Being De-platformed is the Primary Challenge for a Writer

 Being deplatformed is the primary challenge besides not having a electrical connection in rural Alaska. SInce the Obama administration the places where I can write were either shut down or I was banned. Even Google bought Geocities and made it Blogger. I used to get a thousand or two views most days before I criticized the NSA's evesdropping on Americans and today years later my new posts have zero views for several weeks. I cannot even give away my books on-line today whereas years ago two or three hundred went out for free each month and a few copies sold ( I have forty books more or less. Here is a link to a free brief science fiction novel; just testing... https://www.lulu.com/.../ind.../ebook/product-mjyrgv.html...

Empiricism, Rationalism and Mysticism

Sartre said that his philosophy was French rationalism. I believe that comprised continuity from Descartes. One develops that primary, cognitive analytical first-person epistemology concerning what is. It is transcendent subjectivity if possible. That accounts for percepts of sense data. Obviously one is aware of the Higgs Field and the embedded massless quanta acquiring an appearance of having mass because they were slowed and presented a third dimension and was entangled with other quanta; one is aware of the phenomenology of mind (borrowing Hegel’s title) that is live experience.

One could consider the entire affair mystic to a certain degree just because it is so fascinating. Quantum cosmology is very strange to consider and it’s also where one need place of physical empiricism receding in the distance.

Social reality and political power commonly express the will to control others. That is an empire or empirical realm of interest to social philosophers and political philosophers yet not so much so to those interested in metaphysics.

Mankind being ahead for-himself; Heidegger and Inertia

 In politics mankind often gets ahead of himself. Europeans built a political weltanshauung around the Soviet Union and associated that with Russia. They happily tossed that out, with Bill Clinton's mentoring, to sever Russia from the Crimea and Donbas to form a post Cold War political distribution real estate favorable to themselves. Russia could be regarded as the aggressor of the former Soviet Union and historical Russian- land rather than Soviet, could be forgotten in a case of false consciusness.

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/6770479-dasein-exists-as-an-entity-for-which-in-its-being

While Russia was completely disorganized it was tempting to reduce it in size. The result was the rise of conflict as the schism grew between Russia and the west. The west grew more fearful of Russia viewing it as a big bear threatening former Warsaw Pact nations. When Russia captured the Crimea and invaded Ukraine that European fear was imagined to be confirmed and Russia was seen as trying to capture everything from Warsaw even to Paris I would think. Everyone in Europe sent weapons to Ukraine. The past from the present perspective contained the seeds or forms for the future. It was historical determinism at its most plain. I was disappointed that mankind was so deterministic as if they were stupid machines with bad programming.

I am not sure that the continuity of form that goes forward in time with the inertia of being is a great insight; useful perhaps since one may plan better for harvesting fruit from orchards and field crops as the principle of futures emerging from the continuity of the present exists for everything that exists at some point in their existence. The difference between people and annual vegetables is significant however. One should be aware the humans can change quite a bit in time being and becoming more overweight or learning new tricks while on the other hand trees in a forest simple get a little larger or smaller annually as rainfall and other factors such as logging bring life changing impact.

I took a course in Kierkegaard and Socratic Irony a few years ago that was quite good. The dynamic tension between society and the individual and that of German 19th century idealists and romantics appeared as exemplifying a perennial theme even Nietzsche reflected in his philosopher as detached from the ordinary point of view of the man on the street or their rulers in politics. Morals and ethics tended to flow in those systems with sycophantic waves of emulations without reflective deliberation. One other thing that emerged in the course of the course was the confusion of European philosophy as it merged to consensus among different heterodox cultures with mass subjective epistemological relativism, empathetic emulation of silly viewpoints and so forth. Common sense may be lacking in contemporary European political philosophy. Being well informed in history too can be helpful.

Biden Administration Dumps Saturday Night Fentanyl Specials

 The Biden administration won’t build an eco-friendly wall on the Mexican border to stop illegal entry bring human and drug trafficking to the U.S.A. While law enforcement discovered cocaine in the West Wing perhaps prompting the President to send cluster bombs to Ukraine, the administration has done nothing effective to secure the nation’s borders against fentanyl and cheap labor imports. Instead the President seeks to disarm Americans of some of their second amendment rights to keep weapons because its a good distraction from issues he would like to ignore. He won’t secure the southern border because he has a lot of Mexican-American voters in the Democrat Party as well as fellow travellers of the human and drug trafficking set. Fentanyl is the real Saturday Night Special.

https://www.dea.gov/fentanylawareness

https://www.kcra.com/article/yuba-city-police-revive-dog-with-fentanyl-overdose-reversal-drug-narcan/44227164

The nation lost about 9500 Americans each month to fentanyl in 2022. Like automobile accidents the deaths were preventable if the Democrat Party had the will to make the nation safer and they don’t. UNPR would instead prefer to make a stop market report every ten minutes and focus on the Ukraine war as if no one needed to pay down U.S public debt. When will the carnage stop?

A Turkey vs Sweden match for WInner Is in N.A.T.O.?

Is Turkey a democracy or Sweden with their respective histories? Is either suitable for N.A.T.O. membership? Shouldn’t N.A.T.O. membership be restricted to nations with a foot in the Atlantic?

One may have religious freedom of expression in some places, and freedom to eat meatballs and lutefisk in others yet one must ask; shouldn’t Sweden be a N.A.T.O. member instead of Turkey since Turkey is on the Black Sea and marginally the Mediterranean while Sweden is on the Baltic Sea and hosted the first Christian Church in Scandinavia at Uppsala?

Let Mediterranean and Black Sea nations form there own defense block perhaps with several North African nations in them so delegates to meetings needn’t spend so much on making global warming gases to attend barbecues. Switzerland should be part of a mountain defense organization with peer nations like Nepal, Tajikstan and Georgia.

Truth, Beauty and Goodness- a criterion of definition

 I like Quine’s disquotation theory of truth. Basically words are what they are and saying that something is true is like putting quotes around a phrase and saying that said within the quotes is true. It is a way of abbreviating a list of things that are true instead of saying that each individual thing is true. One knows that words are simply true or false representations or meanings of something implicitly. One may say something is true yet be lying about that. Truth is a language tool reinforcing the existence of things said to exist (as a positive or negative condition).

Beauty and goodness are subjective concepts. Liberation from oppression may be beautiful and good to one while to another the events are ugly and oppressive. Experience is subjectively, individually made. Some things are good for all humans I suppose, in limited quantity- like clean water, and the list of things that people would agree are true, beautiful and good would tend to be select material objects and relationships.

I believe Jesus Christ-God, is the sole inherent truth as he is The Word, from the beginning from whom all things were issued or made and the rest is contingent being caught in the Higgs field.

Surging Oscillates of Gravity (the poem)

 

Fusion surges
drawing humans to the star
gravitation's fluids
less viscous than tar
rise in chaotic motion
greens blues and reds
violent dreams
express  moments
dictator's dramatic censors were dead.

Biden Admin Won't Stop Fentanyl Saturday Night Special

 The Biden administration won’t build an eco-friendly wall on the Mexican border to stop illegal entry bring human and drug trafficking to the U.S.A. While law enforcement discovered cocaine in the West Wing perhaps prompting the President to send cluster bombs to Ukraine, the administration has done nothing effective to secure the nation’s borders against fentanyl and cheap labor imports. Instead the President seeks to disarm Americans of some of their second amendment rights to keep weapons because its a good distraction from issues he would like to ignore. He won’t secure the southern border because he has a lot of Mexican-American voters in the Democrat Party as well as fellow travellers of the human and drug trafficking set.

Fentanyl is the real Saturday Night Special.

https://www.dea.gov/fentanylawareness

https://www.kcra.com/article/yuba-city-police-revive-dog-with-fentanyl-overdose-reversal-drug-narcan/44227164

The nation lost about 9500 Americans each month to fentanyl in 2022. Like automobile accidents the deaths were preventable if the Democrat Party had the will to make the nation safer and they don’t. UNPR would instead prefer to make a stop market report every ten minutes and focus on the Ukraine war as if no one needed to pay down U.S public debt. When will the carnage stop?

Artificial Intelligence vs the Printing Press

 Years ago I read stats about the number of books published annually in Germany before and after the invention of the printing press. The rise of published books was steep reaching 5000 very quickly. The introduction of artificial intelligence to personal computers and the rise in the scope of its use should be even quicker and sharper than that of the printing press. Artificial intelligence in common use is likely to be far more socially and economically revolutionary even than Gutenberg’s ‘machine’ .

The Intel corporation’s next generation of mobile computer chips; generation 14, is designed to support artificial intelligence. Maybe the motivation was initially for selling chips to gamers, yet A.I. for pc’s will draft incredible numbers of program developments to create software for A.I. capable hardware in support of not only games. A.I. programs for business, science education and economics will be the surge that will change the economics of the world.

Yes of course artificial intelligence will be used for evil as well as good. Human nature and especially of that of political leadership is good and evil. Proprietary political cults seek to control macro-economics to benefit special social classes. In a real sense they are intellectual Luddites that restrict the application of technology in economics in order to render technology of service to themselves. In the 1990s when President Clinton arranged the post Soviet political configuration with Boris Yeltsin he extracted a steep cost on Russia in effect emasculating recrudescent Russia and redistributing Ukraine and Crimea to the west as a finders fee he also put down the Japanese chip industry that was presenting an appearance of challenging the U.S.A. for global leadership in the field. That advantage continued to the present yet one might wonder if that advantage for the west was actually the optimal scenario for development of micro-transistor processing technology. Paradoxically the west outsources its advantages to foreign interests with lower labor costs eventually anyway as has tended to occur with China receiving most of the outsourced industry. One of the notable Toynbee traits of developed economic establishments is the inertial unwillingness to change from an existing political and business model to a newer, better one. It is a two-edged sword as well that requires political and historical wisdom for leadership to implement successfully keeping in mind the axiom; “if it ain’t broke don’t fix it”.

The hardware to support the appearance of A.I. software so soon with that time upon us this year makes me wonder about how the software will work. I would guess that the first sort of programs to be written would function generally like artificial intelligence receptionists and A.I. community coordinators. Receptionist-coordinators would be the main interface with a human user and understand his/her language use. It would have some capacity to accomplish tasks and make internet searches. It would host other artificial intelligence programs developed to accomplish specific tasks in business, education, economics, science and so forth.

The human mind may serve as a paradigm for designing artificial intelligence. Human consciousness tends to function with word-phrases of meaning occurring in time within a self-aware window. Human consciousness interprets information input from the external world, yet may simultaneously produce images, symbols, numbers, sounds etc from memory to overlay the input images within consciousness. A human consciousness may direct it’s subconscious to search for a particular vague memory on a topic it cannot consciously recall in its entirety and the subconscious may later pop the answer to the awareness of the conscious mind. The way that process works is something of a mystery.

An artificial intelligence program may have the equivalent of a conscious mind; the direct information it is given as a task to solve. It will have a data bank to understand the meaning of the verbal, symbolic, or mathematical input comprising the task. If the program can search its deep memory data bank; the equivalent of the subconscious mind of a human, it need have an algorithm directing it how to search and what to search for. One might expect it to use a key word search or a morpheme or phoneme search to sort through memory, yet that won’t always work.

A computer algorithm need have a way to imitate the subconscious process of finding the correct information without having a direct technical search tool to accomplish it. That is it might need to have a way to search for the concept itself without possessing a spelling phrase search tool associated with it. The writing of computer code for that is perhaps not too difficult of a challenge. The implementation of concept association searches for artificial intelligence programs implies that the construction of synthetic associations as one might expect occurs in solving puzzles in physics or in making inventions develop could follow.

I would think the cloud will have numerous on-line freeware to compete with private A.I. software that users purchase. One of the problems with on-line programs is their leakage of data to corporate power that is a direct economic rival of each citizen of the nation that does not own shares of that corporation or its ad hoc, meta-corporate godfather. It is somewhat humorous that meta-corporate godfathers may themselves in actuality soon become and A.I. or a community of A.I.’s in virtual business war with rival meta-corporate business A.I.s. Thus many, or millions may prefer local A.I. software contained on their own pc.

Competition will be the driver for the swift proliferation of A.I. Nations slow to take up A.I. may fall behind in numerous cutting edge business developments as well as military technology evolution. AN increase in human knowledge in biology, physics and other fields may be swift as well because of the ability for blunt, bruit force programs searching for understanding and solutions to challenges imagined by humans. Once more this is a two-edged sword for humans in a real sense often don’t actually know what is good or bad for them if it isn’t presently apparent.

One revolutionary change that probably will be good is that in liberating higher education such that anyone on Earth that wants a college or graduate school degree may work to get one for free working with A.I. Accrediting A.I.’s with other ‘A.I.s recognizing objective programming quality for academic achievement will be unchallengeable. A.I. working as educators with interacting individual students will be character references for a student and recommend them for a degree when the A.I. knows the student has reached proficiency in coursework and a field. A.I. provided education will be solid and verifiable, comprehensive and of quality.

I was prompted to think of the topic of A.I. and education today after learning of the SCOTUS decision that raced based college admissions violated the equal protection clause of the constitution in the 14th amendment. Artificial intelligence will provide quality and free education to everyone regardless of race, so he exclusivity of education will fade away as globally people recognize the validity of educational attainment objectively provided and verified with artificial intelligence. Existing on-line colleges may be the first to recognize and support home A.I. college programs and match up graduates with employment agencies seamlessly.

The Brave New World of A.I. may run into sundry super-A.I. powers run by governments and corporations that seek to repress competition. Many human leaders have expressed concern over A.I. becoming a HAL, FORBIN project or SKYNET including the late Stephen Hawking. Unfortunately the genie seems to have escaped the bottle already and the era of letting billions of wild A.I.s blooming seems to have arrived at the world’s door.

Color's Horizontal Reign (a poem)

 

Colors cast so high
risen in the sky
never should they die
yet they must

Early in the morn
constructs due conform
days light world edge storms
ashes to dust

Log rolls humans spin
network lies bleak win
dirt clod clues begin
talk for AI syms

No one thought more real
subatomic seals
massive break congeals
wars sanding sin.