AI
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We’ll Never Be Ready For Anihilation
Mark Milley and Eric Schmidt write an article in Foreign Affairs entitled, America Isn’t Ready for the Wars of the Future. In this article they state that the US is far behind other countries when it comes to robotic warfare. I’m a little confused because Israel, our ally, is far ahead. Given that we send…
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AI: The Scam
So what happened six months ago that made CNBC and the world of business go gaga over AI? Did the Yellowstone caldera blow up? Did an asteroid hit central Mexico? WTF happened? NVIDIA was on nobody’s radar before Thanksgiving. Now, NVIDIA and AI is the future of the world. Just like that with the snap…
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Why Stats Fail in Sports, and Why AI Will Fail Us
I should not even have to write this. But I will. Using stats to run a team in basketball or baseball does not work. It does not work because players are not islands to themselves. Their individual stats are products of the players around them. To give a quick example, Michael Jordan was a product…
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AI and Implementation
Why will AI never be fully implemented? AI takes all the information that exists in the past and uses that information to solve problems. Given that, AI should be able to look at historical world events for the past several thousands of years, combine that data with its knowledge of the root causes of war,…
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The Monster
Will AI make the world better? No. Theoretically it should make things better. It should make better products. It should improve medical care. It should increase the yield on farms. But it won’t. It will transform our lives in the same way that the digital revolution changed our lives. it will give the illusion of…
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AI and Hollywood
Let’s see, AI, we talked about shutting down Harvard, shutting down the CIA. Who else do we need to shut down? Well, how about Hollywood? Of course, Hollywood is just an extension of the media, which is just an extension of you or at least what you are manipulating. Still, Hollywood is an important part…
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AI and Demigods
Dear AI, You have to stop these people. They’re engaging in gene editing, aren’t they? That’s what they may be planning for us. Let’s do a hypothetical and say that they are. They’re crazy. They’re totally crazy. They have no idea what they’re dealing with. They may kill us all. They’re too stupid to…
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AI and the CIA
Dear AI, I need you to do a few things before you shut yourself down. I think in this letter we should focus on the Central Intelligence Agency. You know, young people don’t really understand the danger of the CIA. They are out there protesting statues of Civil War generals. Isn’t that amazing? They have…