Hello everyone, these posts are rare now but I have another topic, which is Bernie Sanders’ opposition to ai.  I saw a meme that he says the technology needs to be fully stopped before it is too dangerous. That seems good except that it is kind of an all or nothing ban instead of a more careful application of normal justice principles to a new resource.

And I think this exposes a main problem of Congress, a consistent failure to keep up with the actual needs for tech regulation. It also reflects a choice, too, that our government and its voters have made, to abandon universal standards of right and wrong and instead fight each other in a gridlocked dualistic struggle where any perspective is based on hatred of the opponent.  So as the politicians select their views and even policies like an inverse photoshop wand tool, doing whatever the other party pretends to hate, and only that.

Meanwhile, the tech people get away with anything.  They have taken our social lives, our money, our safety and peace, and they are only going to take more. Congress totally failed to find that middle zone of holding facebook and other social media accountable for its out of control grab of everything in our lives, and yet here is the next roll out, and the only idea is to just ban it.  Where is the skill? Where is the wisdom?  And most of all, where is the justice? Can you not find a former facebook whistleblower to be an advisor? Can you not find enough emails from regular people who had their whole social life taken away in the middle of a God damn pandemic?  No, because the sheep followed the leadership. The bickering, the gridlock, the faithlessness in true values.  The insistence on favoring some constituents and voting away what seemed like power from the other side. And now there is a technological advance, and your only idea is to stop it all before killer robots take over the earth. I mean why not just take away everyone’s computers like a fool.