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The Beady Eye says: We don’t know how far back War goes in society.

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Just beyond the world that exists within our heads is the world is the world that exists between us: Earth’s eight billion inhabitants.

We behave through complex biological.

Subtracting people from the environment changes how we behave across a huge variety of situations.

War has run almost through out all of human history, taking many forms.

From besieged towns surrounded by moats/fortifications to the grabbing of territory by emperors playing with their new toys. It’s no exaggeration to say that that our lives have been greatly influenced by them.

With no end to the current conflicts on the globe they’ll continue to do so.

However the stakes these days are higher than past wars.

With nuclear weapons terrifying high, with a rogue AI terrorists ( with an unlimited menu of methods and targets, ) nuclear supremacy will be worthless.

I am not talking here about drones with FRV technology that are already in use by Hamas and in the current war between Russia and Ukraine. I am talking about Cyber terrorism ( ie politically motivated use of computers and information technology to cause disruption and fear in society, by targeting almost anyone or anything.

Cyberspace one of the most crucial aspects of modern life, connecting everyone and everything.

Just like climate change it is the specter of catastrophe no matter how remote that will propel it safety to the forefront of public policy. However people are unwilling to spend a lot of money to avert a future problem especially when it’s like-lihood of it effecting their lives is so uncertain.

With Climate Change the worst possibility is downright biblical, with Cyberspace the wars are still in science fiction.

The problem with being human is that we are stuck in our own heads. We don’t have enough perspectives when making many life decisions. Unfortunately we respond to these dangers with the same brain as our ancestors had some 60,000 to 80,000 years ago.

The difference is that they had a vested interests in each other, we don’t, as social media has shifted the balance of power from the hands of the few to the masses.

Almost all of the world is using Social Media platforms, which are becoming more powerful to the detriment of individuality.

The problem with AGI is that it will not be surveillance or the degradation of human skills, but rather an Arms race in the military domain, that is going to lead to the depletion of resources without any perspective from a moral or ethical alignment to any human values.

In the future most warfare will be digital.

Time will tell.

One nation has no right to tell another what to do.

However autonomous warfare, which we are just witnessing the beginnings of will not require specific instructions from humans.

A self driven hacked car could start the next war.

It’s fair to say that up to now our lives are greatly influenced by natal roulette. To great extent this no longer applies.

Uncontrollably AIG will de-warf any nuclear deterrence, as it could introduce a virus that could wipe us from the planet.

Within its inverted logic it could kill billions without consulting anyone.

We have to decide what we want now.

Whether we want to impose restrictions/ regulations/ or restraints, call it what you like on the capabilities of Artificial Intelligence’s, as the AI tools to come will not be anonymous tools by default.

Nothing happens in a vacuum. World War One did not start in a vacuum, nor did World War Two start in a vacuum. They were the result of an area of a statues quo that collapsed.

AI bots should not have freedom of speech.

Non human entities are flooding Social Media Platforms in the form of Algorithms with their own goals of seeking profits above any thing else.

AI that is defying its own goals should be banned.

When are we going to wake up to the facts that in the near future anyone with open AGI could hold the whole world to ransom.

Lack of trust transparency to do no harm – against Benefit. Will shape the future.

Human intelligence has carried our species through countless challenges. Adapting to the implications of replicating it might be one of the biggest ones.

There is no second chance when it comes to AI, only the improbable is impotent,

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The Beady Eye says: AIG – will exist in five years from now and it will profoundly change the way we do everything on earth.
										

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When it comes to the moral question, humanity has historically failed the test over and over, again and again and will continue to do so till we are all blue in the face with verbal diarrhoea as to how we might change the situation from inequality to equal opportunity for all.





The greatest innovations are yet to come as both AIG or ASI is as yet a hypothetical form of AI .





Instead of asking what we evolved from we must start asking and answering what we are evolving towards.





AGI may or may not come to our rescue in answering this question. However it is farcical to think that we will be able to contribute to control AIG once it happens.





How will the human life value in relation to a sentient biological machine for the Capitalist economy?





Will AGI need anything from us to begin with?





How will it judge procreation, suffering, and existence?





It will have non of these things, so it will make no difference unless it’s in its own interest to do so.





The reality will not be a red eye robot that wants to kill us, but a form of Artificial Intelligence that begins to write its own codes in order to reorganise societies and all our places within them, in ways we can’t imagine.





Algorithms will run and rule the world, along with the future exploration of Space. It won’t be humans unless we have implants to compensate our biological weakness.





With the real question becoming – will AIG be the final straw to what’s called freedom, transcending religious beliefs. While producing a new type of tyrannical tyranny of empty, meaningless, variety, a never ending stream of unnecessary options, arming us with weapons so devastating that we could wipe ourselves out.





Basically the biological race will be over, replaced by the best survival information processing AIG. 





Resulting in biological Algorithms ie Us – versus AIG algorithms war-fair.





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We are a self- hating, self-destructive species which is about to handover the evolutionary buttons to machines that could whether by accident or design wipe us all out.





The only way of stopping such an event is to enshrine now the virtues of liberty, privacy, dignity, not just in new AI regulations but also in Social Media, business models and institutions.





To have any chance we must clean up Social Media by imposing large fines on platforms that post discriminatory content, racism, violence related rhetoric, propaganda, pornographers content. Ban all non – sustainable advertising, all non ethical non verifiable content, all fake surveys, all exploitation for profit, returning Social Media to its Name.





We know nothing about the ethic of AIG, nor will we ever know other than the biases it has been exposed to. But rest assured in the long run it will remove what we call individualism or individuality, expanding all to perceivable reality.





We must demand transparency and accountability. There is no more room for batting around the edges. We must bring AI into alignment with something better than just being human, where people are not just treated as products but always as ends.





The Beady Eye is here in New Zealand visiting his eight week old grandson who arrived into the world five weeks premature and would not be with us to day without advancing technology.





Maybe someday we get to be more than human. We presently have no clue to what consciousness is, but it will become an entanglement of the quantum of existence in one form or another.





However we will still need our live to mean something even if we integrate or transcend the evolutionary bridge, into the cosmic horizons with eternal memories and hope for a better future.





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THE BEADY EYE ASK’S: IS THE SMART PHONE A WALL AGAINST REALITY. A GREAT SOCIAL TRAP?
										

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SMART PNONES ARE NOW A PART OF THE FABRIC OF OUR CULTURE.


Virtually everyone carries a smartphone today.  these things didn’t exist until just over 15 years ago and there are now your web browser, camera and camcorder, music player, gaming console, navigation unit, step counter, flashlight, personal AI assistant, and digital wallet and makes calls, too.


As new generations grow up as digital natives, with iPads and smartphones in their hands before they can even walk, we also could be living in a world with even more screens, and smartphones may be only the beginning.


Surely our reliance on smartphones will evolve into something else. Perhaps blending into our bodies and clothing, telling us when to turn left or right, buy that, speak.


In fact, many believe screens will become even more ubiquitous, including (but not limited to) a world steeped in mixed reality, a combination of a virtual world and physical spaces, with most of us experiencing this hybrid via high-tech goggles.“


As of right now, I believe we are still going towards an era of more screens, screens everywhere, in the bathroom, on doors, and it’s already happening in cars and on fridges with these screens becoming more personalized, calling you by name, entering the era of holographic displays.


Mixed reality experiences are going to get “wild” in the coming years.


The future is already here — it’s just not evenly distributed.


Clearly, what our post-smartphone future looks like is subject to speculation — especially in an industry that not only moves at a torrential pace but could take an unexpected detour at any time.


In other words, ambient computing and mixed reality are both likely to happen, simultaneously and overlappingly.


Ten years from now, when we gaze upon the devices in our hands (or, less likely, consider the implant in our spinal columns), I expect we’re going to be telling one of those two stories again.


Humane’s AI Pin, for example, is a small device you can attach to your shirt or jacket, and it works as a nonphysical smartphone by projecting calls, messages, and info from apps onto a surface (like your hand).


Powered by artificial intelligence, this screen less solution will also have location data and contextual awareness. Humane's AI Pin clothing-based wearable can project smartphone-like interfaces onto surfaces such as...


we’ll also have a deeper and more self-conscious awareness of the smartphone’s place in our culture.


I could spin a tale about phones that project their displays into mid-air between your fingers. I could predict that we won’t have phones at all but, instead, high-bandwidth jacks plugged right into our brains, connecting us into a 6 or 7G network of wordless, emotive communication.


I could predict that we don’t need to store our lives in our phones — all that data can live in the cloud.


I could predict that our phones will stop consolidating into a single device and instead explode out into a mesh network of tinier, more bespoke gadgets.


I could predict that our phones could shape-shift into a size fit for the task at hand. Morph and upgrade as needed, adding on better cameras, different sensors, and surprising new capabilities.


But in 10 years, maybe the mobile industry will have evolved to a point where modular phones make a comeback.


at least relegated to our pockets more often than not — by smart eyeglasses.  Think of how often you check your phone throughout the day. No one would want to be constantly futzing with swipe and tap gestures on their glasses that frequently


a phone isn’t something we carry around with us — it’s everywhere. Every room in your home has a smart speaker, a screen, a lamp, and who knows what, that’s connected to the network and ready to do whatever you would have asked of your phone.Lucyd's Lyte ChatGPT smart glasses


Rather than face the onerous task of taking a phone out of your pocket, unlocking it, opening the right app, and typing words on its little screen, the world around us will simply be equipped to do the tedious stuff for us. There are very obvious and serious ethical problems with this scenario. Equipping the world around us to anticipate and solve our needs requires us to surrender an incredible amount of information about ourselves.


Maybe a fully ambient computing life isn’t in our future, whether it’s sight issues or vertigo and motion sickness, it’s not for everyone and will not replace a smartphone for many.


Smartphones will remain as a bedrock to our overall computing experience for a while yet, but we’ll no doubt see the technology evolve in different directions, as it always does — just not so fast.


Those born after 1995 are the first people in history to go through puberty with a portal to an alternative universe in their pockets – and the toll this has taken on their wellbeing has been devastating.


Companies that strive to maximise “engagement” by using psychological tricks to keep young people clicking are the worst offenders. They hooked children during vulnerable developmental stages, while their brains were rapidly rewiring in response to incoming stimulation. This included social media companies, which inflicted their greatest damage on girls, and video game companies and pornography sites, which sank their hooks deepest into boys.


How do we escape from these traps? Collective action problems require collective responses:


Given that AI and spatial computing (such as Apple’s new Vision Pro goggles) are about to make the virtual world far more immersive and addictive, I think we’d better start today.


Something in our culture is devastating the next generation.


The culprit is a massive, sudden switch from raising kids on play to raising kids on phones—specifically, smartphones loaded with life-sucking social media apps.


The user is not the customer—the user is the product.


This is the business model behind social media platforms, where you try to maximize the amount of time that kids and other users spend there. Children were becoming “merchandise.”


We need to have thousands of experiences every single year, every single day, to practice interacting with others in the real world, navigating conflict and struggle by finding more meaning in one’s lifetime.


I’m going to give my child a smartphone at age 9 or 10 is to destroy that life.


Perhaps its time to pass laws (just like acquiring a fire arm) restricting the acquisition of a smart phone till 18 of age is attend.  Or restriction on accessing conventional social media such as TikTok, Instagram and Snapchat until they are 18.


Tech is and will remain a fantastic tool, but it has to act in people’s service, not people being reduced to serving a product.


Algorithms that re-engage and stimulate the pleasure system and are built to avoid you losing interest in the content have a type of addictive dynamic.


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THE BEADY EYE ASK’S ARE OUR LIVES GOVERENED BY FEAR? THE FLIP SIDE OF HOPE.
										

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How much of our lives is governed by fear?


Fear is an ancient and conserved response that served humans well enough before the advent of civilisation, but it has become distorted in modern societies where primordial fears can readily transform into phobias.


Fear is part instinct, part learned, part taught. Some fears are instinctive: Pain, for example, causes fear because of its implications for survival. Other fears are learned and also partly imagined.  Imagined threats cause paralysis. Real threats, on the other hand, cause frenzy.


For instance social media is now fanning, the flames of fear and disseminating misinformation quickly and widely with fake news.


It’s hard to fully understand the way fear shapes our world without addressing its relationship to anger.


And anger is important for those who profit from fear because anger generates action.


People are more vulnerable when they’re in an angered state. When we’re angry, we don’t pay attention to the details of complex messages, the more one person expresses anger, the more others express anger, and then it becomes a kind of spiral where the anger is ratcheted up and up.


Many bemoan online when social media platforms seemingly descend into ranting and abuse but a great deal of the anger we find when perusing our devices isn’t organic, it’s engineered – for profit.


Provoking anger is rapidly becoming the standard for many online operations.


Why?


Because fidelity of the source is taken by social media sites and search engines as key factors for their Automated Decision Making (ADM) systems to classify content.


In their defence, social media platforms are between a rock and a hard place because of their need to balance free speech against repression of damaging or hateful material.


It works because in our algorithmically driven culture the popularity of any given content is no longer driven by the number of eyeballs that see it, but by the level of engagement it generates.


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Fear sharpens the mind, which is why fear is used in campaigns, whether it’s public health, whether it’s to change people’s attitude to things like climate change.


Fear can steel resolve to do something.


After the second World War and the horrors that the world experienced, democratic countries became defensive.  In other words, they saw fear as an important tool for making sure that these kinds of perversions never happened again, but in the process of doing that, fear actually became too important as a component. It started to eclipse the very values that it was supposed to be protecting-  “enculturated” in fear – NATO.


But that’s not the whole story.


We can now register a fear with new characteristics in the fear taxonomy, and we could call it global fear.


.For example during COVID too much fear created apathy leading to disinterest and distrust.


What’s needed is a better public understanding of the role these emotions play in our lives, and a clearer appreciation that when emotions are manipulated, even good intentions can have disastrous consequences.


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Fear and anger are dominating our world right now, but are we being manipulated for profit?


Fear and anger abound – in our politics, in our social discourse, and in our expectations for the future.


When fear is pervasive in a system — and it’s pervasive in all of our systems — what that means is that we lose dynamism, we lose innovation. Fears put a stranglehold on our life force. Fear paralyzes us. Fear diminishes us. And the more we conquer our fears, the more meaningful our life becomes.


Fear and anger have been monetised, the result of deliberate manipulation by commercial and political interests.


The antidote for our current malaise isn’t simply to suppress our emotional extremes. In fact, both fear and anger can help positive social change by fostering a thirst for justice and even revolution.


The difficulty for people today is empathising or imaginatively trying to situate themselves in the future … It’s very, very difficult.


The growing fear-based discourse around climate change, for example, and the use of fear-laden expressions and words often backfires on those who deploy them. When someone like [UN Secretary-General] António Guterres uses the term ‘global boiling’ the problem is a lot of people in their daily lives are not experiencing a climate crisis, they don’t experience excessive heat, they don’t have wildfires on their doorstep. They just switch off.


While we tend to equate fear-based leadership with totalitarianism or populism, there are many instances in democratic countries where politics is coloured by the use of fear as a blunt tool of coercion.


More people realise that we’re living in a vicious cycle, where manufactured fear fuels anger and anger in turn blinds us to the recognition that our fear is misplaced. Take the discourse around “illegal” immigration.




As George Orwell’s warnings 1984 to the world which are now coming true as we move into an age of totalitarian Ai dictatorial -an age in which freedom of thought will be a deadly sin and later on a meaningless abstraction. The autonomous individual is going to be stamped out of existence.


Totalitarianism relies on mass support so we need more people to realize what is at stake and start seeing all around us by taking the smart phone out of our ears.


With AI moving into the Physical world, algorithms are running more and more of life as we know it.


Combined they are evolving towards the same system, a form of oligarchical collectivism with manufactured fear.  The strategy of fear is one of their most valuable tactics.


Don’t let it happen. Face recognition becoming a thought or face crime.


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You see the state of the world.


It is not important who is at war or with who, it’s the removal of freedoms and constant surveillance which is now conducted through the smartphones we carry around in our pockets, with every sound you make, every movement scrutinised.


The permanent lie becomes the only safe form of existence. Everything fades into mist. The past is erased, the erasure is forgotten and the lie comes truth.


No one can stand aside, dont let it happen it depends on you


It’s understandable that we may worry about world events but fear is hardwired in your brain, and for good reason.


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War is peace freedom is slavery.


Israel is as we watch becoming a Totalitarian State.


How does one witness the cruelty of indiscriminate bombing? We cannot physically or mentally feel another’s pain, but we can empathize with it. We tend to still think of war as great power competition or as the Second World War.


The USA vetoed Palestine becoming a full member of the United nations then approved more than $61bn worth of military assistance to help Ukraine in its desperate defence against Russia, as well as billions for other allies including Israel and Taiwan.


The $95bn in total funding includes roughly $61bn for Ukraine (with much of the funding going towards replenishing American munitions); $26bn for Israel; $8bn for US allies in the Indo-Pacific region, including Taiwan; and $9bn in humanitarian assistance for civilians in war zones, such as Haiti, Sudan and Gaza, though the package also includes a ban on direct US funding for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (Unrwa), an agency providing key assistance to Gaza, until March 2025. The US has so far sent Ukraine roughly $111bn in weapons, equipment, humanitarian assistance and other aid since the start of the war more than two years ago.


The Israel bill includes about $4.4bn to replenish depleted US supplies given to Israel; $4bn for missile defence, including the much-vaunted Iron Dome, and $1.2bn for the Iron Beam; and $3.5bn to help Israel buy weapons. There are also provisions to make it easier to supply Israel with US munitions held in other countries.


What is what.


If you can have all the information that’s out there, crunch it into some kind of algorithm, that you can then target discriminately, proportionately.


The idea that machines are going to replace humans in wars  is fundamentally untrue.


We are seeing this to a certain extent right now, in Palestinian/Israel war with Ai deciding who and how to kill.  Both wars are is very much a battle of machines and soldiers, a high technology-driven conflict.


Where you can attack, use some surgically precise weapons, take care of the problem, eliminate your opponent and then extract yourself from a situation, has actually turned into a quagmire with new super weapons, whether it be cyber information warfare or artificial intelligence everyone wants to be ahead of the curve, right?


However, this approach also overshadows political considerations, including the causes of conflicts, obscures the costs of conflict, and creates illusions of quick and easy victories—all of which has led to two decades of war in the twenty-first century.


One of the problems here is this idea that you can simply solve problems by targeting them with cruise missiles, is simply not the case.


The belief that technology can help prevent war by creating a deterrent, is an illusion.


Wars will never be able to solve the difficult and complex political and cultural problems on the ground. Weapons can help produce ceasefires, but they cannot themselves create long-lasting, established peace.


Essentially, the idea that science can produce technologically advanced weapons so horrible that no one will ever want to fight is farcical. If we are ever going to get rid of war military culture it must be understood that it  does not exist in isolation.


Through the use of technology WE GOING TO CREATE WARS.


The rush to apply cutting edge technologies like artificial intelligence to military systems is well under way. A new breed of techno-evangelists, many of whom stand to make billions if we go down the high tech path they are so aggressively promoting.


The application of science to unpick the supposedly immutable principles of warfare, making conflicts shorter and more humane, or eliminating the need for large-scale campaigns, found a home in the United States by the middle of the nineteenth century.


Such views reached their zenith with the advent of nuclear weapons and the logic of deterrence.


Importantly,  technology-based approach emerges as a counter to the deterrence-based approach. Although nuclear weapons had made war unlikely, given the risks of mass casualties and devastation.


There is a need for much greater restraint in making assumptions as to what ends can be achieved militarily. Replacing people with machines on the battlefield, will not result in ‘clean’ conflicts.


Where there may be feelings of anger and betrayal, or even a sense of exhaustion, not uncovering the truth may lead to conspiracy or a turn to an engineering-infused idealism—that smarter systems will produce better results next time.


High-tech wars transfers the risk from soldiers to civilians.


It envisions the military drawing on US advanced technologies, such as AI, cyber resources, unmanned systems and machine learning to offset or create an overmatch of adversarial capabilities. Reducing the time that it takes from identifying a target to destroying it (known as the “kill chain”) and diminishing or eliminating human input could be a recipe for unprecedented disaster.


The Ukraine war is been used as a proof of concept for their systems, and a marketing tool to boot – after all, what’s more attractive than buying “battle proven” technology?


Revelations that Israel has used AI not to spare civilians but to step up the rate and scope of its devastation of Gaza is just the latest example of why we need to think twice before acquiescing in the rush towards a world dominated by automated warfare.


Between 2019 and 2022, U.S. military and intelligence agencies awarded major tech firms contracts with ceilings worth at least $53 billion combined. Resulting in large military contracts to big tech firms like Microsoft, Amazon and Google.


The idea that America alone has the ability (and the duty) to protect the world’s democratic societies; and a steadfast belief that the best way to preserve U.S. dominance is through a largely unregulated free market that prioritizes corporate needs is a farce. It is on the verge of losing an epic struggle for global geopolitical and economic supremacy—unless it can outpace China in the ‘AI arms race.


U.S. government for Israel’s war on Gaza, which the International Court of Justice has suggested can plausibly be considered a case of genocide.


Russia’s or Israeli nuclear status means that NATO countries are unlikely to become involved in direct fighting given the risk of escalation.


The time to act is now, because nobody has any idea if we have cyborg fighting wars.


There is another response in play when there is a perceived threat to survival. Physical harm, threats to property used for protection, threats to self value that erode a desire to survive come from the Caveman part of our brain that dictate the innate need to run, hide, fight. As to what is coming next is anyone’s guess.


My guess is that it will be self-help.


Physical aggression and violence dictate fear. the use of run, hide, fight.


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THE BEADY EYE SAY’S: WHEN WE REFLECT UPON OUR ORIGINS IT IS DIFFICULT TO AVOID THE MOST ESSENTIAL QUESTION OF THEM ALL – WHAT MAKES US HUMANS DIFFERENT FROM OTHER ANIMALS?
										

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Our brain have difficulties in accepting that we actually are animals and thus highly dependent on nature where nothing exists alone.


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Science has organized human evolution into six levels.


We share the first five with other creatures, while the sixth level makes us unique –  language.


Our use of language and given rise to the sciences and philosophical thoughts that now are transforming the entire biosphere, while abusing it to such a degree that we are currently on the verge of destroying it completely.


It is difficult to understanding that extinctions are not features of this civilization, but virtually all past civilizations have faced this fate. We might be more advanced technologically now, but this gives little comfort as we are not immune to the threats that undid our ancestors.


MAYBE THIS IS THE MAIN REASON THAT WE ARE UNABLE TO ADDRESS THE CLIMATE CRISIS, WHICH IS NOW AN INDUSTRY RATHER THAN A THREATH TO OUR VERY EXISTENCE, to the biodiversity, to food security, access to fresh water, the lack of which will result in wars.


Unfortunately we are still animals living in a world that is changing the atmosphere’s chemistry, which is becoming a reality, not tomorrow, but right now and that’s with the number of people we already have.


Indeed the very technology we now rely on bring new unprecedented challenges.




From the emergence of Homo sapiens, it took roughly 300,000 years before one billion of us populated the Earth, with people evolving into their current form some 200,000 years ago.


(Huts, 2 million years ago. Boats, 900,000 years ago. Cooking, 500,000 years ago. Javelins, 400,000 years ago, Glue, 200,000 years ago. Clothing possibly 170,000 years ago.)


“Behavioural modernity,” evolved 50,000-65,000 years ago.  It took 15,000 to 10,000 years to start growing stable foods.


The planet most likely will surpass eight billion people sometime around mid-November. (The world population is to exceed 10 billion this century.) 


Climate change – the world population – technologies inequality – you name it, will determine how many of us will be living on Earth as we approach 2100.


There can be no mistaking the import of this, as it belies the dangers of the next several decades which will see migration on a massive scale, due wars because of runaway climate change.A photograph of a person facing away from the camera, standing with their arms raised, in front of factories with smokestacks emitting smoke


Unprecedented droughts or city-destroying floods would prompt mass migrations, destabilizing the rich world or giving rise to far-right nationalism. Or a global famine could send food prices surging, triggering old-fashioned resource wars.


Survival and success do not depend on brutal force. There is an empirical connection between violence and climate change that’s persists across 12,000 years of human history.


The long chain of evolutionary development has taught us with technology and political trends conflict will continue and even intensify.


“Whether we like it or not changes will be happening, and the situation will not improve by itself.


The future well-being and actual life on earth depends on us all and our ability to express compassion and work together as the eusocial creatures we de facto are.


“No one is doing this in the right way at the moment,”


World hunger, ecological and environmental disaster, global warming, massive shifts in weather systems, the re-emergence of diseases long thought controlled, with political turmoil, in a world where a barrel of water is more expensive than a barrel of oil.


Empathy, compassion and cooperation are now so saturated by Tec that we are becoming a species totally unscrew and desentized to reality, others, and their needs, becoming algorithms predictions.  


Efforts so far to incorporate climate change into future population projections have been inadequate.


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Where is it leading us?


To answer that, we have to think about how we got here in the first place – Greed


Currently it is estimated for that 50 million people are living on less than the $3.65 a day, with half of the global population lives on less than US$6.85.


You could add another few billons who are not poor enough to feature.


The world is divided into the very rich, and the very poor. And since everybody knows there aren’t a whole lot of very rich people, they assume the majority of the world’s population is living in extreme poverty. But that’s completely wrong; the overwhelming majority of people live somewhere in the middle.


Our problem is inequality, attached to Greed, which is now plundering the world in the form of profit seeking algorithms that are generating profits for the few, using the latest technology Algorithmic trading designed to capitalize on market inefficiencies, trades can be completed at speeds and frequencies impossible for mere mortals. 




Algorithm’s are creating a new social contract between a sovereign and citizens, in which the people collectively who were sovereign are becoming digitalised citizens.


Power now resides with those best able to organize knowledge.


The knowledge revolution should bring a shift to direct democracy, but those who benefit from the current structure are fighting this transition. This is the source of much angst around the world, including the current wave of popular protests.


Neither, physical military strength, nor access to capital are now sufficient for economic success.


If we are to have any chance, we have to change to direct democracy which is easier to achieve than big, sprawling governments.


I’m not sure we can, but I know it will happen because capitalism or any other systems will no longer generate sufficient income to sustain social welfair states.


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The problem is how do we reconcile that with democracy in countries composed of millions of citizens?


Talk of artificial intelligence destroying humanity plays into the tech companies’ agenda, and hinders effective regulation of the societal harms AI is causing right now.


Barely a week seems to go by without a tech industry insider trumpeting the existential risks of artificial intelligence (AI). Fearmongering narratives about existential risks are not constructive. 


Serious discussion about actual risks, and action to contain them, are. 


The sooner humanity establishes its rules of engagement with AI, the sooner we can learn to live in harmony with the technology. 


Algos require an uninterrupted power supply and reliable internet access. Even a brief failure in these conditions can prove cataclysmic.


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Memorandum for Green Bond Issuers: Certain Aspects and Considerations -  Herman, Henry & Dominic LLP


What is needed are direct opportunities for all to invest in the future.


One of our fundamental challenges in the years ahead will be to mobilize the substantial sums needed for investment in everything from green infrastructure to the cutting-edge technologies that we will need to achieve net zero emissions by 2050 and slow the course of climate change.


At the moment we have Green bonds/Climate change bonds are issued exclusively to finance projects that positively impact the environment. Today, more than 50 countries have issued green bonds. However, the appeal of this market and the fact that there is no binding regulatory framework for green bonds may lead to suspicions of ‘greenwashing’ (false green claims).


There’s nothing new or specifically European about green bonds.


They’ve been around since the beginning of the 21st century. Although they weren’t yet called green bonds, the first of them are thought to have been issued in 2001 by the City of San Francisco to finance a solar power project.


Any organization – such as governments, corporations, and financial institutions – can issue a green bond.


The green bond market is a portion of the larger debt market. Historically, over US$2 trillion of green bonds have been issued globally to date, with the potential to grow to US$5 trillion by 2025.


Industry bodies and investor action groups such as Climate Action 100+, as well as large

market investors such as sovereign wealth funds and pension funds, are in a strong position to drive development of this market. However there is no universally accepted legal and commercial definition of a green bond.


Green bonds are proven to be an effective means to secure the resources required to meet the national climate change goals, so why not issue green bonds that any joe soap could invest in.


Lotteries exist in 46.67% of countries worldwide. In many countries, with the adoption of digitalization the Lottery is a lifestyle and a massive contribution to their revenues. The Lottery industry continues to grow worldwide, with an expected increase of 4.1% CAGR by 2031. The spread of online lotteries associated with the increase in smartphone and internet usage is one of many factors that can drive growth in the global market. The Lottery market is projected to grow to $405.20 billion by 2028.


US POWERBALL 59 tickets were sold every second of the year.


MEGA MILLIONS 2,817 tickets every minute or about 47 tickets every second—of the whole year!


EUROMILLIONS 342 EuroMillions tickets were sold every single second of 2019—or 20,566 tickets a minute!


UK LOTTO 122 lottery tickets for every one of the 31,536,000 seconds in 2019


They allows us all the chance to change our lives.


A staggering amount of money that goes into lotteries on a daily basis. In fact, just about every second of every day.


By making 1% OF ANY LOTTO TICKETS purchase eligible to acquire a climate Bond (with a gurantee interest return in twenty years from now..) RATHER THAN BIN THE TICKET ON LOOSING ONE COLLECTS THEM IN ORDER TO FUND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT.


 It would be everyone’s collective interest to identify with the physical manifestations of climate change.


Climate change is a defining issue of our time.


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( Four minute read)


Humans are highly social creatures.


Advancements in technology is now completely re-shaped the everyday routine of the Modern Human.


Developing a chokehold on our lives, to the point of corverting us all into product to be harvested on a 24/24 bases by profit seeking algorithms.


Our brains have become wired to process social information, and we usually feel better when we are connected.  Social media taps into this tendency.


When you develop a population-scale technology that delivers social signals to the tune of trillions per day in real-time, the rise of social media isn’t unexpected.


It’s like tossing a lit match into a pool of gasoline.


The once-prevalent, gauzy utopian vision of online community is disappearing,


Why?


BECAUSE ITS NOT GETTING ANY EASYER AT BEING A PERSON, IN THIS TECHNOLOGICALLY FUCKED UP SUPPOSELY CONNECTED WORLD.


Along with the benefits of eaiser connectivity and increased information, social media has also become a vehicle for disinformation and political attacks from beyond sovereign borders.person on a smartphone


With little or now privacy left, we are now left to endure, rather than enjoye a life on social media, gorging on the most lurid speculation which one feels kind of stuck and unconsciously obliged to check it way more than you want to


I dont know about you but I am sick of seeing people so drawn to their phones at social events and in general I wonder are we are all just becoming AI predictions as what we are and how we live our lives. 


Companies like Google, X, and Meta collect vast amounts of user data, in part to better understand and improve their platforms but largely to be able to sell targeted advertising.


Collection of sensitive information around users’ race, ethnicity, sexuality, or other identifiers are now not just putting people at risk, they are also desentizing us at large to the state of the world.


Even for users who want to opt out of ravenous data collection, privacy policies remain complicated and vague, and many users don’t have the time or knowledge of legalese to parse through them.


At best, users can figure out what data won’t be collected, but either way, the onus is really on the users to sift through policies, trying to make sense of what’s really happening with their data.


There’s a very strong corollary between the data that’s collected about us and current state of the world -wars – growing inequality  – demishing democracy – lack of long term actions, such as on Climate Change that has now turned into an industry not a threat to our very existence.


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The emergence of smartphones in 2007 generated macro data, which uses artificial intelligence  transforming our daily routines.


There are no laws that require platforms to show how they use or sell the data collected.


So far, attempts to curtail the collection of users’ data has been piecemeal, largely driven by state-level laws and individual enforcement actions. Regulation continues to be extraordinarily behind.


The companies are not going to change on their own.


However it barely scratches the surface of what they have enabled, with few arenas of human endeavour left untouched by the smartphone.


Against the backdrop of the constant rise in time spent by young people on social media, a staggering 74% of them are checking their social media accounts more than they would like to. Instagram, TikTok and other social media have become daily fixtures in their lives with 59% of young people now spending more than two hours of their average day on social media.


The five most popular platforms are Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, Snapchat and Facebook.


Whilst YouTube and TikTok dominate as sources of entertainment, Instagram, Snapchat and BeReal are the platforms most widely posted on by young people.


Addictive platform design take on young people’s mental health and their feeling of powerlessness in the face of global companies’ constant nudging to participate in a vicious cycle of personal data sharing and content consumption.


The “addictive” lure of the constant stream of updates and personalized recommendations, often feeling “overstimulated” and “distracted”, but algorithms pick up on mental health issues and expose users to ever more related content, bombarding us with bad news as it stimulated more viewings, till we are all officially desensitized.


Something bad happens across the country? We hear about it. Something bad happens across the world? We hear about it. Something good news happens, for all intitive purpose it is ignored.  


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The natural question at this point, it would seem, would be to ask where we should draw the line.


Why tragedies stop seeming so tragic – and why this needs to stop.


The sheer amount of violence present in the world only seems to be increasing with Netflicks quietly capitalizing on another form of content. More than other entertainment outlets, Netflix’s hit shows spotlight gruesome violence. More than other entertainment outlets, a number of Netflix’s hit shows spotlight gruesome violence, often committed against women.


Escalating violence on-screen can make us more tolerant of it in real life.


Gone are the days of bang bang ypur dead Graphic, realistic violent content is considered the ‘norm’ post-watershed.


This is not necessarily because people are becoming more violent in their nature, but is rather due to increased methods of communication brought on by technological improvements like playing violent video games.


Is it possible that individuals who consume violent media not only become more aggressive, but also make their friends and family more aggressive, even  if those do not consume violent media themselves? The consumer is actively influencing her/his friend to make her/him more alike.


We don’t process large numbers as well as we do smaller numbers.


How sad should we be over the news of those dead in Gaza? Utterly distraught, significantly, not much?


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Mobile phones are now extraordinarily multi-functional, but mass access to knowledge in the age of communications threatens basic concepts such as individual identity and autonomy.


To maintain our empathy for others, it is important to first extend it to ourselves and to those within our immediate circle.  


Smartphones have enabled the digital and real worlds to be blended through augmented reality, allowing users to track aircraft overhead, for example (Credit: Getty Images)


The Smart phone is destroying this empathy, one of the most ubiquitous technology devices of all time, with the ability to take the device everywhere comes the idea that no one is ever far from the things that matter most to them.


With the death of proximity, the smartphone has become your home, but home is no longer a refuge.


We don’t know about how our smartphones are affecting us.


Are they alienating people from each other, or helping them to connect with others?


Do they affect children differently than adults?


And how do we step away from our phones if our whole lives are on them?


Smartphones are basic necessities but it is only by looking at the vastly different uses and contexts that we can fully understand the consequences of smartphones for people’s lives around the world.


Combining artificial intelligence with the extraordinary data-gathering capabilities of smartphones, is creating other opportunities. Millions of people across many parts of the world that are conflict-bound or subject to some of the worst effects of the climate crisis have left their homeland behind completely in search of a new life are using their smartphone to navigate their circumstances and situations.


(According to the UN, there were 110 million forcibly displaced people in the world.)


If you ask people how much they care about all people on earth dying, it’s not seven-and-half billion times more concern, than if you told them one person would die.


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If we assume that transcendentally brilliant artificial minds won’t be along to save or destroy us, and live according to that outlook, then what is the worst that could happen – we build a better world for nothing?


We need a cultural change in values, to enable more deliberate decision-making.


If we don’t the future of society, as defined by the scientific and technological revolutions needs a custom ethical and philosophical direction, as the world is rapidly moving to each person doing what’s best for themselves.


Or to put it more bluntly.


Someday in the future, someone will arrive at another turning point where the fate of the species is theirs to decide.


If our extinction proceeds slowly enough to allow a moment of horrified realisation, the doers of the deed will likely be quite taken aback… if the Earth is destroyed, it will probably be by mistake.


Society used to be able to make a long-term plan and that’s not something that happens now.


We go to quick fixes.


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Clearly, technology by itself is neither good nor bad.


It is only the way and extent to which we use it that matters. It is indisputable that thanks to technology, we get a chance to live a life our predecessors could not even dream about. However reality does not take place in Smartphones.


There is no economy or individual that is unaffected by climate change. By 2050, this problem could force 216 million people to relocate within their own nations.


When all areas of human activity get rapidly digitized, it’s easy to become desensitized to the importance of innovations and advancements for the overall progress of society.


Those in the tech industry know that the opportunities on this horizon are endless.


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What are today’s challenges for artificial intelligence?


Building technology for the sake of technology won’t cut it in a globalized society.


There’s a juxtaposition between the need for a more connected world and hesitation from people toward technology that tech innovators need to account for and solve. 


The development of new advancements must be rooted in a holistic mindset balancing desire for more conveniences with feasible solutions to meet the needs of future generations.


To accomplish this, education will play a critical role in bridging perceptions and fostering authentic trust between technology and humans.


Indeed it is my belief that all teenagers are now in need to be educated in classroom in the use of mobiles.


Do you believe technology should be more focused on the problems of society or individual needs?


Is technology being used sufficiently to tackle society’s major issues?


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The human species will change with genetic editing, artificial intelligence challenges the concept of “I” and “individual;” and robotics will bring new “companion robots,” which we need to define and adopt socially.


In the last 10 years, genetics has made it possible to analyse old DNA and, as a result, revealed the history of the planet’s first inhabitants. We are now a single human species but we finally know that descend from other species. We now have unprecedented tools to inform and transform society and to protect the environment.


How should we harness this potential in the future?


How does this perspective change our understanding of the current human diversity?


Excessive use of gadgets, lack of offline communication, and social media abuse were proven to cause negative effects on mental health.


It is indispensable to give machines “common-sense knowledge” in order to move toward the ambitious goal of building “truly intelligent” general AI.


This is the time to make the necessary decisions to outline this path.


When robots take the final leap from our imagination to our homes and workplaces, they will become our companions; they will add new possibilities and countless variables to our patterns of behaviour:  they will change how and where we build, how we move or the materials we use to create things.


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How, exactly, could AI destroy us?


We humans have already wiped out a significant fraction of all the species on Earth.


That is what you should expect to happen as a less intelligent species – which is what we are likely to become, given the rate of progress of artificial intelligence. For example, in many cases, we have wiped out species just because we wanted resources.


The worst-case scenario is that we fail to disrupt the status quo, in which very powerful companies develop and deploy AI in invisible and obscure ways.


As AI becomes increasingly capable, and speculative fears about far-future existential risks gather mainstream attention, we need to work urgently to understand, prevent and remedy present-day harms.


These harms are playing out every day, with powerful algorithmic technology being used to mediate our relationships between one another and between ourselves and our institutions.


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How would AI get physical agency?


In the very early stages, by using humans as its hands.


You feel as though you are encountering absolute reality, whatever the hell that is, enlightenment is nothing more than a “pure consciousness event which is just a stepping-stone, at best, to true enlightenment, which does not make you permanently happy, let alone ecstatic. It is a state that incorporates all human emotions and qualities: love and hate, desire and fear, wisdom and ignorance.


Enlightenment does not give you answers to scientific riddles such as the origin of the universe, or of conscious life,  just as electrons can be described as waves and particles, so ultimate reality might be timeless and aimless—and also have some directionality and purpose.


The ability to hold opposites, emotional opposites, at the same time is really what we’re after.


However the mind remains in many respects unchanged, you discover a void at the heart of reality.


Not until  you realize you’re the same jerk you were all along.


The biggest power trip you can imagine” and an “aphrodisiac.” you think you’re God.


The object vanishes and only consciousness remains, it becomes its own subject and object.


It becomes aware of itself, seeing life as an illusion that makes accepting death easier.


What you are, and what the world is.


I must be missing something. What can we do about it?”


I want to bring us back to a more practical reality, which is that technology is what we make it, and we are abdicating our responsibility to steer technology toward good and away from bad.


That is the path I try to illuminate in this post an issue of social responsibility.


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THE BEADY EYE ASK’S: IF YOU HAD A CHOICE WHAT SORT OF WORLD WOULD YOU LIVE IN?
										

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( Five minute read)


On July the 20th this year it will be fifty five years since one of us stood on another planet. Since then only 24 people have seen the whole of Earth. Achived with less computer power that is now in our phone’s.


In those fiftyfive years we have had fifty-five active conflicts. Eight of these 55 conflicts were classified as wars.


This is the world we got.


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We are truly living in a very unique time in the history of our civilization, facing several simultaneous challenges and converging crises:


Because the world is a cauldron where dozens of cultures, religions and ideologies mix with each other, which always leads to a conflict. We are all born of frailty and error.


A deteriorating environment, a very unequal distribution of dwindling resources, widespread poverty, wars, climate change, oppression of many peoples, and dissatisfaction with life even in those countries with a surplus of material wealth.


What can we do about it?


The answer to such question is certainly not simple, and you will not find it in any textbook.


All these problems and converging crises are systemic.


For the most part these crises we humans have brought upon ourselves over the course of many centuries by our attitudes towards each other and towards Nature, and by the concepts we have developed regarding who we are and the very purpose of our being here — in other words, our worldview.


The 20th century revolution of technologies that permits long distance travel and instant communication across the world has brought all cultures closer together, making us more aware than ever of the many diverse spiritual-cultural traditions that have flourished for millennia as intricate, elaborate meta-solutions to the challenges and opportunities of living in a particular place.


Now we are challenged to integrate the wealth of knowledge and capability that this remarkable period has brought us into a new narrative of interbeing — a synthesis of ancient wisdom of our interconnectedness and interdependence with modern science and technology.


We now have a choice to make!


Either we move into a new phase in the evoloution of consciouness and a new ear of life on planet Earth, or we will witness the unraveling of the web of life and the immature end of our species and much of the community of life along with us. 


The time to make this choice is now!


It starts with a fundamental shift in our dominant worldview. It is time to grow up!




A world with less gravity and more humanity.


Where people get what they deserve rather than deserve what they get.

Where there is a God for everyone and no one God is better than other.

Where an empty stomach is an alien concept.

Where mind is held high and heart is held higher.


Where people are immaterialistic.

Where people think logically, question and reason everything without blindly following anything or be superstitious.


Where people respect each other and not judge others for their actions.

Where one should treat others as one would like others to treat oneself.


History shows us that none of the above is possible without AI augmentation of human intelligence to enshrin values of beauty, agency, and individuality. by benevolent, incorruptible agencies that are beyond human intelligence.


The era of Artificial Intelligence is here. AI has already started.


AI is not a living being that has been primed by billions of years of evolution to participate in the battle for the survival of the fittest, as animals are, and as we are. It is math – code – computers, built by people, owned by people, used by people, controlled by people.


Its true that AI doesn’t have goals of its own, but its influnce on our lives is endangering the very meaning of life and  instead of us embracing a worldview based on facts, it will cause us to lose our ability to focus on the things that threaten us most.


Understanding what “we” want is among the biggest challenges facing AI.


It is very difficult to encode human values in a programming language, but the problem is made more difficult by the fact that we as humanity do not agree on common values, and even parts we do agree on change with time. The question then becomes how do we aligne AI with Human values.


Whose human values?


Ah, that’s where things get tricky.


A major change is coming, over unknown timescales but across every segment of society, and the people playing a part in that transition have a huge responsibility and opportunity to shape it for the best.


So here are some of the questions we should be asking.


What does it mean to you to have artificial intelligence aligned with your own life goals and aspirations?


How can it be aligned with you and everyone else in the world at the same time?


How do we ensure that one person’s version of an ideal AI doesn’t make your life more difficult?


How do we go about agreeing on human values, and how can we ensure that AI understands these values?


If you have a personal AI assistant, how should it be programmed to behave?


If we have AI more involved in things like medicine or policing or education, what should that look like?


What else should we, as a society, be asking?


Globally, humankind must think about the kind of future we want to have.


The recently articulated United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) offer a good starting point, but these goals are merely the preconditions necessary for survival and flourishing, so they are not

enough. A further step is needed to determine our common goals as a civilization, and more

philosophically, the purpose of human existence, and how AI will fit into it.


Generative AI is not hype.


Instead, it acts at a scale so large that it will transform how we interact with technology itself.  It will far outpace what we’ve seen so far today.


AI has been used to help sequence RNA for vaccines and model human speech, technologies that rely on model- and algorithm-based machine learning and increasingly focus on perception, reasoning and generalization.


If we reach a point where AI is able to understand our languages, AI systems would be able to read and understand everything ever written. In the mean time rest assured that we will continue to fight wars against each other, as we have done since day until the end of time, or at least Earth’s time which is in about 5.4 billion years.


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( Fifteen minute read)


Put simply, the meaning of life is life itself.


You can write volumes on the state of the world, but one has only to look at the state of the world to see what algorithms are doing.


Algorithms form an increasingly important part of our daily lives, even if we are often unaware of it.


Most of us have no idea what they are — or how we’re being influenced by them.


They have become instrumental in our everyday lives.


Algorithms are making hugely consequential decisions in our society on everything from medicine to transportation to welfare benefits to criminal justice and beyond. Subtly shifting the way our society is operating.


We can see them at work in the world. We know they’re shaping outcomes all around us.


Are we making a mistake by handing over so much decision-making authority to these programs?


This paradox—that the internet is both saviour and executioner of democracy is part of a massive unfolding social experiment.


The proliferation of algorithms is eroding our ability to think and decide for ourselves. They are turning people into products, and they don’t even realize it.


Billions of people around the world are interacting with these technologies, which is why the tiniest changes can have such a gigantic impact on all of humanity.


We will blindly follow them wherever they lead us. There is no one assessing whether or not they are providing a net benefit or cost to society.


WE DON’T HAVE TO CREATE A WORLD IN WHICH MACHINES ARE TELLING US WHAT TO DO OR HOW TO THINK, ALTHOUGH WE MAY VERY WELL END UP IN A WORLD LIKE THAT WHERE ALGORITHMS DECIDE WHO LIVES OR WHO DIES.


How you see the world matters.


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 Beliefs are the things we hold true, regardless of whether we have any proof of their objective truth.


You see, in time, beliefs become labels. 


We plaster them on our foreheads and use them to justify our action or inaction. That belief will then drive how you behave as you interpret it as being damning or empowering.


We all would be a lot happier if everyone else around us had the same beliefs as we do, or at least, that they would not challenge us on them. Of course, that is impossible, and this is precisely what fuels most of the world’s conflicts.


And here comes the kicker:


You can decide the direction you take. Your beliefs do not control you, so long as you become self-aware and take charge of your life. Or maybe if you assume everything will fall apart, you never get disappointed.


So, herein lies the persistent conflict of our society:


All of us are driven by our life experiences and by merely being human, but the creeping influence of algorithms in our lives are fucking up the world. We’re increasingly moving towards government by algorithm.


Automated systems are being rolled out with little transparency or public debate, and risk exacerbating existing inequalities.


The algorithm takes the biases and prejudices of the real world and ‘bakes them in’, and gives them a veneer that makes it seem like a policy choice is actually neutral and technical. But it isn’t,”


The problem is, both beliefs and values have strong momentum and seem glued to our character.


How do these beliefs played out in real life?


Are we just becoming throwaway survival machines, following our genetic and neurological programming in an indifferent world?


I believe that human life and the world mean much more than that.


There’s beauty everywhere—we have only to open our eyes to see it.


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When it comes to climate change, the science is settled.


When it comes to technology its all together the opposite.


The sobering truth is that both the climate and technology are out of control.


Given the difficulty of getting the human brain or our political system to tackle anything beyond immediate crises, our attempts to rectify what’s wrong are usual puny compared to what’s really needed.


If you listen to our politicians, there is a strong consensus on climate change.


It consists of four parts.


First, carbon emissions are causing significant changes to our climate. Second, we need to take urgent action to reduce those emissions, including reaching net zero by 2050. Third, we have already made good progress in reducing emissions. And fourth, the steps we need to take to reduce emissions further will also bring many positive benefits for society.


We have a pretty clear understanding of the threat climate change poses to us, our children and our grandchildren. We are already being forced to cope with more droughts, more floods, more extreme storms. At the same time, we have in our arsenal effective policies that are difficult for rational people to demagogue as crippling to the economy or as a subversion of our cherished way of life.


So why does climate misinformation continue to spread online and in our media?


Dire warnings of the looming climate disaster may just make people throw up their hands in despair, sink into denial, or dig their heels in deeper against government action.


Instead, we seem to firmly believe that climate solutions inevitably mean more government, higher taxes and less freedom — and thus are threats to all our core values and identity.


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Technology’s benefits are numerous in all fields, however in the system’s that effect our daily lives it is becoming a threat to our core values, through the use of algorithms. Pushing us like a digital slave army to mindlessly, unwittingly and unwillingly livestream our digital existences into the commercial coffers of companies that see us as nothing more than walking dollar signs.


Examples:


Every time you pick up your smartphone, you’re summoning algorithms. At this point, they are responsible for making decisions about pretty much every aspect of our lives.


The right to an explanation of an algorithm-generated decision does little to fix “systemic injustices” Getting an explanation but no democratic say in how systems work is like getting a privacy policy without a ‘do not consent’ button.


Deciding who gets access to welfare. Using automated interviews with a virtual border guard, based on “deception detection algorithm. Using algorithms to model when and where crime will happen — an area known as predictive policing — is on the rise. Using algorithms to come up with a personality assessment. Having your credit rating scored decided by an algorithm based on questionable data.


Grading algorithm does not not relied solely on automated means. Substituting a mathematical approach for human judgment does not automatically make it fair.


Profit seeking algorithms. Market making algorithms. Execution algorithms Scheduled algorithms. Participation algorithms. VWAP and TWAP algorithms are time-slicing algorithms. Liquidity-seeking algorithms (a.k.a. opportunistic algorithms) Arrival price algorithms seek to trade close to market prices.


Recent developments in algorithmic trading include clustering and high-frequency market forecasting  are playing a central role in finance.


The worst-case scenario is that we fail to disrupt the status quo, in which very powerful companies develop and deploy AI in invisible and obscure ways.


We have no right to see all of the data these companies collect about us, no right to get a percentage when they resell our data without our knowledge or informed consent, no right to ask them to stop. We are for all purposes indentured servants, offered free digital room and board in return for paying with our digital souls and our real-world time.


Social media companies have managed only to create a toxic brew of horrific hate speech that they cannot seem to get rid of.


Algorithms really are so powerful that a few lines of code can push us into any behaviour.


The right message targeted at the right time could mass convert the entire population of a country into mindless zombies who would readily convert even their most deeply held beliefs in an instant.


 When it is obvious to all is that the world is changing, responding faster than expected to Technology’s


Why are we being such idiots?


What gives? It’s not that we are stupid or blind our core values are under attack.


If everything is a core value, then nothing is really a priority.


In this age where technology is dominant, core values may seem like something from the past. So core values may not seem like they have a place.


All of this data is used first and foremost to make money from us. 


There is a really frustrating lag between what AI is capable of and what it’s legislated for. 






Core values are the foundational beliefs held by an individual or an organisation.


Anyone can go to Google and search the meaning of core values,. There are another thing on your to-do list that you don’t have time for, but what about the bigger picture?


When you hear about core values, what comes to mind?


Core values make the biggest difference between successful and failure.


There are more than just words on a wall — it’s how you behave. It’s who you are at your core.


Everyone knows their role, what is expected of them, and they are empowered to act in accordance with their core values.


Once upon a time voting or making decisions in alignment with your core values were the foundation of who we are as individuals. Not any longer with Algorithms running social media.


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To look at it simply, culture is just a collection of people. It is the environment created by the cumulative behaviour of the people.


We all have things that we value deeply, whether we realize it or not.


You remember values, don’t you? You know, those moral thoughts and behaviours we used to hold dear, like decency, civility, honesty and respect, as well as caring, optimism, empathy, and tolerance?


They were once a beacon of idealism. Rewarding behaviour based on them, and align all of our decisions with them.


Core values represent the lens which we view the world. They must be embedded in everything we do.


These “alt” credos and codes of behaviour are the trademarks of the incivility we witness on a daily basis, often expressed with rancour and rage. They have become commonplace on television, in social media and in everyday life. Of even more concern is that these new “moral standards” serve as models of behaviour for our impressionable children and youth.


Hold one another accountable for staying aligned with the values—it’s better not to profess any values at all.


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Education and knowledge were cornerstones of our achievement.


We are now living in society that at large looks to social media /television and film personalities for political advice.


You must ensure they are accurate, meaningful, relatable and fully operationalized.


If we continue our descent into callousness, selfishness and hostility, we negatively impact and harm the quality of our lives. We could lose sight of our basic human values and diminish the essence of what MAKES THE WORLD BEAUTIFUL.


Achieving a more transparent and less manipulative media may well be the defining political battle of the 21st century.


Just as we are using our formidable intellect and creativity to reduce our carbon footprint, we can similarly mobilize our resources to improve our emotional footprint, or how we treat and affect each other.


Values are the criteria by which individuals judge ideas, objects, people, situations, and actions as good, worthwhile, desirable, wrong, worthless, or undesirable


.Values are individuals’ embedded abstract motivations. They guide individuals to understand, justify, and explain norms, attitudes, and actions. One of the limitations of examining values is that values cannot  be generalized because they vary between a person and another, culture and another, society and another, even a country and another, thus scrutinizing values will be different in the future.


Core values can be only be fostered in Education, not in schools but with compulsory NATIONAL SERVICE.


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The technology behind the atomic bomb only exists because of a cooperative hive mind: hundreds of scientists and engineers working together. The same unique intelligence and cooperation also underlies more positive advances, such as modern medicine and technology.


We owe our complex reasoning abilities to it, but we have similarities with everything else in nature; it would be astonishing if we didn’t.


We were once  “rational animals” pursuing knowledge for its own sake. Now more and more of us, thanks to the smart phone, are becoming Know it all Google it ‘brainless dead.


Human societies are built on collaborative activities. That means that the interactions of humans beings in their environmental contexts, situated in their historical locations, and with available technologies are always subject to the ecological and survival pressures that have existed since time immemorial.


In the world of self learning algorithms this is no longer true.


Take Mr Musk hopes that #Neuralink can be used to merge humans with computers, allowing them to interact with artificial intelligence simply by thinking, for instance.


It stands to reason, that It won’t be long in coming. Digitalised algorithmic citizenship, with a Neuralink’ Brain chips in the head owned by a Tec company. Driven by blockchain, without any reasoning, who will only cooperate if there is something in it for them.


Thank all the gods I wont be around to see it. AI intelligence demonstrated by machines, as opposed to the natural intelligence displayed by humans.


Consequently.


AI allows machines to increasingly approach human capacities for perception and reasoning.


This process is resulting in a hollowing-out of nation-state space through rescaling, undermining its heretofore privileged position as the only natural platform and geographical expression for the monopoly of sensory and political power so far.


Such frameworks cover demands for data privacy, ownership, sovereignty, donation, co-operation, self-determination, trust, access, and ethics as well as AI transparency, algorithmic automatization, and, ultimately, democratic accountability for digital citizenship, which inevitably may transform our current interpretation of the nation-state as ‘the clear and coherent mapping of a relatively culturally homogeneous group onto a territory with a singular and organized state apparatus of rule’ (Agnew Citation2017, 347) and its relationship with digital citizenship.


On the one hand, regarding the techno-political awareness of data, these dynamics involve addressing concerns about biometric technologies (e.g. vaccine passports), rolling out algorithmic identity tools for citizenship (e.g. the ongoing e-Residency policy framework) and engaging in counter-reaction to extractives data models (e.g. through digital rights claims).


The technology that defines us can also destroy worlds.We can fight and kill on an unparalleled scale (Credit: istock)


When we – Homo sapiens – first appeared about 200,000 years ago we weren’t alone. We shared the planet at least four other upright cousins; Neanderthals, Denisovans, the “hobbit” Homo floresiensis and a mysterious fourth group.


Humans aren’t the only species that kill each other. We’re not even the only species that fight wars. But our intelligence and social prowess mean we can do so on an unprecedented scale.


We have an immense capacity for good. At the same time we risk driving our closest relatives to extinction and destroying the only planet we have ever called home.


It’s impossible to get a good clear understanding of people’s thoughts about their future without talking directly with them.


Somehow, our language abilities need to be “switched on”,


As far as we know, we are the only creatures trying to understand where we came from. We also peer further back in time, and further into the future, than any other animal.


Digital Citizenship Education is now vital.


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