That’d be great if dindles like ourselves could actually create machines with real intelligence and then have them solve all our problems for us.
This is a profoundly stupid notion.
Intelligence has to be alive. The works of our hands are not alive.
But as we can so easily and sadly see, being alive is no guarantee of intelligence.
We haven’t come such a long way from worshiping silly idols made of wood or stone, have we?
They’re watching you!
Is there such a thing as too much technology? You mean there isn’t?
Those porch-climbers at Davos want to control every aspect of your life, no matter how trivial. They have a right to devour you: John Kerry says so.
We just can’t wait to get every new “phone”–the word is hardly adequate anymore–that comes along. And they can all be used to spy on us.
They couldn’t enslave us with violence, so now they’re using seduction. Be warned: whatever they offer that looks nice… isn’t.
Last week I did an interview with Paul Engel (“America Out Loud”), which he posted yesterday, and which you can now listen to if you’re better at navigating websites tfhan I am. The interview’s in here somewhere.
https://www.americaoutloud.com/the-importance-of-limited-and-enumerated-powers/
The show is almost an hour long, and I don’t come on until the last 20 minutes or so. The show (podcast? I don’t know) may be accessed immediately under the big picture of letter cubes.
If you manage to hear the interview, you will agree that I have a voice ideal for semaphore. (This might just slip by with no one hearing it at all.)
Red China’s working on a project that’ll have Western leftids salivating with envy–a court system run by “Artificial Intelligence”… by machines instead of people (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11010077/Chinese-courts-allow-AI-make-rulings-charge-people-carry-punishments.html), the Daily Mail reports.
Computers will correct “perceived human error” (an acquittal, for instance), and judges will have to consult the machines “on every case.” The robots will have the power to sell off a defendant’s property, and an “AI prosecutor” will have the power to charge someone with a crime (if the police can’t think of one, offhand).
It’ll be great because computers are never wrong and never change their minds… because they don’t actually have minds.
Boy howdy, you’d better keep your Social Credit numbers up–or some algorithm somewhere will pack you off to a camp in Turkestan and donate your organs to a deserving Party member. Don’t get caught saying anything that the Party doesn’t want to hear!
This is the kind of technology Democrats will need when they have another try at setting up a Disinformation Governance Board. Why settle for any half-baked tyranny when you can go whole hog?
You might be cursed by an Old Testament prophet or an ancient Welsh bard–but cursed by a stupid plastic robot? That’s taking things a bit far.
A man in South Wales cancelled his Amazon Prime subscription, and next thing he knew, his Alexa was calling him a s***-head. Is that worse than being served by a surly waiter, or what? “Want any dessert, you moron?”
Why do I think of Caliban saying, “You taught me to curse”?
I said change the freakin’ plot!
How would you like a movie in which the story could change, depending on what kind of mood you were in while you were watching it?
Hi-tech can be awfully frivolous when it wants to be.
So you’re watching a movie with this special device (Lord knows what it’ll cost) that sort of reads your mind and either stays with the original plot because you’re digging it, or switches off to another direction because you don’t like what you’re seeing now.
How cool is that? You’re bored out of your skull by some artsy mainstream Serious Film, the preposterously expensive gizmo picks up on that, and voila!–Godzilla breaks into the Serious Film and restores sanity.
But no. The Scientists who are working on this project are using a Scary Movie about a right-wing takeover of America… where practically everybody’s Far Left and into Climbit Chains and Trans and Citizens of the World, blay-blah-blah. Well! If you’re going to indulge in fantasy, we’ll put you in charge of these voting machines…
Democrats and other Far Left crazies are just dying to impose a China-style “social credit” system on us. And part of that will be our cars (if we’re still allowed to have cars) spying on us for Big Brother.
All sorts of information about us is collected by computers in our cars and pumped back to the dealer. And where it goes from there, nobody knows.
Libs want government to have the power to reward behavior that it wants to reward and to “dis-incentivize” behavior that it wants to discourage. Imagine giving that much power to Pelosi & Co.
O God, deliver us out of their hands.
As long as we’re not usin’ ’em…
I wonder how far they’ve got with this business, since I posted this five years ago.
The idea was to create a human “interface” with computers so that somebody at a keyboard somewhere could delete someone else’s thoughts… and also insert thoughts that Big Brother wants you to have.
You put the right thoughts in, you pull the wrong thoughts out; you do the hokey-pokey and you shake it all about…
This is supposed to appeal to us, somehow?
As for the antidote: see Psalm 46. Come to think of it, Psalm 2 also applies–big-time.
Lately I’ve been thinking there’s more and more frivolity among the “Science” community: an awful lot of truly trivial thinking. Anybody else see that?
In my town the budget for our four schools exceeds, by a lot, all other public expenditures combined.
Yep, “public education” is big, big bucks–so big, no one has dared calculate its total cost to the nation. But here’s one of many reasons why it costs so much. And why we get so little for our money.
Yessir, the Los Angeles schools spent a billion dollars on these little gimcracks. Did the kids get a billion dollars’ worth of smarter? Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum!
Do you ever get the impression that our various governments go out of their way to show how little they respect us?
It’s all very well to have a computer algorithm that gives you moral and ethical counseling, and answers all your toughest moral questions (See “Ask Delphi!”). But when all is said and done, a computer just doesn’t have much personality.
That’s why North American Famous Folks Inc. has created Easy Ethics ventriloquists’ dummies that can be hooked up to your Delphi system so that moral guidance comes out of their mouths.
And coming soon–
Celebrity Talking Dummies! Yes, for a paltry $6,000 you can have your moral guidance dummy crafted into the semblance of your favorite celebrity! Imagine getting your ethical advance straight from Oprah! Or Hunter Biden! Or any cool character you saw in a movie! (Gregory Peck as Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird, told me it’s okay for me to spread false rumors if it gets me something that I really want!)
Thanks to high technology, your conscience can retire, your religion can receive a notice of termination, and you’ll never feel conflicted again! Because all that advice comes out of a computer, and Artificial Intelligence is much smarter than real intelligence!