ignorant robot armies clashing by night

I thought I had stepped out too far in a limb with my robot armies, but the next morning I wake up to find out that both us and the Red Chinese are at war with each other with our own robot armies.  You go to bed and the next morning you wake up and find that Beagles has gotten our robot armies into a war with the robot armies of the Red Chinese.  Where is Old Dog who it was hoped would have a calming effect on the ex Bircher?  He has wafted his dream of a newer better world into the un-ivied halls of Beaglestonia and then has declined to be more specific about it and has been, I assume, in his underground laboratory inventing some gadget to make things newer and better or maybe he has just been making ice cream or baking bread, you know how these visionaries are.  Loopy,


Before the hour grew late yesterday morning I was giving an exposition on Artificial Intelligence, which is now making its inroads into doing the jobs that humans used to do.  As long as the machines were taking away those dull factory assembly line jobs those who didn't have dull factory assembly line jobs were not alarmed, but now they are creeping into medicine and law, they are diagnosing and medical coding and doing ever more complicated jobs in the legal profession, not to mention driving cars and eliminating human taxi drivers, and on and on and on.

Here's a thing about AI, nobody knows exactly what is going on.  They prime the bot with simple algorithms, let it know when they work and when they don't and teach it to modify the algorithms accordingly until they produce software that works pretty well but is a tangled mess that no human can make any sense of.  We, ahem, do not know what is going on, the machine is thinking for itself and we do not even know how it is thinking.

So there we are with fewer humans needed everywhere.  I may have read them wrong but I think the dawgs still believe that automation creates as many jobs as it destroys.  To that I will say poppycock. I could make my case logically, but the hour is once again running late and I need to press on.

All around me gleaming glass towers are going up, beautiful to look at, but not for the likes of me to step into because they are all luxury apartments or condos.  And here's the thing, I don't have hard proof on this, just anecdotal evidence, if you look at them at night many of the windows are dark. They are owned by the elite who who own condos all over the world and only spend so much time in each one, And of course they are all protected by electronic security systems, the seeds of that robot army.  I could extend it further and fill in some gaps but it seems like now the attention of The Institute, like the fancy of a young man in this season, has turned to the brighter newer world.


It was the goal of the commies of course to build the newer brighter world by not only seizing the means of production, but by making the new man.  That didn't work out to well.  It was the goal of the early Christians to create good men and women and that didn't work our too well. The question has long been do we change the rules or do we change the humans.  We've changed the rules several times and that hasn't worked.  We've been talking about changing humans forever, but how the hell do we do that?

Just for starters wouldn't it be great if we could do away with wars and standing armies?  That hate for the other that  propelled us to the top of the heap is now obsolete and is causing us endless sorrow.
And again religion did not create morality.  Morality was around way before religion and religion merely co-opted and later corrupted it.  And wait a minute I'm pretty sure none of the versions of Christianity have God making Jesus, for Chrissake.