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AI has no morality. An evil organisation with no knowledge of microbiology can make use of AI to customise a pathogen and spark a pandemic. Recently in China, a smart…
2024
Easier to Replace Doctors Than Nurses
It may sound a bit unbelievable, but it’s actually easier to replace doctors than nurses with robots and AI. The doctor’s job is to examine, obtain test results to arrive…
What’s Your Score?
Surveillance and automated social credit systems have been praised by some individuals as efficient ways to reward good behaviour and punish bad behaviour. But who decides what good and bad…
History repeats itself because dictatorships are predictable
Commander Pavel Rychgov was a highly decorated Soviet pilot, having fought on the Chinese side against Japanese occupation just before he embarked on even more heroic missions during WW2. He…
A New World Run By Computers
There is something that we should be more worried about than robots and AI taking over our jobs. In this day and age, information can be generated by one set…
Stalinism while it was in vogue
Nexus by Yuval Noah Harari “In the 1940s and early 1950s, many people throughout the world believed Stalinism was the wave of the future. It had won World War II,…
History Repeats Itself Because Dictatorships Are Predictable
Commander Pavel Rychgov was a highly decorated Soviet pilot, having fought on the Chinese side against Japanese occupation just before he embarked on even more heroic missions during WW2. He…
Brothel Politics
Unlike most of his colleagues, historian Chen Yin Que aka Chen Yin Ke 陈寅恪(1890-1969) was spared the worst that communism had inflicted on Chinese intellectuals after 1949. During the Cultural…
Fall of a Philanthropist
In 1991, Zhou Xiu Zhen, the students’ favourite teacher at a school in Yilong County, Sichuan Province suddenly resigned. Her husband Chen Jia Guo, also a teacher, was shocked. Without…
Floods In China
Natural disaster or an obsession with megadams and overconstruction?