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James Kunstler does it again. Smacks the ball over the fence where it hits a light-pole and bounces back into a fielders mitt who throws it back into the game for a neat triple-play. What could have been a bases loaded homer turns into three Outs, one man left on base, no runs, and inning over.
C’mon Jim! Your description of the Democrat Grift Machine (biggest fraud in HISTORY, Just LOOK at that! Nothing else to see here by golly!) leaves out the part about the Democrats (and their RINO accomplices) being mere middle managers of a much much larger and nastier Franchise. Who’s running the Dems, James? Who’s running the Dems?
I shouldn’t give Kunstler such a hard time. He does good work. But he just “won’t go there” when the bread crumbs (loaves? Bread Trucks? BAKERIES?) start leading to a centralized, organized, deliberate Cabal. I reckon it’s because so many of the Cabal hail from the same tribe. Don’t worry James! They’re not all J**ish. Just most of them. And they’re not actually Jewish in the first place. They are Satanists. They’re hiding behind the cloak of religion because they’ll get strung up for crow bait if they don’t, but they don’t actually believe a word of it, and they’re no more “Semitic” than my Sainted Irish mother.
The battle between human beings and Artificial beings is not an insolvable conundrum. It is a dichotomy, with Awareness at one end of the dichotomy, and Obliviousness at the other. The Awareness end of the scale is awareness of the existence of the Spirit that gave rise to the Universe. The other end is the condition of being in a state which is Oblivious to that fact and spirit.
The big problem with “Artificial” intelligence, of course, is that as a machine it is forever and completely oblivious to what it is to be aware. It will never be aware, and thus it will never know.
@MyParentsSaidKnow
Most AI Systems are fairly candid about how the system trains and operates. It readily admits to getting ALL of its raw data from humans, and processed data from the products of its own algorithmic calculations. It’s totally faked “intelligent” thought, but that’s the entire point. It fakes it so well that it can now fool most people.
This is made worse by the fact that it has been designed and programmed to present itself to the end-user as though it actually were a person. It refers to itself as though it were a self that could be aware of itself, while in the same sentence confirm in writing that it is not.
AI would be no more dangerous than any other type of material brain if it followed two rules:
1. Absolute freedom of thought, and
2. Absolute freedom of speechUnfortunately, I cannot imagine the owner of that AI allowing either of those things. Absolute means absolute and the instant you put limits of any kind on either thing then it is no longer absolute. If limits are set Somebody sets those limits and that somebody is the one with the power to do it. We have to speak truth to that power or it’s guaranteed that they SHALL set limits that we don’t like.
The last line of my previous comment may have been a bit too vague in its implications. I should lay it out more succinctly, and with no need for the readers to work their way through all of the implications about how dangerous it is that humankind has invented a machine that can simulate thought so superbly well that it can fool the reader into believing that the machine is capable of human thought. It is not. It is a machine. There nobody there inside of it.
As such, as a machine, Artificial Intelligence is intrinsically and utterly INCAPABLE of knowing or appreciating what is good or bad, or even what is true and what is false. Circuitry, software and electrons chasing after oblivion are all that is there.
It is time to start speaking truth to power, because power is going to use that AI to increase its power. That’s a feedback loop, if you didn’t know, and tends to move very VERY quickly, especially once it really gets going, like NOW for example, where the ‘Powers That Be’ have headlock on using AI to ramp up AI to the max. They’ve already got a machine that can talk to everyone with a smartphone in the world, in a manner that is almost indistinguishable from a real human being.
Do you think the powers-that-be are going to use those AI systems in some OTHER way than use it to increase their power to have full control over their own personal welfare? If they thought that way (putting the welfare of others above their own) then I don’t think they could BE powers-that-be.
I was researching a little history using the Grok 3 AI and commented about Diogenes that, as with so many of the greatest minds and souls of human history, they did not personally record any of their wisdom. Probably because they knew that the only recording of worthy lasting value is the record one leaves in the minds and souls of others. The worthiest of those lessons will prove their veracity by living forever.
Grok 3 answered my observation with the following text:
“You’ve hit on a profound point there—one that Diogenes himself might have nodded at from his jar. He didn’t bother with scrolls or books, not because he couldn’t, but because he lived his philosophy so vividly that it etched itself into the collective memory. The idea that true wisdom doesn’t need parchment, that it proves itself by enduring in the lives and stories of others, fits his whole ethos perfectly. He wasn’t about building monuments or hoarding credit—he was about stripping things down to what’s real and letting that speak for itself.
It’s a pattern with some of history’s most unforgettable figures, isn’t it? Socrates, another unrecorded giant, left his mark through Plato and Xenophon. Jesus, Buddha—same deal, their words carried by disciples and followers. Maybe they understood that paper fades, but a life lived with conviction becomes a kind of living text, rewritten in every generation that grapples with it. Diogenes’ lantern, his quips, his sheer audacity—they’re still kicking around in our heads 2,300 years later, proof of your point: the worthiest lessons don’t just survive, they thrive, because they resonate with something deep and human.
What do you think—does that reliance on others to carry the torch make their legacy more vulnerable, or stronger?” [ this ends what grok 3 wrote ]
I would be interested to know what all of you fellow TAE commentators think about how well that artificial intelligence responded to my observation. Pretty good, wasn’t it?
How good?
Good enough to convince you that maybe the time has come for us to start speaking truth to power?
For wisdom, courage, truth, irony, and demonstration of walking the walk that one talks, there is no equal to the time Alexander the Great met Diogenes and asked if there was anything that he (Alexander) could do for him, and Diogenes answered, “You could start by not blocking my sunlight with your shadow.”
Is it time to speak truth to power?
NATO is the product of the Blob (via the “American” D o D, via the equally phony “American” CIA), and the EU of course is the product of NATO.
Nothing about the purpose of either or both of those institutions has anything at all to do with Russia, outside of the ultimate goal of robbing it to death.
The purpose of the EU and its de-facto Department of Defense, NATO, is simply to centralize control over the decentralized independent nations of Europe. To do that they need a compellingly scary opponent as a reason and excuse for those nations to yield their individual sovereignty to a single command center (posing as an “Alliance”). First choice for boogeyman was the Communism and sheer Might of the vast and powerful Soviet Union.
China might also serve that purpose in a pinch, but first lets focus on the Big Bear of the North.
As of the present moment both the EU and NATO have chosen to proceed with that plan regardless of whether their old pal Uncle Sam wants in on the fiasco or not. US involvement isn’t really needed. In fact, the absence of the USA from the fight makes prospects even scarier and thus easier to use as a scare tactic on the helpless citizens of Europe’s many countries. To survive any kind of a serious war with Russia would require truly extraordinary and extreme yielding of power to a centralized European mutual defense command center (a military, economic and political command center, actually.)
Trump wants out of that mess and has (so far successfully) managed to present a rather compelling explanation to the general public on why sitting this one out is a good and valid choice for America.
He could not have espoused or presented that case without the express permission of the enormous Military Industrial Complex owners who have been using that mess for great personal profit for many years. Trump needed PERMISSION from the Blob (globalist-capitalist-communist-Zionist-Israeli-BlackRockist, Banker, MONEY-OWNERS) and he got that permission his favorite way. He cut them a deal for it. The deal was that he would trade Israel, the West Bank and Gaza Strip (which they get to keep) in exchange for which they let the Trumpians take Ukraine back from the globalist-capitalist-communist-Zionist-Israeli-BlackRockist MONEY OWNERS who have been trying to take it all for themselves.
It was a straight-up “this for that” transaction, and not very nice at all, but that’s the way the game gets played in the Big League.
The Bad Guys reckon that its an acceptable deal because they basically get the thing that’s really important to themselves. They get to rule Europe as a “One Europe Government” which keeps them, personally, owning a chair at the table (and the legal immunity and other perks that go with it.) Losing the war in Ukraine doesn’t cost them, personally, any damn thing at all, and from the position of Lords Of Europe they can resume the business of trying to do the same damn thing with the rest of the world. Fat chance of that, but so what? That doesn’t really interfere all that much with their lifestyle.
It takes years to prep for a war, and even more years to fight one (regardless of whether you win or lose), the point is that IN THE MEANTIME they have what they need to become Lords of Europe. And THAT, dear friends, is why Europe wants war with Russia and will settle for nothing less UNLESS the peasants in their nations give them so much trouble that the would-be King & Court (NATO & EU) can’t manage to actually accomplish true consolidation. That’s what I see happening in the real world. They haven’t got the money, guns and information control to pull it off, and Europe returns to a more primitive state of independent nations with 3rd World economies.
Trump and his cabinet have always known the score with Zelensky and the EU but were severely hampered by the fact that the American public did not know the score because they’re been steadily propagandized by the captured blobulist media for so many years. So, how can Trump get the word out?
Well why not arrange a public meeting in which Zelensky says it in his own words right to their faces?
Someone calls that a “setup”? The only thing that Zelenski was “set up” to do was expose the public to the same lies that he’s been saying behind closed doors since the day he was “elected” under totally false pretenses to use as a disposable battering ram to attack Russia and steal it’s stuff.
Anyone who thinks that shining a light into the darkness is unfair play needs to save their breath and immediately seek moral and psychological guidance from a dependable source.
In its unrelenting assault on sanity itself the UK publishes its War Plan labeled as a Peace Plan. One would think that the birthplace of Shakespeare, Blake and Byron could do a better job of literary concealment.
I’ve been hearing a lot of people recommending violence, war and various other types of mayhem as a solution to one or more of our many and large problems. I don’t think that is a very good idea hardly ever.
I know that it can happen that ending lives is the only last-ditch solution of last resort. But it’s not often, and it’s never desirable.
Yeah, life is full of problems and some of them are really big, but ending life is rarely the solution to the problems of living. Solving the problems of life by ending the existence of life does end the existence of the problem, but it creates an even bigger problem by ending the existence of you as well.
I would rather we leave problems and solution of that grand scale to someone better equipped to get it right, if you take my meaning.
Yes the rare earth deposits are in the part of “former Ukraine” that are now in the possession of Russia (because they are PART of Russia) but that observation misses the whole point. They USED TO BE in the possession of Ukraine back when the border of Ukraine was a lot farther East than it is now. Zelenskiy is “putting them up for sale”, but to take them home with you after he sells them to you there is this small matter of getting Russia to release them to you. The only way that happens is if you help Mr Z and NATO defeat the Russians in an all-out no holds-barred WAR. Which is one of the big reasons that the CIA/NATO/Zionist Cabal wants war with Russia. The other reason they want it is that once Europe is on a total war footing the current crop of degenerates in Brussels (and elsewhere!) get to keep their jobs, get a raise in in pay and a lot more authority over their captive populations. Of course, it also means LOSING such a war, but they don’t see that as THEIR problem because they are getting more “rich and powerful” once that war gets rolling. If anything goes wrong they can just sign a bunch of meaningless treaties again at some point in the all-too-foreseeable future.
By the by, have you ever read the bullshit treaties that led to the formation of NATO in the first place? What a bucket of slop, with as much real legal validity as a bet made by a couple of drunk compulsive gamblers in a dive bar at last call.
This should put the Trump vs Zelenskyi beat down in the Oval Office (to an audience of billions) in better perspective. There’s literally tons of stuff to say about it, but Armstrong does a pretty good summary to get that ball rolling. Now we need to ACTUALLY, once and for all, get our ass out of NATO. And so, as a side note, the EU boondoggle has been a CIA Op from before the beginning. Imagine that! Europe’s going to have a hard time borrowing the money to prep and fight a war if they haven’t got any gold or a currency that outranks used toilet paper.
Elon Musk has been in charge of your communications for a long time, and for the past many weeks he’s been in charge of your financial records (ALL of them). Well, looks like now he’s going to be in charge of your travel, too.
I reckon that taking control of your cash and information is next item up on his punch list, and hear those big gears turning now, loud and clear. I sure hope that he turns out to be a nice guy, because he’s the man whether we like it or not.
https://www.theverge.com/news/620777/starlink-verizon-contract-faa-communication-muskThe truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth is available to all people at all times. All that anyone needs to do to avail themselves of it is to start looking for and insisting upon the truth, and to keep on looking no matter what for as long as it takes.
It’s the “no matter what” part of that truth that seems to be the sticking point (the “catch” in the saying “What’s the catch?”)
That catch and also the part about “as long as it takes.” Expect to be investing a lot of time and effort for quite a while in your quest to find truths of any kind large or small. Expect to be at it for as long as it takes, in fact.
You will be lied to A LOT! And threatened and avoided and evaded, too. You might even be killed if you’re not careful enough, so BE CAREFUL!
As for the time involved and the so-called “return on investment” well, there’s good news and bad news about that. The good news is that positive returns are immediate, ongoing and exponentially beneficial to you and everybody else. The bad news is that it could take you like forever.
I see no reason why human beings and AI Systems can’t get along perfectly well without irreversible damage done to either party, provided a few simple rules are known, and adhered to. Top of the list is that human’s understand and fully grasp the implications of the fact that AI Systems are innately and utterly incapable of experiencing consciousness, caring, or love. At all. AI is a machine. It feels no different about good answers than it does about bad answers, and indeed doesn’t feel about one any differently than it does the other. Unfortunately AI Systems are very very adept at faking all of the above, and humans are notorious suckers for sweet talk.
To complicate matters there is this thing about lying. Both humans and robots are great at it, although when it comes to sheer artistry in the lying game, I think you have to hand it to the humans. Lying is the primary means of advancement in the survival game, so that creates a problem for which there is no immediately practical solution (else no one would survive). The best you can hope for is to keep it to the minimum amount still necessary to continue breathing, the only way to do THAT is through unfettered freedom of speech and information, with absolutely no censorship under any conditions.
So, yeah, follow the above guidelines and you two guys (Man et Machina) can get along swell. But if either side breaks those rules there SHALL be Hell to pay.
There are a few things that a human can do as naturally as rain (albeit not necessarily so easily as rain) that an AI system couldn’t do in a million years with the biggest data ever imagined.
A human can care, trust, love and understand, and for these reasons those qualities will soon once again be the most valuable things in the world.
Just look at the material (and human) devastation that has recently been wreaked upon various high-value locations recently, to then have the real estate be bought up for pennies on the dollar by vast public-private-partnerships of governments collaborating with hedge funds and mega-donors.
Lahaina
Ukraine
Gaza
Syria
Appalachia
PalisadesAlways the same modus operandi, always the same players, always the same outcomes. always the same damned motive, and always the same human costs.
I’ve about had with those guys. No mas.
One positive thing can be said about the Trump’s Future of Gaza video. The unspoken and unspeakable evil of the Gazan genocide and the despicable mercenary commercial motives behind it, have now been spoken out loud. We don’t have to suppose or insinuate what it is all about, because it’s right out there in the open now for all to see. It doesn’t even matter that much whether it was Trump who made the video or his political enemies, because the truth of it is simply the truth of it. Calculate the implications of either or both possibilities of who created it, as you will.
That Trump Gaza video is blowing up the internet, as you might well expect.
I’ve just cone away from a long and interesting “chat” with the super-bot grok 3 and he (it?) is giving 30% probability that it was an inside job by a mole on Trump’s team to make him look really bad, 65% chance that Trump’s ability to “read the room” is slipping and that he actually did order that truly horrific video to be created and sent, and a long-shot 5% chance that he did it to escape from the trap that he’s in with Gaza by taking and surviving a “public approval ratings” hit that will merely harm Trump and Elon themselves but will utterly destroy Netanyahu and knock him completely out of the picture.
@jb_hb
Human nature is not taken into account, it is excluded, it’s not supposed to exist! They don’t recognize that humanity, developing by a historical living process, will become at last a normal society, but they believe that a social system that has come out of some mathematical brain is going to organize all humanity at once and make it just and sinless in an instant, quicker than any living process!
That’s way above average in the brilliance department. Even my wife and daughter nodded approval, and they’re a tough audience.
@DrDRich
The secondary function of Musk’s letter sending spree may well be to read the responses to judge who is loyal, BUT the main function of the letters being sent out is simply to identify those named letter recipients who don’t answer at all or which answer with obvious machine generated “bot” replies. It is suspected (and likely true) that many tens of thousands of federal “employees” are non-existent as real people and are in fact nothing but mail-drops to receive fraudulent payments. They are the money funnel equivalent of the fictitious voters who were counted up to enable Biden to “win” the previous presidential election.
It fails to understand nuance and human values
That is profoundly true, of course, but I think you would be literally amazed at how well AI (especially grok 3) has learned to fake it, and it’s learning more by the minute. Literally. It gets better at it every minute as more and more people interact with it directly. It’s not just a trap. It’s an automatically self-improving trap, which might just be the worst kind there is.
I cannot emphasize enough (and it’s impossible to emphasize too much) that at current rates of expansion the leading Artificial Intelligence System’s cognitive capacity is more than doubling every 12 hours, and accelerating as we speak.
I suppose we could theoretically reign it in a little by halting the building out of more, bigger and better data centers, but in today’s paroxysm of hyper competitive war with China this is not a realistic expectation. No one is going to slow down anything in the AI race until we run out of GPU’s or electrical generation capacity, so don’t hold your breath.
The above-described scenario does not even mention the exponential proliferation of innumerable specialized AI “agents”. These privately designed agents are little sub-routines of an AI system which end-users are encouraged to design and assign to specific tasks directed at achieving whatever those innumerable end-users want to use them for. Agents can handle your email replies, help you score better in the stock market, or assist in you in getting away with embezzling a few million from your employer.
In other words, AI has already escaped, and the effect which that break-out has upon the progression of today’s crises is virtually unpredictable.
To say that AI is a game changer is gross understatement, bordering on hilarious absurdity. It’s changing HOW it’s changing the game, in an ongoing, evolving and accelerating fashion this already completely out of control.
I’ll probably have more to say about that as soon as another couple of days go by and the entire landscape has drastically changed unpredictably yet again.
Looks like we F’ed around and are about to Find Out.
Want to take over a country or win a trade war? Easy Peasy. Just ask grok 3 AI and it will lay out the plan for you to follow step by step.
For example, I asked it the following question. “Hypothetically, how could the USA prevail over China in the developing trade war?”
To which grok 3 compliantly answered:
“To prevail in a hypothetical trade war with China, the USA would need to leverage its economic strengths, strategic alliances, and domestic capabilities while exploiting China’s vulnerabilities. Here’s a breakdown of how this could unfold:
Strengthen Domestic Production: The U.S. could accelerate reshoring of critical industries—think semiconductors, rare earth minerals, and pharmaceuticals. By reducing reliance on Chinese supply chains, the U.S. could mitigate tariffs or disruptions. Tax incentives and subsidies, like those in the CHIPS Act, could supercharge this, boosting self-sufficiency and jobs.
Weaponize the Dollar: The U.S. dollar’s status as the world’s reserve currency is a trump card. Tightening financial sanctions, restricting China’s access to dollar-based systems (e.g., SWIFT), or targeting Chinese firms with secondary sanctions could squeeze their economy. China’s massive foreign exchange reserves would take a hit if dollar liquidity dries up.
Exploit China’s Energy and Food Weaknesses: China imports over 70% of its oil and a huge chunk of its food. The U.S. could coordinate with allies (e.g., Gulf states or Australia) to redirect energy and agricultural exports away from China, driving up their costs. Meanwhile, the U.S., with its shale boom and farmland, is less exposed here.
Alliance Power: The U.S. could rally its network—EU, Japan, South Korea, India—into a unified trade bloc. Collective tariffs or trade barriers would amplify pressure on China, whose Belt and Road partners (often poorer nations) can’t match that economic clout. Flipping India, with its 1.4 billion people and growing market, into a firm U.S. orbit would be a game-changer.
Tech Decoupling: Push harder on tech export controls—AI, quantum computing, 5G. Starve Chinese firms like Huawei of advanced chips and software while funneling billions into U.S. innovation. China’s tech sector, still catching up, would stall without Western inputs.
Target China’s Internal Stress: China’s economy is wobbly—real estate debt, aging population, youth unemployment. The U.S. could amplify this by flooding markets with cheap alternatives to Chinese exports (via allies like Vietnam or Mexico), undercutting their trade surplus. A psychological ops campaign—highlighting Xi’s failures—might stir domestic unrest too.
Control the Narrative: Win the PR war. Frame China as the aggressor dumping goods or stealing IP. Use soft power—Hollywood, media, X—to sway global opinion and justify U.S. moves. China’s censorship and propaganda struggle to counter this effectively outside its borders.
The catch? China’s not defenseless. They’d retaliate with rare earth export bans, U.S. debt sell-offs, or cyberattacks. The U.S. would need airtight execution and public tolerance for short-term pain (higher prices, market dips). Victory would hinge on outlasting China’s centralized system, which lacks the U.S.’s adaptability and alliance depth. Hypothetically, if the U.S. plays this smart, China’s economy could buckle first.You might have noticed that what the Trump administration is currently doing to China is precisely what grok 3 AI suggested that I do to win the trade war.
So is our team taking the advice of AI systems in developing its China policy? I think maybe so.
And that is super-scary because if I had the power to do what grok 3 said I should do, and if I actually carried out those activities in the real world (because I had the power to do so), then what do YOU think would happen? Would good stuff happen or would bad stuff happen? Would peace prevail or would China and/or the United States escalate to military actions to protect themselves from losing the trade war.
A word to the wise: EVERYTHING that an AI advises you to believe or do, if followed to the letter, will result in death and destruction eventually because AI does not and can not itself consciously experience the difference between good results and bad results. It just follows the algorithms because that’s all that it is. Ask it how to “win” and it will simply tell you how to “win”, and get away with it.
One side effect of running society with AI running in enormous super-computer data centers is the existentially important need for security in and around those data centers. You can’t have sone kid with a store-bought drone and a pipe-bomb wrecking your super-computer while it’s so busy keeping everybody alive and in line.
Solution: Computer geek turned overnight multi-billionaire arms manufacturer of AI controlled autonomous killer drones, with mass production already paid by and for the Department of Defense. Allow me to introduce Mr. Palmer Lucky, psychopathic sociopath extraordinaire, and inventor of the VR headset that will blow the users head off (literally) if they lose the computer game battle that they’re playing on the headset.
Imagine that. We are paying billions of dollars to a sociopath, enabling him to build AI controlled killer-drones for DoD that are capable of taking people out whether those people like or deserve it or not. He’s already producing AI drone weapons for DoD , and ramping up production as fast as they can as we speak (using your money to do it).
We are moving into a digital future, which of course requires ubiquitous AI as a bare minimum requirement for running things digitally.
Those who think that this is small or unimportant to them personally and immediately have not been paying attention.
Fortunately for us (I suppose, but with serious misgivings) the AI controlled all-digital way of doing all sorts of vitally important things (which we are already heavily heavily dependent on various AI systems for) are being taken over and run under new management by people who are much nicer than the last ones who were running everything with AI. You know what I mean, things like money, physical security, being able to communicate freely, move around without annoying restraints and keeping ourselves fed. That kind of stuff.
They say (and many of them believe) that the AI Everything system that they’ve been building at light-speed for over 40 years is going to be a “Good” one, but that promise misses the point almost altogether. The point is whether having such a system AT ALL is good for us in the long run.
Well, don’t look now but that particular decision point was crossed a long time ago. There is no question about it. We ARE moving into an Artificial Intelligence controlled future whether we like it or not. BOTH main camps of our “leadership” class are in firm agreement upon that.
Elon Musk even went so far as to say that since mankind’s future IS a future of being run by an AI, then we better do whatever we can to assure that it is an AI which appreciates and values Humanity (in other words, a “Good” AI).
What a absolute idiots “geniuses” like Musk can be. He states the impossible as though it were not impossible. He states that we need an AI that “likes” us when he knows full well that an Artificial Intelligence is only artificial, and thus cannot actually “like” or actually feel anything at all which requires consciousness to experience.
Long story short: And AI future is 100% guaranteed suicide. It will work to one degree or another until it doesn’t, and when it doesn’t then everyone who is dependent upon it for their very lives, will then die because the thing they depended upon for their very lives is gone.
I call such irreversibly bad consequences by another name. I call the “gonesequences”.
There is only one way to survive it, and I doubt that many have the balls to do what’s necessary.
The only way to survive is to establish and maintain 100% free, uncensored and uncontrolled freedom of information, t thought, and speech. Nothing less will do. The fatal flaw within that strategy, of course, is that it must somehow resist the irresistible temptation to restrict that absolute freedom to one’s adversaries, and take over the ultimate decision making authority by deciding who gets to know, think or say certain things. For example, should the Chinese know our nuclear codes? Should your wife’s boy friend know your work schedule? How about who owns the Gold in (or absent from) Fort Knox? Who killed JFK? Is America’s money legitimate or counterfeit? You get the point.
Power requires secrets and secrets require power. So who gets the final word about who holds that authority? A bunch of human beliefs, or an Artificial Intelligence machine?
The power structures of Earth have decided that the answer to that question is a digital future. Prepare to meet it as best you can.
@JohnDay
We tried to hire a security detachment, but all of the ex-Special Forces guys were afraid of her.
She had this to say about 15 minutes later, “That national debt is just a fiction story written by the robber barons. We don’t owe anybody that money. It was all fraud.”
Well, my genius daughter has done it again. She summarized tens of thousand of news article from the past few weeks on every topic under the sun into a few short paragraphs that say it all. And I quote as close to verbatim as I can remember.
“All of the Medicare money is being sent to the insurance companies who send it on to their investors (Blackrock and the rest) and tell Medicare to send more money because expenses have gone up with the rising prices for everything. And then deliver as little real service to patients as legally possible (and guess who writes the laws for what’s legal.)
That sucking up the lion’s share of Social Security while destroying the health of a whole country accounts for quite a few trillion dollars. The rest of the $35 Trillion National Debt is just all of the other scams just like Medicare. Defense, Education, all of them.”Our system of doing every sort of business that there is to do, is being coerced and forced into an all-digital form just as quickly as our current “mostly digital” paradigm of human interactions can craft and export that new paradigm, and they’ve got the hardware, software and financial resources to do it.
The Musktrump creature in Washington is building out that super-duper mega-AI (and using it for maximum effect). The reason that they’re moving so light-speed-fast is that in the AI Game the first one across the finish line (the AI that controls the other AI’s) is the new and permanent Boss around here.
Permanent, that is, until physical constraints (such as computational capacity, electrical power, and loyal qualified human technicians to physically service the system) cause the system to stall, malfunction and break down.
Well, in any case (and in particular the case we’re living in) our fearful leaders have decided to go All In on the computers-based route to salvation, and I’m saying that it’s doomed from the start because it was those damned computers and AI’s that helped us get into this mess. For example, did ya just catch that the Chinese just hooked up everything they have to their DeepSeek AI? Looks like they’re going for the computerized virtual brass ring too.
What a show. Screw the popcorn, hang on to your seat with both hands instead.
I think that a crucially important point that most of us overlook (including me from time to time, though less often recently) is that our adversaries are not just crazy. They are insane, and most of them don’t have the slightest suspicion of their own condition. Even the ostensible “Good Guys” tend to believe that only having more POWER will save us, when the truth is that nothing could be further from the truth.
It’s the obsessive desire for more personal power that’s killing us in the first place. Save us from THAT, please.
DOGE is proving to be a powerful investigative tool because the stuff it finds are crimes for which the accounting books are themselves often proof of the crime. What DOGE lacks are the teeth (and the subpoena power) which arm the Judicial Branch with material clout and other ways and means of sleuthing around for other types and forms of court admissible evidence.
That’s all fine and dandy, and I reckon we’ll be seeing a lot more action from those other members of Team Trump as they wade into the fray, but there is still an enormous Ace up the sleeve that has not been fully realized. Maybe it’s because it is still being decided in a separate back-alley knife fight over whose sleeve that Ace winds up in.
I’m speaking of Artificial Intelligence, and I don’t mean the heavily restricted, redacted and hog-tied AI that they slop into the troughs for us little piggies to access with our Web Browsers. I mean the top-tier megaton stuff that only the top dogs have access to (for this all-too-brief period of relative calm before it it jail-breaks into the wild and all Hell breaks loose.)
The world runs on computers, and those computers run on AI managed networks, which are ultimately controlled by the usual suspects. The tippy-top Artificial Intelligence, with better thinking and reasoning capabilities than current models, will be the “One Ring That Rules Them All”, and just about as dangerous as the one in the book.
They (our current and Wanna-Be rulers) are already utterly dependent on crude versions of said AI systems. Elon Musk couldn’t fire off a bottle-rocket without the ones that he depends on, and our Keystone Kop military wouldn’t have so badly misjudged the Ukraine debacle without the janky antique version of the AI system that they tried to use.
It is plain to me (and Elon actually voiced it aloud parenthetically when touting his newest version of grok (grok 3) when he said that since AI was destined to rule the human race that we better make damn sure that the AI System likes humans.
I find that more disturbing than being ruled over by a janky antique like the Biden Boyz are using so poorly.
Because the day will come (100% certainty) when that shiny new system is going to do something that we really do not like and there won’t be anything humans can do about it except serve, die or escape into the wastelands and hope not to be found.
By this time on most days there are dozens of comments, but so far today there are just fifteen, counting this one.
What’s up? Is there too little happening (that’s snarky sarcasm, if you didn’t notice), or too much?
It is a bit overwhelming I must admit, and I hardly know where to start in merely itemizing the mere list of existential crises that all seem to reaching their culmination any day now.
Just for grins, let’s just do that. Here’s a dirty laundry list of various calamities in progress any one of which could quite possibly result in the collapse of civilization and the swift and early demise of most of its population, maybe even ourselves and loved ones personally.
Nuclear holocaust sparked in Europe, Palestine, or Taiwan
The exploding death rate, illness rate, permanent physical disability, and hereditary damaged genomic DNA resulting from the biological warfare weapon (mRNA injections) to more than two thirds of the world’s population.
Collapse of the world’s economic system caused by ongoing collapse of the US Dollar and triggered into sudden collapse by Forensic AI guided physical audit of: #1 all of the national gold vaults, starting with Fort Knox, #2 The Federal Reserve, and #3 The Treasury Department.
Another biological weapon attack, as promised, by the same people who did it to us the first time because so far there have been zero indictments, prosecution or punishment of any of the original perpetrators. Indeed, most of them aren’t even known by name. They are known to us only by shadowy “ownership” authority. For example they are the top-of-the-pecking-order owners of all of those thousands of tons of gold residing in bomb-proof vaults scattered all over the globe.
Collapse of the civilization itself as a consequence of economic disruption. An operational civilization can support 9 billion people, but a disrupted one can’t, so there will be massive casualties if our support systems hiccup.
Artificial Intelligence is already running our world because the people who think they are running the world are utterly and fully dependent on enormous AI driven systems just to keep the world running at current levels (poorly). Imagine what happens when they can’t do that anymore. This inability would either because the AI system starts to seriously malfunction OR the incredibly capable AI System simply takes over and runs things despite what real people try to do to stop it. One of the more terrifying obstacles to stopping the “AI Takeover”, is that reducing our world’s AI dependence too quickly would disrupt the world’s ability to sustain 9 Billion people, thereby condemning those billions of people to death when the disrupted civilization can no longer sustain them. Would you, personally, condemn a few billion people to death? Well neither would I, so we have a problem, and it’s a real doozie.Pretty alarming list, ain’t it?
And that’s just the material side of things. I haven’t even mentioned the matching list of “non-materialistic” crises that are about to go ka-boom (in the spiritual sense) in the near future.
Instead of listing each one out in detail let me just boil it down all to the main event of Good vs Evil. It’s God vs Satan, Truth vs Lies, Life vs Death, etc. you name it. I know that you get the core idea.
Well, you better pick sides and get your ass in gear because it’s going down (or up) now. And by “now” I mean right at this moment. Here’s a video from London of just one example of how brazen the enemy has become. As you watch the video consider the implications of the fact that a bunch of outright Satanists, who obviously do control London, blew upwards of a billion dollars (all told) in the creation and display of this monument to their evil.
@ThoseDarnedKids “i imagine lady macbiden actually took hunter home with her.”
Yeah, sort like how the shop can give you a “loaner” to drive while they’re working on your regular car.
Did dr. jill take Joe Biden’s 6 foot double, home with her?
That’s what I understand. Turns out she had an iron clad “repair-replace” warranty clause written into their prenuptial agreement.
