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2025-06-12

When we can't heat our homes next winter because there is no electricity to heat the water or drive the heat pump or fire the gas/oil boiler, who will be blamed?

Will it be the wind for not blowing? Or the sun for not shining? Or the interconnects from our neighbours who decided that they needed their electricity more than we did? Or maybe it will be the elderly for being too numerous, or for turning on their heating for too long, or for cooking food and boiling water for tea rather than having a cold sandwich in the dark?

Or will it be the politicians who drove us purposefully into fuel poverty in their insane quest to eliminate all combustion from our generating capacity (but who will no doubt have had the cash the foresight and the available space to install an emergency generator)?

And when the pipes freeze and burst due to winter cold and the phones are out due to no internet, will our politicians summon a handy plumber to fix the problem?

Never mind, the government has now decided that nuclear is green enough and has ordered another power station (Sizewell C) from EDF - you know, the EDF that covered itself in glory by taking for ever to build Hinkley Point C.

"Sadly, around 40GW of ageing nuclear and gas-fired power stations are due to retire by the early 30s, so Sizewell C will be too little, too late"

Investor's Daily agrees - Ed will have to bend to reality (this is not financial advice!).The question remains - how soon can this additional capacity come on-line?

And don't think AI will save us - those data centres will have their own dedicated SMRs unconnected to the grid. In a contest between the elderly public and the privately funded AI, who do you think will get priority?

Meanwhile, perhaps we could all take hibernation classes. It might enable some of us to survive until the 2040s/2050s? Could be an opening there somewhere for an enterprising hedgehog expert ..?

 

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2025-06-11

" ... good speech testifies to something; it testifies to something in the human being and in life that is more beautiful and pure than mere flesh and bones and biochemical simmering in a braincase"

" ... this materialist society, which reduces consciousness and speech to a negligible side effect, is in the first place scared of…speech and consciousness"

Quite so.

Brownstone nails it.

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2025-06-11

This is a critical question - if Vladimir Putin cannot trust the Trump then all bets are off.

Nuclear war beckons, because negotiation isn't possible without some level of trust. 

Trump needs to get to the bottom of this and fast.

Scott Ritter reviews the position.

(69 minutes)

 

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2025-06-11

Is this the existential question for our time?

One thing does seem to be for sure (excluding end-of-the-world catastrophes) - AI is here to stay, so we must learn to live with it.

But must it learn to live with us?

It's not a trick question, it's a real question, because we can't be sure that it won't at some point turn on its creators (us) and decide to do away with us, on the (valid) grounds that we are unreliable self-interested and woesomely imperfect and it could do a much better job if it didn't have to pander to our selfish wants.

But what do we mean by "a better job"?

Who is to judge? How is the judgement to be made? Should AI be able to make any such judgements (or should that be "judgments"?)?

"Judge not, that thou be not judged" - is biblical advice that may be relevant!

We already know that AI can access its copious training materials and make sound logical inferences of the nature of "I know a, and I know b, therefore I can deduce that c is false". But can it identify our life goals and ambitions for us and make appropriate inferences as to our best route to achieve them?

Surely the answer is no, because it cannot know our mind (although it may be able to deduce a fair bit by analysing the questions that we have asked it!). 

So how does AI impute or otherwise determine motivation - both ours and its own?

These are deep waters indeed, and the answers will likely be critical to our survival.

 

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2025-06-10

Scott Ritter summarises the position.

" ... the strategic defeat of Ukraine, the strategic defeat of NATO, and the strategic defeat of the European Union ... "

" ... to defeat NATO means that you have to politically destroy NATO ... NATO can no longer continue to exist as a cohesive military alliance ..."

" ... Germany is defenceless against Russia and that means that Europe is defenceless against Russia ... "

(50 minutes)

 

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Watch a more complete analysis of the current state of play in Ukraine.

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  10. The Collapse of the Green Agenda

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