“Trump should be indicted for inciting an erection. . . uh, an insurrection, which he did.”
-Adam Schiff
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Not if the judges started to target the politicians bank accounts in sentencing.
When you make it unprofitable to tell lies, you would be surprised how much cleaner speech would become over night.
Currently is it very very profitable for politicians to lie to people.
If you want to drastically heal a society, make it profitable for the leaders to tell the Truth.
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OK then we shouldn’t let sleeping dogs lie?
Those dogs that are spiritually asleep don’t even know what the truth is!
To be a sleeping dog is pretty much the human condition.
And then I’ve heard that AI is learning how to lie as well!
(getting back on topic).
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Its been doing so for over half a decade…
How do you think Biden won the 2020 election
AI tailor made news stories and ads, meant to poison hearts and minds
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Some of Trump’s lies. And these are just from the debate:
Are you sure you want to prosecute lying politicians?
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yes
you?
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Well then . . .
There’s a new Sheriff in town,
Sheriff Fenwizard
and his deputy NightHawk!
ps. My Sufi Master name is “Sharif Fenwizard”
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What are your thoughts on the 99 names of Allah?
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We don’t care if you’re Trump or Hunter Biden,
We don’t care if you’re right (wing) or a totally wrongheaded leftist,
Don’t mess with the Sharif.
And remember,
you may have shot the Sharif,
but you didn’t shoot his Debuty Mohammed!
99 Names of Allah on the wall
99 Names of Allah!
You take one down and chant it around!
98 Names of Allah on the wall!
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on the walls of Heaven, yes
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Oh my soul!
Why do I feel I am forever knock, knock, knockin’ on Heaven’s door?!
May the Walls of Heaven open to All!
Open to Allah us folks!
Remember the magic words "Open Sesame!
and never forget the deep Magick of Mr. Rodgers!
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ps. And getting back to Artificial Intelligence . . .
if the computers and robots end up doing all of the work,
Then may we the humans remain as the boss of technology while also remembering to stay humble .
(and also remembering the precautionary principle)
And if the robots and computers end up doing all of the work,
then may we the humans collect a huge paycheck!
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NEWS: The Bureau of Land Management suspects there are 130K unplugged oil wells scadered throughout the US. The number, though, could be as high as 740K.
That’s a problem because those wells can leak or pollute stuff into underground aquifers and springs. That’s bad for people and irrigation systems alike.
But how do you find 130K wells that have been lost to time? It’s like looking for a needle in a haystack.
Enter the AI revoluton.
To find these orphan wells, researchers fed maps and satellite imagery into an AI system. It found over 1,300 previously-unknown wells; ground crews then went out to confirm them — and seal them up.
The idea is that we can now scale up this solution to the entire country to keep our groundwater safe.
And this:
Sometimes after a stroke or while living with Parkinson’s disease, people will struggle to talk. It’s a neurological condition called dys/arth/ ria — or losing control over one’s voice box or jaw or tongue.
There have been some hopeful developments over the past 20 years regarding this condition, but mostly involving invasive surgery to place electrodes on or in one’s brain.
But as New Scientist reports, the AI revolution might have just found a far beder solution.
Researchers in the UK have placed sensors on the outside of a patient’s neck — on throat muscles and neck arteries — to pick up movements, vibrations, and even emotional state (through pulse rates).
When a person then tries to speak, that collection of data is fed into an AI system. It first works to understand the likely word or words being expressed. Then, it overlays additional data about one’s likely emotions to capture intent / that’s then captured in tone as a computer speaks for the patient.
Incredibly, the AI can also incorporate data like weather or time of day to try to help tease out what the person is trying to convey.
The upshot is that this new AI system works quite well, with error rates down to 3%.
More research is underway but this is a predy wonderful tool with easy- to-apply external sensors / that can help give people back their voices — quite literally.
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Hey I forgot my times tables after I got my first hand-held calculator in the early 70’s! It’s all been downhill from there!
True story:
When I was in 4th grade and trying to memorize my multiplication tables I was really struggling. But at the time I thought that I wanted to be a scientist when I grew up. My Uncle who was an aeronautical engineer told me, “If you want to be a scientist you’ve got to learn your times tables.”
“No I don’t, Uncle Don, because by the time I grow up, we will be carrying little computers in our pockets and we won’t need to know our times tables.”
“No way!” he replied. “There’s no way that computers will be that small and advanced by then!”
So he was wrong and I was right. And I was just thinking of pocket calculators (which did come out in the early 70’s - around the time I started college! ) Not the little super-computers called cell phones that we now all carry! And now the new phones are incorporating AI!
Oh, oh, there goes my critical thinking! 
p.s. My wife, who is a college professor, tells me that professors are learning to distinguish between papers written by AI and papers written by human students (with real critical thinking). But as AI get smarter and more sophisticated, this may become harder.
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" “Used improperly, technologies can and do result in the deterioration of cognitive faculties that ought to be preserved,” the researchers wrote in the paper. “A key irony of automation is that by mechanising routine tasks and leaving exception-handling to the human user, you deprive the user of the routine opportunities to practice their judgement and strengthen their cognitive musculature, leaving them atrophied and unprepared when the exceptions do arise.”"
No doubt, there is a reason why Master Holecek says we are living in a Dark age. IQs are deteriorating as well as cognitive functions.
Very Scary times
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Its all part of the plan…
Really fucked up. I remember in High School pulling all nighters to finish writing papers. Now it can be done in 10 seconds or less. A huge disadvantage to cognitive funcitons and critical thinking.
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And then what are we going to do when AI and robots are doing almost all of the jobs?!
We may have to follow Andrew Yang’s idea and tax the hell out of the corporations and then give eveyone a check to live on. Universal Social Security!
And then we will need free schools and art and music classes to keep people’s brains engaged.
It’s either that or we can have a new Luddite movement and smash the machines. Only trouble is, now the machines will be able to fight back!
That would make a great science fiction film idea!
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