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A new Thrasymachus

March 14, 2025 1 Comment
A new Thrasymachus

What is justice?  For the current President of the United States of America, the answer to that question is directly and exclusively linked to another – who holds power over others?  In his White House dialogue with Volodymir Zelinskyy on 28 February, Donald Trump told him ‘you don’t have the cards right now’.  It follows […]

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Richard Sharp: a model man of power

February 17, 2023 7 Comments
Richard Sharp: a model man of power

There’s been a lot of talk lately about advances in AI (artificial intelligence) and ML (machine learning), based on the storing and analysis of vast reservoirs of online words (the so-called ‘large language model’).  The publication of ChatGPT, which can respond in a conversational and explanatory way to natural language queries, has set teeth on […]

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