So-called artificial intelligence systems are unknowable if they are working as intended. Regulation of their behaviour will never be reliable.… Read More Some things are innately impossible: long-range weather forecasting, predicting financial markets, controlling AI
Discussion of Australia’s population, never notable for its rationality, has lately spun off into a neverland of slop, error, myth and delusion.… Read More Population delusions
The Albanese government shows little awareness of the depth of the challenges we face. Its approach is to tinker with some regulations rather than to reform the basic approach.… Read More Albanese is incapable of meeting the One Nation challenge
The great crises confronting us threaten both society and the planetary environment. If the Greens want to remain relevant to those causes they need to lift their sights and lift their game.… Read More If not now, when for the Greens?
Currently we are charging blindly into calamity. We need to look fearlessly and forensically into our socio-economic system so we can regain control and save our civilisation.… Read More Why have we not heeded Attenborough’s warnings?
What are the five most precious things in my life? [Published by Pearls & Irritations 21 Dec.] I have wondered often lately what might catch the attention of those who are busy despoiling our planet, and cause them to reflect on what they are destroying, and whether that matters to them. What if they asked… Read More Barack Obama wants us to care about the oceans
The global consumer-capitalist machine is well-programmed to consume the planet in its quest to produce ever-more stuff. Avoiding pollution is incompatible with its present functioning. If we want to actually reduce greenhouse gas emissions we need to know how to get inside the machine and turn it off, or transform it. [Published 6 Nov by… Read More Why are climate warnings ignored?
Deregulation basically allowed the financial system to break out of its relatively small, useful role and become a huge parasite, sucking wealth to the already-wealthy and depriving the poor and middle class.… Read More How Ronald Reagan Started the Ruination of the USA
GDP counts exchanges that involve money (adjusted to avoid double counting). Somebody is paid, and somebody pays. GDP doesn’t tell you who paid, just that somebody did.… Read More No Minister, high immigration will cost us $320 billion
It is possible to create a much fairer, safer and more durable society than we have at present. The means are available, if we dispense with myths and special interests. It is there for us to do.… Read More A Thrival Budget
