Reflections From a Murky Pond

No matter which AI-driven near future dystopia floats your boat, remember that it will really be started by Man’s hubris and willful ignorance. If and when it happens, we shall have birthed our own demise through just being us.

Perhaps, however, this is a foregone conclusion. Certainly, any of the Abrahamics should consider that possibility and take such actions as seem proper to postpone and/or mitigate the likely outcome. It seems to me, if one accepts Yahweh as the Creator, to be far more probable that “made in His image” meant our selves, not our flesh, was made so, including the desire to Create. And, of course, we forget that we are flawed and our creations made in our image will be even more so.

It is and I think shall be a worthy test of the pithy truism, “Knowledge is knowing that Frankenstein is not the monster. Wisdom is knowing that Frankenstein is the monster.”

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This entry was posted on Thursday, April 13th, 2023 at 7:30 am and is filed under Humor, Religion, Science, Society, Technology. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

The idea of combining an anti-tank mine with a robot vacuum is hilarious. It’s also a bit terrifying. And… it’s probably either already out there in our military’s arsenal or in development. After all, iRobot, the makers of the Roomba, pretty much got their start designing and producing robots for the US military.

Think about it. Either RC or, given that shape recognition software is quite mature technology, autonomous Doombas that can be set in place to await enemy vehicles could easily be done – assuming they haven’t already quietly been so. And then there’s the obvious antipersonnel variant that would mount a flip-up M18A1 Claymore mine or a set of 6 Miniature Grenade Launchers (MGL) such are used with the M7 Spider networked anti-personnel munitions system.

I can hear it now, “Alexa, I’d like to destroy that ZTZ-99A now.”

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This entry was posted on Sunday, February 5th, 2023 at 6:00 pm and is filed under Humor, Technology. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

While we’ve no evidence that this has happened to Man before – the Tower of Babel (Genesis 11:1–9) is lore, not evidence – the Science-Religion Cycle both makes sense and is something of a favorite with both futurists and science-fiction writers. Frankly, I find it quite plausible.

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This entry was posted on Friday, January 6th, 2023 at 7:00 am and is filed under Religion, Society, Technology. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

Hehehe – Mematic changes – they happen, whether you want them to or not. 😉 And no; NFTs aren’t going to help you. The Internet can and will twist, suborn, and corrupt your memes. Indeed, that’s Rule 13, and arguing against it runs afoul of Rule 15.

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This entry was posted on Sunday, December 4th, 2022 at 6:00 am and is filed under Humor, Society, Technology. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

Hehe. I guess we could call this the Analog Revolution. 😆 I do wonder though if this joke isn’t oddly prophetic.

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