Simon:

“I’m sorry Dave, I can’t do that.” To give AI rights is the most frightening idea I’ve ever heard. It’s already sociopathic, or psychopathic, in that it has no morality whatsoever, it’s entirely instrumental, although so far, morally neutral in every way.

Great description of the present ownership and wanna-be owners of AI.😁

Jake:

Einat and her peers in Israel are not going to gratuitously call out or alienate an ally like Trump. Well a sometimes ally. And they still need USA to help end the threat of ballistic weapons/nucs and the IRGC.

So it’s “Trump uses Israel and she uses Trump and neither one cares”* …only it’s the Mullahs, the IRGC, and their terrorist…[Read more]

The need for weapons is like the need for lawyers. Ya need em to protect yourself from other lawyers. To arms, to arms the British are coming. And they don’t stop.

As long as political ideologies keep reinforcing the us v them and the constructs about innate characteristics aine nuthin gonna change.

No argument with the article but the…[Read more]

Jake:

A fantastically brilliant article from a suitably-named Substack:

The ‘Pro-Pal’ Scam
Nobody Really Gives a Damn About Palestinians
by Danielle Pletkin
https://whatthehellisgoingon.substack.com/p/wth-the-pro-pal-scam

I hate to use Quick-Draw McGraw psychobabble, but the people of Gaza and the West Bank are going to need to have aa…[Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
Humans are debating the possible moral status of AI while using AI systems to help formulate their arguments.

“I’m sorry Dave, I can’t do that.”  To give AI rights is the most frightening idea I’ve ever heard.  It’s already sociopathic, or psychopathic, in that it has no morality whatsoever, it’s entirely i…[Read more]

Jake:

Medical breakthroughs are fantastic. Too bad countries were not devoting their military expenditures to science and medicine. Competition might be based on pride in delivering the goods instead of weapons and defense to those weapons. But hey….we are human…

We’ll always need some arms. As Thomas Paine observed, Invaders and plunders are…[Read more]

Have a great week!!

Fellow Unbelievers:

Why Joshua 10:12-14 is bogus, though Inherit The Wind was more dramatic in it’s description:

What Would Happen If The Earth Staps Rotating
https://www.sciencenorway.no/planets-the-universe/what-would-happen-if-the-earth-stops-rotating/2725348

I have voted once. Just once. And it was not for a candidate it was against Trump.

If i had to vote now i don’t know what i would do.

The lefties v the Magas. Jesus mary Joseph and the donkey!