This house believes that social justice movements should prioritize broad coalition-building over ideological purity.
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Social justice movements seek to
promote equality and rights within a society. Coalition-building involves
working with diverse groups and individuals who may have different views to
achieve a common goal, whereas prioritizing ideological purity means strictly
adhering to a specific set of core beliefs and excluding those who do not fully
agree
Gold Cup Finals
This house believes that social justice movements should prioritize broad coalition-building over ideological purity
Info Slide
Social justice movements seek to promote equality and rights within a society. Coalition-building involves working with diverse groups and individuals who may have different views to achieve a common goal, whereas prioritizing ideological purity means strictly adhering to a specific set of core beliefs and excluding those who do not fully agree.
Silver Cup Finals
This house believes that social justice movements should prioritize broad coalition-building over ideological purity.
Info Slide
Social justice movements seek to promote equality and rights within a society. Coalition-building involves working with diverse groups and individuals who may have different views to achieve a common goal, whereas prioritizing ideological purity means strictly adhering to a specific set of core beliefs and excluding those who do not fully agree
Main Cup Semifinals
This house believes that the development of AGI should be restricted exclusively to government-controlled or funded institutions.
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Artificial General Intelligence
(AGI) is a form of AI that is able to perform at a similar or greater level of
cognition as humans in a wide variety of tasks and can learn new tasks. In
contrast, narrow AI (like Siri or ChatGPT) is designed to perform one specific
type of task. AGI does not exist yet.
Gold Cup Semifinals
This house believes that the development of AGI should be restricted exclusively to government-controlled or funded institutions.
Info Slide
Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is a form of AI that is able to perform at a similar or greater level of cognition as humans in a wide variety of tasks and can learn new tasks. In contrast, narrow AI (like Siri or ChatGPT) is designed to perform one specific type of task. AGI does not exist yet.
Silver Cup Semifinals
This house believes that the development of AGI should be restricted exclusively to government-controlled or funded institutions.
Info Slide
Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is a form of AI that is able to perform at a similar or greater level of cognition as humans in a wide variety of tasks and can learn new tasks. In contrast, narrow AI (like Siri or ChatGPT) is designed to perform one specific type of task. AGI does not exist yet.
Bronze Cup Finals
This house believes that social justice movements should prioritize broad coalition-building over ideological purity
Info Slide
Social justice movements seek to promote equality and rights within a society. Coalition-building involves working with diverse groups and individuals who may have different views to achieve a common goal, whereas prioritizing ideological purity means strictly adhering to a specific set of core beliefs and excluding those who do not fully agree
Round 4
This house, as a developing country, would prioritize developing partnerships with many developing nations (ASEAN, the African Union etc.) over the development of relationships with international superpowers (e.g. China, USA, Saudi Arabia etc.)
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Developing countries often face a
choice in foreign policy: they can prioritize "South-South"
cooperation by building alliances with other developing nations and regional
blocs (like the AU or ASEAN), or they can focus on "North-South"
relationships with global superpowers that offer significant economic or
military influence.
Round 3
This house regrets the idolization of individuals who achieved success without going through traditional education (Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, etc.)
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Traditional education refers to the
standard academic path of primary, secondary, and higher education
(university). Idolization involves the extreme admiration of public figures,
such as tech founders, who dropped out of formal education to pursue their
business ventures.
Round 2
This house prefers companies providing non-monetary benefits (e.g. flexibility, additional paid leaves, training, childcare support) over monetary benefits (e.g. higher wages, cash bonuses, discount vouchers)
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Employee compensation can include monetary benefits, which are direct financial payments like wages and bonuses, or non-monetary benefits, which focus on quality of life, such as flexible working hours, additional leave, or childcare support.
Round 1
This house as a state with ageing population would opt for policies that increase immigration (e.g. more visas) rather than ones that
encourage citizens to have more children (e.g. tax benefits)
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An ageing population occurs when the median age of a country rises due to rising life expectancy and/or declining fertility rates. Governments can respond by increasing immigration to bolster the workforce or by providing incentives like tax benefits to encourage citizens to have more children