COMMUNITY DOCUMENTARY
The Luo people emerged from the Semitic-speaking, Nilo-Saharan-speaking, Cushitic-speaking people. The Luo were originally a light-skinned community with the culture of Egypt (Tekidi), Kush and Meroe. They migrated to Kar Thum (Khartoum) to Wau in the Bar-el Ghazal region in South Sudan. It was here that they met a dark-skinned people who referred to them as Jur Chol (the aliens passing through the blacks).
Between 990-1125, the Luos were in Sudan and then a series of calamities, including a serious outbreak of anthrax (‘opere’) and population explosion whipped out the entire livestock that were owned by the tribe of the Anu which was darker, and preferred both livestock and crop production. Following this incident, the community resorted to fishing along the Aora Nalo (the River Nile) for survival and this is how the Luo earned the name Jo-Oluo-Aora (people who follow the river) which, in the course of time came to be shortened to Luwo or Luo. South Sudan is hence the first placw that the Jo-Luo were first referred as such, the subsequent birthplace of the Luo nation. This explains why most tales of the origin of the Luo nation start from South Sudan at Dog nam (the Acholi equivalent of dhowath/ dho nam which is the Dholuo for the mouth of the lake – that is, a lake shore). Whereas there is no agreement on which lake it is, most historians identify it as Lake No or River Palugo, or what the Arabs called the ; Sea of Gazelle (Bar-el Ghazal). The three are the same thing.
According to oral tradition, the Luo lived in Eastern Bar-el-Ghazal until the year 1300 when they dispersed because of quarrel among the three brothers: Nyikang’o, Dimo and Gilo. Feuds within the homestead triggered by a power struggle led to a split and subsequently, separate history of the three groups. It was also during this period that the Luo started separating as a nation, into different sub-groups and going different directions, while also intermarrying with the various groups they met and assimilating their culture, or being assimilated into their cultures.
The Luo-speaking peoples include the following sub-groups:
1. Shilluk/ Ochollo – South Sudan / Ethiopia
2. Anuang’/ Anywaa – Ethiopia / South Sudan
3. Maban – South Sudan / Chad
4. Thuri / Shatt – South Sudan
5. Blanda Bor – South Sudan
6. Funj – South Sudan
7. Pari – South Sudan
8. Bari – South Sudan
9. Jumjum – South Sudan
10. Joluo / Jur Chol – South Sudan
11. Acholi – Uganda / South Sudan
12. Kumam – Uganda
13. Chope – Uganda
14. Tooro – Uganda
15. Lang’i – Uganda
16. Jonam – Uganda
17. Jo-Padhola – Uganda
18. Alur – Uganda / DRC / Cameroon
19. Suba Luo – Kenya
18. Joluo – Kenya / Tanzania
The Luo-speakers alongside the Dinka (Jieng’) and the Nuer (Naath) form part of the Jii-speakers.
Oral traditions reveal that the Southern Luo (the Luo of Kenya and Tanzania) descended from early fishing, agricultural and herding communities from western Kenya’s early pre-colonial history and dialects of their language have historic roots across the inter-lacustrine region. Besides their language has incorporated Bantu words making it different from the Ugandan Luo dialects, Dholuo is the mother tongue of the Luo community. There is only one major Luo dialect in Kenya, with minor variations of Luo language especially between the Alego / Ugenya / Gem locality, known as Trans Yala dialect by socio-linguist, and the standard Dholuo dialect which is largely spoken by the rest of the Luo people in Kenya and the neighboring Tanzania.
The Nilotic and Bantu populations now form one strong Luo community ethnic group. And despite of diverse ancestry of the Luo people, they have always remained united as one entity.
The Luo ethnic group in Kenya has maintained its culture, language and sustained the political unity and prevented further separation, thus, becoming a politico-cultural bloc in Kenya.
The early intrusion of the Luo in Nyanza basin was not, strictly-speaking, a conquest. Rather, it was a slow and peaceful penetration, and for a short while they lived with the original inhabitants. But when their numbers increased, friction developed between the newcomers and the aboriginals, forcing the former to use military and spiritual powers to take control of the land. Many of the indigenous people were forcefully expelled or assimilated and the Luo-speakers became the owners of a very large proportion of the land they settled.
After their last migrations, the Luo people settled on the North Eastern shores of Lake Victoria, that is Nyanza and North Mara Regions. The Luo tribe can be broken down into seven major sections based on origins. These sections are as follows:
1. Ramogi Luos (or commonly Luo proper)
2. Kawango Luos (Luo-Abasuba)
3. Kiseru Luos
4. Girango Luos
5. Sirati Luos
6. Imbo Luos
7. Other Luos
1. RAMOGI LUOS
The Luo proper are a Nilotic group of people who migrated from Bahr El -Ghazel region in South Sudan and settled in Kenya and Tanzania. According to Luo oral traditions, a warrior elder named Ramogi Ajwang’ led the Luo ethnic group into present day Kenya, about 500 years ago. The Luo people migrated into Nyanza in four major waves and they first settled at what is now called Got Ramogi (Ramogi Hills) in Yimbo. They later crossed in present day South Nyanza and eventually into North Mara Region, Tanzania. The four waves include the Jo-Kajok, Jo-Kowiny Jo-Komolo and Jo-Kawango (Luo-Abasuba), with the first wave arriving sometime around AD1490.
(i) The JOKA – JOK
The Joka – Jok sub-group was the first and largest Luo wave of migration. The group is claimed to have come from Acholiland, and ultimately from Napata or Tekidi (The foot of a great stone) in Upper Egypt. They were the earliest to arrive in Kenya between AD1490 and 1550 and their history is the history of the Southern Luo migration into Kenya.
(I) Pajok Clan cluster:
– Alego (Seje, Kadenge, and Kamiyawa Among the Sakwa-Kamasoga, Kamadhi, Kanyamgony and Kanyagwala)
– Nyakach (Kadiang’a, Kajimbo/ Kamwala, Kandaria, Kabodho, Jimo and Kasaye etc)
– Komwa (based in Kisumu and include Korando,Karombo,Kogon’y, Kanyulo etc)
– Konyango/ Kachwanya (Kochienig’, Kaluoch, Kanyidwera, Kamama, Kombogo, Kabonyo and Konyango/Kanyamwa, Kabuoch Konyango and Kadem).
– Kagwa (Based in Madiany locality and Luo Imbo and Suba divisions of Rorya, comprising Yewe, Nyagwala, Kanyejeri, Kamsaki,and Kadigol etc)
-Kano (Kolwa, Kamagaga, Kochogo, Kakola, Kawamoya, Kadibo,and Usonga ect)
-Ramogi (Based in Nyabondo plateau,Oyugis,Suna Migori and Rorya)
Seme (Based in Seme locality comprising Kagumba and Kadipir
-Kanyinek (Based in Kanyijuok, Siaya)
(ii) Migration from Alur;
– Kanyala/ Nyang’ori (Kasagam,Kameji, Kaugagi, Nyang’or
Kabim, Racham Gem, Katolo)
– Kanyikela (Inhabiting Ndhiwa and Ndori Ramba in Asembo Bay, Including Kuhaya, Kanyamudho, Katuola, Kwabambla Kongolo and Kopiyo)
– Karabuor (In Otwenya Maseno locality and Kagok in Kisumu).
– Kayadoto (Dominant in Nyarongi locality, comprises Kaganda and Kabura-Kanyakwenda and Kagola /Wapondi)
– Kamot (Inhabiting Kanyamkago Hills constituted by Kawere, Kajulu and Katieno)
– Kagan/ Kowino (Kanyiriema, Kakoko and Kachieng’)
(Dominant in Bondo, Awendo, Oyugis and Luo Imbo Localities, actually a sub-clan of Nyibinya and includes Kibira and Kachiemo and Kotho, Kanyaguli, Kanyagak and Kamot/Kadera-Sakwa)
– Kamageta (Dominant in Girango division, Rorya and comprises Kamakwana, Kamadho, Kamgunga Kalwambe, Wamseda, Kochieng, also in Migingo Kadibo, Oyugis,,,,,,,,)
– Kajulu (Dominant in Kisumu and Uriri including Kamenya Koda, Rateng’ and kogweno, Kadero, Kanyimony and Kamwagi etc)
Omiya/ Asembo (inhabiting East Asembo Bay locality)
-Komenya (Dorminant in Uranga locality, ‘composed of Kowala and Kalaka).
(ii) THE JOK-OWINY
The Jok-Kowiny sub-group was the second wave of the Luo to migrate into Kenya. They are believed to be the offshoot of the Padhola community of Eastern Uganda. The Jok-Kowiny, led by Owiny Sigoma, came in the 16th century and settled around the area called Alego.
– Karuoth (Dominant in Uranga and Boro localities)
– Kogelo (Based in Siaya, East, Awendo, Nyando, Kendu Bay, Oyugis and Muhuru Bay localities)
– Kanyigoro (Inhabiting Asembo Bay, Rusinga Island and Suna in Migori County).
– Kanyikwaya (In Yala locality of Siaya County).
– Kanyakwar (Based mainly in Kisumu).
– Karapul (In Siaya locality).
– Kakeny (Also known as Uholo, is dominant in Sigomere, Ugunja locality and is composed of Kanyambir, Uwangwe, Saga and Uwiny).
– Kajwodhi (Settled in the northern parts of Yala locality).
– Kowili / Ojwando (Waundha, Nyiywer,Wanyenjra, Wasenge, Wahipi, Kanyibale, Kowil, Goma and Karodi).
– Kadimo (In Yimbo locality).
– Ndere (In Ugenya locality).
– Kaluo (Inhabiting Nyalgunga in Siaya County and include Kachien).
– Kadhola (Found in Kisumu and Ndhiwa of Homa Bay county).
(iii) THE JOK-OMOLO
Jok-Omolo was the 3rd sub-group of Luos to enter Kenya, where they arrived at the beginning of the 17th century. They originally came from Pakwach – Pawir region, via eastern Busoga.
(a) Ragenya clan cluster:
– Rager (Based in Ukwala and Uranga).
– Boro (Inhabiting Boro and Ugunja).
Kakan (Dominant in Karemo, Siaya locality)
– Kanyada (Kalanya, Katuma/ Koduogo, Kanyabala, Kotieno, Kanyadier, Kothidha, Kanyango.
– Ugenya (A broad clan of Ragenya and include Kapuny/ Masiro, Kanyamuot, Deje/ Kateg, Kanywa/ Nyang’or, Kageng’ and Kanyiner).
– Kanyimach (Based in Rongo South and in Kamagak Oyugis).
(b) Kakwenda clan cluster:
– Kochia (Kamenya, Kaura, Kanam, Kowili, Korayo).
– Gem Kowili (Kachieng’, Genga and Kopole).
– Agoro (Based in Katito and parts of Oyugis).
– Sare/ Wasare (Settled in Katito and Oyugis localities).
– Koguta (Settled on the slopes of Nyabondo Plateau, Pala in Riana locality, Rangwe and Muhoroni).
– Gem-Rae (Based in Katito locality).
– Kadiro (Based around Simbi in Karachunyo).
– Gem (Kanyiwuor/ Kawere, Kathomo and Kagilo)
2. THE JOK-KAWANGO
The Jo-Kawango or Joka-Wanga sub-group came about after interaction between the Luhyas and the Luo clans who arrived from western Kenya as the fourth wave of Luo migration to enter Nyanza. The Jo-Kawango separated from the second phase of the Jok-Kajok migration, that is, the migration from Alur and migrated to the western region where they established the Tiriki ethnic group, then to Madungu in Wanga, before enteringSiaya. The other Luos also referred to them as Joka Suba because they migrated together with the Girango people. The term Luo-Abasuba was later coined by pioneer historians who errorneouly included other ethnic groups called Rieny and Abakunta into this group of the Joka Suba.
Sakwa is the prominent clan in the Jo-Kawango sub-group and generally, the Sakwa Luos are a broad clan comprising of the Kagwa, Kamgwenya/ Waganjo, Waumi, Kanyamwanda, Kaler/ Kamageta, Kamiyawa, Kamnaria (Surwa), Kakmasia, Nyasmwa. However, these people intermarry among themselves, a clear indication that the broad clan of Sakwa is made up of descendants who cannot trace their lineage to a single ancestor.
The Kawango (Luo-Abasuba) clans are:
– Kamatar/ Sakwa (Comprising Nyibinya, Kanyamwanda and Nyasmwa).
– Kowila/ Uyoma (Dominant in Madiany locality).
– Kaler (Based in Nyatike locality).
– Waturi ( Based in the areas of Luo Imbo, Rorya, is composed of Kawakswa, Kamatula, Kamresi, Kogola and Lowa, as well as Konyango, Aroya in Kano and Magoya in Ugunja).
– Waondo (Dominant in Gembe locality, related to the Komenya in Alego and Asumbi).
– Kayanja (Based in the Gembe Hills, comprisedof Waumi, Waregi and Wagi subclans and related to the Tiriki).
– Waumi (Excluding those who remained among the Kayanja, settled in Lambwe Valley, Rongo and Kendu Bay).
– Kwabai (Settled in Nyarongi locality and include Kasirime, Kadhola, Kawanga, Kamdar, and Kanyasbok sub-clans).
– Zanaki (Based in Musoma rural and Butiama localities, Mara region. It is composed of the Biru and Buturi).
THE JO-KALE
The Jo-Kale who migrated from Acholiland was the last and the smallest Luo migration group.
– Kale (Dominant in West Asembo Bay, include Kakia, Kabondo, Konyango and Kochieng’).
– Kamolo (Based in Madiany locality, include Kabudha and
Kabweng’ a)
3. THE GIRANGO
The Bagirango, was a Bantu ethnic group with their own language. They were assimilated by the Luo and adopted many aspects of the Ramogi Luo culture and language, though they have managed to maintain some aspects of Bantu and often use ‘Suba’ as an identifier to distinguish themselves as a separate group. The Suba or Girango people are not to be confused by the Homa Bay Luo Abasuba or Abasuba community who are Bantu of different ethnic backgrounds that reside within the borders of Suba sub-county. Moreover, their language, Ekisuba/ Ekingoe was also distinct and very different from the Olusuba (Luganda) language spoken by the Luo Abasuba, particularly the Abakunta ethnic community. The name ‘Suba’ is derived from Girango’s father who was called Suba. So all the Girango people owed their allegiance to Sub fro whose lineage they were founded.
The majority of the Girango clans migrated alongside the Jo-Kawango, the fourth phase of the Luo migration into Nyanza. They came from Uganda and settled first in western Kenya at Emanyulia, where the Kawango people claim their ancestral root came from. Some of the Girango people remained behind in Western, for instance, the Bamiluha and Basuba of Tiriki, as well as the Mungoe in Bunyore.
The Girango people are culturally related to the Kiseru Luos and spoke closely related dialects of the same language. A few remnants of Girango today speak Ekingoe language which has lexical similarities to the Kuria and the Kisii languages and share names with the Kuria. However, since Ekingoe is mostly spoken by few older generation members, it is critically endangered. The Girango people living in Luo Nyanza is composed of the following:
(i)The Girango Proper
The original Bantu hybrid community that is now known as Suba Girango.
– Suba (Dominant in Suna Migori locality and comprises of Kadika, Katiga, Wiga, Wanje, Wasimbele and Wasweta)
– Wagire (Inhabiting Girango locality in Rorya and Suna Migori, Kaksingri, Gembe and Rangwe. It comprises of the Sangia, Kakrao/ Chandwa, Nyuma and Misiru, and Karum).
(ii) Wategi/ Lang’o
These are the descendants of Muserema. Muserema was the son og Girango. Muserema gave birth to Thunya, Ongombe, Mureri, Muruga and Aderema. Muruga and his younger sisterAderema went to Lang’o (Maasai) among a clan called Alburugo. That is why sometimes today the Wategi group are called Maasai or Lang’o. Thunya, the eldest son of Muserema is the ancestral father of the present day Utegi and Kamagambo clans.
– Utegi (Based in Girango division of Rorya and Suna Migori)
– Kamagambo/ Kimbaba (Kanyamamba, Kangeso, Kagoro, Kongudi, Kongoma, Koluoch, Kanyadieto and Kamwango)
– Sigiria/ Kasigiria (In Suna Migori locality)
– Kakiberi (In Suna Migori locality)
– Kanyigombe (In the area of Rongo Central)
– Kamreri ( Inhabiting Gembe and Rongo localities).
(ii) Kógoro
The descendants of Ogoro, the son of Girango:
– Kinyenche
– Ungoe.
4. KISERU LUOS
The Bakiseruwere originally a Bantu ethnic group, and outer relatives of the Abagusii community. Most of the Kiseru customs and names are very similar to those of the Gusii people. That is why many Kiseru clans have been continually referred to as Jo-Kisii by their fellow Luos and some historians, although Kiseru and Gusii were different ethnic groups. Nevertheless, the Kiseru have lost most of their cultural aspects including language. The Kiseru people today speak Dholuo and have become largely part of the Luo through intermarriage and other forms of socialization. The Kiseru people have maintained intimate cultural and political relations with the Ramogi Luos – they share clan affiliations like the Karachuonyo/ Wanjare and Konyango/ Rabala. The Kiseru remnants today speak Ekegusii (in Nyanza) or Bonchari in North Mara and their language is in danger of disappearing. Kiseru remnants in Gwasi and those in Mfang’ ano island are comfortable with being lumped together with the Suba. At the same time some of the Kiseru clans like the Karachuonyo, Kowidi (Kisumo), Wanjare and Wawaria are taken to be Jo-Kajok by historians. Nevertheless, the fact that some Kiseru people have been assimilated and adopted the Abakuria and Dholuo languages do not make them non-Kiseru in origin. Those who went to Kisii highlands call themselves Bagusero or Wanchari, and moreover, some can also be traced in Kericho.
(i) The Kiseru Ajwang’
– Mur (Dominant in Ng’ iya in Siaya, South Awendo, Kabar in Muhoroni and Kodero Bara in Rongo).
– Kasipul (Composed of Kowidi, Kachien,Kanyakila, Kolondo, Komala and Kodumo sub-clans)
– Karachuonyo (Includes Kanyajuok in Rongo).
– Kowidi (Based in Maseno and Kisumu and comprises of Karateng’ , Kapuonja, Karanja).
– Waganjo (Settled in the Gwasi Hills, Kaksingri, Hills, Suna Migori).
– Wanjare/ Wanchari (Dominant in Kabondo).
– Sidho (Inhabiting Muhoroni and Oyugis)..
– Wang’ aya (Dominant in Nyang’ oma and Chemelil in Muhoroni locality).
– Matabori (In Oyugis locality).
– Watobori/ Bhatobori (Based in Awasi and Nyando)
– Kwera (Settled in Suna Migori).
– Kalando/ Mksero (Based in Ruga).
– Oyengwe (Inhabit areas of Misambi, Karota and Nyamusi).
– Kamsagia/ Kakseru (Doninant in Nyancha locality, Rorya and include Kamseko, Kamkuru, Kakwaere, Waji).
– Mikiria (Settled in Oyugis and Chemelil localities, comprised of Kowidi, Miremi, Kosongo, Mikiro and Okiambe).
– Kamae (Settled in the area around Mawego).
– Soklo (Inhabit Mfang’ano Island and Kaksingri Hills).
– Kaguria (in Pala, Riana locality).
– Oongo/ Wagasi (Believed to be some of the earliest inhabitants of Gwasi Hills).
– Warisia (Based in the Suna Migori locality).
– Kakaeta (Based in Kobodo, Ndhiwa locality and are brothers to the Kakwaere clan).
– Kakimba/ Ramba (Mainly settled in the northern areas pf Mfang’ano Island).
– Wagimbe (Living in Mfang’ano Island).
– Wagumbe/ Wanchari (Living among the Kuria people) *
(ii) The Kine
The Kine descended from Kine, the son of Kiseru. They retained the Bantu initiation ceremony and a few of them use Bunchari language,
– Kine (Based in Nyancha locality, Rorya district).
(iii) The Kiseru Obwere
The KiserUu Obwere refers to the Kiseru group that arrived after the other Kiseru were already established. The Kiseru Obwere (Kiseru the Elder), meaning the people of Kiseru the Elder, are also known as Kiber. Kiseru the Elder had many children from his various wives. They included:
– Wigi (Comprising Kubia and Kamwenda)
– Kanyameda/ Abagonye
– Wasamo
– Waoi
– Wanyamongo
– Kaligoe.
5. SIRATI LUOS
Originally, the Basirati spoke a different language and had different customs from the Luo, and are somehow related to the Banyore section of the Abaluhya community. They were the first to come to North Mara and Nyanza long before all the Luo clans. The few Sirati remnants today speak Olumuulu (in Nyanza) and Olusurwa (in North Mara).
– Surwa (Based in Nyancha locality and include the Kamsuru in Suna Migori, Kamnara among the Sakwa and Maragoli, Sanua (later corrupted to Suna) in Suna Migori and Nyore in Yimbo).
– Muhuru (In Muhuru Bay locality, including the Kamreme in Yimbo locality)
– Wakeru (In Rangwe locality)
– Kamgundho (Dominant in North Kanyamkago and Lambwe)
– Kakremba (Dominant in Rangwe).
6. IMBO LUOS
These are the people who originally inhabited the Luo dispersal point of Yimbo and all of whom now speak Dholuo, the Luo language. The Imbo were not Luo by custom . They were a minority Bantu-speaking ethnic group. They had settled in Yimbo by as early as 14th century. Some of them were displaced but those who remained in Yimbo formed 53 different groups that came to be known together as Ojwando. The clans that originated from the earlier Bantu settlers of Yimbo are as follows:
– Ojwando/ Imbo (In Yimbo locality)
– Walowa (Excluding those who spread out into North Mara. They settled in Suna Migori, Kaksingri and Mfang’ano Island)
– Mansawa (In Ugunja locality)
– Kanyalaro (In the Sihayi, Ukwala locality)
– Wahundha ( Based in Awendo South and Yimbo localities)
– Bassi (In Oyugis locality and its offshoot, the Bassi of Kisii ethnic community)
– Kamaswa (Also known as Waswa or Umswa, settled in Awasi, Muhoroni, Yala, Ojwando in Oyugis as well as in Suna Migori)
– Wareje
– Wayipi
– Wasenge/ Ulafu
– Kamhore/ Uhore (In Yala locality).
7. OTHER LUOS
The other Luos, also known as Nyokal, are generally a minority Luo adoptees. They were non-Luo clans who were both absorbed by the several streams of the infiltrating Luo.
– Uregi/ Ukaya (In Maeri, North Gwasi, originally part of the Kara in Northern Tanzania)
– Osingo (Based in God Jope, Suna Migori locality, originally Kiroba)
– Kanyig’we (In Uranga, also originally Teso)
– Gangu (In Uranga, also called Kolunje Ja Kodera, originally Marachi)
– Kamrembo (From Maasai)
-Wasweta(Part of Basweta in Kisii, based in the areas of Oyugis and Suna Migori, from Maragoli)
– Waware (Found in Awendo East, originally Abakunta)
– Kolunje (In Otwenya settlement of Maseno locality)
– Osije (From Nyahera, Oyugis locality)
– Wamiembe (In Kanyamkago).
REFERENCE
1. Kenya Historical Studies and Social Change in Western Kenya (2002, William Robert Ochieng’)
2. Grasp the Shield Firmly: The Journey is Hard (2010, Zedekia Siso Oloo)
3. A Political and Cultural History of the Jii-Speaking Peoples of Eastern Africa (2006, Allan Bethwel Ogot)
4. The Luo Nation (2012, Ojijo)
From - the language of Barack Obama's father:
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My father's name is Janusz.
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It is significant what one of the hosts of this year's Eurovision Song Contest said - we Swiss have no feelings, we have money ... it is better to leave it without comment, in connection with this - it is scary to think what the words direct democracy, freedom of speech mean in Swiss German and who is primarily welcome in Switzerland and who is not . Empathy occurs for marketing purposes ... or perhaps to prevent acts of violence? A country is only as strong as the weakest of its inhabitants, because those with a large bank account can take care of their own interests... or so they think - because in all this political and economic chaos, the words good business no longer mean a win-win situation, but rather I win, you die. First we are human beings, only later do we become men or women, later somewhere far down the long list we are businessmen, tailors, truck drivers, but we do this to serve others by creating added value for our human herd, and not to allocate resources in a way that their uneven distribution causes death by starvation in extreme cases... somewhere out there on Earth, which is smaller than we think and the death of a person somewhere in Africa should be as close to us as the death of a family member because we all have the same ancestors on this Earth, only our heads are too small to remember all our ancestors, but what is worse - too small not to repeat the mistakes of the past... because revolution is not good - evolution is better. Prosaically and trivially - it would seem - it is simple to direct our herd back to the path of evolution - it is enough to create law not under the dictation of pressure groups (and it does not matter whether the pressure is exerted by an alienated professional group of doctors, lawyers, members of pharmaceutical concerns, boys with Kalashnikovs, or the closest family of a high-ranking politician) but under the dictation of scientific theories, logic and moral foundations of our human existence - this plus the enforcement of good law will make us fly to Mars 1000 times faster than with Elon Musk - and in the cabin of the spaceship there will be - a Chinese, an American, a Russian together with Koreans from North and South Korea, and from the ground the cruise will be serviced by workers from Bangladesh, Sudan, Japan and South Africa, Germany will make the rocket, Taiwanese will make the electronics, Kuwait will supply the fuel, Ukraine will prepare the provisions and ALL will be proud that we managed to do something great - and not to surpass others - because who are these others - they are our brothers and sisters who live in another part of this earthly vale.
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If people like the current US president ruled continuously - Elon Musk would never be rich and would still relieve himself in the gutter behind his mud hut. When will he finally understand this?
How to verify the results of studies that use AI as a tool without using it for that purpose?
The European Commission should introduce a high tax on every byte of information stored outside the European continent and tie young people to the continent - throwing all BIG-TECH headhunters out of Europe or preventing them from operating. Then AI from the US would have the most to say about hamburgers.
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