This and that for your Tuesday reading.
- Mona Charen writes that Donald Trump's war in Iran can't be explained by any motive other than a sheer ego trip. Steven Beschloss notes that nobody should be surprise that the countries who have been on the receiving end of his abuse and impetuousness are less than eager to rush to his aid. And Martin Gelin reports on the V-Dem Institute's conclusion that Trump is aiming squarely at the imposition of dictatorship.
- Mel Hogan writes that the ultimate effect of sycophantic artificial intelligence is the cultivation of mass psychosis. And Zeb Larson compares the data center boom to the 1800s railroad bubble - featuring large-scale, heavily-subsidized investment which ultimately served mostly to further enrich the tycoons who could more than afford to finance any development on their own.
- Noah Berlatsky is rightly scathing about the U.S. Democrats who are responding to a fascist regime and the destruction of the civil service with tax baubles. And Ned Resnikoff points out the impossibility of building a functional society on a deliberately-suppressed resource base.
- Finally, Markham Hislop calls out the lack of any plan for Canada to live up to even the most distant or modest of our climate commitments. And Emily Atkin examines the latest permutations of fossil fuel propaganda, featuring the demand that we put our future solely in the hands of the same bad actors who have already lied us into dangerous global warming.
Re: "the ultimate effect of sycophantic artificial intelligence is the cultivation of mass psychosis"
ReplyDeleteIt's one deliberate effect but not the ultimate effect...
Everyone SHOULD of course get what AI is REALLY all about but most people CHOOSE not to want to understand it...
Like with every criminal inhumane self-concerned agenda of theirs the psychopaths-in-control sell and propagandize AI to the "awake" public with total lies such as AI being the benign means to connect, unit, transform, benefit, and save humanity.
The official narrative is… “trust official science” and "trust the authorities" but as with these and all other "official narratives" they want you to trust and believe …
"We'll know our Disinformation Program is complete when everything the American public [and global public] believes is false." ---William Casey, a former CIA director=a leading psychopathic criminal of the genocidal US empire
The 2 major OFFICIAL deceptive fake FEAR-MONGERING narratives or phony pretexts (ie, lies, propaganda) nearly everyone, including "alternative news" sources, have been spreading is (1) that the TRULY big threat is that AI just creates utter chaos in society and that it might achieve control over humans (therefore it must be regulated, ie monopolized by the typical criminal governments); and (2) that we, the US, have to invest heavily in AI technological development so as to stay ahead of other nations, such as China (https://archive.is/pBzAt).
The TRUE narrative (ie empirical reality) virtually no one talks about or spreads is that the TRULY big threat with AI is that AI allows the governing psychopaths-in-power to materialize their ultimate wet dream to control and enslave everyone and everything on the whole planet, a process that's long been ongoing in front of everyone's "awake" nose .... https://www.rolf-hefti.com/covid-19-coronavirus.html
The proof is in the pudding... ask yourself, "how is the hacking of the planet going so far? Has it increased or crushed personal freedom?"
"AI responds according to the “rules” created by the programmers who are in turn owned by the people who pay their salaries. This is precisely why Globalists want an AI controlled society- rules for serfs, exceptions for the aristocracy." ---Unknown
"Almost all AI systems today learn when and what their human designers or users want." ---Ali Minai, Ph.D., American Professor of Computer Science, 2023
“Who masters those technologies [=artificial intelligence (AI), chatbots, and digital identities] —in some way— will be the master of the world.” --- Klaus Schwab, at the World Government Summit in Dubai, 2023
“COVID is critical because this is what convinces people to accept, to legitimize, total biometric surveillance.” --- Yuval Noah Harari, member of the dictatorial ruling mafia of psychopaths, World Economic Forum [https://archive.md/vrZGf]
"The whole idea that humans have this soul, or spirit, or free will ... that's over." --- Yuval Noah Harari, member of the dictatorial ruling mafia of psychopaths, World Economic Forum [hhttps://archive.md/vrZGf
"It looks to me like AI has been tasked with creating literally millions of fake videos tailored for every possible interest, to snare you in an endless loop, waste as much of your time as possible, stir your brain, create fear and unease, and make it impossible for you to tell reality from fiction. Why? TO KEEP YOU FROM STARTING THE REVOLUTION." --- Miles Mathis, American author, 2026