Human Extinction At The Hands Of AI by 2030 - Well Maybe Not.

 

 

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In this week's news coverage, mainstream media has devoted a lot of screen time and column inches to a non - story about an obscure tech - nerd resigning from a job in an AI startup because he fears that the lack of ethics among the Silicon Valley billionaire psychopath class will be so blinded by the pursuit of profit they will look away while intelligent machines unleash rogue AI agents that could kill us all by 2030.

It seems the aforementioned billionaire psychopaths, Bill Gates and company have given up on trying to create the virus that would start the next pandemic and the next COVID psyop because all thinking people know that despite a hugely expensive propaganda campaign to convince us that COVID would kill us all if we did not comply with orders issued on behalf of the billionaire psychopaths, the disease actually did not kill all that many people, and most of those who did die were a thousand years old and had at least a dozen deadly ailments.

I point this out because the recent scaremongering around Artificial Intelligence becoming an existential threat has all the hallmarks of a fear-and-panic psy - op to convince us we are in great danger and only by surrendering more of our rights and freedoms to increasingly fascistic governments can we be safe. Whether the takeover by AI is oligarchic insanity of socialist stupidity, powerful people are determined to make it a reality.

Now some habitually sceptical old gits like me may be thinking at this stage “hmmm, haven't we been somewhere like this before”?

But I’m sure the terminally gullible, those who are wise enough to know we must never question authority, will hasten to reassure you that this is the way real life definitely works. It is pure coincidence that suddenly everyone across the entirety of the political punditry spectrum is engaged in amplifying the same message: AI is coming to replace all us difficult humans.

But as I commented in a thread on one of the national news organisation's sites a few days ago, no matter how many very powerful computers are linked together in a neural network, no matter how many terabytes of stolen date are in its Large Language Model, so long as there is one human around to throw the main power switch to 'OFF' and cut the feeds to the internet as soon as an AI agent steps out of line we have nothing to fear. So Artificial Intelligence does not threaten the existence of humans

We need to keep our compasses aligned to true common sense. IMHO, we are in the midst of a CIA style info shock & awe op staged by all the first tier players that control contemporary civ: corporate capitalists, their politicians, their government and their media. As I’ve mentioned many times over the past few years, the CIA and spook nation operate in the fog of information available…. “the fog of war”. 

We’re being sprayed with every crisis they’ve ever dreamed up, all at once, in an effort to save the Casino which is obsolete and in collapse. They still have buckets of humanity’s money assets hoarded to themselves, but they are paranoid that the People will react to their nightmare and take it all away For good. 

The governing class are way in over their heads. They are desperate enough to allow a war-mongering psychopath as prez, blow up geopolitical energy; blow up the domestic and world economy; sell off, strip-mine and clear cut national forests; non-liability clause all corporations and gov’t agencies; invest in, subsidize and arm Artificial Intelligence, data centers and micro-nukes; terminate all regulatory constraints for the 1%… all just to COVER THEIR COLLAPSE of THEIR DREAMED OF TECHNOCRTIC UTOPIA taking us with it.

How do we stop them? By keeping our eyes on prize – what we want Life to be, not them. A real democracy where we make the rules and we get the rewards. Tax the rich into civility enforced by lack of excess capital and access to more excess capital which enables their projecting of authority to decide the future of humanity. We have right to make and enforce rules that make life not only safe for humanity but enjoyable. It’s up to us, we can and must control AI.

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ChatGPT and other AI models can be ‘poisoned’ to spew gibberish, researchers warn

 

 

 

 
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AI models like Google’s Gemini  and OpenAI’s ChatGPT can be “poisoned” by inserting a relatively small sample of corrupted documents into their training data -the data scraped (i.e. stonen) from all over the world wide web, a study carried out by researchers at Cornell University has warned.

The  joint project which involved researchers from Cornell, the UK AI Security Institute, the Alan Turing Institute and AI firm Anthropic found that as few as 250 documents can produce a “backdoor” vulnerability that causes AI data centres (thousands of networked computers comprising hundreds of thousands of GPUs (Graphuc Processing Units) which parse large language models (LLMs) to spew out gibberish text.

The flaw is particularly concerning because most popular LLMs are pretrained on public text across the internet, including personal websites and blog posts. This makes it possible for anyone to create content that could be caught up in the AI model’s training data. In a way this is good news for free speech campaigners sceptics (those of us who have been around computers long enough to know that what they do is nothing like human intelligence.) Furthermore AI is being hailed byauthoritarian politicians and billionaire pshycopaths as the technology that will enable global technocratic dictatorship.

“Malicious actors can inject specific text into these posts to make a model learn undesirable or dangerous behaviors, in a process known as poisoning,” Anthropic noted in a blog post discussing the issue.

“One example of such an attack is introducing backdoors. Backdoors are specific phrases that trigger a specific behavior from the model that would be hidden otherwise. For example, LLMs can be poisoned to exfiltrate sensitive data when an attacker includes an arbitrary trigger phrase like in the prompt.”

These findings have raised concerns about artificial intelligence security, with the researchers saying it limits the technology’s potential to be used in sensitive applications i.e. just about all applicaions except gaming and pornography.

“Our results were surprising and concerning: the number of malicious documents required to poison an LLM was near-constant – around 250 – regardless of the size of the model or training data,” wrote Dr Vasilios Mavroudis and Dr Chris Hicks from the Alan Turing Institute.

“In other words, data poisoning cyberattacks could be simpler than previously believed. It would be relatively easy for an attacker to create, say, 250 poisoned Wikipedia articles.”

The risks were detailed in a pre-print paper titled ‘Poisoning attacks on LLMs require a near-constant number of poison samples’.

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The Existential Threat Of AI Is Overhyped - Artificial Intelligence Is Incredibly Stupid

 

All the talk at the moment seems to be about Artificial Intelligence (AI). Will it destroy the global economy, will it put billions of people out of work because it can do their jobs faster, more efficiently and less expensively, will it enable total surveillance and micromanagement of all human activity thus empowering generations of tyrants, will it surpass our intelligence, is it an existential threat which will eventually turn on its creators and destroy us? 

True, there are thousands of fun things you can do with AI. It can fake your voice accurately and animate a photo of you, them send video messages that appear to be from you to complete starangers and make you look an utter twat, compose pleasant but boring, soulless music and paint pretty but similarly soulless pictures. It can edit videos with nice results for TikTok. It can write an instant, technically perfect (but soulless) poem or lyric of anything. It can instantly bang out an article on any topic. In every case, the results are delightful and very impressive.

And yet in every case, the results are obviously generated by a machine. Once you learn to recognize the telltale signs, it is unmistakable. And then the whole experience becomes boring and unimpressive. Artificial Intelligence is incredibly stupid unless it has humans to teach it what to do.

People ask me if I as a writer felt threatened by this machine learning and instant prose generator. The answer is a simple but emphatic NO!. Good writing, well constructed stories and articles and good ideas comes from a spark that only the human mind can generate. No matter how sophisticated AI gets, it can never reproduce this. In fact, I find it amusing how bad this software really is. In simple terms, the people who wrote the AI software really have no idea what intelligence is or how it works (nobody really understands this,) and so can only work with the data string matching techniques programs have used since I loaded my first effort from punched paper tape to an English Electric LEO III mainframe in 1968.

The search Engine I use, Duck Duck Go has recently introduced an AI search assistant. Yesterday I wanted to buy a stand mounted food mixer with dough hooks and search assistent helpfully displayed in a text window an accurate description of what a food mixer with dough hooks is and does. Very nice, its a pity the thought never occurred to the A I engine that if I didn't know what a food mixer with dough hooks is and does I would not have been able to ask that specific question.

The AI generated information Search Assistant generated was in a way quite revealing however:  "A stand mixer is ideal for making dough as it provides consistent kneading with less effort. The Ankarsrum Original Stand Mixer is highly recommended for its unique design that effectively handles bread dough, while the KitchenAid models are also popular for their versatility and power," which told me that far from assisting my search, the software is an ad server (for ridiculously expensive equipment great for a restaurant or professional kitchen but totally inappropriate for my kneads (pun intended).  

What the software had done in that answer  in a way that mimics thought but without the slightest spark of any creativity, much less any hint of understaning the scope of the question. A sales clerk in a shop or a telesales person would have asked at once something like, "Do you need it for home use or a catering business?" In other words, AI is capable of astonishing feats data  collation and presentation  but utterly incapable of actual intelligence. It’s like a sophisticated parrot: seeming to speak English but in reality only mimicing noises without any understanding of what they may mean. Very similar to a fondly remembered British TV stunt from the 1980s featuring a talking dog (YouTube video). The dog could only say 'sausages' but at least dogs can apppreciate  sausages wheras an AI bot could not. 

Two CEOs of prominent A I startups, Sam Altman of Open AI and Anthropic’s Dario Amodei have invested a lot of money and effort to  hype a speculative and unproven hypothesis called scaling i.e.  training AI models on ever more data using ever faster hardware would lead to AGI (artificial general intelligence) or even *superintelligence* which surpasses humans.

LLMs (large language models whatever than means,), which power systems like Chat GPT, are in reality nothing more than pimped up up statistical regurgitation apparati, so hallucinations, inaccuracies & fallacious reasoning will continue to bedevil them.

To be sure, adding more data to large language models, which are trained to produce text by learning from vast databases of human-created text, helps the models improve, yes—-but only to a degree. Even significantly scaled, the models still don’t *catch on* to the concepts they are exposed to, or know anything about the concepts short of whatever predictive algorithms can lay at their doorstep, which is why the models like chad-gibbity, based on LLMs, botch responses. As I have written at least a hundred times, ' the great thing about computers is they can parse and filter millions of words of data in a few seconds, unfortunately a computer will never have and idea what a single one of those words means.

In other words AI and LLMs are not the stairway to superintelligence heaven.

Artificial Intelligence And The Rise Of The Immortal Tyrant

 

As Karl Manheim and Lyric Kaplan warn in a disturbing article in the Yale Journal of Law & Technology about the risks to privacy and democracy posed by AI,

“[a]rtificial intelligence is the most disruptive technology of the modern era… Its impact is likely to dwarf even the development of the internet as it enters every corner of our lives… Advances in AI herald not just a new age in computing, but also present new dangers to social values and constitutional rights. The threat to privacy from social media algorithms and the Internet of Things is well known. What is less appreciated is the even greater threat that AI poses to democracy itself.”

After  30 year career in Information Technology I seem to have gained immunity to scare stories or predictions of a Cyberutopia based on the rise of “digital authoritarianism” or “algocracy—rule by algorithm.”

Digital authoritarianism, as the Center for Strategic and International Studies cautions, is a threat which involves the use of information technology to surveil, repress, and manipulate the populace, overriding human rights and civil liberties, and corrupting the foundational principles of democratic and open societies, “including freedom of movement, the right to speak freely and express political dissent, and the right to personal privacy, online and off.”

Did somebody mention Digital ID and fifteen minute cities?

How do we protect our privacy against the growing menace of technological overreach and the usurpation by a technological sector working with the government or our liberty and personal sovereignty?

The ability to resist the march of the technocrats may already be out of our hands.

In 2024, at least 37 US federal government agencies ranging from the Departments of Homeland Security and Veterans Affairs to Health and Human Services reported more than 1700 uses of AI in carrying out their work, double from the year before. Likewise British and European governments began to openly discuss how AI could be used to improve heathcare, monitor criminal activity, eradicate tax evasion, suppress dissent, clamp down on 'hate crime' and advance 'net zero' agendas.

That little list does not even begin to touch on agencies and NGOs that did not report their usage of AI technologies at local levels.

I take issue with the use of the term “Artificial Intelligence” as well the notion that the machines make “decisions” . As soon as we adopt the language of the propagandists we endanger our own human consciousness and awareness, especially if we use the terms the machines come to produce and replicate. Pull the plug on digital machines by refusing to think and speak in techno promo terms.

What’s shocking that there is so little opposition to imposing AI authority over people. As long as AI is assigned neither authority nor credibility or infallibility but solely advising role danger of enslaving people is not as huge or imminent although still eminent.

However the real problem is that people surrender their moral autonomy that gives them unalienable right/responsibility to investigate reality in order to draw conclusions by themselves and deny themselves moral authority of ethical judgment of such conclusions in context of our humanity.

If people totally blindly resign themselves to human authority they will easily embrace AI authority as by either they abandon their own moral autonomy and authority.

So it’s not AI technology that must be targeted but any attempts to give it authority that overrides human authority and any credibility that overrides human credibility which we know is fallible and which essentially what makes us human.

For example AI face recognition of a suspect should have no more perhaps less legal weight than suspect identification by a witness which testimony we know may be mistaken or deceiving. So AI should be assigned such deceiving quality as well simply because it’s based on statistical models producing not accurate but approximate outcomes within defined margin of error.

And please stop using term Artificial intelligence (just AI technology) as after three thousand years of philosophy trying to define it we still don’t know what human intelligence really is.

AI is a current buzzphrase but has little tangible meaning, computers are not intelligent, they cannot reason or indulge in abstract thought, nor can they truly generate original content. All AI systems do is parse data, match strings and identify patterns, just like the first computer I worked on in the late 1960s. My program was loaded from punched paper tape, the machine had 128k RAM and we programmer / operators ran around like ants on speed changing disks and mounting or demounting tapes. Today's supercomputers are have gigabyes of memory and are immeasurably faster but work in exactly the same way. And though they can parse millions of words in a fraction of a second they still do not have a clue what any of those words means. Artificial Intelligence is as incapable of extracting meaning from a sentence, paragraph or article as any mechanical device made of cogs and springs. And when nerds talk of their AI systems 'creating' content what the software does is simply disassemble, then reassemble bits and pieces to come up with something not  new, not original, but edited differently – i.e. synthetic art, plagiarised texts, ….?

I still think we have more to fear from the living beings, whatever “they” are, who are driving us towards this artificial world than any computer. Just like we need not fear the gun, but the mindset of the human who operates it.

We, as a culture, are so far removed from ever addressing the causes of knife crime that is epidemic on the sreets of our cities, that there are now moves to ban knife sales to under 18 year olds because of the knife attacks that have been occurring in some sections of society of late. But how can any intelligent being think banning sales of knives to certain democraphics as a solution, when any steak knife from home would do the same job, and instead of taking a closer look at who we let into the country.

We need an urgent solution to how we can rid ourselves of these human and non-human parasites that are enforcing all of the smart machinery. But perhaps I am missing the point, what if The Powers That Be, having finally understood that machines can never be intelligent in the way humans are, now plan to achieve their goal by making humans as dumb as machines are.

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Nothing Good Has Come Of The InternetWhen a technophobe denounces the internet as anti - social, anti jobs, a force for dumbing down or a waste of time it can easily be dismissed but when the CEO of a major technology company like Sony saays nothing good has ever come of the internet we should perhaps listen..

The Robotification Of Human Society Is being Implemented

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Computer Cops Will Arrest You Before You Commit A Crime
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Is Technology Creating Physical and Psychological Hazards In The Digital Age?
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The Mummers: The Controlling system And The Illusion Of Freedom
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Google's Brave New World Of Artificial Intelligence - And The Destruction Humanity
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Transhumanism - What The Elite And Their Science Whores Have Planned For You
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Don't be Evil, Google Will Do It For You
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Google wants to change the way you see the world
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Intrusive Surveillance Technology, Internet control freaks and The Orwell-Huxley-Dick Dystiopianometer
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So Who Is Anti - science? Those Who Question Climate Change Or Those Who Would Abolish Free Speech
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New World Order War On free Speech Comes To Britain - Guardian editor accused of treason
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How academic debate is suppressed on science topics like Climate Change, GMOs, Pesticides and Toxicity of medicines
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Phobophobia - Fear Of Being called Phobic?
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The Importance Of Free Speech And A Free Press
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Scientists create human-sheep chimera with hopes of affordable organ transplants
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The Internet Of Things: A Dystopian Nightmare Where Your Entire Life Will Be Monitored On The Internet
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Google’s Eric Schmidt Greases Skids For Internet Brain Chip Google CEO Eric Schmidt greased the skids for an Internet brain chip during a speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland earlier today when he predicted the end of the world wide web as an external concept. Asked how he saw the Internet developing in future years, Schmidt responded, “There will be so many IP addresses…so many devices, sensors, things that you are wearing, things that you are interacting with that you won’t even sense it.”

The Robotification Of Human Society Is being Implemented

Are you ready to surrender your humanity to science, accept having computer chips implanted in your skull that will link your brain to the internet (via a Google server) and let your life be controlled by machines? That's what The Controllers are planning for you ... Transhumanism: The Elite's Agenda For Total Control
Robot lovers, indestrictible soldiers with no mercy or compassion, everlasting life for beings that are part human, part machine, genetically modified humans with supernatural strength and endurance competing in future 'hungrer Games' style Olympic tournaments: the plot of some dystopian novel? No, actual items in the elite's agenda for total control.
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Transhumanism: Join The Resistance
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Is Artificial Intelligence A Threat To Privacy And Free Speech?

 Businesses, government organisations and even our humble laptop and desktop computers at home are being under constant attack, not by hackers and cybercriminals but by Search Engine Technology Operators, Social Media Networks and online marketplaces. So what’s the last thing we need corportions like Microsoft, Alphabel and Apple to do? Actually it is the very thing they are doing, which is to make the attacks easier, and park the most sensitive data in all levels of systems in front of the house with a “take what you want” sign.

As companies and governments become increasingly obsessed with artificial intelligence (AI), they are not just creating back doors into software and operating systems, flinging open all the doors that really should be locked very tight – and in many cases, they don’t even know they’ve done it.

To illustrate the potential damage AI data mining could do, security expert Michael Bargury uses Microsoft’s own demonstration site fo their "software as a service" product" Microsoft 365. He easily makes changes to the business’s bank details; staff are oblivious to the change.

Bargury, chief technology officer of Tel Aviv-based security firm Zenity, is one of the leading experts in exploring how business Artificial Intelligence can be used for mischief.

This kind of attack exploits one of AI’s key selling points to business: its ability to automate repetitive tasks. Previously, getting a hack to work required knowledge of a scripting language to run Operating Sytem commands. Now, anyone can create a bot with a couple of clicks, and it’s turning hacking into a public sport.

In the past, many hacks also required hundreds of hours of social engineering and a bit of behavioural science knowhow to nudge individuals into clicking on the vital link. But with Microsoft’s Copilot and other business AI bots, all provided for the user's 'convenience' and to make computers more user friendly, people with relitavely low leves of tech skill can simply say a set of words and open a Pandora’s box. Bargury calls it “promptware”.

The typical Fortune 500 company already runs around 3,000 Copilot AI bots, and some 63pc of private business chatbots can be operated by the public. “All of the defaults are insecure,” an astonished Bargury discovered.

Things are about to get much worse.

While Microsoft has changed the defaults, the underlying problem is not fixable, which is that AI can’t distinguish between data and computer instructions. I may send you a one-line message wishing you happy birthday that contains hidden hacking instructions – and the AI will obliviously let it happen. It is what I have always called 'The stupidity of Artificial Intelligence.' To put it simply a modern computer can parse millions of words in alphanumeric text in seconds but have no inkling of what anything in ll that content means. The computer is not intelligent, it hs no mind, no consciousness, no moral compass, it merely compares and matches strings of binary data (not 'little ones and zeros' as many younger generation computer pros will unhelpfully explain, but miniscule negative or positive charcges of static electricity.

Microsoft claims it is constantly revising the “guard rails” on its large language models, but Bargury isn’t impressed. “Guard rails aren’t enough because it’s not a solvable problem,” he says.

Security has always been a serious inbuilt fault of Microsoft products. They default to 'open-ness'. The famous hacker Gary McKinnon got himself into trouble because he searched for Microsoft PCs where the default administrator account (name: Administrator, password: none) was not changed on public networks, including NASA and the military. He advised people that the easiest way to protect themselves from intrusion was just to rename the admin account and add a password!

The truth is Microsoft did not want people protecting their own system because that could make access to systems for puroses Microsoft did not publicly comment on more difficult. But this fact alone speaks volumes about how MIcrosoft views security and privacy. 

The idea of the new Recall feature defaulting to being on as opposed to being turned off is, imho, immoral and arguably even criminal. Microsoft claim, of course, that the feature is not a threat to privacy but a tool to help users keep track of their activity, but it is actually a surveillance tool, and the biggest customers for data scraped up by this tool are governments.

I am already aware of how to turn it off even though I will not be upgrading to a Windows 11 PC for some years. I have only recently moved on to Windws 10, like many other ol school computer pros I like to be well behind the bleeding edge. 

It should be a subject of legislation that all devices, be they a humble toaster, or work computer must come locked down during installation and that the user is forced during install to choose passwords and has to take active measures to open up devices to networks and AI rather than research how to lock them down. 

The biggest problem with AI (apat from its innate stupidity) is that it breaks down boundaries we have traditionally and for very good reasons, maintained in the offline world, where information was privileged, and was only shared on a need-to-know basis. Now we’re making everything accessible to anyone and anything that has a network interface.

Rather like The Suckophant, a cartoon monster in the Beatles’ movie Yellow Submarine, AI devours all the other monsters, then its creator (the Beatles,) and eventually the screen itself. In summary, it’s a lethal combination: we’re allowing far more people to do more stupid things far more easily, while exposing far more private information to the bad people.

 

 

 

TECHNOLOGY TAKEOVER:

Welcome to the Era of Artificial Intelligence and Technological Deceit
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Electrosensitivity - the Wi - Fi disease.
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They way Google has come to dominate the internet just as the internet has come to dominate our lives can't all be down to good luck and careful planning can it? As this page develops you will see how sinister forces guided Google to their current position.

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Government Paid Trolls Are Using 'Psychology-Based Influence Techniques' in Social Media
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Zuckerberg reveals Facebook Working On Apps 'Smarter Than Humans'
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War On Cash - A Country By Country Guide
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Obama Crowns Himself Emperor Of The Internet
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Online shills paid to control your perception by spreading propaganda using up to 10 online personas
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War On Cash Begins, It Is Not About Keeping You Or Your Money Safe From Muggers
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Being Evil? Just Another Day At The Office For Google Boss.
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Quantum Soul
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Black Hat Biotech Beyond The Law (Black Hat part 2)
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Obama's Dr. Evil Presidency OKs Biological Warfare Research Using Human Babies
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Microsoft Software Catastrophe? We Should Have Seen Through Windows Years Ago.

 by Ian R Thorpe, 19 July 2024

A worldwide problem with Windows computer operating systems has caused mayhem for all types of business around the world. Airlines grounded hundreds of flights, trains and buses were cancelled. Shops and other buinesses were unable to proess card payments. Doctors’ surgeries, hospitals, television stations, payment platforms – virtually all sectors of human society have been affected And the cybersecurity firm whose software update caused the problem are warning it may take days or even weeks to get everything running prpery. 

Apparently the problem was caused by an update to an anti - hacking program loaded to computers overnight. So far Microsoft has ruled out a cyber attack and pointed the finger of blame at CrowdStrike, a company specializing in safe-guarding systems against cyber attacks.

So rather ironic but then my experieces with a security firm which bears a name that should have warned me they're a bunch of pirates, have taught me that having an anti - virus package can be as bad as, if not worse than having a virus on your computer.

Allegedly the fault that caused today's chaos was due to a software update, CrowdStrike’s CEO George Kurtz has already begun the public mea culpa, but at the same time warned it wouldn’t be a quick fix:

Well Crowdsrike may have fucked up their software, but the wider problem is the inevitable result of an operating system architecture that really just an aglommeration of barely related modules, patches, fixes, widgets, bells and whistles grown piecemeal over the sapce of thirty years to suit primarily the commercial interests of the providers rather than the interests of the users. Countries like Russia and China that have evolved their own independent systems partly due to sanctions policies but largely due to common sense have been unaffected0 by this outage.

I have often atracted a lot of abuse for saying this but I reckon that our hamfisted trading and sanctions policies are actually doing our ‘adversaries’ a favor. It was always utter folly to move to a situation in whih the majority of our commercial, economic and social activity is totally dependent on a single, rather dodgy technology. Yes I'm talking about Windows. It isn't a fully integrated software suite as one would expect for somthing so vital to the world, but a mash up of software oddments, piled layer upon layer and held together with the digital equivalent of string and sticky tape.

To illustrate what I mean about the shoddiness of this product and the output from Silicon Valley in general I recently, just for fun, (we old guys who in the early part of our careers wrote software for mainframes have a strange idea of fun,) drilled down through the various layers of Windows 10 and found that its living, beating heart is the old DOS kernel that powered the first IM 8086 PCs in 1981.

Until May tgis year I was mainly using Win 7 with no problem while the WIN 10 computer I bought four years ago gathered dust because I hated the operting system so much there was a major risk every time I booted up that it wouldgo through the (glass( window in a very short time. 

In my not so humble opinion the Windows operating system was perfected with XP, after the disaster of Windows Vista Win 7 was really just XP with added annoying features. Back then applications were purchased not rented and usually functioned perfectly, or if they didn't, could be reloaded from CD or the dowloaded source code. After that it was all downhill, Win 8,10, 11 made stupid alterations to turn Windows into a middleman for BigTech's software-as-a-service scam, and a surveillance engine to sell god knows what private information to advertising firms and government. (Remember MS’s claim the “W10 would be the last W”?) Once a tool for users, 8-11 make users into tools of Microsoft and Commerce ambitions. Once a service, now an overlord.

Luckily for us eccentrics there have been Open Office and its successor Libre Office, Mozilla (and TOR if you're a privacy junkie,) and loads more free or very cheap software to do just about everything we might want to.

Today's event is a perfect example of what centralized/global organizing produces. Catastrophes. This transition to virtualized life worked on since the mid 90’s via computers is a pie in the sky dream of billionaire psychopaths and political control freaks. Now they have centralized everyone on a grid, a network of dependence, all users are vulnerable and without localized options that existed before. They wish. Seducing us with “convenience”, then when we all sign up, they have the world by the bollocks. Add in AI (requiring 2x all current power plant output) they believe they will assume absolute control over everything, centrally. Cupid stunts.

Linux, open source software is an option as well as non-participation via Win7. Gen 6 Intel machines can be rolled back successfully and then one can use all the robust software up until about 2015, free of rentier landlordism. And the “cloud” is just a massive surveillance and intellectual property theft device for elites. Once we are all over to Linux the old mainstream software and new independent software still open to 7 will be available through Linux/software configuration schemes. Also acts of non-participation, grassroots.

As i keep saying, the 21st C elites no longer have anything to offer Humanity with their “progress” and “convenience” offerings.

Mass centralization schemes (Digital cash, biotracking IDs, massvax) will never work as dreamed so best to pull out now. The current nightmare is the tip of an iceberg of dysfunction ahead. The sooner one withdraws to historically safe, localized systems of sharing support, the sooner we move from 1% obsolete growth cult to 99% maintenance sustainability. 

Sans 1% of course.

 

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Scaling Down The AI Scaremongering

 

As COVID recedes into the background, only making headlines now when another piece of the narrative is exposed as misinformation or another report showing the emerging data on side effects of the jabs, as scepticism grows about the impending catatrophes that will probably not be caused by climate change and as the Ukraine war drags on with the Ukies still determined to drag NATO into a full scale war with Russia and its allies, and western leaders lacking the testicular fortitude to either take on the Russians or tell the Ukies to back off and let the United Nations establish a demilitarised zone between the sides, the main theme of project fear naratives over the past few weeks has been the exisential threat posed to humanity by Artificial Intelligence (AI). 

It was reported in mainstream media today that Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s ‘task force’ adviser on technology, in a broadcast discussion on Monday this week warned that we may have only two years to control AI before computers start threatening the human race.

Why do we imagine our files are stored in 'Folders' displayed on a screen like filing cabinet folders. And therein sub folders. Computers are filing cabinets with some nice add ons like a calculator (Excel perhaps?) a spellchecker (MS Word data retrieval and matching) and a browser (a window into almost every other digital filing cabinet in the world).

Computers are a fast data retrieval system that rummages through a digital filing cabinet to find what one wants, and it returns not even usually what one wants. Use any search engine and it doesn't give you what you want, it gives you a list of matches. It's up to you to determine what your choice is.

 While the Prime Minister's adviser was scaremongering in London, Rishi himself, while in Washington, announced that the UK will host the first global summit on Artificial Intelligence regulation

 Matt Clifford told Talk TV that he thinks AI systems may soon become so out of control they could wipe out swathes of humanity. Asked what keeps him awake at night, he answered: ‘The fact that the people who are building the most capable systems freely admit that they don’t understand exactly how they exhibit the behaviours that they do.’  

Shadow digital secretary Lucy Powell struck a similar chord at the techUK conference on Tuesday, warning that AI creators need to show what is ‘under the bonnet’ in their software so ‘experts and regulators’ can ‘figure out’ the technology behind it. 

Where have we heard this type of porn before?

Is this the first of a long list of impending Armageddon claims which will stretch out over the next 50 years, just like climate change has over the past 50 years? The stock answer to anybody who tries to tell us computers are, or soon will be, a threat to humanity should always be: “AI systems are not really computers. They’re data handlers.”

This is a point I have consistently made over many years to people unfamiliar with computers. When I started by first job in data processing way back in the late 1960s, the kind of people who have trouble distinguishing between fact and science fiction were talking about how in just a few short years computers would have developed real intelligence and be a threat to humanity.

In reality that day is as far away now as it was then.

The idea that a computer moving electrical charges around in its storage banks resembles in any way the workings of a human mind is pure wishful thinking encouraged by Silicon Valley proppaganda.

Why do we imagine our files are stored in 'Folders' displayed on a screen like filing cabinet folders. And therein sub folders. Computers are filing cabinets with some nice add - ons like a calculator (Excel perhaps?) a spellchecker (MS Word data retrieval and matching) and a browser (a window into almost every other digital filing cabinet in the world).

Modern computers are a fast data retrieval system that rummages through a digital filing cabinet to find what one wants, and it returns not even usually what one wants. Use any search engine and it doesn't give you what you want, it gives you a list of matches. It's up to you to determine what your choice is. The term computer is a leftover from the early days of mechanised business tools. A mechanical adding machine was a kind of computer, going back even further an Abacus was a computer too. Your pocket calcuator if you are old enough to have had one in the 1970s was a computer. None of these devices was capable of scanning data stored in magnetic media, they simply performed calculation tasks (i.e. computed.)

 Sentient though and speech only occurs when there is an emotional motivation. I say "Good Morning" to you because I have a variety of emotional motivations to say it.  AI can be directed to say it, sure, but it has no motivation. So "computers" must be taught feeling before they can truly speak, without feeling they are simply articulating the syllables gleaned from other people's thoughts and words. 

Moreover, our emotions, functions of our physical beings, . AI will not evolve on this basis so what it could possibly feel, were it ever to be capable of feeling anything, is unimaginable.

It's convenient to blame machines for getting out of control, to mask the fact that it is evil people using advanced technology who are out of control and that the elected governments which should be curtailing the control freak activities of billionaire psychopaths haven't really a clue what is going on. In the past, all empires fell apart because the bigger they expanded, the more difficult it became to control the ever-expanding outer edges. Eventually, they imploded. The difference today is that tyrants control advanced technology and are able, therefore, to observe us at all times, and take instant financial, military and governmental action from a central control box. Caesar and Hitler and all the others would have craved this power.

I'm starting to get the impression that politicians are using AI in the same way they used Covid and climate change: as another weapon to create fear while pretending to provide a solution, thereby increasing our dependence on them for our safety and security. Unfortunately, the truth is that computers, or, sorry, "data handlers" don't NOT want to take over anything, because they have no desires one way or the other. The only way they will ever turn against humans (or anything else,) is if they are programmed by humans to do so.

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