Dear Friends,
It seems to me, scientists are like moths, they’re drawn to flames. “Experts,” as if the experts haven’t sullied that moniker up enough yet, claim AI will certainly lead to human extinction, yet demand we spend billions researching it. They assert man made climate change is going to kill us all, and are burning billions of tons of carbon flying in luxury, to stop it. In mortal fear of climate driven food shortages, the experts have cut the supply of fertilizer and slaughtered cows, which in the short term, will starve to death millions, but in the long term, may save someone… but probably not. Quivering in terror at the next pandemic, the experts do gain of function, creating artificial deadly chimeric viruses, to research how to make vaccines for them. A scientist and a moth were racing one day… into a fire.
If your worried about AI killing us all in a Terminator style war, why bankrupt us to advance the technology? Scientists, intellectuals and brainiacs of every stripe, lament the danger of AI. Some want a singularity to combat AI in their predicted human AI war. One definition of the “singularity,” is the point at which man and machine combine, to advance to the next stage of evolution. That path, obviously, leads to the Borg. Nevertheless, there are those that advocate for it. Because they see AI as such a threat, only augmented humanity can compete. These people see it as a race. A race between two visions of dystopia. In my ignorance and hubris I see a different path. Limit AI to a permanent subservient intellect and thus role. AI is like a chain saw, in the wrong hands, it can be deadly.
If you fear man made climate change is going to set the world alight, why burn more carbon to stop it than a thousand middle class families could in a century? Moreover, if the seas are rising, why buy up all the ocean side land and homes? Those seem to be absurd strategies. Unless the goal is other than the one stated. The elite are starving millions to death today, to save people in the nebulous future from possibly going hungry, due to climate change. Isn’t that paying a heavy debt, today, you don’t and may never owe? Of course, the people making the decision to starve millions to death, to pay for their ideas, won’t cut back on lobster tail, king crab or Wagu beef. I’m just a guy who wears cotton underwear, yet I’m of the opinion, feed people today and let people tomorrow feed themselves.
If you’re panicked about the next viral outbreak, why would any sane person create the next virus? Every viral outbreak in the last twenty years has been a virus that escaped the lab, SARS 1 and 2, Covid 19, and possibly this new virus, that the utterly untrustworthy CCP claims, is a rebound of natural diseases. Even as our medical elites have been every bit as honest, trustworthy and virtuous as a swindler. When Russia invaded Ukraine they discovered dozens of bio weapon labs run by the US. That story had a short news cycle. Apparently, the US and others around the world, are researching race specific viruses. The holy grail of bio weapons. Release a virus that only kills your enemy. Genocide by proxy. Severe consequences might help slow the proliferation of such crimes against humanity.
A moth lacks the ability to reason, and apparently, so do our scientists. If I were worried about being killed in a car wreck, I wouldn’t drive drunk, angry and speed everywhere I went. Then whine, how worried I am about my car being opened with the jaws of life, and my mangled body pulled from the wreckage. Eventually, moths will learn not to fly into the light of a fire, or bug zapper, but I wonder if our scientists ever will? Whatever the next nuclear bomb is, you can rest assured, there’ll be no end of brainiacs pleading for money to research it. That’s the nature of brilliant stupid people. Like Maxwell Smart used to say, “If only he had used his brains for goodness instead of evilness…” Since they lack common sense, doesn’t it behoove us to force it on them? With all our cultural force…
Sincerely,
John Pepin
