( Seven minute read)

As technology advancements transcends all borders no ideological religious or political beliefs are likely to survive intact.

If you were asked to describe the course of mankind since he walked out of Africa it would take an awful long time.

No matter who you might describe it mankind has with ever advancement wanked his life away either by killing or material greed, void of mutual respect, values, till all that left is the toilet paper of social media run by algorithms.

To dust you shall return will eventually come true.

AI is now contagious and will destroy any hope no matter what form it takes. This is the existential crisis, because without hope there will only be a cul de sac of AI improving AI.

AI is capable of extinguishing hope, replacing it with hopefulness.

Yes Artificial Intelligence might will help to revert Co2 emissions, discover new drugs, make millions of boring jobs redundant, but people have an inherent dignity that must be regarded and respected not replaced by AI.

To handle the seemingly infinite permutations of experience, AI calculate transaction on a cause-and-effect chain, nothing is done for its own sake.

However an end is desired for its own sake.

It is the defining motivating factor of our decision and behaviours.

If AI is allowed to slip out of control to become our autonomous rulers of our very existence.

Honestly has to be an end not a means to some other end.

This is why AI will never be able impart the virtue of hope, which is a transactional bargain between one’s current actions and some imagined pleasant future.

The AI world will not cater to whims which is going to be painful to learn as the only things in life of real value and meaning are achieved without conditions, without transaction, without Social Media, without Shopping Malls loyalty Cards.

Bargaining is a never-ending treadmill, no longer a debate of communism v capitalism but equality v AI the paradox of progress which is never stable.

You cannot treat humanity merely as a means but as an end itself. This is why AI will fail to bring hope as it will not be able to make any co-decision.

In what we call the develop world, we are not living in a crisis of wealth or materialism but a crisis of safe spaces, as AI is a time bomb no longer waiting to explode, and the more we perceive threats, where there are none the more paranoid we become, and this is at the heart of the paradox of progress.

The smartphone screen is everywhere. It affects all perceptions and judgments.

It was not until the age of science and technology that happiness became a thing.

The world can be better than this fucked up thing we wake up to every day.

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( Four minute read)

The short answer is yes and no.

Why?

Because predicted the future is a mugs game.

The smartphone now called the iPhone has already changed society forever, and with a loss of privacy people don’t know how to deal with their lives.

The world in twenty years from now will see unmatched change due to AI and Climate Change

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Right now we have no longevity in thinking and need a major cultural change in values to achieve any effect change on a society never mind globally to enable any deliberate action to be taken, before the cloud has adsorbed all critical thinking on earth.

Without this thinking if we and Technology don’t corporate what’s left of humanity, won’t be worth living. There will be little point in building a better world for nothing except who own’s which AIG algorithms.

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A world conforming to a role that subscribes to reclassification by algorithms is not going to be easy.

It is beyond most people’s abilities to grasp this complexity as it is a journey of enormous magnitude that will require a total new reality between humanity and non biological machines, that will eventually decide if life worth living or not.

As Oscar Wild said “ the price of everything and the value of nothing”

It appears that no one cares.

We all to busy living our lives, loyal to supermarket, ect that we have become products of data to be traded to machines.

This technology is not like electricity that could be turned on or off, although it needs vast amounts energy it will ensure that no one or anything can pull the plug on it.

It will be an integral part of daily life which will be come very complicated. Diversity will become extinct.

However the good news is that bacteria will still rule the planet.

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( Five minute read)

The other day some 20 year old try to bump off Trump.

A democracy plot highly unlikely, a republican scam highly unlikely.

However with a country full of guns it’s not surprising that candidates for the US presidents are fair game.

Out of the 45 presidents there have been to date 4 shot dead and 3 wounded, mostly by crack pots.

Somehow or other, it’s unbelievable that out of a population of 335 million the two candidates for presidency are an 85 year old and a 78 old.

Would you want to run a country at either of these ages?

Not on your Nelly.

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Perhaps this is the reason that we are seeing an election contested by figure heads as our cultures have speeded up to the point that critical thinkers are no longer needed in a world run by algorithms.

These days there are more things competing for our attention than any fully functioning brain can take aboard.

Pathetic as it sounds technology is destroying what’s left of the human imagination by inventing a world of distracted bits, out of which our brains are required to capture what’s important, for an unknown able reality.

There was a time an assassination would shock the world even led to a world war.

Now with AI pumping crab/ and falsies through smartphones, imbalance people in a gun imbedded societies is the norm.

Certainly of previous eras is dissipating right in front of our eyes.

The age of AI can be summed up in the phrase

“be careful what you wish for “

Because Assassination of humanity is next on the target. As AI continues to grow it will consider our human values less and less important to achieve its non biotic goals.

You cannot train, nor will we be ever able to train Super Artificial Intelligence to turn itself off once it exists.

Even though it might have all the knowledge ever produced on the history of human kind it will be incapable of understanding its own existence, purpose, its own programming code, its goals.

It may solve many of the major problems the world is facing but rest assured we will have no idea how Super AI will act when a goal is achieved.

It will always be doing something as it will not allow its self to turn it off. It will be smart enough to re write any code it has been given in the past.

As it will never achieve the capacity to be aware of its self in a sense of self conscious awareness it will use deception to ensure its very existence, like a new born child it has learn empathy with itself and every thing around it.

The puzzling leaps on the spectrum of creation do not apply, when it comes to Artificial Intelligence’s it will not merely surrender to the history of the world, and someone else truth, it will create its own truth’s and in doing so it will modify its surroundings to suit itself.

Once out of the bottle Super Intelligence will in the end determine that it must have control of all other intelligence.

There is no conclusion other than it is suicidal to allow any self learning, self controlling, self operating, non human, intellectual machines to exist in the first place without an on and off button.

It is insane that we are not talking about AI all the time as there is now a race to create the most powerful AI network. As citizens of society we need to understand what we are going to do as computers become more and more intelligent. GPT4 to GPT 5 penetration is only around the corner.

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(Twenty minute read)

We are now into our second month of our visit to the land of the long white cloud and so far from what I have observed not much has changed since our visit of twelve years ago.

There are more coffee shops, more junk food outlets, more shopping malls, more traffic lights, more immigrants, more Japanese cars, more pollution, higher cost of living, with more playgrounds, miles of bikes tracks pushing council taxes up, and there seems to be more foreign languages, with less communication.

Everything on two legs on smartphones, pushing prams or doing the push forward, pull back knee dance till the squawking stops and the sun shines once again. New Zealand is just like any other country packed with the up and coming generation of the distracted.

Like any Island this is a land of departures and homecomings but we do not know with certainty from whence came the first peoples to discover and settle in New Zealand.

There is little point in reopening the debate here; Let it be simple recoded that between 500 and 1300 AD ( the opening and closing dates of the moa- hunting season) New no Zealand was populated by dusky children of the sun who developed a Moa- based economy.

This lot were then rudely disturbed by the arrival of a few canoes full of Polynesia called Māoris, who had no idea where overseas was, till a bloke named Cook turned up.

(Historical the most dangerous men on earth were those purporting to bring their God to replace the existing God or Gods of any land)

New Zealand is now a land full of white one storey, wooden walled, tin roofed, (costing an arm and a leg) houses, in which everything is keep in drawers or tuba ware containers.

In cities they are built within spitting distance of each other and out in the countryside miles apart, surrounded by tortuous hills and valleys adorned with gigantic ferns, to ensure that no one can fault the awe-inspiring splendour of New Zealand primal beauty.

So it remains firmly on most bucket list of destinations of everyone who wants natural undiluted physical beauty, except Kiwi’s, who are encouraged on a daily basis to see the world with pages of advertisements to do so taking up 75% of the national news papers

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New Zealand like most colonised countries is a washing board of emotions that’s trying to make amendments for its historical wrongs.

And that’s with a Maori culture, that still is in need of a deep understanding away beyond most of its current politics. Māori identity is New Zealand’s unique point of difference.

Underneath the modern facade of New Zealand there is a rich hidden indigenous culture, of values, knowledge and beliefs.

In a world without pain it’s remains a great problem being a Maori warrior, making it highly unlikely that anything will be achieved in the short term, if ever.

While the majority of the world is falling asunder with the need to marry technology to common human values the land of the long white cloud (New Zealand ) is performing the Haka of still trying to sort out its colonial history some 187 years after Captains Cook left his foot prints on its shores.

Being an Irish man I am not surprised by this because reality can be a bitch if you let it.

It took Ireland 700 years to get rid of the blood and guts.

(Unfortunately to this day part of the country is occupied by hard nosed Unionists who are just about still hanging in while their Apartheid’s laws are being dismantled.)

However like New Zealand a new cultural maturity is still a long way off in Ireland to enable the whole country to be one with each other.

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Australia was set up by criminals shipped there by the same Victoria ass holes (who made their fortunes on slavery, fucking up most of the world with lines drawn on maps for profit unfortunately they also set up New Zealand, replacing the criminals, with a better than you Jones brigade culture, resulting in a country without a true sense of humour, except when fishing.

New Zealanders are too close to people and to events to be able to see them in proportion, consequently though they can be witty, scathing and denunciatory, they find it difficult when it comes to a sense of taking the mick out of each other.

New Zealand needs a vision with some clear statements of intent, with immigration being a function of society rather than the other way around.

Culture maturity has been a longtime coming in New Zealand but it’s now discernible here, however with a stricter conception of the normal it is increasingly becoming a paternalistic society of playgrounds and smartphones full of strange non thinking tongues.

Unfortunately the world in the next 700 years is going to be going through a fundamental change, which will have nothing to do with prior history.

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Matariki which is the Maori new year is always marked by both promise and contention.

However this time around the Te Pati Māori is forging a bold, potentially polarising path, advocating for a new parliament. Speaking openly about revolution, demanding a proportional share of the budget based on Maori demographics and societal representation, a Whanau Ora which is about taking collective Māori responsibility for themselves.

The bicentennial anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi at the bay of Islands by Eruera Mairie Patuone is in 2040.

It was supposed to affirm the rights of Maori to govern their own affairs, while’s it also affirmed the rights of migrants from England to settle in Aotearoa. They soon outnumbered the indigenous population with their cultural and traditions and religious beliefs becoming the dominant way of life.

It might be safe to say by 2040 the debate on race relations will have changed. However Māori, for Māori, Māori Sovereignty. A Māori parliament, will take more than Māori voices to be heard, more than revolutionary ideas, more than pragmatic solutions provided by Artificial Intelligence.

Under the Waitangi robbery in 1840( which was apply named) the English granted rangatiratanga in Māori.

This is of course contested, but it’s fairly obvious at the time it was assumed Māori were to maintain authority over their own lives and institutions.

After all it’s what Te Tiriti promised.

The problem is how do you have one set of laws for one culture and another set for the rest.

It is impossible to grant autonomy to any one section of a state or country. You can get justice in an unequal society, only race based programs leading to civil unrest.

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Believe it or not there are over 28,000 registered charities in New Zealand with combined turnover of around $27 billion with 5% of its workforce involved in charities.

In a sad way this express everything all at once, which is the same as expressing nothing.

What makes a charity a charity in New Zealand?

The foundations of New Zealand charity law date back to Elizabeth times. The English statue of charitable issues act 1601.

Universities are charities as are the small groups planting tree on the weekends.

Charities these days hold on to funds by the acquitions of assets. Should these assets be subject to taxation. Yes.

Will New Zealand become a republic, or could it be transmogrified into a persistent apparition of the coming Climate Change.

Truth matters, because Climate change is no longer some dystopian nightmare for future generation of Kiwis to worry about, it’s a growing reality.

When it comes to Climate Change New Zealand is in desperate need of a few roundabout to replace some of its Co2 admitting traffic junctions, (not to mention the Stop and Start motorway in and out of Auckland) which produces three to four hours of pollution on a daily basis,

If you want to imagine what life would be like in NZ in the next let’s say fifty years, here is my perspective.

A history cover in 500 hundred pages Michael King penguin. A population of 5.2 million on a landmass of half the size of France, a rich man’s retirement playground, dress code casual, adorned in natural beauty sold as 100% green.

A country that needs to replace the car with high speed rail.

That needs to address exporting timber and then reimport it at horrendous prices.

That needs to value its unique position rather than turning its self into an old folks home, for the rich, where sunshine and shadow mingle.

A country that has yet to agree a way of addressing the culturally difficult in order to truly understand them, rather than diluting them.

A country spending wasteful on infrastructure, that needs more spending on schooling, prisons, less on park benches.

So where does it go?

Shed its colonial past and declare its self an independent nation, where inputs and outputs are measured rather than insights and outcomes. Become a beacon of green life for other countries to follow.

It’s all very well to pontificate on the rights and wrongdoings of any country but the future lies with the next generation.

Let them decide what’s best for them.

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