How AI is changing what sovereignty means
Disinformation, misleading information, and even hate speech, are the order of the day and the big question now is how to prevent these evils in …
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Meet Dennis Hope, a struggling car salesman who cleverly exploited a loophole and made millions by selling land on the moon and beyond. Charging just $25 per acre, his vast clientele includes Tom Cruise, George Bush, Clint Eastwood and even Marriott and Hilton hotels.
Selling ice to an Eskimo was considered the benchmark of great salesmanship, but a former car salesman raised the bar even higher by selling lunar …
Is OpenAI’s ‘moonshot’ to integrate democracy into AI tech more than PR? | The AI Beat
It’s time to celebrate the incredible women leading the way in AI! Nominate your inspiring leaders for VentureBeat’s Women in AI Awards today before June 18. Learn More Last week, an OpenAI PR rep reached out by email to let me know the company had formed a new “Collective Alignment” team that would …
Does democracy lead to better health?
In his book Development as Freedom Amartya Sen says that in functioning multiparty democracies “rulers have the incentive to listen to what people …
Launch of political party
Today we launched a non political, leaderless, political party with only one policy. It can’t really get any simpler in terms of concept. “ASK THE PEOPLE” Every political party throughout the world has leaders just dying to control and tell us how it will be, ultimately serving their own agendas and egos and not the…
The impact of Direct Democracy on a country
Direct Democracy is primarily about sovereignty- Sovereignty for the people to decide and sovereignty for the nation to decide together, as the sum of all it’s residents. It’s a big change from where we are at right now. Right now, ordinary residents have no legal position to be directly influencing any public decisions. Even in…
Politics versus democracy
New Zealand has never known real democracy, its the same for almost every nation. Because New Zealand is a “representative democracy” we’ve almost never voted on issues of substance, just on people to to represent us to solve those issues. And as we know, they can’t represent us and they don’t. Politics uses influence and…
Fundamental political governance problem
We think that a key fundamental problem with parliament and almost every politically empowered organisation lies in separating decision making from influence. Both concepts are necessary but it’s essential the processes are separated. Influence is everything up for discussion: it involves literally all of the ideas, the revelation of concepts and revelation of information. It…
Just be yourself!
By nature, politics is set to divide people. Whether you like it or not, gradually our mindsets start to think by the categories we are forced into. People become blue, red, left or right and it pigeonholes them into thinking certain ways and controlling their responses to situations. We lose the ability to think critically…