THE ELECTION OF DONALD TRUMP AS PRESIDENT OF THE USA WAS BOUGHT BY A FEW RICH PEOPLE.
It makes one wonder whether you should want something or someone else to determine your voting choice for you.
At the moment we have different voting systems all with a variety of different features.
But how proportional they are is hidden in corruption and money.
They are also difficult to understand depending where in the world they are taking place.
All have advantages and disadvantages.
However most can be manipulated by outside factors and forces and of course by money and bots.
Voting on minor issues is done usually by
General Consent – Visible
Voice Vote. Aya or no
Show of hands – Visible
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The question is whether seats in parliament reflect votes cast or just the party which has the most funds.
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This post wishes to emphasise the importance of understanding different voting methods to make informed decisions as citizens.
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A ballot vote is used for elections.
To curb the political power of a dominating oligarchy we need to change to Direct democracies through an assembly of citizens, or by means of referendum and initiatives in which citizens vote on issues instead of for candidates or parties.
Why ?
Because AI will make voting an academic-Exercise.
Are you unsure about how to vote?
Simple: just ask an AI chatbot and within seconds you’ll have ready-made voting advice.
Easy? Yes. Desirable? Not really.
Choices such as who you marry, which job you choose and who you vote for are, in my opinion, a significant part of being human; they seem too important to me to outsource to technology.
Voting is now a collective illusion.
Take the Uk for example
ENGLAND has no written constitution.
The king might not have hard powers but he still has soft powers.
This must be removed by making Royalty solely a cultural historical institution.
It’s nive to think that the Royals have no influence over government.
They are asset rich, costing the tax payers million. On then other hand they generate millions as a tourism attraction, which would remain.
England with its mixed population needs a constitution.
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We now live in a world where artificial intelligence can write, think, plan, and even “coach” us.
From the convenience of asking a chatbot for career advice to using an app to decide what to eat, we’re slowly letting machines do more of our thinking for us.
We risk weakening one of the most important muscles we have — the mind.
When leaders stop thinking critically — when we let algorithms make the hard calls — we risk losing not only our judgment, but our humanity.
AI was built to assist, not replace human wisdom.
Yet too many leaders now lean on it to decide who to hire, how to discipline, or when to cut costs — without the nuance of empathy, context, or culture that human judgment brings.
Algorithms can’t feel tension in a room.
They can’t read the hesitation behind a “yes” or sense when burnout is brewing.
They only process what’s been programmed, and they reflect the bias, pressure, or short-term thinking of those inputs.
The result?
Decisions that may look efficient on paper but erode trust, morale, and belonging in practice.
When people feel reduced to data points, they disengage.
AI was designed to augment human intelligence, not replace it.
Yet many are falling into the trap of letting AI decideinstead of assist.
When we accept every answer as truth because it’s well-written or “sounds right,” we lose our ability to question, discern, and connect dots on our own.
This slow erosion of independent thought doesn’t just affect our intellect; it seeps into our mental health.
When we remove that process — when we let algorithms choose our news, our diets, or our next move — we dull our emotional intelligence and intuition.
The very skills that create confidence, resilience, and creativity begin to fade.
Outsourcing your mind disconnects you from your inner voice — the quiet knowing that guides you toward balance and purpose.
When that intuition is replaced with the “certainty” of technology, we begin to doubt ourselves and lose alignment with what is authentically right for us.
Why is all this happening?
Because.
We elected leaders and government that are only interested in the performance of economic growth.
Algorithms ensure that we are distracted 7/7 with social media full of rubbish and lies.
Our education system are now totally out of date no longer teaching the reasoning.
When citizens stop participating the game is over.
If we don’t get a grip on ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE our live become absurd.
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The major of problems with Algorithms is just who owns them.
Who is responsible when something goes wrong.
A machine driven by a code that humans invented remains within the current laws of defending or prosecution.
But once a machine becomes conscious it steps out of any human made laws into a legal void.
Currently there are no legal requirements to declare either an owner or their usages.
The question is :,
If the machine is capable of being responsible for its own actions, is the original coder of the machine removed from any legitimate legal obligation, as the machine is now capable of making it’s own decisions without any further human interventions.
What is the point of having laws that govern a machine if it has no emotions, no sense of fear, no sense of anything biological, no laws will protect anything that comes in contact.
So how does one go about setting rules and regulations for conscientious machinery ?
What if such machine were to kill a human there is no human law that could be applied that would have any impact, or effect.
There is only one way.
That way is that all conscious AI no matter what form it or they take must have like all hospital beds an alarm button within its. A fail safe code that can be activated to turn it off
The password to this function comes with its purchase and there is a legal requirement that it is held on your mobile phone in a designated file called AI Emergency.
You might think this is over the top.
I say if we humans want to have any resiliency or control over future AI we must be able to shut down the power that is running any AI machine.
While one of us out of 11 goes hungry every day, we currently building data centres using so much water to keep them cool that there will be nothing left to drink.
There leadership for you.
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Artificial intelligence is already suffering from three key issues: privacy, bias and discrimination, which if left unchecked can start infringing on – and ultimately take control of – people’s lives.
As digital technology became integral to the capitalist market dystopia of the first decades of the 21st century, it not only refashioned our ways of communicating but of working and consuming, indeed ways of living.
Then along came the the Covid-19 pandemic which revealed not only the lack of investment, planning and preparation that underlay the scandalous slowness of the responses by states around the world, but also grotesque class and racial inequalities as it coursed its way through the population and the owners of high-tech corporations were enriched by tens of billions.
It’s already too late to get ahead of this generative AI freight train.
The growing use of AI has already transformed the way the global economy works.
In this backdrop, AI can be used to profile people like you and me to such a detail which may well become more than uncomfortable! And this is no exaggeration.
This is just a tip of the iceberg!
So what if anything can be done to ensure responsible and ethical practices in the field.
Concern over AI development has accelerated in recent months following the launch of OpenAI’s ChatGPT last year, which sparked the release of similar chatbots by other companies, including Google, Snap and TikTok. The growing realization that vast numbers of people can be fooled by the content chatbots gleefully spit out, now the clock is ticking to not just the collapse of values that enshrine human life but the very existence of the human race.
“This is not the future we want.”
Now there is no option but to put in place international laws, not mandatory regulations, before AI is infringing human rights. However as we are witnessing with climate change, to achieve any global cooperation is a bit of a problem.
From the climate crisis to our suicidal war on nature and the collapse of biodiversity, our global response is too little, too late. Technology is moving ahead without guard rails to protect us from its unforeseen consequences.
So we have two contrasting futures one of breakdown and perpetual crisis, and another in which there is a breakthrough, to a greener, safer future. This approach would herald a new era for multilateralism, in which countries work together to solve global problems.
In order to achieve these aims, the Secretary-General of the United nations recommends a Summit of the Future, which would “forge a new global consensus on what our future should look like, and how we can secure it”. The need for international co-operation beyond borders is something that makes a lot of sense, especially these days, because the role of the modern corporation in influencing the impact of AI is in conflict with the common values needed to survive.
The principle of working together, recognizing that we are bound to each other and that no community or country, however powerful, can solve its challenges alone.” Any national government is, of course, guided by its own set of localised values and realities.
But geopolitics, I would argue, always underlies any ambition. The immaturity of the ‘Geopolitics of AI’ field leaves the picture incomplete and unclear so it requires the introduction of agreed international common laws.
Let Ireland hold such a Summit.
This summit could coordinate efforts to bring about inclusive and sustainable policies that enable countries to offer basic services and social protection to their citizens with universal laws that defines the several capabilities of AI i.e. identify the ones that are more susceptible to misuse than the others.
(It is incredibly important for understanding the current environment in which any product is built or research conducted and it will be critical to forging a path forwards and towards safe and beneficial AI.)
The challenges are great, and the lessons of the past cannot be simply superimposed onto the present.
For example.
The designers of AI technologies should satisfy legal requirements for safety, accuracy and efficacy for well-defined use cases or indications. In the context of health care, this means that humans should remain in control of health-care systems and medical decisions; privacy and confidentiality should be protected, and patients must give valid informed consent through appropriate legal frameworks for data protection.
Another For example the collection of Data which is the backbone of AI.
Transparency requires that sufficient information be published or documented before the design or deployment of an AI technology. Such information must be easily accessible and facilitate meaningful public consultation and debate on how the technology is designed and how it should or should not be used.
It is the responsibility of stakeholders to ensure that they are used under appropriate conditions and by appropriately trained people. Effective mechanisms should be available for questioning and for redress for individuals and groups that are adversely affected by decisions based on algorithms.
Laws to ensure that AI systems be designed to minimize their environmental consequences and increase energy efficiency.
If we want the elimination of black-box approach through mandatory explain ability for AI – Agreed or not agree should not be an option.
While AI can be extraordinarily useful it is already out of control with self learning algorithms that no one can understand or to be brought to account.
These profit seeking skewed algorithms owned by corporations are causing racial and gender-based discrimination.
I firmly believe that the Government must engage in meaningful dialogues with other countries on a common international laws that are now needed to subject developers to a rigorous evaluation process, and to ensure that entities using the technology act responsibly and are held accountable.
Having said that, governments must keep their roles limited and not assume absolute powers.
Multiple actors are jostling to lead the regulation of AI.
The question business leaders should be focused on at this moment, however, is not how or even when AI will be regulated, but by whom.
Governments have historically had trouble attracting the kind of technical expertise required even to define the kinds of new harms LLMs and other AI applications may cause.
Perhaps a licensing framework is needed to strike a balance between unlocking the potential of AI and addressing potential risks.
Or
AI ‘Nutrition Labels’ that would explain exactly what went into training an AI, and which would help us understand what a generative AI produces and why.
Or
Take the Meta’s open source approach which contrasts sharply with the more cautious, secretive inclinations of OpenAI and Google. With Open Source models like this and Stable Diffusion already out there, it may be impossible to get the Genie back into the bottle.
The metaverse is not well understood or appreciated by the media and the public. The metaverse is much, much bigger than one company, and weaving them together only complicates the matter.
Governments should never again face a choice between serving their people or servicing their debt.
Still, the most promising way not to provoke the sorcerer would be to avoid making too big a mess in the first place.
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The Dead Sea will be almost completely dried up, nearly half of the Amazon rainforest will have been deforested, wildfires will spread like, umm, wildfire, and the polar ice caps will be only 60 per cent the size they are now.
Wars will involve not only land and sea but space. Superhurricanes will become a regular occurrence.
Should you be worried, of course not AI/Algorithms are here to guide you.
AI-related advancements have grown from strength to strength in the last decade.
Right now there are people coming up with new algorithms by applying evolutionary techniques to the vast amounts of big data via genetic programming to find optimisations and improve your life in different fields.
The amount of data we have available to us now means that we can no longer think in discrete terms. This is what big data forces us to do.
It forces us to take a step back, an abstract step back to find a way to cope with the tidal wave of data flooding our systems. With big data, we are looking for patterns that match the data and algorithms are enabling us to find patterns via clustering, classification, machine learning and any other number of new techniques.
To find the patterns you or I cannot see. They create the code we need to do this and give birth to learner algorithms that can be used to create new algorithms.
So do you remember a time, initially, when it was possible to pass on all knowledge through the form of dialogue from generation to generation, parent to child, teacher to student? Indeed, the character of Socrates in Plato’s “Phaedrus” worried that this technological shift to writing and books was a much poorer medium than dialogue and would diminish our ability to develop true wisdom and knowledge.
Needless to say that I don’t think Socrates would have been a fan of Social Media or TV.
The machine learning algorithms have become like a hammer at the hands of data scientists. Everything looks like a nail to be hit upon.
In due process, the wrong application or overkill of machine learning will cause disenchantment among people when it does not deliver value.
It will be a self-inflicted ‘AI Winter’.
So here is what your day at 70th might be.
Welcome to the world of permanent change—a world defined not by heavy industrial machines that are modified infrequently, but by software that is always in flux.
Algorithms are everywhere. They decide what results you see in an internet search, and what adverts appear next to them. They choose which friends you hear from on social networks. They fix prices for air tickets and home loans. They may decide if you’re a valid target for the intelligence services. They may even decide if you have the right to vote.
7.30 am
Personalised Health Algorithm report.
Sleep pattern good. Anxiety normal, deficient in vitamin C. Sperm count normal.
Results of body scan sent health network.
7.35 am
House Management Algorithm Report.
Temperature 65c. House secure. Windows/ Doors closed Catflap open. Heating off. Green Energy usage 2.3 Kwh per minute. (Advertisement to change provider.) Shower running, Water flow and temperature adjusted, shower head hight adjusted. House Natural light adjusted. Confirmation that smartphone and I pad fully charges. Robotic housemaid programmed.
Refrigerators will be seamlessly integrated with online supermarkets, so a new tub of peanut butter will be on its way to your door by drone delivery before you even finish the last one.
8.45 am. Appointments Algorithm.
Virtual reality appointment with a local doctor.
Voice mails and emails and the calendar check.
A device in your head might eliminate the need for a computer screen by projecting images (from a Skype meeting, a video game, or whatever) directly into your field of vision from within. It checks
9 am.
Personalised Financial Algorithm.
Balance of credit cards and bank accounts including citizen credit /loyalty points. Value of shares/ pension fund updated.
10 am. Still in your Dressing gown.
11 am. The self-drive car starts. Seats automatically shift and rearrange themselves to provide maximum comfort. Personalised News and Weather Algorithm gives a report. The car books parking spot places order for coffee. Over coffee, you rent out a robot in Dublin and have it do the legwork for your forthcoming visiting – hotels.
12 pm.
Hologram of your boss in your living room.
1 pm.
Virtual work meeting to discuss the solitary nature of remote work.
Face-to-face meeting arranged.
2 pm. Home. Lunch delivered.
3 pm. Sporting activity with a virtual coach.
5 pm. Home
7 30 pm.
Discuss and view the Dubin robot walk around containing video and audio report.
Dinner delivered. Six quests. The home management algorithm rearranges the furniture.
8 30 pm
Virtual helmets on for some after-dinner entertainment.
10 pm
Ask Alixia to shut the house down not before you answer Alixia question to score points and a chance to win — Cash- Holiday- Dinner for two- a discount on Amazon- e bay- or a spot of online gambling.
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The fourth industrial revolution is not simply an opportunity. It matters what kind of opportunity is for whom and under what terms.
We need to start thinking about algorithms.
The core issue here is of course who will own the basic infrastructure of our future which is going to be effect all sectors of society.
They are not just for mathematicians or academics. There are algorithms all around us and you don’t need to know how to code to use them or understand them.
We need to better understand them to better understand, and control, our own futures. To achieve this we need to better understand how these algorithms work and how to tailor them to suit our needs. Otherwise, we will be unable to fully unlock the potential of this abstract transition because machine learning automates automation itself.
The new digital economy, akin to learning to read, has obscured our view of algorithms. Algorithms are increasingly part of our everyday lives, from recommending our films to filtering our news and finding our partners.
Building a solid foundation now for governance for AI the need to use AI responsibly
and to consider the broader reaching implications of this transformational technology’s use.
The world population will be over 9 billion with the majority of people will live in cities.
So here are a few questions at 30 you might want to consider.
How does the software we use influence what we express and imagine?
Shall we continue to accept the decisions made for us by algorithms if we don’t know how they operate?
What does it mean to be a citizen of a software society?
These and many other important questions are waiting to be analyzed.
If we reduce each complex system to a one-page description of its algorithm, will we capture enough of software behaviour?
Or will the nuances of particular decisions made by software in every particular case be lost?
You don’t need a therapist; they need an algorithm.
We may never really grasp the alienness of algorithms. But that doesn’t mean we can’t learn to live with them.
Unfortunately, their decisions can run counter to our ideas of fairness. Algorithms don’t see humans the same way other humans do.
What are we doing about confronting any of this – Nothing much.
So its no wonder that people start to worry about what’s left for human beings to do.
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( A mind-blowing, thought provoking ten minute read)
Humans seem to be the only animals who know they have to die sometimes. Therefore, the concept of time is fundamental to us and we have to argue from the basis of our transitory existence.
We can measure it, but we can’t feel it so we can’t experience it.
Is the concept of “now” an illusion or is now the past.
We know how to calculate the effects of velocity and gravitational potential on physical processes, we explain this in terms of time dilation, but we do not actually know that it is time that changes, and we most certainly do not know what time is. We completely avoid the fact that time flows, or that there is a special moment in time we refer to as “now.”
Time feels like one of the only constants in life — it passes day after day at the same pace.
You never be able to see now as the brain take time to process it.
So, will now as it is decoupled by external Algorithms that organise our lives lose it meaning or is there a time gene ticking in the twilight of our DNA.
Google it and see. Know thyself is never easier or cheaper.
One true time is the tick of imagination, without imagination there can be no time. It’s not, because time doesn’t exist, it’s just an illusion of the human mind, everything happens in the present, there was no past, there is no future, only a now that is invisible.
Change needs time, different moments in time need time but how does time work.
Time exists in shapeless color. It flows around us but there is no answer to how it works. Fortuitously or unfortunately our brains need time to process (but at different speeds) to predict the future, to recall the past, or to realize the present.
So when is now?
Is it the delay period for our brain to replace what we cannot see?
Time can only go forward. If it were possible for time to go backwards, then there would be no past, present, or future.
I am sure I am not the first nor will I be the last person to ask, just what time is.
We don’t know what it is or how it works but all moments of time are equally real.
The concept of “now” is completely alien from all physics, although Einstein despaired of his inability to understand it. He worried that its reality might lie outside of physics.
We’ve all heard the phrase that “time is relative,” but it can be difficult to wrap the mind around what that actually means. Relative to what as it flow differently in separate area.
Time is always relative to the traveler. So is it possible to travel through time while stopping time. Does each universes have its own timeline?
We really need to understand nature to properly understand the world of time. Time goes on no matter what. It is or it is not fundamental to the world?
The existence of now is not yet explained by physics, but that means that we don’t yet have the best theoretical understanding of time.
Space-travel with speeds close to that of light may be unfathomable far beyond the reach of current technology. But sending elementary particles on round trips in a particle accelerator at 99.99999 percent of light speed is routine.
We’ll ever be travelling back in time.. but you could never meet your future you!!!!!
In Einstein’s special theory of relativity, there is no such thing as “time” in the singular.
Time passes differently for different observers, depending on the observers’ motion. The prime example is that of the two hypothetical twins: One of them stays at home, on Earth. The other journeys into space in an ultra-fast rocket, nearly as fast as the speed of light, before returning home, he has slightly gone back in time-younger.
Stephen Hawking is generally considered one of the smartest people on Earth. “We are each free to believe what we want, and it’s my view that the simplest explanation is; there is no god. No one created our universe, and no one directs our fate.” He believes in spontaneous creation from nothing.
Physics on its own will not settle the question of why there is something rather than nothing.
No one can prove or disprove the existence of an immaterial invisible being. What Hawking did do is show how the universe could come into existence without a Prime Mover to set things into motion.
He re-acquaints us with the standard debate between two eternal ‘somethings’-–the uni/multiverse and God.” We do not need a God who is outside space-time and who Himself was created from nothing, to create the universe. God is superfluous.
Space time however is a now slice of time that without motion goes nowhere, with motion it might encompass a worm hole to past present and future.
We all measure our experience in space-time differently. That’s because space-time isn’t flat — it’s curved, and it can be warped by matter and energy.
So technically, gravity doesn’t affect time, rather, affected time is what called gravity. Gravity is only the force which can decelerate the time…so it is not time. Every object attracts every other object with a force that is proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them. So it stand to reason that time travels at different speeds.
In my opinion that mover is not gravity, its the space that occupies the space between dark matter and anti matter.
This bizarre ingredient dark matter dominates the universe but does not emit light or energy, but studies of distant supernovae revealed that the universe today is expanding faster than it was in the past, not slower, indicating that the expansion is accelerating.
This would only be possible if the universe contained enough energy to overcome gravity — dark energy.
So what we are saying is that dark matter particle interactions with ordinary matter to produce dark energy.
The familiar material of the universe, known as baryonic matter, is composed of protons, neutrons and electrons and sterile neutrinos only interact with regular matter through gravity, making it a strong candidate for dark matter.
However most of the matter in the universe is something yet unseen.
Now we come to antimatter, it is routinely made in high-energy collisions inside particle smashers the world over.
Every particle has an antiparticle with the same mass but the opposite electric charge. The proton has the negatively charged antiproton; the electron has the positively charged anti-electron, or positron.
Notoriously, matter and antimatter destroy each other, or annihilate, whenever they come into contact. These are also produced in some radioactive decays.
Time passing is actually a function of velocity, although velocity is distance over time.
Time is the 4th dimension, but we all know it is qualitatively different. We can stand still in space (choose any coordinate system) but we can’t stand still in time. Physics ignores this difference, and uses relativity theory to relate aspects of space and time intervals.
Ultimately, time is a parameter that measures how something changes with respect to a reference clock changing. By the time I have written this post and you have read it neither of us can get back the time we spent doing so.
“In my opinion, there is no aspect of reality beyond the reach of the human mind.” This is a good reason why time must only go forward. I will never travel in time but someone will, one day.
Perhaps there was no time before the big bang, it emerged as a consequence of the formation of a black hole in a higher-dimensional universe.
This seems unlikely as there must have being time before the big bang. Why? Because the past is different from the future. Why did the Big Bang have the properties it did because over time it developed them.
The observable universe is not all there is. It’s part of a bigger multiverse and the Big Bang was not the beginning of these universes.
Causes precede effects.
We remember the past but we don’t remember the future because at the center of Universes there is no time.
Why because time as a visible product does not exist.
However rest assured our personal data is probable the most valuable resource most humans still have. In time Google, Face Book and Twitter will become the all-knowing time oracles that will evolve into agents and finally into sovereigns.
Like Big Ben a black hole can never get back the time it lost, it remains silent.
I know what time is until you ask me for a definition about it, and then I can’t give it to you.
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