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This house believes that simulation-based games (e.g. “Grow a Garden”, "Terra Nil") are a better way to teach environmental responsibility than traditional classroom education.
Infoslide

A simulation game is a type of video game that attempts to mimic real-world activities, scenarios, or systems

York University Summer Debating Tournament · Round 2 · 2025-06-28
Assuming the technology exists, this house would allow the buying and selling of intelligence
2025 Australian Schools Open · Year 6 and Under Finals · 2025-06-28
Assuming the technology exists, this house would allow the buying and selling of intelligence
2025 Australian Schools Open · Year 8 and Under Finals · 2025-06-28
This House Supports the EU heavily deregulating advanced tech sectores (e.g. AI, cloud computing, etc)
Uhuru Worlds 2025 · ESL Finals · 2025-06-27
This House Supports the increase rise of AI doomerism* *viewing AI as an existential threat to humanity
Uhuru Worlds 2025 · EFL Finals · 2025-06-27
C) This house believes that developing nations with rising esports communities (i.e., Turkey, Vietnam, Pakistan) should cut funding for popular sports that they perform poorly in (tennis, football etc.) and invest in the development of esports instead
Malaysian National Schools Debating Championship 2025 · Round 1 · 2025-06-24
This house regrets the trend shift in cinema towards special effects and high-energy films.
- Art
- Media
- Culture
- Science/Technology
Infoslide

The success of the original Star Wars film (1977) had shifted filmmaking norms from creating dramatic films with a focus on realism, personal stories and irony (e.g. The Godfather, Taxi Driver) to special effects and high-energy motion pictures.

Malaysian National Schools Debating Championship 2025 · Semifinals · 2025-06-24
This house believes that the environmental movement should primarily focus on pressuring companies to develop technology that addresses climate change instead of demanding individual action.
Malaysian National Schools Debating Championship 2025 · Round 4 · 2025-06-24
This house opposes the rise of techno-optimism.
Infoslide

Techno-optimism is a perspective that emphasises a positive outlook on the power of technological progress to solve social, environmental, economic problems.

Malaysian National Schools Debating Championship 2025 · Round 2 · 2025-06-24
This house supports South Korea decoupling its semiconductor and defense technology supply chains from Japan.
Infoslide

South Korean companies like Samsung and SK Hynix are collaborating with foreign companies to secure supplies and expand domestic production of key materials, increasing its imports of photoresist from Belgium, investing in domestic production of fluorinated polyimide, etc.

Diliman Asian Parliamentary 2025 · Round 4 · 2025-06-23
This house prefers a world in which the pursuit of AGI is abandoned
Infoslide

Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) describes a hypothetical type of AI that would have cognitive abilities on par or beyond that of human cognitive abilities. Unlike narrow AI, which is fed on data and then able to reproduce knowledge and execute simple to somewhat complex tasks, an AGI would be capable of understanding, learning, and applying intelligence across a wide range of different tasks, even those it has not been specifically trained for. AGI would be able to solve complex problems, plan, reason, and adapt to new environments independently, much like a human being. For example, an AGI could potentially excel at language, provide medical diagnoses, create knowledge and art and learn entirely new skills without being explicitly programmed for each task.

Budapest Pre-EUDC Fundraiser 2025 · Round 5 · 2025-06-21
This house would require all people to regularly enter the switcheroo
Infoslide

The switcheroo is a simulation where people experience an accurate simulation of living as a different person for a month, however the simulation itself would only take 1 hour in the real world. The race, class, sexuality, profession of your life in the simulation would be randomized.

Budapest Pre-EUDC Fundraiser 2025 · ESL Finals · 2025-06-21
This house prefers a world where IntenSync exists and is widely accessible
Infoslide

IntenSync is a hypothetical technology that lets one person, upon mutual consent, access another’s genuine intentions and feelings within a relationship. Once activated, it reveals those present intentions and emotions to both parties—including any suppressed desires directed at the other person. IntenSync does not expose past actions or any private thoughts beyond current intentions and feelings.

Colourful Summer Open 2025 · Round 2 · 2025-06-21
This house supports the implementation of a government-run Sacriphthsisis program
Infoslide

Sacriphthisis is a fictional medical technology that allows for the complete transfer of illnesses from one person (a giver) to another (a receiver). The transfer cures the giver completely. Receivers can volunteer to absorb multiple illnesses, but only from one giver and cannot be killed intentionally as part of the process. The proposed program would resemble blood or organ donation systems, with a public registry of volunteers who opt in to receive illnesses from people who request to be cured.

Waterloo IV 2025 · Novice Finals · 2025-06-21
This house predicts that China’s AI strategy will be more successful than the US’s by 2050
Infoslide

China is currently focusing on implementing practical applications of AI, whereas the US is focusing on being the first to develop the best AI models.

Waterloo IV 2025 · Semifinals · 2025-06-21
That we support the death of ambition in academia
Infoslide

The “death of ambition in academia” refers to a shift in scholarly priorities away from the pursuit of grand theories (e.g. marxism, the end of history) or sweeping claims about human behaviour (e.g. Stanford Prison Experiment). Instead, academic work increasingly focuses on narrow case studies, micro- critiques, and context-specific analysis, favouring nuance and situated insight over universal explanations.

UNSW Pre-Australs 2025 · Semi-Finals · 2025-06-21
This House would have the AI run their life.
Infoslide

An AI can make your life decisions based on your values, beliefs, and preferences, as determined through a series of questions. You can update your preferences.

Austria pre-WSDC 2025 · Novice Final · 2025-06-20
This House supports the existence of a technology that allows people to see, retrospectively, the effects on their lives if they made major life decisions differently.
Austria pre-WSDC 2025 · Round 4 · 2025-06-20
This House, as a parent, would strictly limit their children's access to media and technology (e.g. no phone before age 14, no social media before age 16).
Austria pre-WSDC 2025 · Round 1 · 2025-06-20
This House would have the AI run their life.
Infoslide

An AI can make your life decisions based on your values, beliefs, and preferences, as determined through a series of questions. You can update your preferences.

Austria pre-WSDC 2025 · Semifinals · 2025-06-20