Tracking The Trackee

I watched a NewsMax piece this AM.....kids are now increasingly turning family location-tracking apps.....back onto the parents.

In the space of ten years....it's surprising how much tracking is taking place today.

By 2036?  I expect the vast number of adults and kids in America to be tracked....as well as most of their pets (horses, dogs and cats). 

I expect almost all new cars sold by 2036....to be tracked and on a national database.  

I expect nearly half of all luggage sold by 2036....to be tracked.

I expect most purchases you make....to be tracked.

AI Chatter

 This AM....I noted a comment by OpenAI's top guru.  He basically came to suggest/warn....that AI is advancing at such a rate....that it's increasingly difficult for humans to understand what's going on, and how to sustain some type of control.

I watched a podcast last year....where the science-guy suggested that 'shortly' (meaning in a year or two)....for each day of AI computing....it was advancing a full-year into 24 hours.  If you did the crazy-math here....by 2030....AI would be dragging us to some level where 'it' was 1,000 years in advanced knowledge.

Something about this....reminds me of the movie where AI has taken over the human race.

Trying to limit or control this?  How?

Three things I expect shortly:

1.  With census-data and legit license data....AI will determine that 40-odd million Americans are 'faked-up' (non-existent).

2.  Some AI will be able design and run a MLB baseball club.  Another AI will take over umpire-duty....entirely.

3.  AI will shortly start producing new Gilligan's Island, Gunsmoke and Adam-12 episodes.

Poor Farm Definition?

I got onto a reading this AM, and the term 'poor farm' came up.

So to define it....in the 1800s....in the south mostly....this was a invented 'property' where you had Christian folks 'help' people/folks, who could not support themselves, and their families had virtually no interest/willingness to help

So of a dumping ground?  Yeah.

You might use the term a psych ward, without fences or control.  It was usually run/owned by the county itself (County Commission project).

The term 'inmate' came to be used here.

You typically had a guy in charge and a couple of folks who were to keep folks 'minded'.

Who got sent?  Well....older folks with no money....disabled folks....blind or deaf folks....abandoned kids....folks with tuberculosis or syphilis....alcoholics....vagrants....folks judged insane....“feeble-minded” folks....and those who were unmanageable.

The set-up prior to asylums?  Yeah.

These later 'dumped' to bring in asylums....because the poor farm had such a bad reputation?  Yeah.

An all-in-one facility?  I sat and pondered over this.  Asylums were most for nutcases and mentally unstable folks.  

The one clear impression I get over the poor farm....once you entered....you rarely left (unless you escaped).

Pentagon 'Reality'

 Somewhere in the past couple of weeks....the Pentagon called in approximately 50 officers, and did a lie-detector test on them....to figure out who passed classified info out to journalists.

So far.....no one says much.

I'm going to suggest two scenarios likely to occur.

Number one: Virtually all fifty were found to have lied about something.  The detector-crew are likely trying to explain this obvious problem to the Pentagon 'bosses', and it's fairly confusing.  Some probably have affairs going on....some probably chat with journalists weekly but not on classified BS....some probably have financial woes which they'd rather not discuss.

Number two:  All of them (the fifty)....passed.  Now, you have a bigger problem....having to go to the next group of 200-odd folks supporting the fifty.

The odds that ten folks failed the detector test, but having nothing to do with the secret info?  I'd give it better than 50-percent odds.  

Three Humble Thoughts

 1.  This Lindsay Clancy murder case.

I'm overseas, and mostly out-of-the loop.  I did start reading over the case, and court summaries about a month ago....simple murder episode....she killed her three kids.

The question at the time....at least for me....what is the element of crazy?  After 22 years of Air Force reality....I came to a point of having three 'paths' to crazy.  

First, there's crazy by drugs/alcohol....where you did some whacko stuff.  Then there's cult/religion/CIA 'crazy' where they brain-washed you into doing whacko stuff.  Then there's crazy-crazy....where you are born with it, and turn it on-and-off....at your leisure.  The last category....is the guy/gal that you need to fear....because they are permanently a threat to the safety of others.

I'm pretty convinced that Lindsay fits into that category.

So the case ended in a mistrial.  What amazes me....11 were set for 'not-guilty', and one guy had no doubt about the guilt involved.  In 30-odd states....it would have been a couple of hours of talking and everyone convinced she was deserving of life-in-prison.  

2.  Someone brought up the 2008 presidential election, and offered the opinion that illegal voting was probably screwed up and that John McCain likely won.

I paused over this.

Their idea is that Florida, Ohio and Penn....were 'bumped' in some way of illegal voting.

Given a choice of McCain or Obama....I can't say that having McCain around for four years of Presidential 'duty' would have worked well.

3.  This Bartiromo/Fox-News BS.

Well....to be honest....there's only like three journalists still remaining at Fox....which draw me to view their network.

Fantastic 'fall' of the network over ten years.  I'd rate them only a step or two above CNN at this point.

Bernie Says

 Bernie Sanders is pushing a draft bill....that would immediately pause advanced AI development and in some way....ban superintelligence.

How he'd define superintelligence?  Well....that is not very clear.  I'm assuming you'd have a agency in charge....with some Presidential 'rule' to charge-up or charge-down intelligence.

I paused over this.

Would Japan, the EU, Russia, India and China also ban superintelligence?  NO.

Would private groups in the US....build a AI just off-shore (say 20 miles) of the US and sell 'entry' to private Americans?  YES.

Would 'evil' super-intelligence support folks go to Mexico....to establish their AI?  YES.

Bernie....mostly saying that driving a 1970s AMC Gremlin should be the 'limit'?  Well....yeah....comes to mind.

I Tried To Make Sense

 

I sat and read through a piece...'women trying to establish blame for their problems'.

Survey folks had asked age groups of women, from Republicans to Democrats.

Obviously, if you were a Democratic young gal....overwhelming number of gals blame guys for their woes.

My reaction?  If you were a young guy and facing this reality....why would you date/hook-up/marry a young Demo gal?  You might as well look for a Republican gal who is 25 years older than you.

But then something came up in my mind....just how much of woes/sorrows are you lugging around?  Maybe the bulk of young Demo ladies....are carrying 500 pounds of problems. 

Then I came to 'blame'....it just seems like we are ultra-focused these days on blame.  We can't seem to do much except talk about it....throughout the day, and even watch TV shows which focus on blame.