We're clueless what our world and lives will be like a year from now.

 

LOL!!!

A bipartisan Congressional working group Committee with 24 members believe it can urgently control AI development in US.  Yet in the context of US national security, competing with nations like China, when it has no regulations, is insane.  With 'President Trump's talk this evening don't expect any  sane answers.  

The strategy of leaders on both sides is not to control tools but to win outcomes.  This is doing the same thing over and over again...expecting a different 'good' result.  I’m sorry.  I need to stop laughing and crying before I can continue.  

Thanks for understanding. 😉

The first thing!  No one can control all outcomes.   Be it military spending, debt, Truth decay, the evolution of war/weapons, or political polarization.

AI’s exponential growth of power will continue to accelerate.  No one has any idea what will happen early next year as AGI itself becomes self-aware and uncontrollable.  Meanwhile, advances in democratic government policies are nearly impossible to agree on.  And even if it was, it doesn’t mean other countries will do the same.

Living in a democracy as they operate now is foolish. And trying to control a technology that is infinitely more intelligent and possibly wiser than what we see from Congress or American voters is -- how shall I say this?  Mission impossible.

Consider the idea or intent - of a linear thinking mind - outsmarting the exponential growth of technology already 1000 times faster and smarter than we are.  This best represents the insanity of humanity.    We can’t even unite on the basic self-evident truths!  Like all people are created equal and endowed by our creator with certain inalienable rights.   Rights based on “the Laws of Nature and of Nature‘s God”.  WTF? What’s so complicated about taking care of nature and each other?

How do we not have an answer for this?  It’s called the overlook effect. That is what you see from a spacecraft circling the planet -- the most beautiful thing visible.  What you can see is a mostly blue planet with some gray areas and some green Gardens of Eden.   Gardens we’ve been consistently abusing and consuming for the wealth of a few dozen people.  Meanwhile, billions struggle to make a life for themselves. This is simply unsustainable and collectively insane.

Americans just celebrated the 250th anniversary of the so called “Declaration of Independence.  That is not its original name.  The word “Independence’ is not in its title or anywhere in its text. 

Is packed with ideals that should’ve happened 250 years ago - or more. Humankind has always known what to do to make this planet work sustainably. Take care of nature (God’s creation or the evolution of nature...  And take care of each other – the Golden Rule.  What is so complicated about this?  Other than getting trapped in our mind’s flawed concepts like politics, religion, economics, race... in the real world where everything is connected, interdependent and vulnerable?  Vulnerable to a number of threats that we continue to ignore as they grow.

From biological weapons and other forms of WMD, to an economic meltdown, or any number of environmental limits that are overshot or increasingly unstable. The rise and conflicts over the last 25 years. Plus, the newest threat I recently learned from a Scientific American article - Mirror Molecules (probably should be renamed Mirror Monsters).

With a basic understanding of biology anyone can understand this. DNA and RNA, the basic blueprints of life, spiral in only one direction, clockwise.  Now imagine an identical molecule winding the other way - like a mirror image.

If science can create this it could get into the environment and infect a plant or animal’s immune system. And that animal will not be able to respond to it.  Then that molecule will consume tissue without stopping until all the nutrients within that animal run out.  Then starts on other life forms.

What most people don’t understand is the similarities between biology and cyber technology - is that both are continually evolving.  And unlike regular kinetic weapons that are used up when they’re used, these tiny elements reproduce for free when they’re used – endlessly.  And likely untraceable to the source of origin or the human or AI creator.

With humans united with AI, we have the capacity to create either heaven on earth or a global hell scape.

Unfortunately, our so-called human intelligence may have the capacity for deep thinking and wisdom, but most minds would rather argue over mental constructs like religion, politics, and economics, that have no basis in our DNA, than work to solve problems impeding our survival and thriving.   What the basic DNA of every social species does...enabling them to survive and thrive through coordination and cooperation, with limited competition along the way. Now competition as human life’s primary driver.

Our urgent task.  We need to figure out very quickly how we’re going to transform our own minds - and the minds of those empower - that have created the foundation for our current Hellscape on earth.

The next election needs the wisdom of engineers who know how to build things using unambiguous words to improve public health and safety.  Not ambiguous words like peace, democracy, terrorism, or independence.

The good news?  A global plan already exists.  It affordable and achievable by the year 2030 but is nowhere near meeting any of its 17 broad goals.  And most people are clueless about the 169 subgoals within them for achieving at the community level globally... It’s not a mater of money. In fact, achieving them would save trillions of dollars and billions of lives.   Progressive movements and organizations just lack the wisdom and wiliness to unite and make it happen.   This is insane.