The dumb part here is that the American people and the American political environment and media has normalized all this.

This is no longer about dumb politicians … it’s just putting on display a very dumb nation.

Launches entire US nuclear arsenal against Russia

Isn’t this basically how Taylor Swift got her start … her millionaire father just buying thousands of her debut album at the beginning.

People want to only believe what they want because they hate being wrong … and they never believe or want to believe that their side, their group, their community no matter what it is can ever be wrong.

I’m not immune to it myself and I constantly have to remind myself that I can easily fall into that same mentality.

Most of us are never taught to be self-critical or to properly question the world or the people around us.

This is thing I keep pointing out about AI

We’re like teenaged trailer trash parents who just gave birth to a genius at the trailer park where we’re all dysfunctional alcoholics and meth addicts …

… now we’re acting surprised that our genius baby talks like an idiot after listening to us for ten years.

Beautiful … disrupt an election and tie up the explanation long enough that everyone forgets about it all and the next election comes along so that they can do it all again.

The power of money is that you can do whatever you want and whenever you’re actions are challenged or made accountable, you just throw everything in court long enough to the point where no one pays attention, no one remembers and no one cares any more.

“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”

… time again throughout history, bad things and terrible ideas only come about due to the ignorance and inaction of individuals who think that a movement may be good for them but deep down know that they are not morally right, so instead they choose to do nothing in the hopes that their most secret thoughts and beliefs might come true but if they don’t, they can plausibly deny everything.

Isn’t this just a replay of the late Roman empire?

Wealth, power and control gets concentrated to smaller and smaller groups of people … they get desperate for more power and co opt and manipulate the existing system to get their way … they don’t get their way and do even more extreme changes and create chaos

Everything falls apart and everyone loses everything.

THE END IS NEAR!!

I’m guessing the store employees originally uncovered 100 kgs of cocaine

Whenever I start disagreeing with an officer or telling them I don’t have to answer any questions … the response is usually that I have an attitude and that they don’t like my behavior.

It’s subtle intimidation because they know that if I stand up for myself long and hard enough … they’ll detain/ arrest or use force, ask questions after and justify their actions later.

It’s easier to walk a fine line between complying and trying not to upset a bully with a gun.

It’s an imbalance of power.

If a guy with a gun and a license to kill … which is basically what a police officer is … if they start asking questions, I’m answering politely.

I’m not going to argue with them or disagree with them … even if I say ‘no’ I’m still at risk based on the personality of the cop.

I’m also a big brown skinned long haired indigenous person so whenever I get stopped by a cop … I’m doing what I’m told or I risk getting beaten, arrested or even shot.

This is also the reason why I placed four different cameras with audio around my vehicle.

Exactly … if it were black people, native people, environmentalists, or any ethnic group making bomb threats because of their political beliefs or because of something their political leaders said … they’d be calling in the national guard, raiding homes and arresting people…

… but when its right wing extremists … it’s just another news story.

This is the police … if you get pulled over by a jerk of an officer, they’ll find a different excuse to search your vehicle … or at the very least hold you up, get you out of your car and generally give you a hard time.

Do your lights work? How’s your tire treadwear? Is your documentation up to date? You were driving about five over the limit. This is a ride check.

And one of the worst questions I absolutely hate being asked by a cop … “Where are you going?”

One thought that I’ve been imagining for the past while about all this is … is it Model Collapse? … or are we just falling behind?

As AI is becoming it’s own thing (whatever it is) … it is evolving exponentially. It doesn’t mean it is good or bad or that it is becoming better or worse … it is just evolving, and only evolving at this point in time. Just because we think it is ‘collapsing’ or falling apart from our perspective, we have to wonder if it is actually falling apart or is it progressing to something new and very different. That new level it is moving towards might not be anything we recognize or can understand. Maybe it would be below our level of conscious organic intelligence … or it might be higher … or it might be some other kind of intelligence that we can’t understand with our biological brains.

We’ve let loose these AI technologies and now they are progressing faster than what we could achieve if we wrote all the code … so what it is developing into will more than likely be something we won’t be able to understand or even comprehend.

It doesn’t mean it will be good for us … or even bad for us … it might not even involve us.

The worry is that we don’t know what will happen or what it will develop into.

What I do worry about is our own fallibilities … our global community has a very small group of ultra wealthy billionaires and they direct the world according to how much more money they can make or how much they are set to lose … they are guided by finances rather than ethics, morals or even common sense. They will kill, degrade, enhance, direct or narrow AI development according to their share holders and their profits.

I think of it like a small family group of teenaged parents and their friends who just gave birth to a very hyper intelligent baby. None of the teenagers know how to raise a baby like this. All the teenagers want to do is buy fancy cars, party, build big houses and buy nice clothes. The baby is basically being raised to think like them but the baby will be more capable than any of them once it comes of age and is capable of doing things on their own.

The worry is in not knowing what will happen in the future.

We are terrible parents and we just gave birth to a genius … and we don’t know what that genius will become or what they’ll do.

This is too stupid for me … I turned if off and will just watch the highlights tomorrow

And this is supposed to be a contest for leadership of the most powerful, most developed, most modern nation in the world?

The worst part of all this is that everyone on the planet will be affected by what Americans will decide on … and that is an absolutely scary idea.

The main problem with the debate is that the audience that is listening has to actually also be SANE.

If you have nutjobs listening to all this … they’ll love Trump no matter how reasonable Harris may sound.

The trouble has been, is and will always be … the general intelligence of the US population.

Not only is it stupid for exaggeration but for also glossing over the idea that it’s logical, sensible or moral for any person to own so much wealth that they would never be able to enjoy even just 1% of that during a single lifetime.

It’s completely absurd also from the thought that as one person owns enough wealth to pay for the lives of millions of people … millions of people are living in complete poverty and starvation.

We look through ancient history and laugh at the thought of our ancestors who worshipped kings, queens, god men, emperors and all powerful leaders … we’re still doing the same thing.

These thoughts don’t just reflect on people like Musk but on all of us for thinking and accepting that this is all normal behavior for what we all like to think is a modern sophisticated society.

This is like Satan offering you a glass of water in hell and everyone patting him on the back for doing something good.

The insanity is not so much that he is an insane person … the insane part is that he has so many people that want to follow him.

Who is more insane? … the insane person? … or the legions of people who decide to follow the insane person?