u/Frequent_Mountain_17

A shameful emotional ad on YouTube of a father crying and urging people to sign a petition that demands congress pass laws to prevent school shooting.

If laws could prevent school shootings, there'd only need to be one law: school shootings are illegal. Problem is that criminals and murderers don't care about the law.

Society has a psychological defect, created by a lifetime of political indoctrination, that makes them believe that "laws" can protect them. If that were the case there'd only need to be one law: crime is illegal.

As it is there are tens of thousands of laws on the books and crime is rampant. Just use some critical thought, reason, rational and common sense and you'll come to the conclusion that the people are the problem and no amount of laws will make them better people.

If you have a solution to the people problem other than another million years or so of evolution I'm all ears.

The only way to maintain a monopoly in the long-run is with government barriers to entry.

Ironically, that same government says monopolies are illegal. What they really mean is if you want a monopoly you have to "play ball" and make healthy contributions to re-election campaigns and charitable foundations. Then they got your back.

Politics is theater, the actors put on their costumes, they go to hair and makeup, they have writers who write their politically correct scripts and then they read it off a teleprompter trying desperately to seem sincere but they are just horrible at acting. They have their personas: conservative, liberal, libertarian, independent etc. There's always the "good guys" and the "bad guys" but those roles change as needed to keep people interested. People protest the "bad guys" in the street and cheer the "good guys" online. They gladly pay for the privilege of seeing the show go on and they can't imagine life without it.

And even though most people know this, even though most people know it doesn't matter who is president or who is in congress or on the SCOTUS, even though most people know that politicians lie through their teeth, they still can't get enough of politics, they're addicted and its that addiction that keeps mankind enslaved. It's all so embarrassing.

The problem with AI is that there is no large scale problem that AI is the solution to. Experienced human labor is always the solution. It's cool technology and the propaganda has people saying it will replace human labor across the board, it's more intelligent than humans etc. and the lower level intelligence population believes it.

If the problem is making work more efficient at a lower price then that has always been the business problem and automation has been doing it for decades. No need for AI in a McDonald's kiosk. AI is a fad and the propaganda is pumping the bubble up and it's going to pop. This is as clear as Bitcoin replacing fiat currency.

AI is an armchair expert. It "knows" a lot about a lot but doesn't know a lot about anything.

Tag systems are simplified abstract algorithms used to demonstrate Turing machines and if written correctly are Turing complete meaning they can do any calculations a computer can. All modern digital technology including AI are Turing equivalent.

I asked Claude and Gemeni to write a tag system to add x+1 meaning given any input x, it can calculate the output x+1. Neither could do it. It's a simple task with a finite number of commands and each time they get it wrong. I point out their mistake and they try again and still wrong. Not only did Claude fail to calculate x+1, it actually gave me something that entered into an infinite loop.

Philosophically, it's incredibly interesting that a system based on Turing principles can't correctly produce something based on Turing principles. This implies that AI doesn't understand how it works and can't even build the simplest algorithm based on how it works. It can regurgitate what it's been fed and give a best guess response but it can't figure out when it's wrong because it doesn't "understand" how it works because AI can't "understand" anything.

So you can put your fears of AI becoming Skynet and self-aware in the garbage. It can't build something it doesn't understand. It also explains why AI can never be as intelligent as humans because humans don't understand their own intelligence so we can reproduce it in technology.

AI reminds me of people with photographic memories: they can recall anything and make connections between their memories but that doesn't mean they understand it. They can memorize how to do a Fourier Transform but that doesn't mean they understand why it works.