Author: Aaron

  • Love

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    Love yourself.Love your kids.Love your spouse, partner or companion.Love your family.Love your friends. Love your free time.Love your hobbies.Love your work.Love your job.Love your colleagues.Love your boss.Love your corporate masters. Love your neighbours.Love your suburb, town or city.Love your state.Love your country. Love the system that keeps you fed, clothed, housed & breathing.Love the power…

  • Writing in a Post ChatGPT World

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    From the outset it should be said that I use ChatGPT pretty much daily and think it is an amazing piece of technology set to change the course of human history (as if it hasn’t already done so). But now the act of putting thoughts to paper in my own often grammatically dubious and bumbling…

  • AI & Automation Revolution

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    Artificial Intelligence vs. Machine Learning: Understanding the Differences Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are often used interchangeably, but they are not the same thing. AI refers to the broader concept of machines that can perform tasks that would typically require human intelligence, such as perception, reasoning, and learning. Machine learning, on the other…

  • Solarpunk

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    What started as pure aesthetic has become social underground with books and manifestos building an optimistic ideological movement providing much needed hope for the future.

  • What if There is Nothing After?

    What if there really is nothing after? You close your eyes, fall off your perch and then, nothing. No more sense of self, no Valhalla, no pearly gates, or even the eternal torment of hell. What happens to your values if it turns out there is no weighing of hearts against feathers, no ledger of…

  • The Queen is Dead, Long Live the Republic

    With a change of monarch many Australians are starting to question is it time to change up our way of government. Time for a republic?

  • Futurist

    Assumptions & Definition After assuming the moniker of “futurist” I realised I didn’t really have a deep understanding of what the term means. I had a vague notion it meant someone who thinks about and envisions the future especially around how technology will affect society at large. The logic could follow just as a capitalist…

  • AILS: Capitalism

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    Assumptions Before I began my quest to learn about one of (if not the) most prevalent economic systems in the world, I had some very specific ideas about what capitalism was. Firstly, I thought that capitalism’s main aim was to redistribute wealth amongst the population. Secondly, I thought it was the only market based economic…

  • The Human Project

    Waking in an unknown room is always a jarring experience. Waking in an unknown room that has a distinct surgical feel, surrounded by odd artefacts and gadgets from ancient civilisations from all across the world, is even stranger. To push it past strange into the completely insane, there is what can only be described as…

    Astronaut floating through cosmos
  • Perfect Worker Drone

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    True sentience in artificial intelligence is the pinnacle but semi-autonomous non-sentient machines might be the key to our future.