Volentary Human Extinction. Sounds like a BRILLIANT idea.
Oh... wait. no. The other thing. TERRIBLE! I am not anti establishment. I am not pro Cult. This VHEMT is a cult. This is suicidal thinking. This is Stupid. Do not think that I approve or condone this at all.
Nor am i particularly interested in conspiracy theories. For example anything to do with 9/11... or crop circles or ghosts or anything like that.
generic 9/11 conspiracy theory
generic crop circle conspiracy theory
For the most part they are bunk. I'm interested in truths and possibility of the future, not hearsay and rumour.
So don't lump me with the hippies and drug addicts, don't put me with the astrologists and whackos. You can call me a common sense everyday theorist. I will not be leading anyone to drink cool aid, no one needs gas masks and I don't encourage vegetarianism. Essentially... Don't Panic. (and read a good book!)
Monday, 22 February 2010
Sunday, 21 February 2010
Guantanamo is terrible. Dont argue.
Just an example.
Holding anyone for years and subjecting them to any kind of torture is wrong. Especially if there are no charges. Especially if they are somewhere where the law doesn't apply. It isn't about whether or not anyone kept there is a terrorist... its about human rights pure and simple. What the Americans have done there is wrong and us Brits are just as bad by allowing and encouraging it in any way. Dammit. Its stuff like this, stuff you secretly now is wrong but are perhaps afraid to say because people might think that because your not OK with torture and unjust prison captivity, your somehow pro terrorist. Well sod it... its wrong. Is eroded our sense of right and wrong... and it will only lead to bigger bites being taken out of our moral code. Soon enough it will seem OK to execute without trial.
Holding anyone for years and subjecting them to any kind of torture is wrong. Especially if there are no charges. Especially if they are somewhere where the law doesn't apply. It isn't about whether or not anyone kept there is a terrorist... its about human rights pure and simple. What the Americans have done there is wrong and us Brits are just as bad by allowing and encouraging it in any way. Dammit. Its stuff like this, stuff you secretly now is wrong but are perhaps afraid to say because people might think that because your not OK with torture and unjust prison captivity, your somehow pro terrorist. Well sod it... its wrong. Is eroded our sense of right and wrong... and it will only lead to bigger bites being taken out of our moral code. Soon enough it will seem OK to execute without trial.
Have we learnt nothing from stargate?
Immortal non life molecules that replicate themselves?
This is the start of real life replicators. They only stop replicating when they run out of substrate apparently. Which means if they are engineered to use anything.. well you get the idea... "all hail our new robot overlords!" (i fear i may be using that phrase too much.)
This is the start of real life replicators. They only stop replicating when they run out of substrate apparently. Which means if they are engineered to use anything.. well you get the idea... "all hail our new robot overlords!" (i fear i may be using that phrase too much.)
********** sucks!
Australia like to ****** things.
How comfortable would you be if the government wanted to make a secret ****** list? Its a big one this... it could easily be shrugged off as "protection" and for the most part i'm sure that's what its designed for. But you know that it would be used for more nefarious means. Noone should be ok with *********.
You expect it from overtly oppressive governments and regimes... but those living in our Antipodes are supposed to be relaxed beer drinking fellas and sheilas right? We already know they dont allow games that are rated adult. Not even purely for adult consumption. They deem it unsuitable and that reeks of control and oppression.
How comfortable would you be if the government wanted to make a secret ****** list? Its a big one this... it could easily be shrugged off as "protection" and for the most part i'm sure that's what its designed for. But you know that it would be used for more nefarious means. Noone should be ok with *********.
You expect it from overtly oppressive governments and regimes... but those living in our Antipodes are supposed to be relaxed beer drinking fellas and sheilas right? We already know they dont allow games that are rated adult. Not even purely for adult consumption. They deem it unsuitable and that reeks of control and oppression.
The darkside of the sun.
How close are these to becoming reality?
There is a Terry Pratchett book called Dark side of the Sun and in it are tiny surveillance robots. They werent a massive part of the story.. more an excuse to post a beautiful piece of cover art.
When will AI pass human intelligence?
All hail our new robot overlords!
Ok, so it probably wont be like in terminator. But still... makes you kind of uneasy.
Ok, so it probably wont be like in terminator. But still... makes you kind of uneasy.
interfering EU
The EU can really be very awkeward.
Who let them get into power? Who voted for them? Who agreed that they could have such power over how we live and work? Voting in a government that then decides to allow a SUPER government with nearly no countries allowing a referendum (thanks Ireland for giving in the second time around) seems a bit like a dick move. Now they are talking about internet companies needing real premises? Why is it up to them? Not a major thing i guess, not for most of us, but a marker on the road to subjugation.
Who let them get into power? Who voted for them? Who agreed that they could have such power over how we live and work? Voting in a government that then decides to allow a SUPER government with nearly no countries allowing a referendum (thanks Ireland for giving in the second time around) seems a bit like a dick move. Now they are talking about internet companies needing real premises? Why is it up to them? Not a major thing i guess, not for most of us, but a marker on the road to subjugation.
Synthetic life with a kill switch
Scientists creating something that needs a mad made function to kill it. How can this be good? (though it is nice to know they have thought about worst case scenarios)
Scientists creating something that needs a mad made function to kill it. How can this be good? (though it is nice to know they have thought about worst case scenarios)
There will be Links...
Let me explain how this will work. I will add links to news stories and the like which I find to be relevant. I will add labels to them. I will let you decide what you think, but i will add my own thoughts from time to time. Sound OK to you? And so it begins.
The countdown begins...
This is the start of something. A start of a blog to follow the current trend of decline. The trend of the downfall of civilisation.
Through governments taking advantage of their people, to civil liberties and rights being abused by parliament, to bio-engineered virus and bacteria, nano-bots and AI. Anything that we do that could be seen as a signpost or a way point to the final conclusion of civilisation as we know it will be mentioned here.
My view is this.
Our civilisation, our capitalist democracy that we know and love in the west is going to fail before too long. It will be entirely our own fault. I love our current system. It has worked well on the most part. Without capitalism and without our democracy I shudder to think where we would be, but every civilisation of man has ended, and it seems to me that this one is coming in to land now. I don't know what's to come after, but I want to document why its happening. We are unsustainable. A monetary system based on fake money and fake credit. Farmers being paid subsidies for products they haven't grown or reared. We are at the peak and it will soon dip. Not merely through our banking system falling apart or being radically changed... but also through the governments of this world changing our freedoms. CCTV, fingerprinting, and so on. You know.... the things that make you angry and you know are wrong... but can do nothing about. Even voting in a different government wouldn't help... and that's all the power you have to change things.
Not only these abuses of freedom, but through advancement in science. Don't get me wrong... and call me no Luddite... Science is a fantastic thing. It truly is stunning to think we are so advanced now. And we are. Invisibility cloaks, hover cars and transparent aluminium are stupendous achievements, and no longer banished to the realms of science fiction. But there are sinister experiments going on. Surveillance techniques, bio-engineering of targeted diseases with the need for a "kill switch" and nano technology and AI development which may one day lead to not only a cure for all disease, but weapons that cannot be stopped. There are upsides and downsides. The LHC for example, which may advance our understanding of particle physics tenfold or it may full on destroy the planet. Just speculation, but if real scientists are discussing the possibility, then we can assume that it is that. A possibility.
Essentially I will be documenting anything that scares or should scare people. Things that give you the heebie jeebies or make you sit outraged at your computer screen.
In short... all evidence that this civilisation is failing.
Thank you for your time.
Through governments taking advantage of their people, to civil liberties and rights being abused by parliament, to bio-engineered virus and bacteria, nano-bots and AI. Anything that we do that could be seen as a signpost or a way point to the final conclusion of civilisation as we know it will be mentioned here.
My view is this.
Our civilisation, our capitalist democracy that we know and love in the west is going to fail before too long. It will be entirely our own fault. I love our current system. It has worked well on the most part. Without capitalism and without our democracy I shudder to think where we would be, but every civilisation of man has ended, and it seems to me that this one is coming in to land now. I don't know what's to come after, but I want to document why its happening. We are unsustainable. A monetary system based on fake money and fake credit. Farmers being paid subsidies for products they haven't grown or reared. We are at the peak and it will soon dip. Not merely through our banking system falling apart or being radically changed... but also through the governments of this world changing our freedoms. CCTV, fingerprinting, and so on. You know.... the things that make you angry and you know are wrong... but can do nothing about. Even voting in a different government wouldn't help... and that's all the power you have to change things.
Not only these abuses of freedom, but through advancement in science. Don't get me wrong... and call me no Luddite... Science is a fantastic thing. It truly is stunning to think we are so advanced now. And we are. Invisibility cloaks, hover cars and transparent aluminium are stupendous achievements, and no longer banished to the realms of science fiction. But there are sinister experiments going on. Surveillance techniques, bio-engineering of targeted diseases with the need for a "kill switch" and nano technology and AI development which may one day lead to not only a cure for all disease, but weapons that cannot be stopped. There are upsides and downsides. The LHC for example, which may advance our understanding of particle physics tenfold or it may full on destroy the planet. Just speculation, but if real scientists are discussing the possibility, then we can assume that it is that. A possibility.
Essentially I will be documenting anything that scares or should scare people. Things that give you the heebie jeebies or make you sit outraged at your computer screen.
In short... all evidence that this civilisation is failing.
Thank you for your time.
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