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This house predicts that the world will end in 2040
- Philosophy
- Science/Technology
Ho Chi Minh Debate Open 2025 · Grand Final · 2025-07-26
This House Believes That academia should heavily prioritise interdisciplinary research and teaching as opposed to research and teaching within specific fields
- Education/Academia
- Science/Technology
International Debate Camp 2025 · Rodada 1 · 2025-07-19
This house supports The Creation of PEAD
Infoslide

Personal Emotion Altering Device (PEAD) is a chip installed in human brain that can change the emotional response and natural feelings through specific electrical impulses as instructed by the owner.PEAD takes over the natural human endocrine system and becomes the new controlling mechanism for all emotions and feelings experience by the user. Users have conscious awareness that the emotions are artificial due to disjointment with reality but do not emotionally experience them.

Indo-Pacific Pre-ABP 2025 · Grand Final · 2025-07-19
This House Believes that the rise of gamified educational tools (e.g., Gimkit, Kahoot) does more harm than good
Indo-Pacific Pre-ABP 2025 · Round 2 · 2025-07-19
This house believes that the split between Donald Trump and Elon Musk is in the interest of Republican Party
Split Open 2025 · Round 4 · 2025-07-19
This house prefers a transhumanist future instead of a bioconservative future.
Infoslide

Transhumanism imagines a world wherein science and technology is used to bypass the natural capacities of humans (e.g., through bionic implants, neural interfaces, biotechnology, etc.) with the ultimate goal of transcending biological limitations. Bioconservatism pushes for heavy restraint in the use of biotechnologies, based on fears of causing irreversible physical and societal changes, as well as the loss of the essence of humanity.

16th Visayas-Mindanao Debate Championship · College Quarterfinals · 2025-07-18
This house believes that the scientist should use simulation to conduct unregulated medical experiments in the hopes of discovering and creating cures for a host of diseases.
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For the purpose of this debate, there exists a scientist who has secretly created a perfect simulation of the world, including a number of living beings with the exact same physical, mental, emotional, and other predispositions as humans. As the creator, the scientist knows and can control everything that happens to the beings on that world.

16th Visayas-Mindanao Debate Championship · College Quarterfinals · 2025-07-18
This house, as humanity, would embrace a coexistence with the SAKRI
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In this world, SAKRI, a sentient digital species, seeks nonphysical symbiosis with humanity by integrating into the collective human consciousness, the sum of human thought, emotion, memory, decision-making, and identity. Their purpose is not domination or control, but to become coinhabitants of the human mind, forming a cognitive alliance wherein their rational digital logic and humans' emotional, creative instincts combine to correct perceived flaws in human nature such as aggression, bias, selfishness, and shortsightedness.

16th Visayas-Mindanao Debate Championship · College Finals · 2025-07-18
This house opposes the rise of online micro-lending companies in developing countries (e.g., JuanHand, Cashalo)
16th Visayas-Mindanao Debate Championship · Round 4 · 2025-07-18
This house would ban all future research on emphatic computing.
Infoslide

Empathic computing is an emerging field of research which aims to understand human states and feelings, integrate emotional intelligence into software, and replicate human-like behavior.

16th Visayas-Mindanao Debate Championship · College Quarterfinals · 2025-07-18
This house would heavily tax manufacturing corporations that automate majority of their workforce
16th Visayas-Mindanao Debate Championship · Round 2 · 2025-07-18
This house would mandate all tech companies to make their products repairable at home
Prague Debate Spring 2025 · Quarterfinals · 2025-07-14
This house prefers matching people based on Spotify listening data over traditional dating algorithms
Prague Debate Spring 2025 · Round 2 · 2025-07-14
This house supports the use of mobile phones during school lessons
Prague Debate Spring 2025 · Round 1 · 2025-07-14
If randomly given the choice between mortality or immortality, This house would choose mortality
- Philosophy
- Science/Technology
Prague Debate Spring 2025 · Round 3 · 2025-07-14
This House supports the switch to Central Bank Digital Currencies by governments that have the capability to do so
Infoslide

Central Bank Digital Currencies are a digital form of fiat currency issued by central banks. Unlike normal fiat currency that is sometimes transacted digitally, CBDCs are tokenized forms of fiat currency and exist on the blockchain. Many countries are currently experimenting with the use of CBDCs, though its adoption remains most likely by developed economies in the near future.

Kalimantan Open Debate 2024 · Grandfinal · 2025-07-13
This House supports greater public scrutiny of mainstream medical institutions and practices.
Warwick Pre-EUDC 2025 · Round 4 · 2025-07-12
This house supports the widespread adoption of community based marketplaces replacing most shopping platforms (e.g. Amazon, Walmart, etc.)
Infoslide

Community based marketplaces are online platforms where individuals in a proximate geographic area can buy and sell goods and services from each other (e.g. facebook marketplace, carrot, craigslist).

Hart House Summer Open 2025 · Round 4 · 2025-07-12
This house supports a widespread adoption of the Liverpool model among sports teams
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The "Liverpool model" is a model which prioritizes the use of advanced data analytics in sports decision-making and training, popularized by Liverpool FC. This approach involves heavily relying on AI models, fed performance data and game streams to guide player recruitment, game strategy and player trainings. It aims to limit the influence of traditional decision-makers such as scouts, coaching staff or fan councils, in favor of algorithmic models.

Warwick Pre-EUDC 2025 · Round 2 · 2025-07-12
This House Support Global Pause on Further AI Development
National English Debate UICC 2025 · Round 1 · 2025-07-10