Eff the beeps and buzzers!

Sory i missed yr poll…put me down as a Yes.

most everyone I meet hate new cars for those reasons.

Newest car I have is 2007 and that only bongs if you don’t put on the seat belt……rest are all silent…..in respect of the Boss !!!!!

LOL I guess we’re just ole fuddie duddies! 🙂

PS I don’t like all the electronic crap in new cars either. Just more stuff to go wrong or surveil you!

But all charities are Non-Governmental Organisations. And we’ve been stung in the past by lying, cheating charities, claiming a 20% admin fee when it was really 47%, for example. It is difficult to find a charity, whether a so-called christian charity or otherwise, that doesn’t have ridiculous overhead costs, and I haven’t looked up Open Doors at all; I simply saw an article on how they are on the frontline helping resettle Nigerian Christians after they’ve been displaced.

You are so old-fashioned and out of touch.
Wouldn’t you give up electricity and drinking water to get more information from an artifical intelligence? Don’t its creators deserve more money?
Just kidding.
I wouldn’t either.

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Germans imported millions of Muslims thinking they would be eager workers and save their pensions.

Most of them went on welfare and made it worse.

They destroyed 1,000 years of Germanic culture and wealth to prop up govt pension plans. The plan failed within less than 10 years.

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Good to see you! As far as charitable agencies go I think it’s hard to find ones who don’t devote the lion’s share to their corporate bureaucracy!

… maybe that Open Doors organization that ferret mentioned?

Have not been posting as do not follow the markets now.  However, am a lurker.

Have been trying to find a legitimate charity to help those in need in Nigeria.

Suggestions?

Should the USA assist the Christian people in Nigeria against the Jihadi’s?

Yes (65%, 20 Votes)
I don’t know (19%, 6 Votes)
No (16%, 5 Votes)
Total Voters: 31

The Risk Of AI Isn’t Skynet

The risk that AI transitions from Servant to Master is dramatically appealing–Skynet!–but the real risks are in the mundane realms of the socio-economic order. As I explain in my new book Investing In Revolution, technological revolutions share the same dynamic: those profiting from the innovations push them pell-mell, without regard for future consequences, as the goal is to expand as quickly as possible to achieve market dominance.

This is entirely understandable, as pausing to assess potential pitfalls will effectively cede control to competitors.

Society–all of civilization that isn’t reducible to financial data–bears the consequences, but over a timespan far longer than the initial expansion of the technology. In other words, the immediate rewards of the technological revolution go to the fast-moving innovators while the broader consequences–both the benefits and the downsides–impact the socio-cultural-political realms over a much longer time frame.

This creates a time-response lag, where society must absorb and assess the consequences years or even decades after the initial expansion of the technology. The organizational tool of innovators is the corporation, a financial structure with a single goal–expand revenues and profits by any means available–and a quasi-military command-control-communications (a.k.a. 3C) hierarchy.

This structure meshes perfectly with markets, which price everything in the moment: markets lack mechanisms to price future consequences; they only price production, transport, currencies, materials, marketing, inventory, etc. in the present.

In contrast, society is characterized by a multitude of interests and structures in various stages of advocacy. There is no one single goal or hierarchy, and the upsides and downsides of technological changes are typically distributed very unevenly.

Those positioned to reap the rewards gain ground, those positioned to bear the brunt of negative consequences lose ground. Each will then advocate for controls or let-it-run-wild accordingly.

The American ethos favors the let-it-run-wild and pick up the pieces later approach to technological revolutions. This serves the interests of the initial innovators and speculators, who can amass great fortunes in the initial speculative frenzy to get on board. This has played out in railroads, autos, radio, TV, the Internet, and so on.

Each revolution is characterized as creative destruction the buggy whip industry is wiped out, but a larger industry is created.

Here is where correlation is confused with causation: the fact that this cycle has played out in the recent past does not make it a Law of Nature, i.e. a predictable manifestation of causation.

Which brings us to AI. AI is different: it doesn’t generate a need for more human labor as it expands, it replaces human labor. This is its implicit raison d’etre, reason to exist.

The rewards go to the initial innovators’ corporations and speculators, and the consequences fall on a society ill-prepared to assess them, much less limit them.

AI is different in another way: it generates a compelling facsimile of human characteristics and interactions, facsimiles of thought and knowledge that we take as “real” because they’re in “our language.”

But as I explain in my book Ultra-Processed Life, these facsimiles are all processed in ways we cannot discern: everything is processed in black boxes following scripts and agendas that we can’t see.

What’s presented as an accurate representation is actually an ultra-processed distillation that leaves out everything that unwieldy or unwelcome. We’re told that what’s the screen is real, but it’s not; it’s the equivalent of an orange-colored ultra-processed, sugary, salty, greasy goo being presented as a “healthy snack alternative” to a raw carrot.

What’s being lost in substituting AI’s ultra-processed facsimiles occurs beneath our perception. We don’t notice what’s been lost, and so we can no longer make a realistic assessment: that capacity has been lost.

AI is also accelerating the process of technological change, a process that’s been accelerating for 60 years. Alvin Toffler’s 1970 book Future Shock described the disorienting nature of technology-driven change, a theme updated by Douglas Rushkoff in his 2004 book, Present Shock.

Put these dynamics together and we reach this analogy: we’re children playing with matches and gasoline in a drought-stricken forest of dry deadwood. Even as the formidable resources of big-tech corporations and the state rush to secure AI supremacy, we may have it backwards: those squandering resources to build out a state-corporate Skynet “to serve humanity” are speeding our self-destruction, while those societies that limit their exposure to AI’s ultra-processed goo will emerge as the winners rather than the losers.

Just as a reminder of what’s being gambled on AI supremacy: it’s not just financial capital, it’s everything.

Authored by Charles Hugh Smith,

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I think the numbers of people who would “turn the other cheek” while their families are being slaughtered is miniscule. Pretty much irrelevant.

“that-sounds-like-a-traditional-western-especially-american-approach”

That’s ridiculous! To defend your family is not a western approach, it’s being human!

….same patterns; up in the Asian markets, London opens up, and the boot on the neck reappears………

It’s easy to assume when the gun isn’t pointed at them or their children.

Someone would be a hypocrite to claim Christians don’t fight because they’ll go to hell and a few do but not call for help. Would they not be just as guilty getting someone else to do it?  Contractors can’t stay around forever and not as many of them either. This has been going on world wide  for hundreds of years.They always come back. There is only one language they understand. If God did not want them to protect themselves and defend their faith  and family he wouldn’t of told Jesus that he will have to step in less there’s no one left to save. Meaning he’s going to have to do it for them. They’re going to get too compliant and caught up in the man made world, forgetting their eternal one. I see cruelty even on here by claimed christians and God forbid given the age of many cruelty to those in cognitive decline and why but not cognitive Richard stopped posting.   I don’t think God expected people in his image to be stupid

There’s many examples of defense in the Bible including the story of David and Goliath. There is also passages of not murdering thou shall not kill. Not acting out in vengeance but difference from defense or warding off evil..The question is what life do people value the most. This life or the eternal life. That question would not only come from if God doesn’t want you to kill he would not want you to be  killed but warns you could be for his name sake . Further saving your children forced to renounce their faith once your gone.

They want to feel safe and defend themselves they aren’t given the means and training to do it. Keeping their faith without the means to keep it will not only result in anger and violence from their unbelieving attackers who cannot convert them but empower them with acts of  terrorism.

I’m not sure what “assistance” looks like. I’d rather we put our money there trying to defend the Christians than throw our money in Ukraine trying to defend the Nazi’s.

I’m not sure if the U.S. has ever defended Christians anywhere, but I disagree with you about the NGO’s. We’ve seen how the NGO’s operate over here, they launder the money to subvert our own culture and line the pockets of politicians. Catholic and other religious NGO’s were responsible for flooding our borders with illegals. Now, we’re spending billions to try to get rid of them.

If not the military, then maybe the private contractors could go in and clean up some of these warlords that are responsible for the genocide. The Muslims don’t understand anything other than violence. You are right though, many Christians live by Paul’s words, “For me, to live is in Christ, to die is gain.” I don’t think arming them would be effective, they likely don’t have the will or the numbers to defend themselves.

Wow that sounds like one coming from conquered land. You didn’t get the point

My ancestors from Europe especially Hungarians had to fight one battle after another be the Mongrels to the Ottoman. They had many western Texas type Alamos. About 2000 including women and children fought off 40,000  fighting Ottoman Troops and won.  It was at a heavy loss including many women who in the last part when they start breaching the walls became combatants holding off the troups climbing ladders to get over the wall  holding them back while the fighting men were in hand to hand combat with the troops that breached the holes in the fort holding them back. They didn’t expect to win all resolved to die fighting.

History doesn’t remember compliance but does remember those who refused to take a knee.

Where does Jesus tell us to kill our enemies?

Faith without works is dead.

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