Showing posts with label Robots. Show all posts
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Saturday, January 3, 2009

Robots, Overpopulation, War and Eejits like me


"You don't need a
weather vane to know

which way the wind blows."
-Bob Dylan



Reading and collating information on various subjects is what I do: like pieces of the jigsaw, they fall into place and at a certain point, an essential element of the bigger picture can be seen. The process is deductive in nature - that is, prying without trying to prove a pre-established proposition. All the issues mentioned here are documented and published in this blog.

For some time I have been gathering current information on
  • starvation (food resources),
  • war crimes (exactly how many people do die globally in one day from the actions of warmongers?),
  • the progressive acceleration of technological advance (soon, technology will be able to double its capabilities in under a month as opposed to 900 years),
  • the projected population in 21 years vis-a-vis the earth's ability to support so many people,
  • advances in robotic technology for industrial and military use (by 2020, 30% of the US military will be robots),
  • stem cell research (with the ability to repair bodies indefinitely),
  • Big Brother (currently racing ahead with plans to monitor human units through DNA databases, implants and constant surveillance),
  • strategies to divide the resources of Africa among the Big Dogs
  • the nuclear arms race
  • the identities of the Masters of the Universe and their plans for the rest of us
  • and the emergence of the One World economic system.
But what does it all mean? The reading is tedious and depressing to say the least, and if I allow myself to get lost in the tragedy of it all (which sometimes happens), it would seem the best thing that could happen to earth would be a meteor that destroys the planet; or alternately, a shifting of the poles. Perhaps my idea of 'good' would not survive; but, neither would the 'evil' I see.

I wish to comment on the problem of overpopulation as it relates to the above subject matter.

Several questions occur to me:
  • If I had enormous power in the form of money, military resources, and international influence, would I allow the population of earth to grow at such a rate as to deplete the resources so none would survive? Wouldn't it be a good idea to reduce the population of the planet?
  • If the military (of the US in this case) is to be 30% robotic in eleven years, doesn't this mean that fewer people will be necessary?
  • If robotics are to become the future of manufacturing, won't there be fewer jobs for people globally? Won't fewer people be necessary?
  • If stem cell research can regenerate tissue and extend lifespans indefinitely, who should receive this treatment and how many will be sustainable? And how many will not?
  • Why are we creating more weapons of mass destruction (including biological warfare) than we are investing in methods of sustainable survival? Who has decided this?
  • Why is it necessary for the USA federal government to legally demand DNA samples from all newborns?
  • Why do the Rothschild's (and other Big Dog families) insist on genetic engineering for the superiority of their offspring over the rest of humanity?
My answer to all these questions would require a detailed paper on each issue and still would not scratch the surface. Not to worry. "You don't need a weather vane to know which way the wind blows." The proposition which occurs to me is both simple and easily explained without volumes of didactic sludge - the population of earth must be culled.

Is this harsh? In nature, how does an imbalance of one species correct itself? Either reproductive cycles are altered to match existing resources (See Jared Diamond, 'Why sex is fun.'), or the species becomes extinct eventually from starvation or disease. This explanation is given regularly by hunters who claim they are doing nature a favor in keeping the predator/food ratio in check; the reader has probably heard this rationale many times. Shooting a deer is much kinder than letting it starve to death.

With less jobs, less income and less food, many people will fall into the category of the righteously hunted (and culled) for the benefit of the balance of 'nature'. I suggest that this is the direction in which the political objectives of the major powers are leading us. One way or the other, the population growth of earth will need not only to be stabilised for the technological advances in our future, but perhaps reduced.

Already in China, there is a 2 child maximum, a comprehensive population control program based on demographic predictions, which rewards those alive with housing, education, employment and medical care by preventing an excessive birth rate which would deprive all through causing unsolvable problems of social infrastructure and resource allocation.

Let us take the issue of my cats: if I were to allow them to breed indiscriminately and produce up to 24 kittens per year, I would soon be overrun with cats and unable to feed them. Most likely, without my protection and help, the kittens would be eaten by foxes, minks and various animals with a taste for small prey. Well, in a sense, this is letting nature take its course. But is not nature cruel? I prefer to have my cats fixed: that eliminates the 24 kittens who may be eaten alive so that nature can balance itself out. This is the option China has implemented and which seems quite reasonable and humane to me.

On the other hand, if my cats were not pets, but a food source as in some countries, I would want to breed as many as I need to satisfy my needs for consumption. This is in fact what we do with pigs, cows, chickens and other animals humans we find tasty and useful. Thinking of sentient pets as a food commodity may be disorienting but a habit we are well inured with through the ages.

The problem is....ratio of humans to required resources: traditionally dealt with through commodity breeding and selective genetic improvements of an animal. I suggest this is the solution that is most logical and the one that has occurred, long ago, to the Masters of the Universe, for humans as well. This is not rocket science - just plain common sense. Try these facts: Three Earth Day Doozies

Considering the topics of reading mentioned here already, and the questions such readings have suggested, a cull of human beings will of necessity occur within the next 15 years, if not through starvation and lack of employment, then perhaps from warfare and disease: scarcity has a way of naturally eliminating those who are not able to outperform others. It is in the best interest of the survivors to carefully control the genetic pool of the remaining population, as well as establishing 'functions' which serve the survival of the genetically superior.

It's not a pretty picture; but, it is inevitable that population control (and perhaps culling) are of major significance in the political and economic strategies of major world powers today. In the West, however, such ideas are heresy of the highest order to those who still think they live in a democracy and have rights. Russia is the exception - with a declining birth rate.

So one last question: If what I say here has any semblance of reason, how do you think you and your family will fare in the cull of the next decade?

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Thursday, January 1, 2009

Singularity: The Matrix, 1984 and AI



Remember back in the 70s when Captain Kirk had that neat 'communicator'? Now we all have them. How about in 80s,when Pac-man thrilled us all? Compare the poor little gobbling screen blip of then to the realistic cyber games of today.

Then there was '1984' by George Orwell; I never suspected we would come close to that scenario yet here we are in the new age of surveillance. But the scariest movie I have seen in some time is The Matrix where a robot race takes over its creators, the human race. After doing a bit of research on this plot, it looks as though we are definitely headed that way. Even Stephen Hawking predicts we will come to a bad end in our quest for Artificial Intelligence.

Another quite interesting film which falls now into Sci-Fi category, but is quickly approaching reality is AI, Stanley Kubrick's brilliant film finished by Stephen Speilberg.

With this in mind, I have assembled below a selection of relevant readings on the subject. As with many subjects of fascination, the related urls are endless in these articles and can lead to who knows where. My only comment is this: Be afraid, be very afraid (unless you would just rather not think about it). And if you believe the Mayan calendar prediction, you need not worry about it at all - because we won't be here.

All three movies, The Matrix, 1984 and AI are multi-dimensional stories allowing metaphors on many levels. The level explained in the following articles is purely one of literal possibility.

Dawn of the robots

Joy warns of tech Armageddon

Hawking warns of AI world takeover

Quotes from the Singularity Summit 2007
It's haughty of us to think we're the end product of evolution. All of us are a part of producing whatever is coming next. We're at an exciting time. We're close to the singularity. Go back to that litany of chemistry leading to single–celled organisms, leading to intelligence. The first step took a billion years, the next step took a hundred million, and so on. We're at a stage where things change on the order of decades, and it seems to be speeding up. Technology has the autocatalytic effect of fast computers, which let us design better and faster computers faster. We're heading toward something which is going to happen very soon – in our lifetimes – and which is fundamentally different from anything that's happened in human history before.
-Dr W Daniel Hillis

Economics Of The Singularity

Technological singularity
The technological singularity is a theoretical future point of unprecedented technological progress, caused in part by the ability of machines to improve themselves using artificial intelligence. Much information here as well as links.

Friday, December 12, 2008

Things I read - December 12, 2008

Inventor builds She-3PO robot
Errr...can I get one in the opposite sex?













Mexico to fingerprint mobile-phone owners
Big brother will not neglect Mexico. Doesn't this sound desperately similar to USA legislation? Maybe Mexico should just open a New Amsterdam and tax drugs; it might simplify things.

The Purpose Behind The Financial Crisis
The disappearance of the middle class? Where have I heard that before?

Police taser man in diabetic shock
Who cares?

ISPs Give Rudd Government Two Finger Salute
I love Aussies.

CIA holds young sons of captured al-Qa'eda
chief

2003 - the CIA is interrogating children. Wonder what they did with Aafia Siddiqui's two young children?

Secret ‘EU President’ talks begin as Ireland is forced to vote again on treaty
No matter what concessions the EU grants especially for Ireland, I will never tolerate Tony Blair as EU President, or Nicholas Sarkozy. For this reason alone, I will vote NO.

U.S. Treasury Standing By to Begin Nationalization of Big 3 Automakers
I wonder how fast than can re-tool to make armaments?

Our Vanishing Night - Most city skies have become virtually empty of stars.
















EU parliament body scanners offer ‘virtual strip search’





















Iraq plans EU-style Middle East union
Soon, there will be only regional unions in currency and politics; which means stand alone countries will be at a great disadvantage if not members. There is some good here and some bad.

Bratislava resident renounces American citizenship, becomes stateless person Can't say as I blame him.

Monday, December 8, 2008

Articles - December 8, 2008

The God That Failed: The 30-Year Lie of the Market Cult
It has always been all marketing. Friedman ought to be dug up and hanged by his Nobel Medal.


Angry Laid-Off Workers Occupy Factory in Chicago
And wouldn't you know it, they aren't even 'real' Americans.

OPEC: Get set for oil shock and awe

The Trojan Horses of Our Demise: Reconnecting to the Moral Sense
Married to arrogance, ignorance can kill.


US media giant considers bankruptcy
Too bad they didn't go bankrupt before they spread their poison lies to support the evil system that ate their ethics.

Chinese property hunters to raid US
Welcome to America's new landlord.

€125m of pork to be destroyed in biggest food scare since BSE
We poisoned the pigs; and now they are poisoning people - seems fair to me.

Man ordered to comply with EU rules when selling vegetable leftovers from his garden stall
Better throw away extra food;or the government will charge you.


Pakistani Security Consultant Calls Mumbai Attacks A “Botched” False Flag

Drone lands in ND in preparation for border patrol

Bush reported to be drinking heavily


General Ivashov: “International terrorism does not exist”
"...shows that terrorism contributes to a world dominance and the submissiveness of states to a global oligarchy. This means that terrorism is not something independent of world politics but simply an instrument, a means to install a unipolar world..." Good article exposing the terrorism hype and foreshadows the 'irregular war'.

Genocide in Educational Policy - For the future of Indigenous Peoples

Hopping robots display pack instinct
Stephen Hawking said this is how the human race would end; shades of the Matrix.


Tech commission suggests new cybersecurity post
Yep...O man is going to protect us from cyberspace.

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