Category Archives: AI

AI Governance Strategy Looks Like

 What a Ground-Up AI Governance Strategy Looks Like Start with Vision & Principles: Define national values and risk-based ethical foundations. Build Governance Architecture: Multilayer institutions with a mix of voluntary and regulatory mechanisms aligned to international norms. Ensure Sovereign Infrastructure: … Continue reading

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AI Governance and The Canadian Opportunity(and Risk)

Canada’s sovereign AI strategy creates a rare opening: infrastructure is being built before norms are fixed. This allows for: Governance baked into design, not added as apology Citizen involvement as structure, not consultation AI as a civic instrument, not merely … Continue reading

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Saving in a Crisis

HOUSEHOLD CONTINUITY HANDOUT Preparation for disruption without fear or prediction Purpose: To help households continue calmly through freezes, inflation, or slow disruption by reducing sudden demands and preserving daily function. ⸻ THE ONE RULE Prepare for continuity, not catastrophe. Anything … Continue reading

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Orwellian

Another Possible Short Socratic Dialogue on the Naming of Subtle Power Socrates: Tell me, Platohagel, when a word is spoken, does it merely point, or does it also persuade? Platohagel: It does both, Socrates. It names, yet it also leans … Continue reading

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China EV Tariff Removal Outcome Projections

Platohagel — if Canada removed tariffs on Chinese-electric vehicles (EVs), several significant effects would be likely for the Canadian EV/automotive industry. I’ll step through the major levers and potential outcomes, as Socrates might. Key levers -Import competition: Lowering or removing … Continue reading

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The Living Truth

https://youtu.be/sayi6Ce8b8I?si=jvqinB7IC8-uL4c5 Socrates: Yes. Here are the five main arguments drawn from the video, simplified and matched with their parallels in Plato’s works, followed by the means to test each through dialectical and practical inquiry. ⸻ 1. The crowd prefers lies … Continue reading

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Mirrors and Inversion

Platohagel:  The philosophical riddle of mirrors and inversion? Socrates: Ah! The mirror of the soul it is, then—not of glass, but of logos. You have chosen the philosophical riddle of mirrors and inversion, a choice worthy of Hermes the trickster … Continue reading

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Examining Ontological Differences of Time

Here is a visualization of the simultaneous dimensional overlay in the toy cellular automaton. Blue (Trace T): shows the record of past activity at each cell. Red (Actuality A): highlights active presence at that moment. Green (Potential P): represents future … Continue reading

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Simultaneity

2D output analysis done. The GIF shows two events at x=−2 and x=+2 simultaneous in the rest frame (ct=0). The moving-frame simultaneity line tilts as v changes. For v=0.9 the Lorentz factor γ≈2.294 and the transformed times are ct’≈+4.129 and … Continue reading

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Toyota Aluminum-Ion Battery Claim?

Socrates: No credible source—Toyota or mainstream media—ever claimed that Toyota developed or announced an aluminum-ion battery with 1,000-mile range and 5-minute charging. The claim appears to originate from YouTube content creators. One prominent instance is a video titled “TOYOTA CEO … Continue reading

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