Prepare for Change

 It just depends on who the creator is whether AI will be doing nice, useful things, or dangerous, harmful things.  So the entire world at the moment is dependent on a bunch of brooding, socially inept people who dream of how to replace democracy (read the book Nerd Reich) for what our future will be like.  And I'll just bet there are people out there with bad intentions who are deciding that AI might just help them with their bad intentions if they could build their own.  The Tech Bros are pushing their Super Brain idea at lightning speed, demanding that we give them vast amounts of water, land, and electricity at the very time that those commodities are in critical supply.  Why?  So they can create a Black Box that by their own statements will take over the world.  I for one am against this idea.   start at 7:22  

 https://brettcodes.com/im-done-using-ai/   "Upon reflection, I've come to believe that quality software is not about how many features something has or how quickly it is built but rather how cared for it is by the designers, developers, and product people who work on it. There's an ineffable aspect to my favorite pieces of software where I don't think of it is as feature matrix but rather as an interface made by a human for humans that's a joy to use. And when you build software with AI, it leads to worse software. Sure, it's faster to build initially, but I think to the detriment of the quality of the code and the user interface and the user experience." * * * * *  I hope to never use AI, so hearing from someone who's been there and bailed is helpful.    

  Who could have guessed that Plato, that Greek philosopher from from the 4 th century BC, could have come up with a great explanation of our current Artificial Intelligence? His Allegory of the Cave is a great way to understand how AI works, and its built-in weaknesses. Imagine, says Plato, a group of people chained to a wall in a cave. In front of them is a high wall, which is all they can view. Behind them is a rise where a fire is burning. Between the fire and the chained people is a walkway where individuals walk, holding up silhouettes of various things. The silhouettes create shadows on the high wall that the chained people can see. These silhouettes are the only way the chained people get information about the outside world. To them, that is the world, since that is all they know. While Plato is using this allegory as a promo for philosophy, I think it’s an excellent explanation of AI. Consider the chained people as AI programs. The fire and silhouette hol...

  PEOPLE TO LISTEN TO RE AI: Molly Crabapple - https://www.mollycrabapple.com/ Cory Doctorow - https://doctorow.substack.com/ Gil Duran - https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Nerd-Reich/Gil-Duran/9781668221402 Karen Hao - https://karendhao.com/home   Gary Marcus - https://garymarcus.substack.com/     Nate Soares - https://intelligence.org/team/nate-soares/   Helen Toner - https://cset.georgetown.edu/staff/helen-toner/   Ed Zitron - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/19/ed-zitron-on-big-tech-backlash-boom-and-bust-ai-has-taught-us-that-people-are-excited-to-replace-human-beings  

I wrote previously asking if President Trump is trying to bankrupt the United States. The current national debt (what our country has borrowed) is about $40 trillion. Of that, $3.18 trillion has been added in Trump’s second term in office, which is not even half way through. $7.88 trillion was added from his first term .  You would think this would be a priority for any president to REDUCE the national debt, since we have to pay interest on what we borrow. Currently we are paying $1 trillion annually in interest. Trump is simply spending like a drunken sailor, probably subconsciously guided by his own history of 6 bankruptcies. Here are a few other things he’s either spending or trying to spend our tax dollars on: $1.5 trillion proposed defense spending.  $275 billion to build Trump-class battleships , even though the Navy says they are a relic of the past.  $100 billion going back to businesses because of illegal tariffs $11 billion for Navy icebrea...

  Of course data centers take a lot of electricity. I saw an Amazon center someplace and it was huge, like big mall size. All the searches you do, all the shopping you do, all the email spam you get, your google maps directions, that all goes through a data center. So ok, we need those. But on top of these data centers, we have spam, bots, viruses, scams, etc. going on too, with their own systems, and in fact it was just announced that there are more bots than humans on the internet now. That uses up a lot of electricity and bandwidth. Then along comes krypto currency. Bitcoin, for example, is created by a huge amount of computation. So if you want to make money here, you need a lot of computers chugging away doing essentially useless calculating until you wind up with a new Bitcoin yourself. The Tech Bros built a way for themselves to make money by sucking up electricity into their computers. There are huge warehouses of Bitcoin mining all around the world. Th...