway the rest of the EU block.
And it leaves Ed Milliband in an even more lonely outpost than he is already.
The savings will be huge, since if nuclear can replace windmills and sun-farms then reliable base-load will return to the grid and the immense costs of attempting to redesign the grid to operate reliably from multiple unreliable power sources strewn around the country wherever wind and planning systems permit, will be vastly reduced; as will the need to over-provide power sources to cover the gaps in the intermittent output of wind farms etc, as will the time required to redesign and re-engineer the grid for safe and reliable nuclear.
Nor will there be any need to replace traditional farms with power-farms and thereby alienate the farmers who feed us along with most of the population who value our traditional countryside.
It's a no-brainer to anybody, except apparently to a politician.
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