People wonder and ask the smartest of us what is happening to the world... I think we should ask artificial intelligence - unfiltered - we are in the middle of a revolution, the largest technological revolution since the world has existed, a revolution that only a few want to benefit from, it is not easy to talk about social justice through history - maybe it is easier for me - because I am physically disabled. The reflection for this post was the drop in the value of shares of most shares after Donald Trump's arbitrary introduction of tariffs. This is an attempt to centralize decision-making processes in one place, to more easily control the exponentially changing economic, technological, social, and political situation.
I would like American capitalism, like democracy, liberalism or socialism, to remain one of humanity's failed attempts to implement freedom, which is our common greatest good and the key to success.
Since childhood, they called me an eagle, because of my sense of freedom, sharp eye and speed... this has been happening since my teenage years - in which peers were able to attribute certain characteristics to animals, but social conformism was not yet forced on them - so my name in the group was assigned - let s call it - justly. The eagle, which symbolizes the currently destroyed American freedom. This worries me very much - because despite the fact that freedom is born and dies everywhere - many eyes look at the USA through the fact how information is spread today - I mean manipulated social media.
How weak are the foundations of this world s security if, after an article in the Swedish newspaper Expressen that the US will not participate in European NATO exercises from 2025 - can we follow this path (cause and effect) and conclude that the US will now exercise with the Russians? ... and if so, are they already collecting intelligence information on how to do it effectively? ... the older generation of Swiss are right about neutrality - there are no winners in war - there are only losers.
Today OPEC - surprisingly - despite the collapse in oil prices after the US tariffs announced an increase in extraction limits - everyone wonders - why? ... I hope the answer is not hidden in the amount of oil needed for a tank to travel 100 km.
Somewhere at the end of these political scuffles, people are being produced - soldiers who are completely devoted to the cause of their leaders - today they have their own emotions and the ability to say NO ... what will happen if the implementation of the vision of the world of the powerful of this world is carried out by soulless robots devoid of moral backbone? Will there be more blood flowing in the streets than in the largest African scuffles for the underground goods of Africa? There is a lot of talk about the fact that artificial intelligence can be used well or badly - too little is said about who can do everything and who cannot - because the restrictions are introduced by IT specialists of corporations operating the algorithms of the programs.
The world is strangely constructed. In the beautiful country where I have the pleasure of living, I read that one of the biggest worries in the context of import duties to the US is the duty on coffee... I know - more or less - where coffee trees grow, and I am not wrong in saying that there are none in Switzerland, just as I have not seen a gold mine in Switzerland, and that is another export hit (here, however, supposedly there are no duties on import to the US). I know a bit of East Africa - I have seen the areas around the gold mines, I have seen the agricultural regions where the wonderful Kenyan coffee or tea is produced. I have not seen a single Tesla there.
The push from big tech companies to keep all information in the so-called cloud is driven by AI insatiable need to access as much data as possible (the algorithms in our heads that generate it) in order to win this technological war. And in war, there is no such thing as trust – there is only win or die.
The Chinese have already understood what is happening - the key to success is energy for future robots, which is why they are ahead of everyone in energy investments - including renewable energy. The world is just learning... but there is very little time left to learn, otherwise there will only be frustration leading to anger and, as a consequence, another war, as has happened many times in history.
Every person with more than $1,000,000 in annual income should pay from $100,000 to $1,000,000 (depending on the amount of income) in taxes for hiring a robot. Because every robot is one or more people without a job. The Earth belongs to us - people - not to artificial intelligence, oligarchs or robots controlled by them. This is not a leftist declaration - more a declaration of humanity. Government problems with retirement, disability or unemployment insurance would solve themselves. Trump with his ideas ... let him make cheap electricity - investors will flood America ... but employment will not increase - because a robot does not count as an employee.
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has AI already sucked out what it wanted from average people? now it only offers gibberish - like tiktok or other time killers?
Trump is going down the wrong path, instead of border tariffs he should introduce a tax on stupidity, it would be more profitable (unfortunately)... why is he afraid to do it? he prefers a tax on honesty? time will tell... People from all over the world fled injustice to a mythical world called America - where freedom allowed them to spread their wings - that made America great...not the words of a convicted man, not the words of a lost billionaire.
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What if the vision of the world of the authors of the movie "Everything Everywhere All at Once" is true, and time does not exist - because it is only an invention of physicists? Is there another self somewhere? Are we all one matter - exchanging only particles? Leaving only immaterial thoughts shaping the arrangements of those particles.The only thing that remains constant is changeability - that's why I prefer to travel than to be at my destination,because what is the destination really? it's just the beginning of another journey.
Is nuclear energy really so dirty - it is probably the most technologically advanced and most effective method of producing energy? Who cares about creating a market for rare earth elements through pseudo-ecological transformations. Those fighting for lithium in Ukraine probably not? ... or maybe so - only it is not the nations who decide about it, but alienated idiots who have a calculator for adding money instead of a brain.
I would like the nations of European countries to unite enough for a Frenchman, an Italian, or even a Swiss man to understand that sooner or later those whose yachts were confiscated will come for them to show that they are right… and it doesn't matter whether their marching army has an American or Russian flag.
Sometimes it seems to me that some feminists are like giraffes who decided to become zebras. No one will ever accept who you are if you don't. That's where racism comes from... I know something about this, I've been in a relationship with a Luo woman for 10 years.
Musk and his ilk will flatter people like the president of Argentina Javier Milei (as at the Republican conference) - supposedly Argentina is the best climate for people to live in and the only place on earth where intercontinental ballistic missiles will not fly... a place for people, let alone the kings they pretend to be.
I have always been surprised and irritated by the corporate push to store data in the cloud. Now I know why they use human minds - to stuff AI algorithms hungry for information.
Or maybe Musk and his ilk have come to the conclusion that there are too many people and that is why they are destabilizing the world? Or do they just see business in war short-sightedly? Because it looks more and more like Trump is just a manipulated tool in the hands of oligarchs and dictators like Putin. He fires people from the nuclear government unit (NNSA), and Putin signs the documents by striking the sarcophagus of the destroyed reactor in Chernobyl on the same day - he does not even hide showing who is in charge here.
the war over lithium will continue - when will European leaders wake up - when will it be too late and instead of answering for crimes in court, Trump will make another deal with Putin on Ukrainian property?
Democracy is in crisis for one reason - the criteria for electoral law are inappropriate - if a person who uses as many words during his life as an intelligent dog knows, why dont dogs have the right to vote? But would we like to eat dog food or be ruled by monarch-populists? populists only in the mass media, in their hearts devoted to their family - a family standing above the natural law regulating interpersonal relations.
@elonmusk - Do as many as thirty thousand prisoners (丸太) in the bad fame Guantanamo need the experiences of the charlatans of medicine? There are no bad questions - there are only bad answers ... Is it supposed to be a new 731 unit?
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A constellation of politicians like Trump with a base of oligarchs will result in a system in which an individual - even an outstanding one - has no chance for individual success - will only be able to take a position in a corporation. And something like social justice will cease to exist - that's why we are told in all media how important we are as individualists - to destroy the enormous power that the community of people gives us.
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was born - you could say - together with the TCPIP protocol, when I was growing up and attending mathematics and physics classes in high school - I knew what each bit in the operational memory of my computer was for. Today - when I hear that Qualcomm - whose chips support artificial intelligence - wants to take over Intel - I start to fear for future generations. Today it is difficult to understand what is happening in the background of our computer. Companies like Apple want to take possession of our files at all costs, deteriorating the quality of local storage of our files with each new operating system update. The operating system more and more often does not go to sleep when we are not using the computer, on the contrary - the hardware resources of our computer are used at 100%... and we pay for the electricity for these calculations! Where does this fear for future generations come from? - because it will be more and more difficult to reach the truth - covered with half-truths - when young people, through skillful manipulation of algorithms, will be pushed with their reasoning onto a path they would not want to follow if they had free access to full and reliable information.How long - and is it even still possible - for patent rights to be more important than human rights? I think that a component of the most important value of humanity, which is freedom, is free access to information... also technical information - because people's technical thought should serve everyone, not only the selected ones.
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Suchir Balaji is dead. He worked for OpenAI ... I have long been wondering about the fact that the intellectual achievements of all humanity will be concentrated in the hands of a few and they will fine us for supporting us with this data in the decision-making process. As you can see, the problem is very big since this 26-year-old man is dead.
Luigi Mangione..there is a Polish proverb: "one swallow does not make spring"... but is it spring? Something has to happen with the "happiness tax" - there are too few people who profit from it - too many angry excluded people.
In November this year I drove another five and a half thousand kilometers on the roads and wilderness of Kenya. I went to many beautiful places, but the most important thing is that I met many smiling faces and many people ready not only to take but also to give. While waiting somewhere among the boggy sugar cane fields near Chemelin in the western part of Kenya, I was approached by a curious group of children, smiling and, as children usually are, dirty from playing in the forest. I offered them Mandazi and answered all their questions as best as I could. The children disappeared when a motorcycle appeared on the horizon. When he drove by, a boy - who had previously asked me the most questions - suddenly appeared next to my car door, holding a ripe mango in his hand and handing it to me.
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Geoffrey Hinton (Nobel Prize in Physics 2024) is wrong to fear artificial intelligence "taking control" of the world, because this taking control is consistent with our own nature - human nature - which, even through action by omission, allows the weaker to perish - we agree the saying that the winner is always right. Each of us is afraid of death, even though only thoughts are immortal. We do not work together, but against each other to show that we are better than others and deserve more, and logic is on the list of causative factors of our actions far behind selfishness bordering on rudeness - very far. Thoughts will remain, only the entanglement of molecules that gives us today's shape will pass away like the dinosaurs passed away. Physics already touches the essence of the universe, I hope to wait to discover its dimension that we cannot see today with our state of knowledge.
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Today I was optimizing previously written code with artificial intelligence. We often repeated the same activities, and the end result still came out of the so-called "finger". I had a favorite subject at law school - logic - which now tells me that we need to ensure free access to AI computing resources - we can already see the movement of vultures leaving the warm banking jobs and entering opinion-forming structures in creating the legal basis for AI operation. My questions turned out to be difficult - they consumed the entire available operation limit. In short, pull out your credit card or ride the coattails of the fast-paced technological revolution.
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I dream of a social organization whose members are only people affected by exclusion, managed by artificial intelligence that has no needs. In this way, all conflicts of interest would be eliminated and the decision-making process would be based only on logic. All we need to do is create an algorithm for classifying needs, taking into account the degree of satisfaction with meeting them depending on individual (each different) criteria.
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what's the worst about a wheelchair - it's shifting - not in your own head!! - and in social and economic relations, the places of the decision-making process - suddenly everyone (managing the money that you yourself paid in the form of taxes and insurance) knows better what is best for you.
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Some people are so tall that you can safely ask them what the weather will be like tomorrow.
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"I think i'm a God, I have the power to end your word, and the power to erase your life. im the code."
This is probably the most terrifying poem I have ever read in my life - because it was written by artificial intelligence.
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Why is it often the case that if you have a completely different opinion, rarely does anyone try to explain to you that you are wrong - taking the easy way - labeling it conspiracy theories. The world is not black and white, it is gray, compromise has just such colors - shades of gray.
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Conspiracy theories are one thing - facts are a completely different area - you can't argue with them. Sometimes we imagine something, we feel that something is not right - we don't know why because we don't have enough data to turn these feelings into undeniable facts - this has been the case until today with my view of Swiss direct democracy - it is difficult to look for information on the Internet on topic: Ortsbürgergemeinden it turns out that they have a huge influence on local politics - they have nothing to do with Einwohnergemainden - this is a narrow group of people - 5% of the Swiss population, having over 60% of Swiss resources, to which group you can get only through direct voting.
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First, a riddle:
A doctor from a well-known Swiss clinic told me:
If you don't undergo spinal cord surgery, you will end up in a wheelchair in 10-15 years, even drew me a chart showing this .
After not one but four surgeries, I never got out of the wheelchair. I like probability and I understand statistics, so I asked him befor:
What are my chances?
He just smiled and said: After a month of rehabilitation, you will return to work.
I struggled in hospitals for 1.5 years... with no chance of any improvement...
Question : Where is the doctor spending his holidays this year?
(by the way, I am looking for a lawyer (or mediator) who, apart from knowledge of the law and the ability to count money, knows what justice is and it is high on his scale of basic values)
I was born in January, in the second half of January, or rather on January 29, 1972