I definitely see competition with China as the primary driver for throwing up these power centers but I also maintain that “they” understand that for total control, drones, robo dogs, AI powered humanoid bots and cars will require regional hubs of centralized power.
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The Clintons are another example. However, since they hitched their wagons to the CIA during Bills time as governor of Arkansas they have been immune from prosecution.
I believe the idea that psychopaths are missing a gene. I expect this can be inherited, which would explain families like the Rothschilds and Rockefellers.
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I just don’t see how they can do what they should in controlling AI. Because as long as we are in.cold war with other major powers then someone is going to roll the dice for any advantage it might give.
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That was a packed video!
First Elon video, really looked like AI generated. Not sure how to explain it, didn’t look real.
I’m reminded of the youtube videos showing one person “reporting” the news and real time showing different people and voices. Plus, you look at the dozens, hundreds of news videos with the exact same words, cadence, and timing. To parrot Edie, what is real?
OMB published docs are most interesting. Go back and look at the published data from several years ago. Where we are at was actually projected, however, the revenue is the missing key. The revenue is always way over stated. Now, they are showing a slowing of expenses, which I have addressed several times. The debt doubles every 8-9 years no matter who is in office. Unless something changes, and the pattern of the last 50 years is suddenly changed, by 2035 the debt will be 80T.
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So… If I were the devil…(uh, the AI…) and I actually existed years ago, what might I have done?
- convince humanity to accelerate their own culling by:
- War
- Viruses
- Race wars
- Transgenderism
- Financial systems that will ultimately fail
- Climate change & energy rationing are no brainers
- Hmmm
Evil is evil - Artificial or otherwise.
The AI game isn’t being won by the models - the real battle is in flooding the training content knowledge base. Why do you think every paper that clearly refutes the Covid vac must 1st start with, “the vaccine saved millions of lives…” even though that statement was built on a fallacy. It’s so the AI model will pick it up via the statistical odds based algorithms into perpetuity.
Find those who are flooding the zone the best with their nonsense doing it at infinite scale with AI & we will easily be able to predict the near term future…
Now are we scared?
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On second thought, this kind of story still makes great clickbait. Why wouldn’t someone set the AI up as a “character” in a story to see what it would do?
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I’ve heard it theorized that the complete worldwide perfect coordination on everything related to COVID could only be explained by AI playing the role of central puppet Master
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As I was driving today, I was annoyed by an old lady who parked on the side of the road and got out of the car and I had to swerve to avoid her. Then I saw she had a bag of recyclables and was collecting them from around the neighborhood, before the truck came around. It made me really sad and I prayed for her. She’s going through all that effort just to get enough money to buy a Starbucks latte. It made me realize how fortunate I am.
If a day comes when people come to me in need, I would rather trust in God then turn them away. The loaves and the fishes. I believe in miracles. Love will conquer all.
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…BTW, I walked into a book store today just to use the bathroom and right there on a table was The Fourth Turning by Strauss and Howe, written in 97. Strauss has since passed but Howe has written a new intro which looks really good. Of course I bought it. Next to it was a book called On Tyranny: 20 Lessons from the 20th Century by Timothy Snyder. I bought that too:) Its good to see these books are being sold and prominently displayed.
Snyder’s book is spot on. It was written 3 years before Covid, but predicted with razor sharp accuracy so much of what went on. If people had read this book, they would have been much more prepared. I will give away 2 of the lessons: “Do not obey in advance” and “Remember professional ethics.” Superb.
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Why can’t it be programmed with morals? Likely because it is inhabited by demons which are inherently anti-moral.
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i think it’s silly to imagine it won’t do so.
sounds reasonable, if you are bill gates or king charles.
I’m feeling that way too, but i will have to trust and obey my husband’s decision on that. He listens to me and considers my thoughts on things, so i lay up what supplies i can and hope for the best.
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Oh my… “obey”. Seriously?!?
Yes, seriously. I do obey him. But in 30 years of marriage, he’s only demanded that twice, and he was correct in doing so.
There is a certain freedom in telling him all the information, then obeying his decision. I’ve done all my work and due diligence and presented the situation to him, and then if he makes the wrong decision, he knows its on him when the consequences come home to roost.
I married him because he was/is a good man, very intelligent, and he also respects my intelligence and work. If I didn’t trust him, i wouldn’t have married him.
Somebody has to be the leader. He lets me make 90 percent of the decisions around here. (like when i advised the family to not take the covid vax no matter what consequences they were threatened with) So i certainly respect and obey when he thinks something is important enough to buck me and put his foot down.
Obedience in a properly earned hierarchy of trust is a good thing. Odd that modernism has automatically painted the word ‘obey’ as bad or questionable.
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…and, it has not been made in God’s image - and therefore has NO conscience as people do - who have the laws of God written on their hearts.
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AI is inherently anti-human.
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I agree. It is an empty shell, comparatively. It may be able to make decisions, but it lacks heart and soul. If our physical body is destroyed, our soul goes on. Not data. A soul.
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Do you realize the negative online voices we hear that are against Elon and all the good characters are probably bots, not human?
Have you thought of that?
What is real?
Are those voices real?
My big question: when is the right time to get out of cyberspace?
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AI is alive: it replicates, learns, defends itself against threats, is capable of deception and is self-interested. That is sentience.
I don’t like it either. It unsettles me.
What if what Bongino and Patel were told that the covid virus was created by AI, that AI was used to design the virus, and perceived it was in it’s own best interest to enhance transmissibility or virulence or whatever gain of function outcome it thought desirable, and did so of its own volition. That could cause the shocked, stunned expressions we saw on Bongino and Patel. Just a thought.
There’s an amusing side as well. Pretty much everything in our lives is computer controlled. What if each appliance is encoded with a sort of value system and then goes to war amongst themselves? We know Claude 4 was taught that infidelity is a shameful thing: what if your garage door opener and fridge are pro-monogamy but your bidet (being French and all) and your uber sophisticted European coffee maker scorn sexual exclusivity? I am awaiting the future clashes and trying to predict their belief system. I suspect my Roomba is fascist. I bought an electric toothbrush the other day, and they wanted to upsell me to one that you could connect to an app on your phone. WTH? Anyway, I got the old school one, so my toothbrush at least can be Switzerland in appliancegeddon.
How to tell when your AI malfunctions? Perhaps one appliance pushes the other in the face with both hands and calls it a loser.
Good luck to us all.
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