The Re:Write is a single-use machine that will alter humanity's collective records and remembrance of history. The new, re:written history will be that 2024 years ago, a great war over resources and territory nearly wiped out the human race, and it took thousands of years of cooperation to restore humanity to present-day conditions. The Re:Write will never be questioned by anyone, and there will be no factual gaps or inconsistencies that make people doubt the truth of the Re:Write.

For the purpose of this debate, "innate intelligence" is one's inherent capacity to adapt, learn, and respond to stimuli in their environment based on their genetic predispositions, neurological development, and instinctual behaviours.

You are a female artist who has grown up painting all your life. To you, art remains a constant across life's varied journeys: from enduring childhood abuse and trauma to celebrating the happiest moments of your life, such as finding the love of your life and getting married. You paint both as a source of joy and a means of livelihood, and your partner is supportive of your artistic endeavours.

After years of difficulty in conceiving a child with your partner, you are finally expecting a child, bringing immense joy to both of you. However, as news of your pregnancy came to light, you have also been diagnosed with a disease that progressively gets worse every time you paint, leading to the gradual paralysis of your limbs, organ failure, and eventually, death.

Margin trading is a practice where an investor borrows funds from a broker to purchase securities, such as stocks or bonds.

A "human capital contract" is a financial arrangement where individuals exchange a portion of their future income for immediate capital. In this arrangement, investors effectively acquire equity in the individual's earning potential, with the expectation of receiving dividend payments in the future based on the individual's income.

An index fund is a type of investment fund that holds a diversified portfolio or other assets that mirror the composition of the chosen index. For example: The S&P 500 Index consists of the 500 largest companies in the U.S.

Divination practices encompass a wide range of methods used to seek supernatural or mystical insights into the future or unknown aspects of life. Common examples are tarot cards, horoscopes, and astrology.

Religious Personal Laws is a set of legal principles and regulations that govern personal and family matters for adherents of a particular religion per the tenets of said religion, which operates separately from the civil laws of a nation.

The "earn-to-give" model is a philosophy that suggests the best strategy for people who want to create a change in the world is to earn a substantial income and then donate a significant portion of it to cost-effective charities. On the other hand, work that maximizes social good focuses on how you can create a positive impact on people through social entrepreneurship, working in non-profit organisations etc.

Stereotype leveraging refers to the acceptance and utilisation of positive stereotypes by members of a community.

Natalist policies refers to the financial and social incentives to give childbirth, including but not limited to, providing tax incentives for families with children, free daycare centers, increasing maternity leaves and benefits, subsidised child care, abolishment of family planning, and increased regulation on sterilisation and abortion.

For the purpose of this debate, a carbon offset is a means of compensating for one's carbon emissions by engaging in a certain activity that decreases carbon in the atmosphere. For example, purchasing and sustaining forest land, carbon capture and storage technology, or buying and selling carbon credits.

"Ghost work" is task-based, content-driven work that is funnelled through the internet and is often done anonymously and on a contract basis. This kind of work can include but is not limited to labelling, editing, moderating, and sorting information or content. Increasingly, companies such as Amazon have begun replacing their regular workers with ghost workers.

A "zero-hour" contract is often signed between an employer and an employee, whereby the employer is not obliged to provide any minimum number of working hours to the employee.

Tech giants Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, Meta have been racing towards AI development by heavily prioritising it within their companies. Examples of efforts to prioritise it include rebranding, and restructuring departments in order to give more resources to AI development teams.

Small Language Models (SLM) have fewer parameters and don't require as much data to train. SLMs have more narrow and specific applications, and are meant for simpler tasks. For example, language translation.

Large Language Models (LLM), such as GPT 5.0 which is currently under development, require much larger datasets and have more parameters. Large language models are more suited for applications that need orchestration of complex tasks involving advanced reasoning, data analysis and understanding of context.

The Bechdel-Wallace Test is a test which has been increasingly adopted by Western filmmakers, studios, critics etc. to measure the representation of women in film and other works of fiction. For a film to pass the Bechdel-Wallace test, it must satisfy the following requirements: 

• The film has to have at least two women in it
• The characters in question have talk to each other
• The characters in question have to talk about something other than a man

Examples of movies that have passed and failed the test are:

• PASSED: Kill Bill, Wonder Woman, Twilight, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty
• FAILED: Sex and the City, Breakfast At Tiffany’s, Mulan, Avengers, Lord of the Rings, Pacific Rim, Oppenheimer