The Unnecessary Necessary Struggle

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“Artificial intelligence would be the ultimate version of Google. The ultimate search engine that would understand everything on the web. It would understand exactly what you wanted, and it would give you the right thing. We’re nowhere near doing that now. However, we can get incrementally closer to that, and that is basically what we work on.”

—Larry Page

“The pace of progress in artificial intelligence (I’m not referring to narrow AI) is incredibly fast. Unless you have direct exposure to groups like Deepmind, you have no idea how fast—it is growing at a pace close to exponential. The risk of something seriously dangerous happening is in the five-year time frame. 10 years at most.”

—Elon Musk wrote in a comment on Edge.org

Human beings are the only species on the planet that have continually proven that we engage in activities that lead to our own destruction. This has been the case since the very beginning with Adam and Eve.

Since the introduction of sin came on the scene along with it came death. The sin of man thinking that he’s capable of handling the world’s problems on his own serves to be the exact reason why he always leads himself and others straight into the furnace.

Some major societal examples of this that I can give you to summarize that last statement is how there are people who always tout how amazing certain government policies, or technological advancements are for the betterment of society.

You can always see this because it always starts with framing the application of such advancements as being utilized in an altruistic manner. This is typically presented in scenarios that involve life saving technology in the realm of unique medical treatments, technological advancements with the development of AI, and the biggest one involving the fake lofty acts of virtue that you always hear about involving the programs of the government associated with the climate change agenda.

However, it seems that the bigger the team effort is concerning the government and large companies uniting in order to save the world the worse the outcome. I mean unless you have short term memory you can clearly see this failure with pretty much everything associated with the pandemic just five short years ago.

Another example of seismic failure would involve the massive climate change agenda and how it’s caused significantly more problems associated with the destruction of the environment rather than the protection of it over many decades now.

The astonishing thing about this that gets so frustrating to me is how obvious all of this has been for so long, but society has just simply not paid attention…until the problems from these so-called virtuous government programs started impacting every single household.

You know how that last statement goes in the minds of most people. If you don’t know how this applies to the apathetic, it basically means that it’s not a problem worth worrying about until that problem kicks in the front door of those who are apathetic and gets right up in their face.

Once again an example of this would involve the pandemic and all of the woke science from it that was forced upon the public regarding the dangerous side effects from the vaccines, the virus itself having been created in a Wuhan lab, and the fact that it was financed by the U.S. government.

The problem with the out of control growth and expansion of the federal government has long been something of a large complaint to t