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Money is Time

The idea that money is time was not lost in science fiction. More than once I’ve seen monetary units be credits or person hours. This simple relationship is a sort of skewering of modern capitalist systems. And somehow it feels more fair.

But what if, in our present day capitalist society, money really did equate with time? All those people simply living paycheque to paycheque would soon die off when something slipped. Because you don’t have any extra money, you wouldn’t have extra time. Where the money comes from for a proper burial is a problem for such a money is time society.

Those of you who have managed to squirrel something away for retirement would live an average length of a life. The more you squirrel away, the longer you live.

If you are an entrepreneur I see three tracks. You lose all of it and thus burn out your life early. Or you do as well as the average and have a nice life. Or you do well above average and live a super long life.

Many would want to be an entrepreneur because of the potential payoff. The burning out early is not so good, but the other two possibilities are nice. Live an average lifespan but be your own boss. Or live a huge lifespan.

I hope Elon Musk isn’t in this society with his current ridiculous amount of wealth. If he lived a super long life, he would just have more and more babies. Children should be a large drain on wealth as they are in our present society. Who is going to pick up after them and send them to school? The parents should have to foot the bill.

Because of his many, many, many, children Elon Musk would not be the most long lived. Someone with no children or other obligations and is a successful entrepreneur would almost be able to live indefinitely. Given copyright law where the copyright exists past the creator’s life, this might be able to keep someone alive forever. That would give credence to saying a work is timeless.

For society to function, though, these people living forever still would have to follow the rules. Thus we would have jail or hard time which could even be thought of as negative time. It would take time off your life. And you wouldn’t be allowed to make money while you are incarcerated.

Wouldn’t things be so much easier if all we had to worry about was money to live a long life? But instead we have to worry about things that can kill us, depression, disease, pandemics, stress, etc.

In today’s world, with all his money and even with some possible expensive life lengtheners, Elon Musk will not outlive the rest of us. I bet he won’t even make it to one hundred. But we shall see. Money doesn’t equate to time just yet.

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Alex Kurtzman On “Very Cool” ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy Credit Sequence And “Relevant” 32nd Century – TrekMovie.com

Alex Kurtzman On “Very Cool” ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy Credit Sequence And “Relevant” 32nd Century

| September 2, 2025 | By: TrekMovie.com Staff 29 comments so far

The new series Star Trek: Starfleet Academy is due to arrive in early 2026, and shooting on the second season started last week. Since SDCC in July we have been learning more and more about this series and characters and now executive producer Alex Kurtzman is talking about some different details, notably the opening credits, and more.

A credit sequence unlike others

The latest comments from Kurtzman (who is a co-creator and co-showrunner for the series) come from another SDCC interview which was just released by Collider. Of course the opening title sequences for Star Trek shows can be iconic, so when asked if Academy will go with the classic narration route (like TOS or Strange New Worlds) or the more musical route (like Voyager or Discovery), Kurtzman wouldn’t get that specific, but he did talk about how they approached the credit sequence:

“What I will tell you is that it’s super cool. I’m really excited. I look at credit sequences now – on Severance, for example – amazing, amazing credit sequence. There’s such an art to the process of building a credit sequence. And what you want to do is find what is that visual metaphor that then becomes the show in an interesting way. So I’m really excited. It’s very unlike other Star Trek credit sequences, but there’s something very familiar about it too, which just kind of speaks to the idea of the whole show.”

Kurtzman did confirm that the credit sequence used for the first season will also be used for the second, with no plans to make changes if the show gets additional seasons.

Finding relevance with issues of the 32nd century

The new series is set in the 32nd century, after the events of Star Trek: Discovery. When asked about deciding when in Star Trek history to set the new series, Kurtzman said there was no other choice:

“It was always after Discovery. It was always the 32nd century… Whatever Trek show you’re making has to individuate. It has to be its own show. It has to have a reason for being other than the other Star Trek shows.

And in the 32nd century, you’re dealing with a post-Burn world where trust in government has broken down. Where the Federation is rebuilding. Where people are divided. Where there’s all these major issues. And in Discovery, the ship came and started bringing the Federation back together again. And now our kids are the first class back in over 120 years. And so you have a generation of kids who are facing the mistakes of their elders or the issues that have been handed down to them by their elders, and are now having to deal with it. And it felt like a very relevant topic. As a father, I see what my son is going through as he’s about to go off into the world, and it felt very much like what our cadets are going through.”

Starfleet Academy is a dangerous place

At the time of the interview in late July, the writers room was just finishing up work on the script for the season 2 finale. When asked what lessons learned making the first season were put to use in season 2, Kurtzman focused on the cast:

“The first thing I’ll tell you is that this cast, to a person, is unbelievable. Unbelievable. Like to be able to sit in the editing room and go through every take and everything is so great. Which beautiful meal on the buffet table would you like to eat, because they’re all equally tasty. It was so fantastic. And I think that what we love about our show and our characters is that they are not yet, with the exception of [Holly Hunter’s Captain] Nahla [Ake], fully formed people. They get to make mistakes that Starfleet officers are really not allowed to make, because they’re still figuring out who they are. And what’s really fun about that too, is that some of them go in thinking they want one thing, but like everybody who goes to college, they may exit Starfleet Academy realizing that what they thought they wanted when they came in is not at all what their destiny is. And so that’s a really fun thing.”

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Mid-August Lunch (2008) – IMDb

Gianni is a man entering the later years of his life. He has no job,no wife,drinks perhaps a bit too much for his own good,but seems to be content in looking after the needs of his somewhat demanding mother. They both…
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AI is not your personal secret sauce, we ALL have access to it now, so let’s demystify the process, give credit where it’s due, and foster a healthier, more honest relationship with the powerful new creative tools at our disposal.

Good labelling helps us all decide better how we want to understand and deal with the things that AI helps create.

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Giving Credit Where It’s Due: Transparency in Creating with AI

Recently I’ve been thinking a lot about the nature of creativity in general, and especially when working with AI as a genuine creative partner.

Many people today will view the very sentence above with horror, I know.  Many others are happily creating all kinds of things with AI.  I’m not going to go into all the positions and issues around AI and creativity in this blog, but I believe all those viewpoints are personal and completely valid.

Right now I want to highlight that a lot of the friction around creative works (I REFUSE to use the word content 1 ) involving AI is because the AI’s involvement is often “hidden” in the work.  Students using AI to generate things for assessment, deep fakes, AI-generated science, social media “botshit”, etc all cause problems essentially because some people might not realise they were generated by AI.  

I believe this is hugely urgent to solve in a global way.  We need to understand the provenance of our digital diets as much as our physical ones.  There are many reasons for this, not least of which is the wide variety of opinions about the simple validity of AI output I mentioned above, but it also helps solve misinformation and abuse.

I see three levels to transparency:

1. “This uses AI”
   
   The very first most basic thing we can do is to be transparent and declare that AI was involved.   Until now this has taken the form of a “sparkle icon” or a tag.  Moodle adds this with anything it generates.  Many image generators add a watermark.  The C2PA is an emerging standard for embedding Content Credentials as metadata in images, videos and pdfs.   Safe AI proposes a simple icon.

   Unfortunately take-up of even this basic level of transparency is low.   The dominant culture among those using AI is to communicate nothing at all about AI involvement.  Large platforms for creative works such as Spotify and Youtube do not ask uploaders even this simple question, and there is no way to filter searches to avoid (or discover) AI works.

2. “Level of AI assistance”
   
   A lot of things are hitting the media as “created by AI” when that’s almost never entirely true – a person initiated that creation, and their level of effort in creating the final work may range from trivial (a single prompt) to many hours of editing, steering, and packaging.  Effort is a popular metric that people often use to help decide how impressed they are by a creative work.

   An emerging approach is to indicate how much AI is involved (or alternatively, how much human effort was involved).  This simplifies the involvement of AI into a scale that paints a spectrum ranging from “No AI used at all” to “Completely AI-generated”.  A few people have proposed some scales like this but they are not in wide use yet, some are: IBM’s AI Attribution Toolkit, AI Assessment Scale, Icons for Human-Machine Collaboration or even a simple percentage value (eg 25% AI).

   While not perfect, I do believe this is a very useful shorthand way to communicate about these issues as it’s very easy to understand.  It can be used verbally and for real-world works, as well when distributing creative works online.   It would be great for internet platforms to add support for scales like this, as it would encourage more people to specify the level for any works they place online.

   The problem with this approach is that we still can’t tell what role AI played in the creation, and that’s sometimes important.  Which leads us to:

3. “Roles of AI”
   
   Most serious creative works in history (music recordings, novels, movies etc) are not the work of a single person, or have many different components, and we have many existing methods of crediting individuals for their roles in the finished product.  A single movie might have thousands of contributors, and their roles are all recorded in the credits.

   I believe this approach gives us a well-understood and ethical way to credit AI in particular projects.

   For example, I have been a musician and producer for many years, mostly for my own pleasure.  In recent years I’ve been experimenting more and more with tools like Suno.ai and Udio.com to help produce music, with great results.  It is possible to use these tools in a very low-effort way (“Make me a song about how ice-cream is nicer in summer” will give you a full song in 30 seconds) but it is also possible to get deep into custom workflows to get particular advanced results you’re aiming for (I typically am spending 5 hours or more for each song).

   The credits for a typical song (these are all standard fields for any music distribution platform) might look like this:
    

• Artist: Mantis Audiogram
  (my project name)
• Composer: Martin Dougiamas
  (I am the source of the core creative idea, genres, intent and structure)
• Lyrics: Martin Dougiamas
  (I wrote the words)
• Band/Performer: Suno.AI
  (It’s the entity “performing” the music and singing the words, like session musicians or an orchestra).
• Producer: Martin Dougiamas and Suno.AI
  (This is a true collaboration. The human guides the sound through prompts, and the AI makes production choices to realise that sound)
• Engineer: Suno.AI and Mixea.AI. 
  (They handled the technical aspects of mixing and mastering the final track)
• Publisher: Martin Dougiamas
  (I own the copyright and I am managing its distribution)

For a book, you might have:

• Author: Human. You provide the core plot, the themes, the narrative structure, and the final voice. The AI is a powerful drafting tool, but you are the author.
• Researcher Editor: Human & AI. The AI can collate information or perform a first-pass copy edit with incredible speed, but the human is essential for fact-checking, developmental editing, and ensuring stylistic cohesion.
• Illustrator / Cover Designer: Human & AI. The human provides the artistic direction and concept, while the AI can generate stunning visual options to be curated and refined.
• Publisher: Human

For a movie generated with something like Google VEO 3, you might have:

• Director & Writer: The Human
  (These roles become even more critical, responsible for the overarching vision, story, and the meticulous prompting that guides the entire production)
• Editor: The Human
  (Assembling the AI-generated shots into a coherent narrative, controlling pace and rhythm, is still usually a human art)
• Actor, Cinematographer, Production Designer: The AI.
  (These traditional roles are absorbed by the generative model. The “performances,” “camera work,” and “set design” are all executed by the AI based on the director’s explicit instructions)

I’m not seeing anyone actually doing this much in practice yet, but I hope to!    

What I like about this model is its respect for human intent. In each case, the human creator remains the central, guiding force—the composer, the author, the director. It positions the AI as an incredibly powerful and versatile partner that can perform well-defined roles within a project.

(From information like this we can even guess a measure of the human effort involved. I personally wish there were a standard metadata field where we could note the time and intensity of the human’s contribution, but this has never been a thing in all of history for any creative work, so it will probably remain on forewords, or liner notes or blogs).

As we build the future of learning and share our creativity, transparency on all these fronts will be paramount. I hope you are sold on the idea of using all these techniques to provide as much transparency as you can to ALL your AI-Assisted works, even if it’s just an email. 

AI is not your personal secret sauce, we ALL have access to it now, so let’s demystify the process, give credit where it’s due, and foster a healthier, more honest relationship with the powerful new creative tools at our disposal.

More coming soon on creativity in future posts.

Credits:
Author: Martin Dougiamas
Brainstorming on specific roles: Gemini
Image: Imagen 4

1 “content” is a word that comes from today’s advertising-driven mega-platforms, which see themselves as containers for “content” that provides something to attract viewers to look at advertising hung around it.

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Babette’s Feast (1987) – IMDb

Flawlessly directed, written, performed, and filmed, this quiet and unpretentious Danish film is an example of cinema at its best, and if a person exists who can watch BABETTE’S FEAST without being touched at a very fundamental level…
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Will Campbell credits Patriots’ veteran defenders for his development

Despite being a rookie playing one of the most important positions in football, Will Campbell has run exclusively…
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