Take Back Security Clearances of all Former Government Employees

Former C.I.A. chiefs should routinely have their security clearances revoked. They tend to be sloppy with classified data and sometimes leakers or political plotters. The only C.I.A. Chief that needs top secret clearance is the one presently on the job.

Generally it seems very shoddy practice to allow anyone not working presently for the government to have a security clearance. Spook security doesn’t have the resources to keep an eye on all of them. They may even be clandestine agents of the Clinton Foundation.

Celebrity Bowling Balls and Pins for Renaissance of The Sport?

Bowling has been in a slump for more than two decades. It might experience a renaissance if customized and programmable l.c.d. bowling balls could be produced that allowed balls to have the images of celebrity heads and bowling pins numerous features programmable for rainbow colors and political ideologies such as red or blue pins, communist hammer and cycle pins etc.

American bowling is in serious need for an upgrade. It could use some of the features of video gaming to create a more 3D experience of some elements of that finger-mouse sport with a little more weight and reality.

Leftist Collusion; 300 Newsrags Attack President on Same Day

More than 300 U.S. newspapers have attacked the President on the same day with editorials criticizing President Trump's criticism of the vast left-wing media that is actually owned by the most rich globalists. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-45204397

After having accomplished the removal of the unsightly Alex Jones webpages from social media as well as his Austin radio station, the media resumed their hegemony over U.S. political thought. Outspoken supporters of the President may find it difficult to keep their heads above water in social media when the vast left-wing collusion sycophancy working for corporatist domination finds it so easy to purge their enemies.

Pennsylvania Pederasty Is a Problem of Pre and Amillenialism Without a Priesthood of Believers

Recent Pennsylvania revelations of pederasty among Catholic Clergy in Pennsylvania underscores the problems of commercial priesthoods exploiting a laity. Too often they wish to dominate as authorities over a laity, and that makes a poor motivation to reform theology now and then.

Martin Luther believed that all Christians are priests, and that's a Bible based opinion. In the modern era of universal literacy it would be easy to have ecclesiastical reform such that three ranks of beginner, intermediate and expert existed in churches applicable to all members; true theological councils could devise liturgical formats and content for the priesthood of believers to apply in churches- possibly in small groups, absent of a separate and unequal commercial priest.

Boston led the way in pederasty and general child abuse in the Catholic Church in 2002, then the problem was revealed at Penn State University and presently in the grand jury report that states a thousand kids and 300 priests victimizing them over seventy years was a sad part of the Catholic experience in Pennsylvania. The Pennsylvania perversion is not a result of homosexual or male dominance of the Catholic Church. The problem is the lack of a transparent, confessing and egalitarian priesthood of believers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Archdiocese_of_Boston_sex_abuse_scandal

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/pope-francis-silent-about-1000-children-abused-by-priests-in-pennsylvania/ar-BBLYu2o?ocid=chromentp

So many theologically wrong doctrines saying that end times apocalypse fitting the Bible are either ahead or symbolically present disregard the true facts of the post-millennial interpretation of scripture. They rationalize that the end times are coming and nothing worldly matters so waste the ecosphere and God will provide a better heavenly one or they believe they hold the keys of St. Peter exclusively and if the enjoy a little gnostic sophistication that's all the better.

Omarosa Faction Claim Use of N-Word Sometime by Donald Trump Possible

The Omarosa Faction has claimed that the Trump administration has personnel that may have actually discussed use of the N-word. That claim is hardly credible since so few Americans have ever actually used the word, and only a few White house staff were recorded talking along those lines- possibly. It is o.k. for YouTube to have five minutes of the N-word though ban Alex Jones because he might know someone that actually used the word. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqRswhHewpg

White people may not use the N-word, yet black people are down with that. One must be confident that no discrimination exists in the United States. The nation is all about equal protection of the law. Finally the hate monger Mark Twain may be banned from U.S. schools.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-I0Od2HOozs Sacha Baron Cohen ricks Rep to N-Word Use

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/08/15/pierson-refutes-omarosas-claim-that-confirmed-trumps-alleged-use-n-word.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5fE56Ysx9w Ja Rule Op on N

US Gov Five Year Contract Plans

Some U.S. Government contracts that presently are set out at one year will go to five year spans in starting in 2019. That may benefit big players more so than small businesses that don't always have five years of security ahead. An example; if the economy changes much a big business might be able to withstand inflation or deflationary changes better than a small business. Four years to go on a contract with a small profit margin in a volatile cost-supply production market is tough

While one can imagine Donald Trump signing the Declaration of Independence more so than Hillary or several other Democrats that would have instead probably have sought a cozy position with royal governors, the changeover from one year to five on government contract duration for numerous services seems like a benefit for the concentration of wealth and globalism instead of nationalism and small business.

One must wonder about military contracts and if they too would be held as tightly on a fiver year plan if they find cost over-runs; wouldn't the government just give the Haliburtons of the business world some kind of cost-plus extension? Would five year contracts involving foreign entities as prime or subcontractors be in more antipathetic relations potentially as foreign relations might change faster than contractual relationships. For example; what if China recognizes Taiwan's independence as if then given more five year contracts, and thereafter reverses course and again declares Taiwan a rogue province?

White People, Africans and Asians Briefly

Here is one version based on d.n.a. and archaeological analysis. Apparently white people became white about 8500 b.c. throughout Europe. Before that the whites in the far north evolved white skin  and were the parents of those farther south. The Arctic shores saw the arrival of humans about 25,000 b.c. Fifteen thousand years was enough time to move from Africa and reach the Arctic. Homo sapiens migrated out of Africa to Europe about 40,000 b.c. and some of those that had gone far north first became white and interbred with more southern Europeans that lost their dark skin under the clouds and with the new genes. Those from Africa that went to Asia made the trek about 100,000 b.c. so they evolved different traits than Europeans or Africans. Finally there was some interbreeding of Asians and Europeans wrenching the works again creating confusing questions for people in the 21st century.

How Europeans evolved white skin

Teeth from China reveal early human trek out of Africa

Asians and others arrived in America via Berengia. Lots of interbreeding. etc. Some Inuit have oriental looking eyes. Amazing.

Why Players Skip Chess Lessons

A slow wireless connection has probably discouraged a lot of casual players. One can watch chess videos, study Super GM games and then play a blitz game with a winning position before the connection breaks and one forfeits the game being timed out.

Chess takes a lot of time to learn, and the opportunity cost for playing that game too much is quite high-especially if one becomes and adict and quits their job to play chess. One could be studying how to become a physician assistant or grow corn, the problems of reform in Russia and how that is affected by sanctions in slow economic privatization or if humanity really should give up on trying to save the environment because its too late and learn to love living like ants in eco-disaster survivable hives.

Chess is great fun yet very demanding on time for non-pro players that need to work for a living. Also, some chess players may not want to antagonize their emotional support rat or alligator taking time to study the violent conflicts of chess.

Fortunately players with such issues may moderate their chess learning and schedule a modest hour or two a week for learning chess openings and slow improve their game instead of full-time indulgence of their chess addiction and end up in the gutter although playing with a sharp 1850 rating.

A Theory of Minarchist Evolution

There aren’t many hooded minarchists demonstrating these days. The United States was founded in an environment that didn’t require much government supervision; there was a sparsely populated land and people helped themselves. It was so minarchist naturally that Southerners could continue the tradition of slavery the British founded in North America. Federalism ended that trouble for those enslaved later at some cost.

I am taking a course in post-Soviet Russian governance and that has given me the occasion to compare and contrast the foundation of the United States and its evolution of government with that of Russia in 1990. So far the main difference is just that the Russians had to form a new democratic government with an existing yet obsolete industrial economic infrastructure and more than a 100 million citizens that required some government social coordination to survive as most modern nations with large populations do, while the United States alternatively, in 1776, had a population estimated at about 2.5 million. The founders were able to compose a philosophically inspired Declaration and Constitution of ideal sorts without any immediate hard technical requirements for external reasons that required the creation of large social institutions and government bureaucracies immediately (so far as I know). Creating a military was a natural response for the founders to external challenges posed by the British army. Even so the founders were wary of a large standing army and preferred an armed militia for long range defense.

Russia passed through a minarchist moment perhaps during the 1993 coup attempt and conflict between Yeltsin’s forces and the supreme Soviet communist remnants in the White House (seat of Russian congressional-style government) when the former Soviet government was decisively, conclusively broken and buried (although 20% of elected officials in the Duma remain communist party members). Yeltsin tried to privatize allowing oligarchs to take much of the former state properties of value, yet nationally the economy collapsed in 1998. Yeltsin eventually appointed Vlad Putin to lead the government and he was elected for-himself as President later. Yeltsin had enabled the President to have super-powers to in effect redesign the structure of government quite a bit as well as to conduct foreign policy. For Russia was redesigning itself and that process continues today-many Americans don’t understand that.

I tend to regard organizations as more or less equal. Any large organization can govern itself and sometimes they govern others outside the organization. It seems to me that organizations diminish individual power. It also seems that governments should reduce to a minimal size for operating efficiency, just as an automobile engine doesn’t need to put on a lot of extra parts and weight to work optimally.

Organizations should be limited in size in order to be more governable by the government that needs to be large enough to govern the largest organizations and all of them as well as individuals. The larger the non-governmental organization is the greater are the challenges that it can present to the organization that officially is the government.

The problem of concentrated wealth today in the United States is a problem of large organizations partly owned by individuals invested in many of them. When too much capital is concentrated in the few the many have little chance of advancing social policy or private enterprises without first submitting to the will of the non-governmental organizational powers that hold most capital.

Achieving a minarchist state that is efficient in the United States would require a reform of capitalism in order to break up the concentration of wealth and size of private corporations. Government might then be reduced in size too, and networks of social services coordinated by the government might be innovated to enable private sources to supply private needs of citizens better than usually occurs in many societies where the natural revenues of the land have been historically expropriated by human overuse and people are left to fend for themselves within a totalized urban environment as derelicts and cast-off waste elements of capitalism.

To innovate government and capital theory upgrades Congress would need to pass some laws that prompt the changes. For instance, patent exclusivity could be reduced to three years and inventors would receive 10% royalties after that from anyone with the capital that produces the product and sells it. Government would not own business,yet governments would pass laws that screened businesses start-ups and prioritize those for advancement that are ecospherically most efficient and synergetic.

No corporations could have more than 20,000 employees. The upper tax rate would be 90%. The government revenues would enable better screening and discretion of start ups, ecosphere recovery and continuing free education.

Numerous other changes would need to be made that would allow an ecospheric economic management synergy with ecospheric recovery and sustainable though gradual economic qualitative progress that guards the well-being of all citizens simultaneously. Government size reduction can be compensated for with increased government networked intelligence as a discrete rather than monolithic governing structure.

In a totalized social-territorial national paradigm all citizens need work or basic necessities from some source. Private enterprise can provide those needs or government may, yet a government-private sector cooperative structure that assures that all citizens are assured of meeting basic needs and lifelong education would be possible and a good way to coordinate with ecosphere repair and maintenance. The failures to screen businesses for ecospheric synergy or neutrality and to keep citizens from being broke at the bottom with national job insecurity are problems implicit within the economic and government structures that could be corrected reforming government and corporate structure.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/is-being-homeless-illegal-ohio-court-rulings-raise-the-question/ar-BBLWc2v

The United States accomplished over two centuries solutions to challenges Russia has been presented with since 1990 for governance and government mass private organizational business relationships. The Russian creation of new developments is more challenging than the fast-track evolution required of Russia, yet the structure of the United States is paradigmatically obsolete in several respects. It is as if old structures of business never were replaced or upgraded; merely expanded. Government-capital relationships has mostly just grown larger with new institutions added over the centuries instead of being philosophically evaluated for relevance to the very different social and environmental challenges of the present day than those of 1776.

Canada Continues Drift Toward Leftist-Corporatist Globalism.

The U.S. Government is nothing like extreme right wing. Corporatism and the left are so firmly entrenched bureaucratically moving toward globalist union, and the broadcast media so corporatist-leftist, that it will be difficult to shake. President Trump is a moderate, yet compared to the extreme left that is the incipient and latent leadership of the present Democrat Party the partisan rhetoric paints him as far right.

Canada is sold out to globalism and all things British and isn’t likely to change. No way it could become far right or conservative-libertarian. Canada I believe will continue its moral disintegration into globalism under one world government so far as it can, merging into intensified telecom treason offshore so far as it can willingly comply with plutonomy’s objectives.

American Broadcast Media is About 25% BS

The American  broadcast media is about 25% truthful, 50% emitting content loosely grounded in some true element and 25% complete B.S. The American broadcast media is mostly a for-profit entertainment business unfortunately over-influencing national governance, democracy and foreign policy adversely. It is also mostly a tool owned by the most rich globalists to control the masses with propaganda and agit-prop. One might wish it was plain honest and discretionary, but it ain't.

The U.N. fellow that accused President Trump of about inciting violence with criticism of the broadcast media is absolutely full of shit himself or herself. The President is speaking the truth while the U.N. official isn't. The problem is after all a national rather than an international problem. Foreign countries have their own media issues. In Russia most of the media is state-run and 75% of the people trust it and President Putin might extol it for its quality. I suppose the U.N. human rights chief would like such tranquility in the U.S.A. or even better, to let the nation be run by globalists.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/aug/13/united-nations-human-rights-nearly-impossible-to-defend-zeid-raad-al-hussein

Free speech (first amendment protections)) are applicable toward criticizing the commercial media too. Organizational use-truths and their incessant re-enforcement through mass communications power and sycophancy elicit partisan support. The mass media have numerous ways of disseminating propaganda. Many of the largest are tools for the 1% these days.

Turkey Economic Collapse Could Create Opportunity for Germans to Supervise

Germany and Turkey are friends. If Turkey collapses economically it will provide an opportunity for Germany to send economic managers to order the mismanaged economy. Militarily Turkey is solid enough except they give a cold shoulder to Kurds that could be good citizens in their own federal state. Yet Turkish leaderships hates Kurdish independence of any sort and likes to persecute them as if they were still the Ottoman Empire.

The United States should be on good terms with Russia and then it would be simpler to finesse Turkish willingness to reason about Kurds and tolerance of Christians. Yet fully stocked refrigerators of economics aren't likely to start for Turkey again until they lighten up a bit and except the fact that they are radical and unstable and need German help.

https://www.businessinsider.com/what-if-turkey-collapses-from-lira-crisis-iran-russia-syria-are-waiting-2018-8

Status of Emotional Support Animals; Pit Bulls and Alligators

When a 14 year old with allergies was kicked off a aircraft in Alaska because of the presence of a cat as an emotional support animal she could not live with, the problem of what animals ought to be allowed aboard a plane for emotional support arrived glaringly. Should alligators and pythons be accepted as emotional support animals for Democrats? And what about pit bulls for Republicans, or maybe small tigers?

Frequent fliers with need for emotional support animals ought to have their own section of the plane with special air filters so as not to disturb passengers with emotional issues regarding animals on the negative side, in addition of course, to allergies.

Sanctions on Turkey are a Writ of Habeas Corpus

Turkey really ought to let the imprisoned Christian pastor go. The Erdogan regime does not benefit itself persecuting Christians nor compelling the Trump administration to defend wrongly charged U.S. citizens by imposing sanctions.

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/13/turkeys-erdogan-claims-trump-sanctions-are-a-stab-in-the-back.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Brunson

Though the Erdogan regime may be so hated domestically that it needs to try to prop itself up by arresting anyone vaguely associated through six degrees of acquaintance (alleged) with its own rebellious souls, selecting Christians to persecute is silly. many Americans hope the sanctions continue and intensify to the point of keeping Turkish apricots out of U.S. markets, until P.M. Erdogan releases Andrew Brunson from persecution.

What the Trade War

It is difficult to know what will happen with a full-scale trade war. Do they inflate upward too without distortion? Trade wars occur with just a limited number of players. It would at best be as leaky as the U.S. border to illegal alien entry and dope importation is. During the sanctions on Iraq the weak died and Saddam Hussein grew stronger. China may reach out and touch some ones-like Europe, and dump product there, while American movie releases in China are cut 50% from 10 a year to 5. If the U.S.A. doesn’t make anything anymore and provides services mostly that may not be affected by trade war; China might not let US accounting and security firms handle much of their government contracts anyway. Maybe the administration will continue the trade corrections until China quits trying to intimidate and subjugate Taiwan under its boot-heel. Taiwan has one of the few female Presidents and the Chinese Communist Party leadership may feel it can bully her to the point of making the island nation lay down.

http://time.com/5365147/taiwan-us-china-tsai-ing-wen/

Some nations would eventually grow stronger trade relationships with the United States while others would weaken. The 1929 stock market crash was the result of an investment bubble and concentrated wealth that burst. Companies didn’t really have the cash to back up the irrationally exuberant expansion of the gilded age. The concentration of wealth in the U.S.A. now is about what is was then.

So a trade war is something like a stress test that the flimsy don’t want. In 2008 many speculative businesses collapsed along with home derivatives and cheating big banks that were running Monte Carlo algorithms for dark pool trading. The real problem is the environment though- and a failure to adapt economics to synergize with ecospheric sustainability. Interestingly the inventor of the Gaia hypothesis thinks now that people should wimply give up trying to save the ecosphere because it’s too late, and actualize their ant-like nature and build hives that will survive the total collapse of green life on Earth and mass desertification within two centuries. Global trade and the vast eco-destructive gases released into the atmosphere conducting it accelerate greenhouse break down of the ecosphere. Local production is more efficient.

If Canada didn’t act like a wise-guy foe they might benefit from a trade realignment. sadly I think they are lost to the dark side of the force. A trade war could create a black market in cheap MP3 players. I just bought a couple from an unnamed country for a $1.50 each yet will need to wait several weeks for them to arrive I guess. It is possible the price could double for that in the future with tariffs.

Because of all the global and regional trade agreements already in place, a return to the way it was before would seem like a trade war, though it formerly was SOP. Not being an economist I will need to wait for the next Stiglitz or Krugman book to find out what’s going on.

Will US Sanctions Affect Russian Transition to Market Economy?

Russia since the 1998 financial crisis and default has only slowly yet somewhat steadily moved toward reform such that a market economy prevails. It was not so many years ago that Vladimir Putin ended the oligarch domination of the economy and distribution for former Soviet assets that they had taken much of. That order of oligarch power was regarded as an unfair distribution of wealth, yet was left somewhat as it was. From there the economy moved toward liberalization.

The process was advanced by the rise in world oil prices in the 2000s that continued until the crash following fracking of old oil fields to renew supply. A surfeit of world oil production made oil dependent states lose much revenue. Alaska in the United States faced a government budget crisis and Russia too lost nearly half of its GDP.

If bad actors are targeted, the principle of mass punishment should not target the innocent too. The U.S. should encourage Russia to continue developing a market economy along sound ecological economic principles.

Even so Russia continued a slower advance toward a market economy though the state held some major banks and oil companies. It began an income tax of a modest scale though it had difficulty collecting that. Russia faced many internal and external challenges before the regime of foreign sanctions began to appear for international contention to permanently wrest away the Ukraine and Crimea from Russia.

The second largest party in Russia is still the communist party. The United Russia party- by far the largest, is basically a coalition of four formerly separate parties that joined to beat the communists. The economic and social dynamics of economic reform is occurring concurrent with reform of government, and eventually constitutional structures, and stimulation of business and new infrastructure development. All of that is challenging and expensive. While the United States and Europe tend to place themselves into a belligerent and adversarial as possible position comprising something of a threat to Russian security.

My concern is that the sanctions and hostile external relationship with Russia will retard the growth of Russia as a market economy and in the long run solidify less than free enterprise elements in Russia.

Apparently Russians have a trust in state run media and state ownership of business because of historical reasons that lie in the fact that authoritarian or Tsarist government were the fact of Russia for 1000 years. Only since the end of the Cold War has Russia had a pluralist government, although a multi-party Duma/congress existed briefly, shortly before the Bolshevik takeover to end that and the tsar.

Ronald Reagan had a policy of constructive engagement with South Africa and that led to the DeClerk government and end of apartheid. Reagan also ended the Cold War along with President Gorbachev in part because of hi affable character engendering trust. The United States should think deeply about its reckless and fay sanctions on Russia, since they may harm U.S. interests more so than Russian, in the lang run.

Corporatist Putch to Surrender Border to New World Order (2007 draft)

These putching corporatist neos will censor the internet by taking posts or pages down until the issue is decided when one writes in opposition incidentally...

A Corporatist Congress trembling a year after the Mexican mass marches in support of illegal alien amnesty in the U.S.A. works to pass a surrender the border to Mexico bill in effect. Corporatism has coopted the U.S. Congress and administration corrupting to a remarkable extent; so far in fact that providing residence status for up to 20 million illegal aliens instantly, and residence for the entire population of Mexico as relatives of the 20 million are allowed entry too. Corporatists in Congress fundamentally are traitors to the U.S.A. in favor of globalism because of greed and delusional concepts of power and what the global economy will be on a non-renewable foundation. Particular highly cultivated nationalism with good neighborliness is a far better approach to providing a sustainable planetary environment.

Southerners and Senator Edward Kennedy have led the fight to reverse the sovereignty of the United States from Mexico gained by General Scott in the Mexican war at substantial American cost. Ulysses S. Grant was a young lieutenant that led an artillery battery firing from a multi-story building that broke the back of Mexican defense of Mexico City. What not even Robert E. Lee could accomplish in the American civil war of defeating Grant the U.S. Congress is accomplishing today...and fort the same onerous purpose of exploiting human labor. The results will eventually become the same perhaps, with the end of the United States instead of just the confederacy.

Globalism is a corporatist goal supported by union busters, cheap labor plotters and others seeking instant profits from Chinese, Indian and Mexican labor. What history demonstrates however is that the lazy non-creative exploiting class eventually becomes the servant class ensnared by their own perfidy.

The Congress passed a Lenin-like bill providing a way for the permanent subversion of American political independence by globalists radically  infusing insecurity into the American lifestyle. Like Lenin's 1916 Treaty of Brest-Litovsk with the Kaiser to subvert the Romanov dynasty in which Lenin gave away the Ukraine and one-forth of Russia to Germany the U.S. Congress has sought to annihilate American national border security, led by the traitors Cherkoff, Bush, Kennedy, McCain and Gonzalez and flood the United States permanently with a cheap labor conveyor belt from Mexico and elsewhere. If the bill passes the House the United States will be at an effective end, and a globalist succubus will develop as a body snatcher of the body politic transforming it into raving jellyfish of corporatist blindness.

FDR's 1% Economic Weapon of Mass Destruction

The President cannot coup against himself. He is already leader of the state, and rather deeply at that. Yet he may still be an outsider; something to consider at least. The military too is an outsider and an inappropriate coup tool for the target parameter of the deep state.

If Harvard and Yale Illuminati Ivy Leaguers have deep pockets equivalent to a deep state because they control all the appointees to the Supreme Court, State and so forth, and if they meet now and then in the Bohemian Grove or in Trilateral Commissions or whatever, the purge of those people could be accomplished only with an increase on the tax rate to 90% for the upper 10% of earners in the nation. If it’s all about money and the deep state owns the media and everything else and everyone else is paying rent in one way or another to the deep state, the appropriate coup tool is the F.D.R. tax policy- a super-weapon of deep state economic mass destruction that needs to be used with discretion at the right moment by a President and leaders with impeccable warrior non-socialist character for reform of capitalism and ecospheric economic policy. Donald Trump just doesn’t have that Ceasarish disposition for-himself.

Best and Brightest Neural Chess Network Would Beat 100 GMs

In a chess game of the best neural network for chess vs 100 GMs at one move a day, I would pick an A.I. like Alpha Zero to win.

It is the respect for computing power that brings me to side with a neural network such as Alpha Zero. At one move per day Alpha Zero would have something like Fibonacci Series improvement and upgrades until it exhausted all of the possible moves in chess. It could approach infinity in a sense- a Cantorian trans-finite set paradigm- for learning and structuring chess moves making the human grandmasters about as competitive as 100 monkeys typing Shakespeare vs Shakespeare, in writing another Shakespearian play in 1611.

Alpha Zero’s neural network required just four hours to learn to play chess and beat SF 8? Given a 30 move game, and 30 days to compound its own interest, Alpha Zero’s improvement would be greater than that of Magnus Carlsen vs Gioachino Greco over the centuries. Humans don’t learn remotely as fast, nor have the power for simultaneous equations as a state-of-the-art neural network. Formulaic models written by 100 GMs in a day would be comparatively primitive to those invented by the best and brightest neural network.

Computers presently are up to 122.3 petaflops (IBM Summit June 2018). Neural networks including Alpha Zero I would think, may exploiting any number of computers, including super-computers. The power applied to a single chess game or match would be absurd.

One hundred GMs with about any sort of non-electronic approach calculating board positional vectors would have as little of a chance as 100 of Emperor Gao Gui Xiang Gong best suanpan (abacus) wielders versus a supercomputer at calculating numbers of rice grains in theoretical inventories of all possible Universes minus 1.

image credit: https://applied-data.science/static/main/res/alpha_go_zero_cheat_sheet.png

For GMs to beat an AI neural network, logically they would require comparable processing capability in critical areas. One might anticipate that human reasoning algorithms regarding chess might be modeled by program designers, yet not vice versa.

Simple Alpha Zero

Fritz beat World Champ Vlad Kramnik in 2006 running on a Xeon dual-core 5160 chip at 3 mgz. The chip sold for just $860. It was a very tiny chip in comparison to today’s chips used for desktops such as the 32 core AMD Threadripper chips.

Neural network programming for artificial intelligence has advanced quite a lot since the 1996–97 Deep Blue-Kasparov games. Apparently the A.I. programming was good old brute force rather than sophisticated algorithm. The A.I. designer for Deep Blue discusses that project here… https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/20-years-after-deep-blue-how-ai-has-advanced-since-conquering-chess/

I took a programming and systems analysis course in 1980, though I worked in other fields, so I understand the philosophy behind designing computer algorithms to process data reasonably well. Computers today are orders of magnitude more powerful than those that beat Kasparov and Kramnik. There is a field of study called Big Data that is remarkable to those that know nothing of it. Big Data sweep with neural networks can get all of the information there is on-line about chess rather easily

A.I. neural network designers today can use everything ever put on-line concerning chess and program a network to sort through it and process it in numerous ways to ultimately let it select the best move. Capablanca, Morphy, Pillsbury, Steinitz; every game ever played and noted online would be in its live database. Deep Blue had very limited capacity for that, and it had just two GMs help its design. With the way data is now, the question to me is could the A.I. read and convert into meaningful information every chess book in any language that it could input. It could have the help of thousands of GMs in a sense providing data and it might build chess ‘wisdom’. Those are just programming challenges that probably were already solved. Some have said that IBM may have been using Deep Blue just to test its A.I. Maybe Google and Alpha Zero were doing that too. It was a learning test.

AlphaGo Zero Explained In One Diagram – Applied Data Science – Medium

!) Deep Blue’s lead designer was an AI specialist named Murray Campbell, who spoke about his assignment by IBM to develop Deep Blue after having made Deep Thought- the first artificial intelligence project to defeat a GM. He still works in IBM’s A.I. Foundation within the Cognitive Computing Group. Deep Blue was an attention getting development project of the people developing artificial intelligence. 20 Years after Deep Blue: How AI Has Advanced Since Conquering Chess

2-Apparently the late Charles Krauthammer shared your point of view about Deep Blue. A Forbes article comment;“ To Krauthammer, Deep Blue’s win in the 1996 match was due to “brute force” calculation, which is not artificial intelligence, he says, just faster calculation of a much wider range of possible tactical moves.”

The Brute Force Of IBM Deep Blue And Google DeepMind

Gil Press-the author of the Forbes article writes that; “Deep Blue was an example of so-called “artificial intelligence” achieved through “brute force,” the super-human calculating speed that has been the hallmark of digital computers since they were invented in the 1940s. Deep Blue was a specialized, purpose-built computer, the fastest to face a chess world champion, capable of examining 200 million moves per second, or 50 billion positions, in the three minutes allocated for a single move in a chess game.”

Rather than brute force, Alpha Zero has enhanced programming compared to that of Deep Blue. A.I. is a matter of programming code written by humans (presently) to generate calculating responses that can find their own answers to challenges. In defeating the world Go champion Alpha Go aka (Zero) trained using reinforcing techniques playing against itself.

First it was given 30 million moves that humans use in Go to develop its own game. Then it played against itself calculating moves in advance that were optimal. After that those moves formed a database that it again played against itself finding moves that human players hadn’t. An article on the Alpha Zero program that people tend to call Artificial Intelligence- that is a matter of the ability of the program and computer support to find ‘winning’ replies to specific configurations, notes that on move 37 of the game Alpha Zero calculated the odds of a human playing the move at 1 in 10,000. The higher refined data base provided very elite moves. Inside the Epic Go Tournament Where Google’s AI Came to Life

Gil Press wrote in his article about the technology that support Alpha Go. It is a lot of processing power and dwarfs the calculating power of 100 GMs laboring like a commune to find the best chess move once per day.. “AlphaGo used 1,920 Central Processing Units (CPU) and 280 Graphics Processing Units (GPU), according to The Economist, and possibly additional proprietary google Tensor Processing Units, for a lot of hardware power, plus brute force statistical analysis software (processing and analyzing lots and lots of data) known as Deep Neural Networks, or more popularly as Deep Learning.” - The Brute Force Of IBM Deep Blue And Google DeepMind

Cade Metz writes is his article on AlphaGo that “AlphaGo’s relentless superiority shows us that machines can now mimic—and indeed exceed—the kind of human intuition that drives the world’s best Go players.” Elsewhere Deep Blue was described as exploiting Kasparov with psychology, such as playing an instant move after a deep think by Kasparov to lead him to believe he “had fallen into a trap”. It is not that computers have learned to think like humans with some sort of self-awareness or cognizance that someone could believe is required for artificial intelligence. It is the case that computer programs can find better, faster answers than human to particular set criteria such as chess and Go- much better and faster even that communes or collectives of human players, when they have a certain level of expert system programming and hardware for processing power.

Human thought on certain kinds of challenges that can be modeled, can be processed faster with enhanced computer programs that were at some point written by humans. It is the equivalent of automachines beating humans in a race around a mile oval track….just the way it is.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/13124/the-amd-threadripper-2990wx-and-2950x-review

Shouldn't Airlines Install Anti-Theft Ignition Systems?

With the theft today of an Alaska Airlines jet by a would-be stunt pilot baggage handler the need to upgrade airline security was demonstrated. One would think that airlines already have some kind of anti-theft key code to start aircraft engines, or at least some kind of foolproof ignition key fob to deter volunteer hijackers or joy-riders.

https://www.adn.com/nation-world/2018/08/11/authorities-probe-how-airline-employee-could-steal-plane/

The young fellow that stole the jet enfiladed a gaping security hole that might have been exploited by terrorists later, perhaps to crash a jet from Boston again into another buildng in N.Y, So he actually performed a useful service.

Never forget the security moto; when fingers (as dangers weapons) are outlawed, only outlaws will have fingers.