D Benton Smith
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It is because AI is not conscious that it is incapable of making informed choices on matters which are literally BASED upon consciousness. Losing a dollar, honor or a loved one in no way comparable to losing love, companionship or trust. It is literally impossible to reduce that type of lived experience into the numeric values that are the only data which computerised algorithms can run.
Sociopaths have much the same problem. Because they have little or no empathy they are literally INCAPABLE of solving problems which are BASED on truly appreciating the subjective, lived, experiences of other people. They are baffled by the fact that people distrust or even hate the liars whose incessant lfalsifications have caused terrible personal harm. It doesn’t compute.
A few points about your points :
Raul sets the tone and agenda, of his own free will I presume, by means of the news aggregation at the start of each edition.
I’ve been posting in fits and starts for a little over 8 years, in comparison to your 1 year. That affords me no special privileges nor does it make my opinion or druthers any better than yours . . . but it does give me a much longer perspective, and I think TAE is toddling along just fine.
I am sure that this place has its fair share of curmudgeons, delicate egos, prima donnas and ranters, but probably no ordinary and outright trolls at the moment that I know of .
Yeah, things get wound up a little tight from time to time but then Raul raps our knuckles and most of us calm down.
I absolutely do not share your opinion that there are only 3 worthy regular posters currently active. Even if that were true you have not showed the rest of much reason to accept your presumptuous claim to know these unnamed posters might be.
Earn your spurs, cowboy. Start posting. I’ll read your stuff and decide for myself if you’ve got the chops to make such a call.
Why is everyone so pissed off at the government for not doing its job ? Isn’t the government hired and paid to provide security to “good” people by taking away the freedom of “bad” people . . . by force if necessary ? Well, it sure looks to me like that’s exactly what they’re doing, and doing it with unprecedented gusto. Mission almost fully accomplished. Vaccine passports should wrap it up nicely.
In other words, you can have your security or you can eat your freedom, but you can’t eat your security and have cake at the same time. . . or something like that.
Whether by recovery from environmental infection or assisted by vaccine, recovery is ultimately accomplished by only ONE means : the individual’s immune system. Even the most deluded megalomaniacal psychopaths in thrall to BioEngineering (which NOBODY understands beyond science kindergarten levels) must still acknowledge that system’s billion years of refinement. But they nevertheless arrogate to them selves to right to improve upon it . . . whether you like it or not.
They justify this hubristic arrogance with the most illogical and irrational circularity imaginable. Essentially they simply brush off the reality of consciousness itself as though it were a minor issue that will be cleared up in the future by their ARTFICIAL mimicry of intelligence.
What all of those megalomaniacs DO claim however ( and with ZERO evidence ) is that the individual’s immune system is absolutely unaffected by anything other than materialistic processes which they interpret to be purely and only “deterministic” in their entirety. They hold these atheistic beliefs with a religious fervor equal to anything in the historial record. No surprise, since atheist deterministic materialism is very VERY much a RELIGIOUS belief . It is simply the polar opposite of THEIST. One end of a long graduated scale of beliefs about the origin of things. Most folks are somewhere in the middle ( God made the Universe but the laws of physics still apply because God made those, too.)
Because “True Believers” in the religion of atheist deterministic materialism are completely stumped by the inexplicable (to them at least) existence of CONSCIOUSNESS ( they call it the “hard problem” of physics) they skirt the question by saying it will be solved by computerized machines real soon, meaning as soon as they can shut you up.
These extremists are currently in charge of the planet (they think) and that is why the multiplicity of crises at this time all seem to have the same creepy and distasteful flavor. It’s also why mass murder on the truly grand scale is no big deal to their way of thinking. Conscious being and experience is just an emergent property of stuff being banged together in some peculiar way that they’ll solve just as soon as all of us obstructionist disposables are safely out of the way as slaves or corpses.
So, you can see how this might lead to a serious dust-up, and that is precisely where I believe this dog’s breakfast of a “system” is going.
Don’t worry about whether or not to choose some drastic solution, because the degree to which you do NOT choose then the choice is being made for you. You will fight, or fall or buckle under, and that will simply be that. In other words, the game is afoot and ultimately you will do whatever you BELIEVE is the best thing under the circumstances that you find yourself in as this all plays out.
@Figmund Sreud
There is a very important point glowing just under the surface of your observation that attorney Fleming may be morphing into a Fauci hunter. Here’s the point :
Every investigator ( which includes Scientists, Lawyers, Journalists, et al ) , as they delve deeper and deeper into an unkown in order to know what’s really going on, runs the risk of taking a stance for or against something. It is really hard NOT to do that, especially when they discover that they have a personal stake in the outcome. That stake can be ( and often is ) completely legitimate , but the effect can cause real problems. Once they choose a side they are liable to lose the fullness of their objectivity and start seeing one side of the issue more clearly and poignantly than they did before. What happens next is usually a fight, and what was previously a search deteriorates into a contest. Depending upon the stakes that contest can get really ferocious . . . even deadly in extreme cases.
It’s just another one of those pitfalls. Life’s full of them. In my own experience it helps to be aware of them, and to know what it is when it happens.
I think there is an extremely high probability that our so-called leaders are listening to ( and BELIEVING, unfortunately) a host of computer driven/ machine learning / Artificial Intelligence algorithms almost exclusively, and ignoring the heartfelt pleas from their consituants and even their OWN hearts . . . because the machines (in service to rather sociopathic but otherwise rational elites) are both predicting and CAUSING human chaos in a feedback loop.
Since machines are not conscious these AI solutions cannot actually evaluate ANYTHING. They can be programmed to simulate conscious evaluation of what is good or bad . . . but ultimately these simulations are just that. They are simulations. FAKE. Fake now and fake forevermore (Dawkins, Kurzweil, their ilk and their sophistry be damned!) .
It is also highly probable that the way out, realistically, is going to be the more or less catastrophic collapse of the highly complex technical apparatus that made such robo-tyranny possible in the first place. Our job is to save the pieces (and our loved ones) when that goes down.
Since I am the person who braced you the most directly, harshly and explicitly it is fitting that I be the first to ask that you not leave.
You are not a troll or anything like it. I reviewed your posts going back many years and they prove beyond doubt that your positions and opinions are earnestly held.
In your post to Raul you said, “I made the mistake of responding to every reaction to what I said.”
I suggest that your mistake was not in responding to every reaction, but in REACTING to every response. It’s an easy and human mistake that we have all made. It’s just one of those human flaws we would all benefit from working on to improve.
Presenting the views of the loyal opposition . . . respectfully when possible . . . benefits everyone. Ironically, it is a vital part of the Scientific Process that we all claim to revere.
Just watch the linked video on “The Neuroscience of Creativity, Perception, and Confirmation Bias” , Totally friggin awesome! Good and useful stuff . . . and very pertinent to the matters we address here. Thankee kindly.
(probably) Like many others on this forum I am a “conspiracy theorist”, but not by predilection or preference. I would much rather be a full time ordinary citizen and only “an-occasional-and-part-time” “conspiracy NEWS REPORT consumer.”
If the official (and well paid !) conspiracy police investigators, conspiracy prosecutors, conspiracy judges, conspiracist jailers and mainstream journalists would do their respective jobs then perhaps that would be possible.
But, alas, such is not the case.
And so, back I go to wading through tons of unpleasantness and arcane sciency stuff that is literally wearing out my my brain, my dictionary and my patience. (not doing much good to my pocketbook either.)
But to be perfectly frank, I sure wouldn’t mind a peaceful ETTWAWHCTKIR (which acronyms the wishful thought of an “End To The World As We Have Come To Know It Recently” ) .
@Mister Roboto
That wasn’t a portent, actually. It was your olfactory sense. You smelled a plague rat. . . deflationista, to be specific and explicitly personal. (deflatmo is a little slow, so if I didn’t spell it out he might not get it.) The miasma reminds of rotted troll, only stinkier. It took days to clear the stench after the last one.
@deflationista
So whadaya say, deflated one, are you craving a little humiliation? Here are your choices:
1. Stop being an asshole and play nice (most advisable but least likely)
2. Scuttle back into your sewer (most probable, eventually, but your learning disabilitity will make that a painfully slow realization)
3. Stay and play (obviously this is the one I want because dismantling imitation intellects like you is almost as much fun as slugging rats in the gutter.)Covid is not the only massively unprecedented , species-risking, genetic experiment going on at the moment.
I’m speaking, of course, about the all inclusive planetary scale attempt to subjugate the entire population by means of a co-ordinated no-holds-barred war of aggression, squarely aimed at permanently unbalancing the fundamental dichotomies of human existence : Truth versus Lie, Free versus Compelled, and Living Awareness vs Mechanistic Oblivion.
Religious comparisons are difficult to avoid, but even without them the fact that we are experiencing an existential crisis of our own making is glaringly obvious to practically everyone still able to think.
If our life on Earth is a test of some kind, then it looks very much to me that humankind is already irreversibly engaged in the biggest exam we have ever faced. Let’s hope it’s a Mid-Term and not the Final.The French Consitutional Court must have skipped a lot of history classes. Allow me to update their crib sheet before that big exam that’s coming up : Louis XVI
Blessed are the paranoid, for they shall assume all trucks are out to get them and jump out of the way in time.
Your description of yourself is so precisely a description of MYself that it’s downright spooky.
Rudyard Kipling was an observant and articulate spokesperson for his team, to be sure, and as such he observed a few things which far transcend the relatively narrow needs of an empire at one or another moment in history.
One of those observations that pertains to our own narrow needs at this particular moment is this :Some people keep their heads in the midst of mortal chaos, and some do not. The implied advice is obvious.
Good little website that deserves a bigger readership :
https://ghionjournal.com/vaccine-game-changer-we-are-nearing-a-tipping-point/
I took someone’s advice and did the ol’ “due diligence” thing on Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz.
I won’t rehash his backtrail details because, frankly, there are too many assholes in this world to waste time on every piece of shit that comes along. He’s a spook, a shill, a one-trick-pony hatchet man and a complete fraud . He is in no way an epidemiologist. He works in the School of Social Sciences, Media & Communication there at Wollonong U , and all 25 of his “published papers” are hit pieces on real scientists and/or cheerleading for Big Pharma . What a complete DICK ! The nicest thing you could say about Mr. Katz is that at least he’s moderately competent in the spy game . . . just not for our team.
The Big Chicken in the Sky answered my prayers with the following phylosophy to impart:
Fear of death by an invisible stalker is being pumped through the public’s bloodstream by the usual suspects just as energetically as they are capable . . . as all of you well know and have often said. I would like to address that issue.
Death is like taking a seat in a hushed and darkened theater. Pessimists think the show is over. Optimists think the curtain is about to go up, and Realists consider grabbing a snack from the concessionaire in the lobby. All but the most extreme of us are a mix of all three.
Our fear of death is how “they” control “us”, and their fear of death is what drives them to do so. I think we should first be aware that such is the case, and then consider possible “best ways” to proceed from that point. Opinions will vary on what “best” means. Here’s the point : We live for as long as we can manage. In the meantime there are excellent snacks available from the lobby.
I consider that when folks say that they want the truth they are exagerating. What they really want is just to win. if a certain truth might help them do that then they definitely want it. But if it’s the other way around (if the alleged truth would make them lose) then it is a filthy lie.
For example : someone tells you that they want the truth.
The Covidia Davosian Casino (CDC) hides the cards, deals the hands and tells you how much you lost. Your only job is to keep filling the pot.
Arguing with government about the conditions under which it’s practitioners are morally justified in enslaving, harvesting, culling or disposing of you or anyone else is literally giving them permission to do so when they decide to.
Criticizing CDC about their vax, the Fed about their monetary policy or the Spies about their Truth Control is comparable to a condemned prisoner arguing with his executioner about which rope to use.
Life is a bass akwards sort of race in which the objective seems to be coming in dead last.
To attain that objective it may be occasionally necessary to help some others across the finish line.
The geniuses at CDC, WEF, and a host of other elite Boy’s Clubs are having an IQ contest with a virus . . . and losing.
Today’s basic math lesson will be on the topic of statistics :
If 50 % of a population is “vaccinated” against a virus , and 50% the population is not vaccinated , and the two halves intermingle willy nilly for months, and the resultant infections are found to occur in approximately equal numbers of both cohorts, then the “vaccine” is , at best, 100% fucking useless . It is OPERATIONALLY ineffective. Meaning that when applied in the REAL world it does nothing to actually resolve the problem it was meant to solve. It does not matter one lone iota how good it looks!
The dog won’t hunt. It’s as worthless as a lifeboat that doesn’t float. Little wonder that its success rate is comparable to that of deployimg Theatrical Prop body armor to both sides of a gun fight . . . and makes roughly the same amount of sense.Here’s an entrprenurial stroke of genius (or maybe it’s the other kind) idea for turning TEOTWAWKI into a hands-over-fists money making bonanza:
A “Disneylandish” theme park laid out in a maze-like arrangement of streets, rides and other attractions . . . but in which everything the visitor sees, hears or buys has a 60 % probability of being false, misleading or broken. Charge visitors to the park their entire life earnings to get in , and leave it up to them to find a way out.
I just had a SciFi sort of nightmare about a dystopean future that consisted of being incessantly told about a dystopean future.
My wife, Ruey, summarized the vaccine insanity in one sentence, “If I’m protected then why should I act like I’m not protected ?”
Just so ya know, here are the mucky mucks sitting on the United Kingdom’s secretive SAGE panel, who just published the latest terrorizing speculation that the boggeyman of death-by-plague MIGHT emerage someday real soon to kill every third person on the planet.
Prepare to be dismayed and outraged by who the panel consists of . . . but not surprized.
[teaser: Google’s Deep Mind “AI” (artificially intelligent) guy is one of several “interested” participants in the panel, as was Big Pharma’s creature, the Henry Wellcome foundation’s public face, the “Welcome Trust”. ] .
Just so ya know, here are the mucky mucks sitting on the Onited Kingdom’s SAGE panel, that just released the latest terrorizing speculation that the boggeyman of death-by-plague MIGHT emerage someday real soon to kill every third person on the planet.
Prepare to be dismayed and outraged . . . but not surprized.
[teaser: Google’s Deep Mind “AI” (artificially intelligent) guy is one of several “interested” participants in the panel ] .
Fauci better avoid crossing the street. His former pals have plans involving buses. I wonder how long they’ll bad mouth him before the coups de grace. Everything is so accelerated these days ! His downfall might look more like being sucked into space from a ruptured escape pod. Here one minute and nothing but a gaping hole into nowhere just a single news-cycle later.
Fauci better avoid crossing the street. His former pals have plans involving buses. I wonder how long they’ll bad mouth him before the coups de grace. Everything is so accelerated these days ! His downfall might look more like being sucked into space from a ruptured escape pod. Here one minute and nothing but a gaping hole into nowhere just a single news-cycle later.
@madamski cafone “the Boz”
Challenge accepted. Here’s a new topic auditioning for the role of TAE Obsession Of The Moment :
Any of you here old enough to remember the term “Assymetric Warfare” ? It was quite the rage 20+ years ago but seems to have fallen out of fashion. Not to be fully conflated with the the term “Unconventional Warfare” the two share many characteristics, and along with good old blood drenched “Conventional Warfare” pretty well cover the gamut of large scale mayhem.
In any case, here is the question : Are we now experiencing “real deal” , world wide, Assymetric Warfare ? And if so, who are the combatant parties and what are their respective vectors of force projection? Basically, who is fighting, what does each want, and how are they going about smiting their enemies and protecting their home turf?
Maybe the transhumanist maniacs in power throughout the entire oligarchy don’t really want what they have explicitly told us they want, publicly, for the past 20 or thirty years.
The so-called “Davos Crowd” (oligarchs, Global Elites, Illuminatti Lizard Lords, whateveryawannacallits) drastic plans and efforts to change practically everything should be recognized as their insider’s view of how well they think their current system of wealth, power and control is running. Not so good, I think. They would see no compelling reason to fuck with success and change it all if they saw the existing system (THEIR chosen system) lasting very much longer. It’s a sort of inadvertant confession of total failure and expectation of impending collapse.
Their “suggestions” about what we should all do next is also a confession of sorts. It is their estimation of what they think it would take in order for them to go on being in charge and actually running the show for their own benefit. They’re the ones who have the experience of having and using power, so they should know. Please notice how drastically literally everything would have to be re-aligned, reassigned and redfined . . . just for them to remain at the helm and not be annihilated . Do YOU think 7.5 billion people can change that much in available amount of time ? Maybe with a Sci Fi level genetic re-coding . . . the extra special fast acting kind. Otherwise nope. I’m fairly sure we’re safe on that count for a little while longer.
Frankly, I’m pretty sure that they are right about the collapse and right again about what it would take for them to remain in charge, and totally fucking delusional about the whole world changing that much that fast without disintegrating into hot bits and pieces like an obsolete satelite re-entering the atmosphere . Physics wins. Delusion ends in a fiery disintegration. And folks on the ground go back to the business of getting through this day and planning for the next.
I ain’t saying those megalomaniacs are not homicidal lunatics, nor suggesting that you should do nothing about them to protect yourself. What I’m saying is that they SHALL fail, are failing now, at an increasingly spectacularl rate, and advise you to not be in in the debris zone as they fall. That ain’t easy, I know, because we’re in a bit of a pickle, aren’t we ? We are ALL caught in what I call a “Truth Trap/Lie Trap” . If the lies are exposed and the truth comes out then they are toast. But if the lies prevail then WE are. It’s a life & death , existential, sort of fight. Best avoided. But once it gets started (like now) then Katie bar the door.
So, yeah, it’s pretty serious . . . but I thought it worth reminding y’all that the Bad Guys (who as insiders have a much less obstructed view of the numbers and battle plans) see themselves as losing. Gotta agree with ’em on that point, at least. See? It’s possible to find common ground in ANY argument.Your revelation gives a whole new meaning to the concept of “coming out” , not to mention greater breadth, depth and range to the term identity crisis (keeping all those names straight damn near gives ME an identity crisis). Madamski is simpler to say, easier to spell and faster to type than the long handled boscohorowitz, so I’m going back to my preferred short-handled version : the Boz.
