# newintrigue.com > AI-optimized mirror of newintrigue.com containing 25 pages totalling 16,441 words of clean markdown content, structured data, and semantic HTML. Original source: https://newintrigue.com/. Last updated: 2026-06-15T08:06:27.016Z. Each page is available as HTML (with JSON-LD structured data) and Markdown (text-only, ideal for LLMs and RAG). ## Homepage - [[The Threat of AI Crimes Are Under-Appreciated](/content/2026/05/04/the-threat-of-ai-crimes-are-under-appreciated/index.html)](/content/site-root.html): Literature, Philosophy, Technology (605 words) ## Articles & Blog Posts - [Truth, Myths and Meaning – New Intrigue](/content/2014/04/17/truth-myths-and-meaning/index.html): J. R. R. Tolkein once said that myths, “At the very least… allow us to catch a fleeting, but all so powerful glimpse at the beauty that lies beyond the walls [of our material existence]. Myths show us a fleeting glimpse of truth itself.” There is an archaic primacy to this argument. If one stretched…, Post a Comment (968 words) - [2014/04/14/thinking-for-yourself-part-2-generalisations/index.html](/content/2014/04/14/thinking-for-yourself-part-2-generalisations/index.html) (1 words) - [Why does this occur?](/content/2014/04/21/the-politics-of-division/index.html): There’s a long-running trend in student politics for students to shout out “shame” when their opposing political party is mentioned. I first heard this in 2012 in the heady days of the Gillard Government and Abbott Opposition. It was the Howard Debating Cup, and I had come to watch a friend debate. Liberals packed the…, Post a Comment (1,404 words) - [Thinking For Yourself (Admitting Ignorance) – New Intrigue](/content/2014/04/14/thinking-for-yourself-part-1-admitting-ignorance/index.html): In modern day life we are viewed as idiotic if we admit that we do not know exactly what we are talking about. In common parlance we are told to “take a stab at the answer”, “have a guess” or “have a go at it”. In performance tests (at school, university and work) we are…, Post a Comment (1,171 words) - [No results](/content/2014/05/15/clerking-mad/index.html): When I first entered law school I wanted to become a lawyer. This shouldn’t surprise you. Neither should the fact that 66% of students entering law school want to become legal practitioners. What should surprise you is that 64% of law students” don’t end up going into law. These competing statistics pose a confronting dilemma.…, Post a Comment (1,321 words) - [Like this:](/content/2014/06/24/the-right-to-vote-on-war-with-iraq/index.html): When Australia first entered the Iraq war in 2003, Prime Minister John Howard gave a cursory nod to representative government. Calling all Federal MP’s back into session, Howard gave them each a chance to vote for “war or peace”. The result of this vote would not overturn the Cabinet’s decision, but it would allow MP’s…, Post a Comment (845 words) - [True Detective and the Myth of the Intellectual – New Intrigue](/content/2014/04/27/true-detective-and-the-myth-of-the-intellectual/index.html): In 1784 Immanuel Kant answered a question, posed a year earlier by Reverend Johann Friedrich Zöllner – “What is enlightenment?” His answer was that enlightenment “was man’s emergence from his self-incurred immaturity”. A state of immaturity is when one allows another’s reason to guide them. Hence enlightenment was using your own rationality to guide your decisions, thoughts and actions. Kant went on…, Post a Comment (1,176 words) - [Why Cliches are Meaningless (So Stop Using Them) – New Intrigue](/content/2014/06/11/why-cliches-are-meaningless-so-stop-using-them/index.html): There is a growing trend of what I like to think of as the outsourcing of thought – where our own thoughts are subservient to those deemed “superior authorities”. Part of this collective-mind-holiday comes from the Internet: our tool to disassociate ourselves from the process of thinking. The rest comes from expert culture, and what…, Post a Comment (946 words) - [The Architecture of Suffering](/content/2014/04/13/the-architecture-of-suffering/index.html): My newest prisoner, “Robinson”, is currently in solitary confinement after stabbing a guard with a plastic fork. His cell is just about as large as he is, and he’ll be there for a couple hours until he cools down. I basically lock him up, bash him up and then deprive him of food. Welcome to…, Post a Comment (1,085 words) - [Candy Crush: A Whale of a Time – New Intrigue](/content/2014/04/14/candy-crush-a-whale-of-a-time/index.html): My first game of Candy Crush reminded me of my first experience with a slot machine. Both offered the same enticements: escapism, a bit of fun, and crudely simple gameplay. Candy Crush is a puzzle-based game that requires players to align candies, three-in-a-row. But behind the veneer of charm and juvenile ‘fun’, Candy Crush, like…, Post a Comment (790 words) - [Quidditch Soc as a Metaphor for Dumb Anti-Intellectual Photogenic Culture at O-Week](/content/2014/04/13/quidditch-soc-as-a-metaphor-for-dumb-anti-intellectual-photogenic-culture-at-o-week.html): If I could summarize the mantra of O-Week in 2014 I would say: only things worth sharing are worth doing. Basically, you should only do something that can easily be captured in a photograph. Said photograph can then be shared online, to prove how successful your event was, and form part of a monoculture of similar photographs – where…, Post a Comment (937 words) - [I Don’t Care If You’re a Terrorist on the Weekend as Long as You Make me Money – New Intrigue](/content/2014/04/14/i-dont-care-if-youre-a-terrorist-on-the-weekend-as-long-as-you-make-me-money.html): A friend recently attended a graduate career seminar and was told by an anonymous investment banker: “I don’t care if you’re a terrorist on the weekend, as long as you make me money”. This kind of sentiment was backed by anecdotal stories of those who have experienced rampant sexism and racism within the banking and…, Post a Comment (979 words) - [Racial Discrimination Act – Legalising Hate Speech – New Intrigue](/content/2014/04/15/racial-discrimination-act-legalising-hate-speech/index.html): The Government has released a draft Bill on changes to the Act - see the link at the bottom of this post. The government has indicated it intends to make racist hate speech, racist publications and racial slurs legal in Australia. This goes against the very grain of Australian society, as a place where people…, Post a Comment (629 words) - [Unrequited Love is Evil – New Intrigue](/content/2014/04/14/unrequited-love-is-evil/index.html): I heard it once said that unrequited love is the universal language. Dipping its hand into every culture across the planet, it plagues men with the inability to ‘get what they want’ and ‘deserve’. We romanticise rejection in books, films and TV as something lonely, yet glorious. Bitter, yet grand as a symphony in full…, Post a Comment (1,001 words) - [Like this:](/content/fortress_of_guaita_2013-09-19/index.html): Literature, Philosophy, Technology, Post a Comment (49 words) - [lake-wannaka-new-zealand – New Intrigue](/content/lake-wannaka-new-zealand/index.html): Literature, Philosophy, Technology, Post a Comment (49 words) - [Like this:](/content/candy-crush-sucks/index.html): Literature, Philosophy, Technology, Post a Comment (49 words) - [Like this:](/content/cropped-screen-shot-2014-04-14-at-11-21-26-am-png/index.html): http://newintrigue.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/cropped-screen-shot-2014-04-14-at-11-21-26-am.png, Post a Comment (57 words) - [Like this:](/content/screen-shot-2014-04-14-at-11-21-26-am/index.html): Literature, Philosophy, Technology, Post a Comment (49 words) - [Joshua Krook](/content/37-2/index.html): Joshua Krook Joshua Krook is a researcher focusing on the regulation of AI. He has a PhD in Law and has worked at top universities, with governments and the non-profit sector. He has guest lectured at prestigious universities, including the University of Oxford and The University of Southampton, and delivered presentations for a range of clients,… (152 words) - [Quidditch: Soc. as a Metaphor for Dumb Anti-Intellectual Photogenic Culture at O Week](/content/sitemap-1-xml.html) (409 words) - [Welcome to New Intrigue](/content/news-sitemap-xml.html) (1 words) - [image-sitemap-1-xml.html](/content/image-sitemap-1-xml.html) (1,764 words) - [sitemap-xml.html](/content/sitemap-xml.html) (4 words) ## Resources - [Full Page Index](/index.html): Browse all cached pages with rich metadata - [About This Cache](/content/about.html): Methodology, technical details, and usage guidelines - [XML Sitemap](/sitemap.xml): Machine-readable sitemap for crawler discovery - [Robots.txt](/robots.txt): Crawler directives