As Private James Frazer often predicted on BBC’s classic, Dad’s Army, “We’re doomed!” It’s bad enough that the planet is burning and the future is bleak for most animals and plants. But our species has found a way to quicken our own demise! I listened yesterday (10/09/2026) to Professor Stuart Russell, an eminent AI scientist,… Continue reading AI is a shortcut to human extinction
AI is a shortcut to human extinction
As Private James Frazer often predicted on BBC’s classic, “Dad’s Army”, “We’re doomed!” It’s bad enough that the planet is burning and the future is bleak for most animals and plants. But our species has found a way to quicken our own demise! I listened yesterday (10/09/2026)/ to Professor Stuart Russell, eminent AI scientist, tell… Continue reading AI is a shortcut to human extinction
Our species is truly awful.
I saw a video that won’t leave me, of male chicks being tossed alive into a burning container because they are no use to the egg industry. Because people like eating eggs and egg products. This is worse than seeing chicks chucked onto a conveyor that drops them into a grinder, that, at least, is… Continue reading Our species is truly awful.
Lives of my forebears
I often think about how improbable my existence is but, more importantly, all those who went before, to get me here. No rich people in my past, although some, relatively recently, were moderately comfortably off, I probably have the most affluent life of my whole line. I believe the 14th century to have been the… Continue reading Lives of my forebears
Bad world
The very young mouse didn’t wake up today expecting to die terrified and in agony. When if woke, it didn’t know the world contained terror and agony.
The threat of Artificial General Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence (AI) scholar Kate Crawford, discussing the Reith Lecture by Stuart Russell in December 2021, was sceptical that Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) could ever be capable of doing everything better than a human, as much of what we do relies upon emotions machines do not possess. Stephen Hawkin predicted AI could be the best… Continue reading The threat of Artificial General Intelligence
Goodbye Beige, our handsome boy
We had to say goodbye to our beautiful boy at 09:20 on the morning of 19th October 2020. We are devastated. Early life Beige had a tough first six or so years. He was born on a farm in August 2003, but then kept with five other cats on the stairs of a terraced house.… Continue reading Goodbye Beige, our handsome boy
Government uses pandemic as cover for heists!
Should we welcome Boris Johnson’s efforts to relax lockdown and restart the economy? To be brutally blunt, it does not matter how big or small a recession, or whether it is avoided, to people who are dead. I am no expert on alternative methods of education, but I do believe other approaches need to be… Continue reading Government uses pandemic as cover for heists!
Save the Planet – Reforest and Phase Out Meat & Dairy
To stand any chance of saving the planet we must EITHER reforest OR let our children suffer the consequences
Will we be just a smear on the lens of time?
Before the film Jurassic Park generated interest and funding for digs, we only had two fragments of Tyranausaurus Rex, 4.5 million years apart. Without that popular and intense focus, we might almost have missed T Rex. Our “modern” ancestors have been around no more than 0.2 million years. A speck on the geological timeline. Those… Continue reading Will we be just a smear on the lens of time?