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What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

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2025-02-04

It does seem that we live in a time of great peril to the ordinary man or woman on the Clapham Omnibus.

AI is on the threshold of becoming ubiquitous in many spheres, but in none more so than in matters of government.

The reason of course is that AI tends to be big complex and expensive, and especially reliant on Big Data, and Big Training. It is also largely beyond the reach of those without Big Wallets Big connections and the aforementioned Big Data. 

But it might bring the Big Statute Book within reach of Joe Citizen for specific queries.

So the main customers for AI will be Big Governments and their associated corporate contractors who will provide the interface between us and them. 

It is also currently not so easy to comprehend the veracity of its results for any given sphere of enquiry, whilst being well within the means of the usual corporate suspects to design and deploy - and their customer will not be "us", it will be "them".

Should we trust it? How can we trust it? Is it even practicable to challenge it1? Do we have any  protection at all?

What could possibly go wrong?

1 The EU has begun the process of legislating for it. But unless every AI can, together with its results, provide a supporting list of assumptions and facts upon which it relied in order to come to its conclusions, then the chances of challenging them remain miniscule.

 

The Time of Creative Destruction?

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2025-02-04

As always, this is not financial advice - nor is it party-political - but as usual it does throw some interesting observations on the intersection of politics and economics.

In fact I'm more than ever convinced that politics economics and psychology/psychopathy are just three sides of the same triangle. To learn any one or two without the other is simply to remain ignorant of the operation of the whole.

So today the good folk at Fortune and Freedom bring us not one, but two articles for the reading of one. If we have been following the scurrilous end of the social media channels, we may have been puzzled (especially if we've have been following the in-my-view highly dubious "Trump coin" caravan). So this may be of interest. And they don't come any more political than "the Donald".

Today we can see that we live in a time of the creative destruction of politics, economics, and psychopathy as currently practised ... and perhaps much more, since these in turn depend on our understanding of our historical development. Is our accepted history also bunk?

Whatever, our task is to prepare for the rebuilding that will follow. No pressure ...

Check it out.

 

Hot Air Meets Cold Air?

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2025-02-04

Can AI help us to understand why when politicians meet engineers, the result is not conducive to high standards and best practice?

It seems that it can, although progress may be dependent upon repeated questioning in order to tease out the full reasoning.

And of course, it depends which AI you choose to use. Fortunately, more AIs seem to be sprouting by the day, some with more specialist emphases. Time to dig in and get familiar?

Fulford White Dragon Report - Monday 3 February 2025

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2025-02-04

Amid all the turmoil unleashed by the first few days of the "Trump Presidency" (I use quotation marks because I still think that there are plenty of grounds for disbelieving appearances), Ben brings us his views about much of the consequences that we have already read elsewhere, interwoven with quite a bit of sauce that we probably have not seen elsewhere or perhaps suspected.

Of course he may just be making educated guesses or he may have sources of information, but this week's report has much to interest us either way.

This onion still has more layers to be exposed ... (modest subscription required for full access).

 

2025 - Year of Disclosure?

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2025-02-02

This is an introduction to a complex problem - amid nuances galore, we discover that the real history of religion and the religious is obscured by (a) the churches and (b) our own indoctrination in matters historical, archeaological, political, and "scientific".

And all this from a man of the Cloth! From somebody so immersed in the theology of the Anglican Church, I find this is a very hopeful sign that the wholly artificial separation between scientific belief and religious belief that has been tacitly imposed throughout my lifetime is going to be bridged, and quite possibly in our time.

After all, science is simply "knowing the truth" - the truth cannot logically be compartmentalised into  religious or scientific. Are not the religious dogmas simply the scientific axioms upon which the edifice of religious theology is founded?

Trigger warning - you may need to cope with the possible upending of much of your world-view, and you should be prepared to make up your own mind on the basis of this and other evidence that you may be able to find.

No need to panic - it's OK to put it into the "too difficult" box for now. But if there is truth in it, then you will have been at least partially mentally prepared for any incoming revelations (so stay ahead with freecitizen.uk!).

But it will still ultimately be up to you to decide what you do, what you may, and what you don't believe. Nobody can do that for you.

(39 minutes)

 

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NB: In many versions of the Bible, the word "Elohim" is routinely translated / interpreted as "God". In The Keys of the Kingdom Holy Bible, a recent translation based upon no particular variant of Christian dogma, this word is included "as is". In purely linguistic terms I'm told it is a plural form of a noun whose singular form is "El".  

Is there a link with Biblical names such as Angel, Abel, Samuel, Gabriel, Ezekiel, Michael, and no doubt others to numerous to repeat here? What would be the implications of such a link? I ask because I would quite like to know ...

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