Human or Algorithm: Who Do You Want to Run Your Life?

 This week, I watched a discussion unfold on YouTube where two fairly smart PhD-level guys talked about this strange situation of the past five years....where 'tech-saviors', social crusaders, and reality were all colliding in front of us.  

In the end, the general question of this focus meeting....who do you really want to run your life?  An artificial intelligence algorithm, or a human?

For example, if you walked into a Burger King of the future, and swiped your card...it'd know your general health 'numbers', and preferred category of food....giving you only two potential food choices (a low-cal salad, or a zero-beef vegan-burger).  The AI would limit your choices....with the priority being to extend your life.

AI might step in and note the location of your vehicle....the parking lot of some honky-tonk bar, and mandate you give a 'huff' into the alcohol monitor before cranking up.  

AI might profile the blind-date set for you tonight, and wisely predict to skip it.

AI might evaluate your messages of the past five years, and send you a message that your marriage is failing.  It might go and recommend three potential divorce lawyers, and then make a 32-percent probability that your spouse is cheating.

AI might step in and predict that 'Junior' (your 13-year old son) is hanging out with trouble-makers, and needs to be sent to a military academy in Florida, with sixteen recommended choices given.

AI might do a weight evaluation of your spouse, and recommend you put the guy on a diet.

AI might evaluate your political stance, and recommend only news to soften your feelings....guiding you to the opposite side of the spectrum.

The problem here...is that AI ends up being programed with priorities.....which you can't be sure about the original intentions or the goal of the AI in the end.  You might even wake up one day to find that some AI system is geared to go in one direction, and that some new AI has arrived....to guide you to the opposite direction....which makes you ask for a third AI to determine if AI number one or AI number two are correct.  

20 March: Next Worry Date?

 About a week ago, there was a lot of hype with Washington DC security folks...over the 4th of March, and some massive thug-army arriving to make trouble.  

Capital Police, FBI, and various groups were all 'tuned-in' to this hyped-up story. 

What happened on the 4th?  Nothing.

Now?  Starting yesterday....a new date has been established by the QAnon folks....20 March....when the thug-army will appear.

What'll happen?  Capital Police, the FBI, and the DC regular police will probably cancel all leave for the 19th and 20th....in anticipation of 'trouble'.  

When nothing happens on the 20th?  QAnon will quietly predict that the 1st of April is the next arrival of the thug-army.  

It's almost comical what this group of QAnon folks have been able to accomplish.  

After my suggestion of the 1 April thug-army day?  There could be twenty announcements made, and the leave schedule for 2021 will be crap.  Cancellation of Senate and House business for each suggested day?  Yes....that's part of the whole landscape as well. 

It's comical how this whole thing has developed.

Observations

 1.  With all this wokeness going on.....can big three TV networks even deliver any legit entertainment?  I've pondered upon this.  If you tried to drag 'Dallas' up today and produce the series....is it possible?  If you were to produce 'The Flintstones', would it be possible?  

I see the fall line-up of new TV shows arriving, and wokeness forcing a dismal situation....where people are stepping away from regular TV.  

2.  I noticed that the city of SF went out and purchased 262 tents for homeless folks in the region.  Now, if you'd gone to Wal-mart....running for a 'fine' tent....you'd pay around $120 (add tax onto this) for a simple two-person tent.  So it would come up to around $35k to $40k....depending on the luxury style of the tent.  

Well...the SF program...which also provides 'toilet boxes' in certain areas for the crowd is also included in this package.  Total cost?  $16-million.  Yes....tents and toilet services....$16-million.

3.  A survey done on the mass of teenage immigrants at the border....the 15 to 17 year olds?  They are jobs-ready and that's their full aim....get employment and move on....no BS school crap.

All of these fast-food places with employee attitude problems?  If you give 'papers' to the incoming Hispanic group (even the 15-year old kids)....they are going to take up these jobs, and the bad attitude crowd will suddenly be sitting at home and asking where their job went.

4.  A group of California high school boys are preparing for the upcoming baseball season.  So naturally pictures of team players needed to happen.  They all removed their masks....to pose.  School reaction?  Two-week suspension upon each player.