Good, AI, and Dime Store Demi-Gods Playing with Fire

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  • Good, AI, and Dime Store Demi-Gods Playing with Fire

    Yes, calling billionaires Dime Store-Demi Gods may seem a stretch, but in terms of wisdom and caring this writer has no trouble with the radical demotion.  AI has been called the God Machine because of predictions this unbridled super-artificial-amoral intelligence… Continue reading

  • Good, Chaos and When Delusion Breaks Us Down

    Vulnerability can be a wonderful thing until it isn’t.  In order to enjoy life one must be vulnerable to the delicate inputs of joy’s networks because if you aren’t open to joy, eventually you become numb. The question is being… Continue reading

  • Good, AI Propaganda, and Two Goliaths Seeking their David

    The David and Goliath story is known in both secular and religious contexts to almost every man woman and child raised in western culture.  The giant of a warrior with shining armor, certain of victory, is brought down by a… Continue reading

  • Good, Ai, and the Assault on Reality

    Reality used to be a place one visited when one’s mind became too self-serving, toxic, tiring, or simply boring. Then one day an aggressive cancer composed of digital media inserted itself between us, our minds and the reality of the… Continue reading

  • Good and Death by Disconnected Detail

    This writer’s adult life has spanned the birth of the personal computer, invention of internet, and the spread of social media, so the concept of a society drowning in an ocean of detail stands out in near perfect relief.  From… Continue reading

  • Good, Pure Capitalism, and People as Problem

    The unavoidable flaw in pure Capitalism is the spreadsheet is not the whole story even when it is the only book you read. The unavoidable problem for people right now is they are facing a competition that has never existed… Continue reading

  • Good, AI, and Fogging while Flogging Truth.

    The error of this age is the conflation of information with capital “T” Truth. This error is being exponentially accelerated by the misuse of AI combined with the practice of nihilism in our current government. Nihilism as an unspoken philosophy… Continue reading

  • Good AI and the End of the Internet Economy

    It feels like a dark storm moving in because more and more what I see on the internet I have to question as believable. Perhaps it was the casual, no consequence, lies we had to worry about in the last… Continue reading

  • Good, AI, and When a Secretive Force becomes a Secret Police

    When you hear of secret deportation flights, plain clothes agents, masked enforcers, cyber investigations and attempts by government to breach the the firewalls of citizen privacy in Social Security, IRS, and Human Services, than the current secretive enforcement campaign can… Continue reading

  • Good, Government as Video Game, and the Strongmen

    I doubt many people would mistake a gifted War Craft video game player as a great American soldier.  Let’s face it, pushing buttons on a console and starring dazedly at a screen hardly equates to military service.  In some ways… Continue reading