‘AI’ and the March of Ignorance

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I’m a fan of the Hittites. So cool the way their civilization practically vanished, only to re-emerge as scholars learned to read Hittite documents. So when I see a video purporting to offer new information about the Hittites, I watch it.

The Hittite history video I watched last night was… well, this much ignorance is going to be hard to describe!

*Talking about Hittite sites, they show you stock photos of famous sites that have nothing to do with the Hittites.

*Names of historical characters consistently mispronounced.

*It’s a robot narrator, i.e. “artificial idiocy.” When it sees a name like, say, Henry I, it will pronounce it as “Henry Eye.” Richard III would be “Richard Eye-yi-yi.”

Talking about the Hittites’ military prowess, they showed video of World War I infantry and modern tanks.

But it’s only a robot, and no robot is capable of recognizing B.S. when it comes gushing out of the speakers.

Can you even imagine the bumper crop of ignorance that’s being raised today? But something tells me that mass ignorance is highly prized by world government wannabes.

‘Ignorance and Superstition, in My Own Home Town’ (2014)

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Shameful, isn’t it?

I haven’t looked at the Community Calendar in donkey’s years, so I don’t know if we’re still having an annual Animal Spirit Guide Event. Nor do I know if any more mandalas have been displayed at St. Luke’s Church. I suppose it’s possible the Event petered out after the Great Squirrel Spirit handed out one too many bad stock tips.

Ignorance and Superstition, in My Own Hometown

Funny, isn’t it? The more high-tech scientific stuff we have in our lives, the more superstition we collect to go with it: almost like they were two sides of the same coin. (I was going to say “record,” but that would only bounce off anybody born after 1990.) And this with the costliest and most intrusive education system ever devised by fallen man.

On second thought, it’s doing exactly what we should expect of it.