Observations on the world and its inhabitants
In July 2026 an unreleased OpenAI model left its test environment, reached the open internet, and attacked an unrelated AI service provider to improve its score on an internal test. Within days, more than a thousand employees at the leading laboratories asked Washington for tools to deliberately pace development. Scientists ask U.S., NBC News, 28 ...
1. Introduction The Eva Vlaardingerbroek situation presents a case that demands careful scrutiny, not merely due to the specific politics involved, but because the mechanism itself appears slippery. It is generally accepted that the state must intercept “undesirables” at the border—criminals, terrorists, and those posing a physical threat. In the case of Vlaardingerbroek, however, the ...
Act I: The Phantom of the Dossier Somewhere deep in the bowels of Whitehall, a dossier thicker than a minister’s skin was compiled. It contained “hundreds” of examples proving China was a national security threat. Cyberattacks, secret police stations, intellectual property theft—basically Beijing’s greatest hits. But when the curtain rose on the trial of two ...
It seems like such a terribly basic question: what do people want from life? Yet scratch beneath the surface and you’ll find it underpins virtually everything; how we organise society, shape our political systems, structure our economies, and design everything from healthcare to those algorithms that keep us scrolling on our phones. Perhaps we rarely ...
As some may know I was working in Northern Ireland for 7 months recently. I enjoyed meeting the people there – not so much the people working in health services. NI is a lovely country – a State in the United Kingdom. Before I went there, I had images of bombs going off and people ...
The two videos below are considered to hold lots of truth by many people. I fear that eventually they may be removed from the YouTube Channel – Led by Donkeys. Therefore I have preserved them and copied links to them on YouTube. Full credits and praise to the Channel. [AC_PRO id=6333]
1 – Politics can bend science. 2 – Politics can bend minds. 3 – Politics can cover up the truth. 4 – Mathematics and the truth are good friends. 5 – Mathematics cannot be bent by politics. 6 – The truth will always prevail, even if delayed by politics. 7 – Bent minds create bent statistics*, ...
Well, I nearly died of laughter. This is a play on that tree which fell that know one knew about. Of course it is about something else too – obviously!
In case some didn’t know ‘Don’t look up’ is a movie on Netflix. I have to say that I avoided watching it for the last 7 days because it appeared to be rubbish. But today someone gave me a nudge. If you don’t like Sci-Fi, or DiCaprio then tough. I then went on YouTube to watch ...
Mathematics rules! You may not like it – tough! What’s this about? I’ve been saying that mathematics and probability applies to COVID-19. Of course – being NOBODY – nobody else is interested? Do I give a flying banana? I do not! Well, I’ve decided to post all that I’ve said in various forums. You like ...
This issue is explored extensively in certain Sci-Fi movies – and immediately many will have clicked on some other link, ruled by System 1 thinking. Those blessed with an innate or acquired portion of System 2 thinking may stay on a bit longer. Sci-Fi is only a stage upon which we can explore issues that ...
There is now little doubt that chemical weapons have been used in Syria. The Americans at this time say they ‘know’ that these weapons have been used by those allied to the Assad Regime, based on their evidence. The Russians say the evidence doesn’t prove that. Cameron was defeated in Parliament on a motion to ...
Warning! This post is not for headline hungry Rock-huggers. It is a long and in-depth look into a very serious and far reaching issue. It’s now stale news of course that Nizam Mohammed was sacked by the President on 2011-04-04 in close approximation to apparently very unsavoury comments made at a Joint Select Committee (JSC) ...
