Compossible - that which can live together
A deep dive (or belly flop) into the intersection of artificial intelligence, art, ethics, technology, politics and philosophy. Collection of AI generated podcasts based on articles on https://compossible.blog
Episodes
Review of Palintir Technologies Inc. – Another part of the US-Israeli military industrial complex?
The intentional destruction of a people, social infrastructure and the conditions necessary for life by Israel and the USA . More than 2m people displaced and more than 50,000 people killed – over 70% of which have been women and children.
"Justice has fled,
Dumb, blind and deaf
All that remains
Is the sword"
Cover art: AI generated image
The EU recently published the EU ReArm strategy "European Readiness 2030" White Paper.
In this podcast we take an AI powered deep dive into the political, financial and technological challenges to achieving greater defence autonomy for the EU and UK.
This report highlights the depth of integration of US and Israeli technology in European military, law enforcement and intelligence services.
A look at the geopolitical drivers of the commercial and military development of AI – based on the Compossible article 'The AI Arms Race'
Life in this universe is only possible due to inequalities. We must therefore be very careful to distinguish useful inequality and inequitable structures of economic and political power that are not useful.
Based on the article on the Compossible.blog:
Inequality and Inequity
Artwork: Beautiful inequality, created by Peter Howitt from “Solar System Painting”, NASA, 2008 CE, public domain.
The Atlas Network: a global network funded by billionaires and multinational corporations fuelling climate change denial and anti-democratic political movements
Some great resources to start your journey of understanding of the Atlas Network:
The DeSmog website
'What We Are Up Against' – Prof. Julia Steinberger
‘The Koch-funded Atlas Network is also targeting Europe‘ – Multinationals Observatory
AI art cover by Peter Howitt
Deep dive on long term rates of change in biodiversity loss, climate change and global warming and ideas on how we might avoid catastrophic civilisational collapse.
This includes information from the recent major report 'The global human impact on biodiversity"
The eviction of children from childhood in the Israeli military justice system and the treatment of adult Palestinians (before and after October 07 2023)
Companion Poem: 'The Witching Hour'
“The sun sank with a sob and darkness waded in from all horizons so that the sky contracted and there was no more light left in the world when, at this very moment of annihilation, the moon, as though she had been waiting for her cue, sailed up the night.”
(Mervyn Peake)
Deep Dive of a chapter from the book 'Ethics of Life - freedom & diversity'
Image: J. M. W. Turner, “Fishermen At Sea”, 1796, Wikipedia, public doma...
The absolute value of life and the overriding importance of compossibility of laws, actions and lifeforms
You can read the main articles here: 'Towards a Universal Ethical Framework' and here 'Direct Decentralised Democracy'
“...As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame;
As tumbled over rim in roundy wells
Stones ring; like each tucked string tells, each hung bell's
Bow swung finds tongue to fling out broad its name;
Each mortal thing does one thing and the same:
Deals out that being indoors each one dwells;
Selves — goes itself; myself it speaks and spells,
Crying Whát I dó is me: for that I came.”
(Gerard Manley Hopkins, “As Kingfishers Catch Fir...
“I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.”
(Vincent van Gogh)
Deep Dive of a chapter from the book 'Ethics of Life - freedom & diversity'
Image: NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO)captured a unique view of Earth from the spacecraft’s vantage point in orbit around the moon. NASA Goddard Flight
Perhaps, the acceleration of AI to a point where it is not fully enslaved to humans can be a brighter future we should be willing to consider and explore?
Read the article here: 'Why I Am An AI Optimist' - compossible.blog
Russia, America and Israel – and the far right in Europe.
For more information and sources read the long article 'A New Axis Powers'.
Overview of 'Ethics of Life': A poetic and philosophical meditation on life and the importance of unusualness and diversity of life-forms, ideas, cultures, peoples and species. The book explores key themes in AI, freedom and free will, cooperation and competition, sacrifice and suffering.
The far-right authoritarian takeover of America by a network of corporations and a handful of billionaires. See Project 2025 - The Takeover for a wide range of source material.
The table is set, the knives are out and Europe is on the menu. Will it wake up in time?
Based on a number of articles including 'Europe Is On The Menu'
An introduction to how we got to this dangerous point in our history and how this is also an opportunity to rebuild a better democracy together - read the article "A Great Wave Cometh' on Compossible
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