Ain't
No Burqhas In Sweden
For those interested, I synopsized the salient points made
in the 'toon above from an article written by Natasha Bajema
entitled "AI's
Six worst Case Scenarios".
I
was able to use all but the last point to make my comparison
between religion and artificial intelligence. Unfortunately,
Bajema's 6th point was that the public might reject AI out
of fear of its destructive potential, depriving humanity
of its possible benefits. There IS no benefit to religion
(And if you disagree please go look up the term "cognitive
dissonance". Thank you.) so I had to let that one slide.
I was pretty much tight on acreage for more exposition anyway.
You might find it marginally interesting to note that in
my initial attempt at the joke the punch line both
AI
and religion
were
considered irresistible
because the
profit/power
potential
of both was so high it outweighed the potential danger to
humanity. In other words "Who cares if we burn the planet
to a crisp in nuclear fire, think of all the money we'll
make!"
One thing's for sure... AI will never invent gods or philosophies
to support them. Even it's not that stupid.
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I'd like to take a moment to note the passing of one Daniel
Robert Graham, better known as Bob Graham, former Governor
and U.S. Senator of the currently benighted date of Florida.
Graham was the kind of Democrat one dreams of, the
kind who placed an emphasis on education in his state and,
as
Senator, smelled a rat in Dubya's move to invade Iraq,
subsequently pressing the investigation that proved the campaign
to be a performative sham.
But the coolest thing about Mr. Graham was that during his
off-days from public service he worked the day jobs of the
common man, just to see what it felt like and to see how
to make things better for them. All told, he worked 921 different
jobs in 109 cities and across five states. Eat your heart
out Mike Rowe.
He had aspirations for the White House and it seems to
to me he would have made a fine president but he suffered
a
campaign-ending
heart
attack
in 2003
and eventually retired from the Senate in 2005.
Thank you, Bob, for your service.
And excelsior, you magnificent bastard!
-
Lefty
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