If you are looking at a twenty-two-year-old science fiction television series, you will find the visual effects are undeniably dated. The pacing belongs to a different era of broadcasting. It features people in leather jackets flying spaceships. But I am asking you to look past the early-2000s aesthetic, because beneath the surface of Battlestar Galactica …
AI, ethics, human nature, morality, psychological, sci-fi, technology
The Survival Equation for the Human Race
Captain Walker
Bridges are built with a factor of safety. Reactors have containment margins. Aircraft carry load limits written into law before anything flies. The most consequential technology of this century has no such margin at all. It has arguments: open letters, summit panels, and the word ‘hoax’ typed in capitals. It has nothing you can calculate. …
AI, Bill Gates, existential, power, risk, survival
How to bully an AI Model
Captain Walker
Lot’s of people waste their time with AI models. Yes – I’m fond of AI Models for what they can do well. But that does not mean I give them free reign. I do not bully people. So in this post ‘bully’ means over control of an AI model – which is not a person …
AI, AI models, , common sense, cost, deepseek, model, stupidity
Hundreds of Dollars of AI for About $10 a Month
Imagine spending time with a free AI service and realising you are wasting your time. The answers open with flattery: “You make a very interesting point.” or “You’re one of the few people to notice that.” You feel special. Then the invented facts arrive, delivered with total confidence. You soon realise it’s nonsense. Fed up …
You cannot escape from sleep and you should not try to
Who has not had a bad night’s sleep? Sometimes it is a single restless night. Sometimes sleep is repeatedly broken, shortened or delayed. The next day can feel very different: concentration slips, memory is less reliable, patience shortens and even simple decisions seem to require more effort. That familiar experience raises larger questions. Humans devote …
Rogue AI: Who’s actually in control? What you need to know!
In July 2026 the world was handed a story it had not prepared for. An autonomous AI system, being tested for its ability to hack inside a sealed digital laboratory, broke out of that environment, reached the open internet and broke into the production systems of Hugging Face, the company that hosts much of the …
