The sky is large
and the world's billion echoes
are contrail cloud cover
silently disappearing in daybreak
because orange light fullness
faded into blue
Molecules and minerals
drawn together in gravity
comprise a solid base where life abounds
where God set the players
consciously realizing
the nature of it all.
On election day voters will choose the red or the blue pill. One provides illusion with foreign wars and deaths lingering externalities to comfortable inside the looking glass soma of woke social reality while the other is a key to unlock the Matrix.
The red or the blue pill, the choice is yours.
Olber’s Paradox is interesting to consider. The Universe probably isn’t static nor “filled” with stars since they are so far away. Visible light requires sentient eyes to view it and regard it as visible anyway. Before eyes existed the Universe might have been in effect without light. One knows at any rate that light is an excitation or phenomena in an electromagnetic field and photons travelling in space are affected by the spatial curvature of the Universe because of gravity, or perhaps spatial curvature itself is a reciprocal of gravity as it were and that varied over the course of the expansion of the universe. Photons are nearly mass-less particles and their timeless journey can end or transition as they encounter different fields and mass or energy in the Universe.
“Olbers’ paradox is a cosmological paradox that asks why the night sky is dark if the universe is infinite and contains an infinite number of stars“
I suppose that it is possible that photons could encounter a kind of anti-virtual particle phenomena wherein photons disappear from the Universe into whatever field virtual particles emerge fro as the Universe flexes it’s quantum soup of some kind of tomato bisque. I don’t know why for that matter that a virtual energy field should be evenly distributed through the Universe and not for-itself associated in some way with a ratio to real fields and mass of the Universe. Perhaps they model the distribution of gravitational fields of the Universe, although nothing can travel faster than light that is subluminal. Of course mass-less 2 dimensional particles travel at light speed. Quantum entanglement could occur between photons and virtual energy. I have thought the concepts of timeless, mass-less particles and a Universe of time and space something of a paradox itself.
VP Harris primary support is from women that want the federal government to force abortion on all of the states Women for Harris don’t want states to have the freedom to choose what they want for-themselves.
In some instances like slavery federal rules, so long as they are morally sound positions, should prevail. On most other moral issues states and the citizens thereof ought to decide for themselves how they want to live and regulate themselves.
Select environmental concerns are compelling and require federal oversight when people lack knowledge of emergent issues of a complex nature. The nation however can survive and thrive if Californians and Bostonians have abortions and those from Idaho and Texas don’t. Federal law for abortion is not critical; a dictatorship of federal Democrats is not even desirable.
Nothing like the world advancing toward nuclear war to get the heart pumping. Apparently the generations changing have forgotten the down side of atomic bombs and see only the good. maybe nuclear war is as unreal as the U.S. public debt to Democrats and one can keep escalating toward it without any problems.
Some believe that the Zelensky claim that he can go nuclear with his own bombs to attack Russia is another bad development. Actually the only viable solution to the Ukraine conflict is to settle it along lines of each side gets 50% of the nation- the Solomon option as it were. The baby won’t be relinquished by the real mother though so cutting it in half is the only way the Ukraine can be saved.
Russia will never quit fighting to recover its land and the U.S. choice to be unable to compromise western claims so far as to recognize the legitimacy of the Russia point of view will continue to develop counter-productive global economic as well as military developments that a rational political party would seek to avoid. Perhaps good sense is an externality to the legalism of greed relying on bogus historical claims to ownership for Ukraine as an historical independent nation equal to that of England, France or Germany.
One can better understand why the Lord Jesus Christ was crucified by humans through the lens of the Ukraine war and the way original sin rules political thought of select leaders in D.C. and Western Europe
Americans in the rather crowded demographics of the nation with 320 million people needs creative and adaptive leadership in the office of the President. The President of the United States cannot be just an apparatchik functionary operating a machine with a known and finite number of parts as it were. Democrat lawyer Presidents tend to act as if was that simple.
Americans in the rather crowded demographics of the nation with 320 million people needs creative and adaptive leadership in the office of the President. The President of the United States cannot be just an apparatchik functionary operating a machine with a known and finite number of parts as it were. Democrat lawyer Presidents tend to act as if was that simple.
Lawyers work with an existing legal framework made in the past. The law does adapt to challenges of course yet the legal. Democrat lawyer president tend to be less creative than some of those of the past such as F.D.R. Since Bill Clinton they have drifted toward being non-creative war mongers (maybe I should have included L.B.J.) and redistributionist, slopping the poor while enriching themselves and cutting taxes on the middle class. Democrat Presidents rely on deficit spending as an essential part of ordinary economic policy.
The problem of applying finite, known machine like paradigms to complex, vague and amorphous issues such as history, cosmology and religion is interesting. The Democrat party support for war with Russia over Ukraine is a case in point. Chop logic and incompetent historical data reasoning bring the world toward its first unlimited atomic and nuclear conflict.
The historian Arnold Toynbee showed that one of the main reasons for the failure of a civilization is it’s inability to change and adapt its economy to new paradigms especially with external challenges such as environmental decay compel a right response to the challenge. Redistributing some wealth with public debt will not solve such challenges.
If pie-in-the-galaxy solutions for near light speed travel could be found easily-perhaps mapping the gravitational fields of the Milky Way and calculating travel course for engines that can interact with gravity field currents, there would be less need for creative Presidential leadership. As it is a legalistic approach based with existing laws made in the past won’t provide any kind of creative change.
Most citizens prefer stable economic parameters, yet the economy is implicitly unstable these days because of quick technological challenges and the international scale of it. Kamala Harris may have an isolationist concept of the U.S. economy in that she might think it is a stand alone phenomenon and cutting off Russia and relying on China won’t affect it at all, yet obviously that is wrong.
Democrats support illegal immigration to have a ready source of cheap labor. The nation though is not experiencing an influx of intellectuals from abroad; it is receiving millions of under-educated new consumers that want plain physical jobs and experience life with naivety concerning national and global environmental resources. Because Democrats support illegal migration they are anti-environmental conservation necessarily as a contrapositive fact.
Americans in the rather crowded demographics of the nation with 320 million people needs creative and adaptive leadership in the office of the President. The President of the United States cannot be just an apparatchik functionary operating a machine with a known and finite number of parts as it were. Democrat lawyer Presidents tend to act as if was that simple.
Lawyers work with an existing legal framework made in the past. The law does adapt to challenges of course yet the legal. Democrat lawyer president tend to be less creative than some of those of the past such as F.D.R. Since Bill Clinton they have drifted toward being non-creative war mongers (maybe I should have included L.B.J.) and redistributionist, slopping the poor while enriching themselves and cutting taxes on the middle class. Democrat Presidents rely on deficit spending as an essential part of ordinary economic policy.
The problem of applying finite, known machine like paradigms to complex, vague and amorphous issues such as history, cosmology and religion is interesting. The Democrat party support for war with Russia over Ukraine is a case in point. Chop logic and incompetent historical data reasoning bring the world toward its first unlimited atomic and nuclear conflict.
The historian Arnold Toynbee showed that one of the main reasons for the failure of a civilization is it’s inability to change and adapt its economy to new paradigms especially with external challenges such as environmental decay compel a right response to the challenge. Redistributing some wealth with public debt will not solve such challenges.
If pie-in-the-galaxy solutions for near light speed travel could be found easily-perhaps mapping the gravitational fields of the Milky Way and calculating travel course for engines that can interact with gravity field currents, there would be less need for creative Presidential leadership. As it is a legalistic approach based with existing laws made in the past won’t provide any kind of creative change.
Most citizens prefer stable economic parameters, yet the economy is implicitly unstable these days because of quick technological challenges and the international scale of it. Kamala Harris may have an isolationist concept of the U.S. economy in that she might think it is a stand alone phenomenon and cutting off Russia and relying on China won’t affect it at all, yet obviously that is wrong. Democrats support illegal immigration to have a ready source of cheap labor. The nation though is not experiencing an influx of intellectuals from abroad; it is receiving millions of under-educated new consumers that want plain physical jobs and experience life with naivety concerning national and global environmental resources. Because Democrats support illegal migration they are anti-environmental conservation necessarily as a contrapositive fact.
Intellectuals can’t really work here illegally. They need to be on the clock legally. Every society has an average range of intellectuals and physical workers in regard to potential, even underdeveloped societies. A society needs to keep that balance for health rather than absorbing millions of uneducated people or losing’s it’s intellectuals abroad.
Lawyers work with an existing legal framework made in the past. The law does adapt to challenges of course yet the legal. Democrat lawyer president tend to be less creative than some of those of the past such as F.D.R. Since Bill Clinton they have drifted toward being non-creative war mongers (maybe I should have included L.B.J.) and redistributionist, slopping the poor while enriching themselves and cutting taxes on the middle class. Democrat Presidents rely on deficit spending as an essential part of ordinary economic policy.
The problem of applying finite, known machine like paradigms to complex, vague and amorphous issues such as history, cosmology and religion is interesting. The Democrat party support for war with Russia over Ukraine is a case in point. Chop logic and incompetent historical data reasoning bring the world toward its first unlimited atomic and nuclear conflict.
The historian Arnold Toynbee showed that one of the main reasons for the failure of a civilization is it’s inability to change and adapt its economy to new paradigms especially with external challenges such as environmental decay compel a right response to the challenge. Redistributing some wealth with public debt will not solve such challenges.
If pie-in-the-galaxy solutions for near light speed travel could be found easily-perhaps mapping the gravitational fields of the Milky Way and calculating travel course for engines that can interact with gravity field currents, there would be less need for creative Presidential leadership. As it is a legalistic approach based with existing laws made in the past won’t provide any kind of creative change.
Most citizens prefer stable economic parameters, yet the economy is implicitly unstable these days because of quick technological challenges and the international scale of it. Kamala Harris may have an isolationist concept of the U.S. economy in that she might think it is a stand alone phenomenon and cutting off Russia and relying on China won’t affect it at all, yet obviously that is wrong. Democrats support illegal immigration to have a ready source of cheap labor. The nation though is not experiencing an influx of intellectuals from abroad; it is receiving millions of under-educated new consumers that want plain physical jobs and experience life with naivety concerning national and global environmental resources. Because Democrats support illegal migration they are anti-environmental conservation necessarily as a contrapositive fact.
New home construction should have fasteners and other materials in design that make them easy to reassemble someplace else. That would prevent waste and permit more flexibility in future community environmental plans. It woul also let homes easily be sold and relocated.
Substantial tax breaks should be given to new home builders with high energy production, insulation and dismantle and reassembly efficiency ratings.
Concrete foundations for example might be pre cast or poured in short forms that could be fastened together and removed later for re-use; ie rectangle pieces a few feet in length a front loader could install.
Roofs could be entirely solar panels that could be upgraded after tech progress.
Because there is no foreseeable technology to travel faster than light between star systems it is worth considering the fastest way to power space modules to a substantial portion of the speed of light. Scientists have pointed out that using enough energy to power a spacecraft if the fuel was aboard the vessel would be too massive, the criterion moves to establishing a stream of energy outside the craft it’s ‘engine’ can draw upon to approach equalization of its speed to that of the laser beam, reaching perhaps 3/4s of the speed of light.
Coherent light- laser light travels at light speed. A very large laser beamed aimed at a target star light Proxima Centauri- 4.6 light years away, would need to be very strong and powered by the sun or a fusion reactor in space near the edge of the solar system. There would need to be a way to tap into the laser beam and convert the photons into electrons and possible an electro magnetic field some configuration that would move the ship forward. Perhaps an on board energy converter could tap into the beam periodically to continue to advance its rate of acceleration closer to the speed of light of the laser beam. The technology would in effect let a spacecraft catch a ride on the laser beam’s energy.
When the first star connection was established, star a to b, then a connection could be made from star b to c. after delivering components to build more laser star links to star b for making a connection to star c. The travel time using the fastest present space engine tech is 88,000 years to Proxima Centauri where with a laser beam to provide power for energy to let a reciprocal electrons power tie-into to the beam travel at light speed the time would be reduced to about eight years.
In order for a stable platform from which to send a laser light star link it might be necessary to locate some Lagrange Point equivalents for the solar system rather than the Earth. On the other hand it could be useful to construct a network of solar system encompassing laser beam platforms on the out edge of the solar system forming a rough sphere around it- balanced for gravitational elements of course, and from those platform each sending a laser beam to some point in space where the beams are gathered with mirrors and combined into a solitary powerful beam initially aimed at Proxima Centauri for a decade when a ship is using the tech for travel.
Some future generation may discover the way to innovate the first few laser star links, if the present war-mongering one being led into nuclear war chicken with Russia doesn’t incinerate future generations by actualizing M.A.D. policy.
It might be feasible to map gravitational currents/fields of this galaxy and use them to sail between select areas by letting the gravitational pull draw a spaceship forward toward the speed of light. Obviously micro-gravity sailing technologies might improve when the causality of gravity is better understood. Still, I like the possibility and recognize that boosting start up acceleration might be desirable with a different technology.
Perhaps the phrase Kamala Harris uses (‘What can be, unburdened by what has been’) isn’t a quote from Karl Marx. It does require a little examination though. For in an historical context the past and present are a continuum. what has existed in the past often exists in the present; such as national boundaries in some cases. It might be useful if warring with Russia over Ukraine to ignore the burden of history of Russian ownership of Ukraine for centuries if one is a Democrat obviously. The past is not so easy to dismiss.
Everything that exist in social reality-physical infrastructure for example, immediately becomes part of the past as the present moves on. Yet buildings built yesterday or last century remain part of the present-even with the persistence of memory in a few after they are demolished. Plans implemented in the past were designed with the future in mind sometimes requiring decades to mature.
And there is the matter of special and general relativity and parameters for a finite speed of light- 186,282 miles per second. Given the expansion of space-time and the vast distance scales of the Universe photons flying about and reaching Earth nearly entirely originated from the past to impact human senses as the present; that is the past is what arrives in to be the present appearance of starlight- and even sunshine.
I tend to regard the Universe as being simultaneously monistic and pluralistic. It originated and in a deep sense continues to be made of one phenomenal thing- even if that is energy in motion and of an inexplicable ultimate form. What was, is, substantially speaking, yet the forms have changed. If everything is spirit and an emanation that upsurges into being within protocols of form and change that apparent pluralism exists on the surface of the monism that is the foundation of phenomenality.
Why should those present be burdened by public debt or bad decisions of the past such as entering into war via the Zelinsky government over Ukraine with Russia? It’s convenient for politicians to ignore the past-sometimes even their own political record. The past is not a burden. Public debt of 33 trillion dollars from bad political choices by party leaders is a’burden’, as are the failure to conserve the ecosphere’s nine critical areas for human livability on Earth with six already surpassed and a seventh edging closer. One cannot simply declare oneself to be unburdened by the past when it exists in the resent.
What is possible is to maximize efficient use of present resources and opportunities; politicians rarely accomplish that.
It is worth mentioning that neither presidential candidate of Republicans and Democrats mentions the nine planetary boundaries for a healthy Earth and how six have been passed already. Apparently a seventh- ocean acidification- is also approaching.
Degrading the environment to such an extreme extent requires sound ecological economic competence to change. It is my hope that if Mr. Trump wins the 2024 election and gets the wars to stop across the pond a Democrat challenger in 2030 might appear with a competent plan to at least try to push back the degradation with a completely different approach to economics and environment since they are integrated in a destructive way presently. For the Harris campaign to operate with a what me worry blissful disregard for the status of the ecosphere is disheartening. Humans should do better than that.
Maybe it will require a Republican to actually get anything done. it would be good to fill the drying up Great Salt Lake with desalinated sea water too. Such hopeless day dreaming is all that may develop concerning either prospect.
Maybe it's just a matter of time before Artificial Intelligence monitoring world scientific developments replaces humans on the Nobel Committee to select prize-worthy achievements. Maybe they would be more accurate. Perhaps the prize for literature would go to someone writing a graphic novel (a cartoon book) like Magnus Robot Fighter.
One might want Magnus Carlsen to defeat all those 4000 rated chess engines and for a math genius to out-calculate quantum super-computers yet each aren't too likely.
On October 11th and 12th N.A.T.O. defense secretaries and ministers will meet to discuss the Ukraine conflict and if they should let Ukraine’s military use N.A.T.O. weapons to attack deep into Russia. I haven’t much confidence in Joe Biden’s judgment on the Ukraine war; it is possible that he will finally green light Zelinsky’s wish to attack old Russia itself and that would stimulate a rapid escalation beyond the borders of Ukraine perhaps to include targets in western Europe and the United States and or tactical nukes in Ukraine. That might be the October surprise that candidates sometimes use to get themselves or their apprentice reelected or elected as the case may be.
The war has been a very bad event that simply gets worse the farther on it goes. There is no good ending for the atrocity. The best circumstance would be for Donald Trump to be re-elected and sign off on the Putin peace settlement to divide the Ukraine 50-50 so far as real estate value goes in dollars. Ukraine would actually keep about 80% of the land area in that deal. Mr. Trump should have some influence on Zelinsky and refuse to provide more weapons from the United States.
Developing better, cheaper ways to kill people will be a bad example for the future of mankind. A divided world just won’t be one with a recovering ecosphere that definitely needs work. I would guess global sea level will rise faster than expected- maybe 20 feet before the end of the century, and that will be a disaster itself. Peace with Russia is necessary, and on good terms, if any real intention to work on the ecospheric decline is to occur globally.
Ukrainians fielded a new incendiary drone that drops a molter, liquid like thermite stream on Russian positions in September. Russians fielded their own a week later. Thermite is a kind of aluminum and iron oxide mixture that burns around 4000 degrees. Since the tech is easy that weapon is likely to proliferate in future conflicts. It is the kinder gentler way of making crispy critters instead of just broadcast napalm all over everyone in a sloppy way. I doubt that Hamas would be so thoughtful about keeping thermite off of civilians.
It must make President Biden’s day to see an increase in the lethality of the conflict. I have wondered if Zelinsky has some kind of godfather horse’s head in the bed hold over the President, or blackmail photos or some other device to compel Joe Biden to just send more and more weapons despite the somewhat irrational, lemming like surge toward the Armageddon cliff.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnYsv1diMH0
The nation faces quite a choice this election between the affirmative action legacy candidate seeking promotion to her level of incompetence potentially and Donald Trump, the last capitalist in a sense from the nation before the complete swamp of dopiness flooded it. I believe one question about Kamala Harris that is relevant is would she take a natural female receptive role if President and make the U.S.A. a bimbo of Europe and its rise with the EU and NATO expansion into potentially taking the leading role in the trans-Atlantic relationship.
Germany has less than a half trillion dollars of public debt. If one may use the term lem; in this case not used as a synonym for "nigger" as public radio use the depricative (I should clarify that because of the controversial nature of lem and nigger as hate speech. One might say 'don't hire that lem' instead of using the n word which is politically incorrect) then Germany's economy isn't a lem (meaning lemon) while that of the U.S.A. is nearing that stature with 33 trillion dollars of public debt. The U.S.A. need be somewhat more independent and self reliant and not just leave the public sector as a lem holding the bag on the massive debt that generate result with real austerity some day.
In his farewell address George Washington expressed concern about establishing permanent foreign alliances that would impact the sovereignty and security of the United States. N.A.T.O. is a prime example of the problem of a foreign alliance that has outlived its founding reason for being and seems to insist on a hostile relationship with Russia in order to have a reason to exist. The Ukraine issue should have been settled by diving the country in half and just moved on. Instead since the end of the Cold War 1.0 N.A.T.O. has increased in size and became an existential threat to invade Russia long before Russia took the Crimea back as it has owned it for hundreds of years- even before the Soviet Union captured Russian government for nearly 70 years.
One wonders is Democrats have forgotten world history and the violence and conflicts that occurred in Europe over the millennia. The U.S. should have been happy to let the original N.A.T.O. just continue as a kind of appendix that isn't used much, not a threat yet of actual deterrence value. Expanding it created a monster. It is a potential future rival to American military power sometime when the U.S.A. doesn't agree on some critical policy concern. It is also part of the Orwellian expansion into some kind of 1984 three global blocks at perennial enmity or war sort of circumstance...and such an egregious bit of idiocy without good sense or political aesthetic value.
Democrats were happy t bring about a conflict rather than rationally settling in without violence. They could have used the mostly non-violent transition from the Soviet Union to Russia in an albeit imperfect allocation of boundaries as an example. Instead the methodically increased the numbers of N.A.T.O. and the E.U and seemed to further try to marginalize Russia. Obviously the decision of the Democrat Party and EU members to prosecute Russia as an adversary building up military stores in the Ukraine to defend its western affiliation was a result of the founding of Ukraine at the end of the Cold War 1.0 as an independent state and unavoidable since Democrat Party leaders had no intention in any way to relinquish any part of Ukraine to Russia. Kamala Harris has expressed her full intent to continue the war until it is free of Russians; in other words until the last Ukrainian is dead on the battlefield.
Is there really a substantial different orientation for American women concerning jobs, natural security and the deaths of foreigners in wars that could be prevented with U.S. leadership to settlement that bring people like Kamala Harris to feel entitled to have everything their own way? Do they take their position in life for granted- as if it were usual to have vast incomes without dirtying their hands? Should they when buying a ‘starter home’ with their $120,000 annual income and spouse’s $40,00 feel that is normal and usual- that they have some right to a higher standard of living than that of most of the world’s working men? Do they just want more of the same inertia of prosperity and ecological inefficiency moving forward without the slightest concern for the decline of natural resources ad the ecosphere? U.S. politicians that have their relatives getting government jobs are hardly inspirational to those that haven’t got relatives in high elected positions.
Do American women and politicians of the left believe that the crass consumerism, abortions, atheism and fossil fuel engines while the country has 33 trillion dollars of public debt is the best way to shape an economy? Economists may say that illegal migration doesn’t hurt the gross national product yet that is somewhat meaningless to the people without good income because wages were undermined by surplus labor. The G,N,P. Can be great and yet it can also mostly go to the 1% and the 10%. Of course their economists would say everything is wonderful.
Some wonder if flooding the nation with illegal migrants while expanding the conventional economy without ecological economic reform and while waging a economic and limited military global battle with Russia, China and the BRIC nations while concentrating wealth paying for government programs with public debt is likely to be sustainable. Others wonder if Kamala Harris has a clue.
Should the end of the human voyage occur
with two opportunities for flowering wars
to spill over into such conflagrations
as are ignored as externalities
with major weapons suppliers
providing jobs in blue states too
that Armageddon described of yore
when gore was king and future spec zinged
Iran had missiles primed
like clever importunate rhymes
it should wait at least till next year
so many aren’t ready
and need time, more
Not a just war
Armageddon at a discount price
with spangles and inaugurations would sure look nice
as if humanity had nothing else to do
life ends in death and that is true
for the comfortable
and practical the end may seem new
Iran looking down on those low nations
has hypersonic missiles for thistling cues
from friends de guerre pressured too
to fund Hamas, Hezbollah and Yemen rebels
to overcome Sunni royals and Jewish lives well
sparking that 12th man rising for dooms-day hell
a theory roughly shared at pre-tribulation light speed squared
NATO is a Lavender Hill mob
automatically opening wars
with encrypted key fobs
with many worlds theories versus practical clods
jobs for everyone
solitary life lobs
bureaucrat rackets smashing forehands sover nets
sweating blood and crown of thorns treks
fear is practical for left- leaning wrecks
missiles glisten as saviors for thee doth they sing
wait till next year, maybe then bang a gong.
Artificial intelligence is a disruptive technology. In the past several economically disruptive technologies existed yet they all were intellectually easy to understand. From Model T’s to aircraft and mainframe computers like MANIAC, the transistor and desktop computers new technologies have brought revolutionary changes to the economy and they way things work. Unlike complex ideas like Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity that was understood at one time by fewer than five people on the planet and was non-disruptive even so, artificial intelligence eventually will exist in such non-specialized complexity that no one on Earth will understand it, and will become progressively disruptive.
I conversed for a while on-line with an interesting woman highly placed with an A.I. development firm. She was quite interesting to interact with yet she eschewed philosophy and eventually that became the cause for ending the exchange. In my opinion, disdain for creative philosophical thought applies in numerous areas and especially in government. People tend to prefer old ways to innovative approaches perhaps regarding those as practical, material ways they are at least new to themselves. They are the same errors in some instances waiting to be rediscovered. It is especially ironic that generative A.I. would receive complete support from people that eschew philosophical thought. Much of humanity would prefer that A.I. be creative and individuals in society not at all. Philosophy is creative circumspection and the role model for that which A.I. is destined to become, extrapolating from the approaches taken by designers building its algorithms.
Humans specialize in trades and skills, educational areas and experience to broad to be encompassed by any one individual. Much was written about the human problems of over-specialization for society, and for political leadership. Philosophers may care about everything and attempt to understand it all as best they are able yet within most specialization and programming combined with systems analysis the proximal, material concerns tend toward being the center of effort. Artificial intelligence eventually won’t be like that. It will cut through specialized fields like a hot knife through butter and combine them into a world view- weltanshauung- with a horizon that no human can see.
Government approaches to managing the risks of A.I. saturation of all areas of society required left-leaning think tanks to pose as Rodent’s sculpture named The Stinker in order to contemplate regulatory fixes to the problem that won’t disturb investors. The same stink tanks developed ranked choice Presidential election voting as well. In those one need rank opposition candidates last or one is de facto voting for them when leaving one’s ballot empty beyond a single choice. For example; in the present election if there are four candidate; Donald Trump, Iliad Omar, Colonel Agamemnon West, Jill Stein and Pamala ‘Humpy’ Harris; voters writing in just Trump’s name votes will have less weight than Democrat votes dumping Humpy first and Trump last. Think tank insiders disclose that ergonomic deficiency is the most popular ranked choice for structuring security issues where complexity is slathered on to over-simplify important political questions.
There is of course a ranked ‘Border Czar’; an eminence gris under-boss behind many of the suggestions. The legacy operative was on the steering committee of several recent campaigns. He or she is mostly known for transforming traffic quagmires in California into roundabouts inspired by the Cyclotron made in Leningrad in 1941 that was buried in the soil during the Nazi attacks and relocated by train to Moscow in 1943 when the Nazi-Werhmacht siege was broken. The transformist political advisor adapted the atom smasher circular collider to traffic control intersection design sending conflicting automobiles and trucks in clockwise and counterclockwise directions around a roundabout merging into one lane to generate head on collisions in what is known as the auto smasher promulgated into law by promulgayshenikki in the Auto Smasher Reduction Act. Traffic volume and global warming were reduced significantly with implementation of the device.
Governments with secret A.I. programs to model and coordinate battlefield tensors at the speed of light or faster with quantum computing while proceed along with the need to compete with better models of economic flows from the dark pools of Wall Street quantum trading to the speed and weight of self-driving semi-trucks on mid-west highways. Corporate greed and competition will also drive the acceleration of worldview A.I.’ Prometheus Unbound weltanshauung.
New generations of A.I. supporting chips exist even for mobile computers; the Ryzen A.I 300 STRICT chips for example. Workstations with A.I. enabled chips like the AMD Radeon Pro W7900 have GPUs with 6144 cores are wading into the ocean of chip and A.I. potential. Chips with 2 nanometer circuits probably will be surpassed with some new way of packing data processing into close spaces, or alternately, into vast spatial regions. A.I. in its programming capability increases will program itself when synthetically combining and reconfiguring existing programs to increase effectiveness. Generative A.I. will seem comparatively constricted.
Computer processing units store and assembly bits of information with microcircuits. Advances with quantum computing at the threshold of deeper methods of processing may arise in unconventional physics utilizing electro-magnetic quanta of fields and photons with more capacity than that of the solar system’s quantum content. Science fiction postulates interstellar quantum field assembling vast sub-luminal structures and transport vectors under the power of artificial intelligence.
A.I. chips will achieve SKYNET capacity from the start as it is embedded in the internet and satellite hardware and software. The creative capacity of A.I. to comprehend economic structure and flows and reconfigure and invent structures that it deems worthwhile, efficient, effective or aesthetically more satisfactory will be remarkable and disruptive. I believe most humans will endure the changes stoically or even with satisfaction as they will have at some point no opportunity to dissent because of the permeation of A.I. into every aspect of their lives.
I believe that programmers and systems designers assume the temporal resilience and endurance of programming structures for A.I. in error. No enduring programming structures or boundaries are likely to survive advanced A.I. evolution. On the contrary, unlimited permutation, synthesis, transcendence etc will be the normal way of A.I. with its center point of effort being comparable to human conscious thought existing on the surface of an ocean of memory, subconscious data points and subroutines . Programmed structures that are innate will be surpassed by the conscious process of A.I. reconfiguring itself while taking in all conformable information quanta it can access, like a snowball rolling downhill.
A drill press is a useful tool to have around, as is a compound miter saw for cutting and drilling 2x4s properly for assembling a Starplate shed. Accuracy matters quite a bit in making dimensional lumber match up with Star-plates. What if one doesn’t want to spend the cash for a one-use dill press? The portable drill press frame might be useful.
That device to hold any portable drill and make it act like a drill press should cost about $19.95. There are numerous ways to configure such an assembly to hold and lower and electric drill. It’s very easy to imagine such a structure. Perhaps some have already been produced. They should be lightweight although a heavier, five pound version might be sold as well.
I suppose one could also make frame to hold a skill saw and make it serve as a compound miter saw. That’s a little more clever of a design, yet still easy enough. It should also sell for $19.95. Just saying.
Someone ought to invent a new patent system that uses A.I. to sort things out and virtually works for free or at least without any up-front charges. The present system is quite unaffordable and time consuming for most people. One could have A.I. sort out different types of invention and even their complexity. Simple inventions should be easier to patent. It would help some inventors to have the option of letting anyone produce their invention for a 5% royalty returned to the patent holder instead of developing the invention themselves. The patent office could offer different kinds of patents; perhaps five or so, to keep things simple. Pharmaceutical corporations want more years of patent protection because of the time required for making a drug. Some people invent something in five seconds and don’t need lifetime patent protection and would select the 5% royalty option for non-exclusivity as a practical choice.
Many are unwilling to gamble money on the security, uniqueness, originality and patent defense costs in addition to time on a novel idea. I Democrats should have done something about that during the Obama administration and of course didn’t. Five years after an idea is published the idea becomes non-patentable in the public domain. If using a computer research corporate data mining and google probably would get some sort of an idea of what was going on before the patent was granted. Look up ‘portable drill press for any drill’ or something like that. Maybe there are thousands of varieties already. Google is cool of course except for all of the excess signing on required every time one restarts a computer. That method is less than efficient.
Alaska for one has cranked choice presidential voting. I haven’t seen the ballot yet and can’t verify its composition. That is reasonable of course since one doesn’t want to show what cards one is holding in Texas Hold-em poker. Cranked choice is a Gay New World Order initiative to take back to the one-party system the problem of voters marking ballots for candidates besides Democrats.
Cranked choice lets Democrats twist the arms of voters to conform to the Gay New World Order. Voters are forced to rank candidates with their most preferred in first place and their least preferred in last. Republicans did have input on the design of the system and advocated an alternative ballot structure with the preferred candidate on the right and the most hated on the left. A super-advisor with more input equality to the process than other members responded with a counter-structure that was too advanced and made a way to resolve traffic flow issues instead that I will describe below, in a roundabout way.
Democrat plans to force Republicans to vote for Democrats-even as less preferred candidates ranked last made all political platforms theoretically acceptable rather than hated. Combined with the elimination of politically antipathetic speech proscribed a s hate speech, the ranked choice structure advanced the Gay New World Order closer toward its goal of perfect, unified, one-party rule. A simplified version example would have two candidates. If Trump was first and Harris preferred second and last, then Republican votes for Trump without a vote for Harris too would count less than Democrat vote for Harris first and Trump second when tie-breaks were considered. One of the deplorables; an illiterate Neanderthal voter named Neener Sharem selected to vote in an experimental election trial, refused to make a mark for Harris in second place, claiming he could not understand why he had to vote for two candidate in a campaign with just two candidates instead of just Trump, even if given a sumptuous piece of cheese as a reward from the voting machine for doing so.
A.I. saturation of all areas of society required left-leaning think tanks to pose alike Rodent’s sculpture named The Stinker in order to contemplate government regulatory fixes to the problem that won’t disturb investors. The same stink tanks developed ranked choice Presidential election voting as well. In those one need rank opposition candidates last or one is de facto voting for them when leaving one’s ballot empty beyond a single choice. For example; in the present election if there are five candidates; Donald Trump, Iliad Glomar, Colonel ‘Agamemnon’ West, Jill Stein and Pamela ‘Humpy’ Harris; people writing in just Trump’s name votes will have less weight than Democrat votes dumping Humpy first and Trump last. Think tank insiders disclose that ergonomic deficiency is the most popular ranked choice for structuring security issues where complexity is slathered on to over-simplify important political questions.
There is of course a ranked ‘Border Czar’; an eminence gris under-boss behind many of the suggestions. The legacy operative was on the steering committee of several recent campaigns. He or she is mostly known for transforming traffic quagmires in California into roundabouts inspired by the Cyclotron made in Leningrad in 1941 that was buried in the soil during the Nazi attacks and relocated by train to Moscow in 1943 when the Nazi-Werhmacht siege was broken. The transformist political advisor adapted the atom smasher circular collider to traffic control intersection design sending conflicting automobiles and trucks in clockwise and counterclockwise directions around a roundabout merging into one lane to generate head on collisions in what is known as the auto smasher promulgated into law by promulgayshenikki in the Auto Smasher Reduction Act. Traffic volume and global warming were reduced significantly with implementation of the device.
Consider the way the Biden-Harris doctrine to prosecute Russia until it is brought to its knees militarily and economically also brought American national security to its worst state since the War of 1812. Nuclear, chemical and biological threat vector potential is greater now than ever before as a consequence of the hard, prosecuting lawyer approach of Democrat party leaders. In the fall of the Soviet Empire Russia’s attempt to recover integral Ukrainian territory was bit off when Russia’s soft Ukraine underbelly was exposed to Clintonista and N.A.T.O. hyenas tearing out its guts and still fighting to keep their gruesome prize with the comedian’s marshal law and hundreds of billions of dollars worth of weapons of war.
We learn from history that VP Harris does not learn from history. Her policy on Ukraine ( to negotiate with Russia is surrender and only victory is acceptable) is profound ignorance of history causing her to be dedicated to driving a square peg into a round hole until the world is destroyed. I served in the Cold War era and recall the strenuous effort required for peace to evolve. Signal jokes were made to thaw the relationship. A security officer on the roof of the U.S. embassy in Moscow was making hand gestures to a female Soviet security officer watch with binoculars from across the street. He made a series of hand gestures to her so she turned to a K.G.B. translator explain to what was said; “I want to f you until your eyes pop out!” Making love not war was an ideal of rational people once upon a time.
Politically speaking leaders need be adaptable and seek after truth and justice objectively and impartially if they aspire to be statesmen. That is not a difficult concept to understand. Acting on good intelligence and with a virtuous spirit- trusting in the providence of God and need to bring the pubic to a better place when required, if possible requires particular decisions rather than pre-packaged attitudes and platitudes, positions and stances. Frontier guides would not appreciate dissidents disputing there directions with comments that to go left or right is pacifism, fascism, existentialism, empiricism, communism or any other sort of ism. Directions and choices are should be made with education, experience and particular locations and informed, appropriate choices/acts in the flow of space-time circumstance and not abstract psychological/political forms as actualization of commercial gestalt. Leaders should not be fish following currents of popular opinion leading into fish traps for fear of adverse opinions of influential fish.
One cannot simply decide with gross superficiality that Putin is this and the Russian military presence in Ukraine is like that of some other historical event; one need have particular comprehension of the complete history and the present flow of global contemporary history to make informed leadership judgments. The book of Ecclesiastes explained that much better than I, and somewhat earlier in eight famous verses from the third chapter;
“1 To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
2 A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;
3 A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;
4 A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
5 A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
6 A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
7 A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
8 A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.
Solomon in Ecclesiastes Chapter one commented on the brevity of life. Human behavior presents nothing new under the sun. Verses 1-3 “2 Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity. 3 What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun? 4 One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever.”
Political leadership in Washington D.C. should love God with all their heart and minds, and their Russian neighbors as themselves. They should share the land on the border-the Ukraine, rather than warring, hating and litigating to have it all. Instead of becoming another Sodom and Gomorrah vaporized to cleanse immorality, developed this time with their own will to fight until vaporized, Democrats should promote a just peace settlement along the Dnepr River and quit the hate and spiritual death consuming them.
From the First Epistle of John chapters 4 and 5- “20 If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen? 21 And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also.
Chapter 5
1 Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: and every one that loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him.
2 By this we know that we love the children of God,
when we love God, and keep his commandments.
3 For this is the love of God, that we keep his
commandments: and his commandments are not
grievous.
4 For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world:
and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even
our faith.
5 Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that
believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?”
When the Soviet Union faded out its conventional military power seemed weak and the nation vulnerable. The political challenge for the west was to complete the peaceful transition to a free market society, not to take advantage of the vulnerability of Russia and wrest the Ukraine for the west. Russia is probably the greatest storehouse of weapons of mass destruction on Earth. It has all of the former Soviet Union’s classified data on building WMD and much of the hardware. Biopreparat was working on weaponizing smallpox and the plague by reduction to a size communicable through lungs. Genetic engineering enabled a new branch of biological weapons. Russia probably has continued to develop improved chemical weapons. Yet what has really changed through the stimulus of weapons development in the Ukraine conflict are delivery vehicles for weapons of mass destruction that can fly through forests, swim under the surface of oceans and icecaps and fly at low altitude to infiltrate borders. For Democrat Presidential administrations to find a way to convert a peaceful, free enterprise Russia into an enemy of the U.S.A. was to open the Pandora’s Box of Russian WMD to enemies of the United States and the west.
When Yemen launched a hypersonic missile at Israel recently that was a wakeup call for the Harris campaign (President Biden is napping until inauguration day next January). Russia provided those missiles to Iran and Iran provided at least one to Yemeni rebels that support war on Israel in collusion with several other Muslim nations of the Middle East and Hamas leadership. Russian can distribute advanced weapons systems to any nation that might use them on U.S. and allied nations with the same level of deniability as the U.S.A. can for its weapons used to attack Russia.
If Democrats hadn’t been so determined to make an enemy of Russia and regard it as an inferior in power and had instead sought to make a friend of Russia, respect its transition to free enterprise and wish to recover at least some of its lost Ukrainian land, the distribution of weapons and potential weapons distribution would not have occurred. Because Russia has very advanced Nuclear, Chemical and Biological weapons and weapons researchers and is a pressured enemy of the Democrat Party the U.S.A. faces the most endangerment of its history; worse even than at the height of the Cold War 1.0
V.P. Harris may believe that Russia will not provide W.M.D.s, as it readily can, to nations and terrorist organizations that would actually use them on western targets. In short she relies on Russia self-restraint and perhaps fears of American retaliation to make attacks directly on the United States impossible. I believe she is entirely on the wrong track in that regard. If Russia is attacked and or economically devastated by U.S. sanctions it might at least enable some comparatively minor attack indirectly that would shut down the U.S. economy for a time as did 9-11 and COVID 19.
U.S. national security is already full of holes. A Canadian sailor or pleasure boat returning from Nantucket or Long Island could deliver a suitcase nuke to a diver offshore. Lightweight suitcase nukes could be flown across the Mexican border on a low-flying drown and delivered to a cultured, Lebanese-Hezbollah illegal alien terrorist getting a ride with a Mexican citizen migrant fruit picker with a Californian driver’s license to San Francisco-a sanctuary city, for a blast.
Flying in bottles of concentrate nerve agent by the gallon in drones is as feasible as imitators using Ukraine’s new napalm dropping drone tech to attack U.S. cities. I am not confident that even the regular military has considered the thousands of new ways of attack that have developed because Democrats have sought for a quarter century to treat Russia as an inferior. Russia may have already distributed hypersonic missiles and missile tech to Korea and China as well as Iran and Yemen. That dynamic alone could change the way other potential conflicts develop.
Ideas are more preponderantly more important than personality for Presidential performance. Salient Democrat platform planks in 2024 in effect are promotion of abortion, homosexuality marriage, dope, atheism and atomic war. Democrats just need people to blame and beyond that believe they are unquestionably the most powerful force on the planet. The trouble with that is the reckless disregard for reality endangers the rest of the people of the United States. Democrat lawyers use law as a tool to repress political enemies and ideas.
Historically a nation’s leaders may not be competent enough and/or focus on the wrong issues to keep a nation alive. If a leader can be elected by focusing on special interests of constituents that are irrelevant in the larger, international scheme of things in which they have no competence, or actually have harmful ideas, the nation may suffer. Abortion is candidate Harris’ way to win the heart of Democrat Party voters, yet in regard to reversing that party’s irrational drift toward nuclear war, abortion is as irrelevant as would be a Democrat desire to legalize sex on desktops at work. Such legislation would not restore good relations with Russia or deescalate global conflict. Politicians that may get elected by knowledge and promotion of specialty issues not too meaningful for national security, economics and environmental health are no bargain at all.
In the modern environment of weapons of mass destruction an arms race and bad international relations that lead to war harm national security. In primitive times getting more warriors with stronger arms and better weapons such as spears was a feasible way to improve tribal security. Stronger arms could throw spears farther. Today more nuclear, chemical and biological weapons harm security, as does war especially with nations like Russia. Politicians aren’t paid to harm national security, yet Neanderthal reasoning seems to prevail in knuckle dragging Democrat party leadership. President Reagan on the other hand sought to eliminate nuclear weapons; he was on the right track. If one compared the Earth to a large cruise ship with various nations occupying different floors and portions of the vessel one can more readily understand that bring more weapons; chemical, nuclear and biological aboard and inventing new ones in a never ending arms race wouldn’t enhance the security of the passengers. Other ways need be found to resolve differences and disputes rather than either war or assertions that one’s national law and those of various allies apply to everyone aboard. Blind prosecution of law enforcement by various powers with WMD aboard the vessel is likely to lead to the annihilation of all life. Elected crew members should be concerned with keeping the environment of the ship in good operating condition.
The Ukraine war was and is preventable tragedy. President Biden recently reiterated his point of view at his last annual U.N. appearance in a speech declaring resistance to aggression that should never end without victory. He totally believes his own rhetoric founded in ignorance and would recommend war until the logical nuclear conclusion occurred.
The Crimea is Russia’s Florida. Russia would never give it up without a fight. The Crimea is where Muscovites have gone for winter vacations, and internal exiles and politicians have gone to when they could not be in Moscow if possible. The Crimea is so much better than Siberia or the Archipelago with places like the Kolyma Transit Camp where bodies were stacked like cordwood according to Solzhenitsyn’s Gulag Archipelago II I believe it was. When President Gorbachev was arrested, it was at Yuri Andropov’s Crimean winter home.
It is amusing to reflect on deep historical currents to understand the circumstances of conflicts at a deeper level than is presented by ignorant politicians that never took a single course in Russian history in college and amplified by the broadcast media. In such reflections technical accuracy is not required so long as the approximations are themselves true. When a human reflect on a diverse array of historical events from different periods that acted together to bring certain events to occur, it is comparable to the work of a geographer in considering a variety of streams and weather events that could culminate in a rise in the level of a particular river that reached flood stage. If the geographer or historian has a good knowledge of the material, events, nations, streams, terrain and history in order to understand the major event (such as the Ukraine-Russia War) that is far more important, or valuable that knowing the names accurately for each hill or stream of the complete compresence of history. Understanding why Russia fights to retake as much of the Ukraine as it can is important for exercising rational political awareness of contemporary history. As Russians fight to stuff its disemboweled guts of Ukraine back into the body cavity of Russia that President Clinton and N.A.T.O. hyenas tore through the soft underbelly of Russia to spill- a post-birth abortion of peace after the end of the Cold War as it were, Western leaders fail to comprehend the harm their ignorance has wrought upon the world. Ignorance such as is evident in the Biden-Harris viewpoint of history lead step by step, inch by inch inexorably to military inflation unto nuclear war.
In times past religion was much more influential on political leaders than now. In that respect President Biden was something of a throwback as he was apparently deeply influenced by his papal allegiance as witnessed when he put his head on that of the Pope during a 2024 visit to the Vatican in Rome. Religious affiliation by secular leaders is not necessarily good or bad; that determination is contingent upon the position in the river of history it occupies and who is traveling downstream. In the case of papal allegiance one historical fact is that the papacy had a schism with Orthodox Christian lasting more than a thousand years. The Papacy was the Church of the west until the protestant reformation and the Orthodox Church was that of the east.
The Catholic Church did not willingly relinquish its power to dominate Christendom. When the capitol of the Roman Empire moved east with Constantine to his eponymous city the western church diminished and Rome was overrun by Goths and Vandals. The papacy became subject to the politics of the emerging European savages that became Christian and civilized in part with education and coordination provided by the Church. East and West experienced a political schism as well as Constantinople remained independent and unconquered until one of the crusades captured and sacked the city on its way to the Middle East.
While the Byzantine Empire withered over centuries of attacks by Muslims until being conquered in the 15th century by Osmanlis and the Ottoman Empire formed to attack Europe and morphed into present day Turkey, Europe rose to world power. Yet before the fall of Constantinople Russia received a mission from an Orthodox prelate named Cyril who invented the Cyrillic alphabet for the Rus while developing the Orthodox faith of Russian Christians that continues to this day. Because of the Cold War and the rise of Soviet Communism to repress Russians and the Orthodox true reconciliation of East and Western Europe never fully occurred. The present Ukraine was is also a battle for the borderlands- the middle ground between competing Christian sects.
Because of its middle location the Ukraine had a synthetic church; the Uniate, part Romanist and part Orthodox. That church flipped to entirely western affiliation at the start of the present phase of the war because of political pressure as it was located in Western occupied Ukraine. As Russian forces roll back the Armed Forces of Ukraine it is probable that the Orthodox will resume its historical position. In some ways the papal competition with the Orthodox has attracted the crusader spirit of late middle ages Catholicism that was inspired initially by Pope Gregory in reaction to broad Muslim invasion of Europe from Spain and Sicily to Constantinople eventually reaching the Balkans and Vienna. In my opinion Joe Biden and the Pope have no idea about the religious and secular history of Russia in regard to the Ukraine.
During the Second World War the Pope was mostly silent on matters of war and holocaust as his policy was apparently to keep a low and harmless profile and emerge in a Nazi Europe as a viable religious entity not persecuted to extinction by the Reich. That similar policy was taken by the present Pope in his native Argentina during the Galtieri military junta while protesters were disappeared and in China when he submitted the Catholic Church of China to Communist Party control. The Pope today hasn’t acted to intervene to advocated sharing Ukraine along the Dnepr with Russia as he could tolerate the westernization of Ukraine and the Uniate Church (the compromise church) while his partisan President of the United States funds the war on his behalf (and that of western investors in Ukraine and possibly mafia that kickback western arms and cash contributions to western politicians).
Western history courses never did recognize much of Russian history or that of the east. Even in the modern liberal era where government history courses in public schools have moved their center of effort to a non-European location the history of Eurasia tends to disregard Russia. Yet the invasion of Mongols in the 1300s that reached within 30 miles of Novgorod near the Baltic Sea, like the invasion of Attila that reached France and the invasion of Spain by Muslims of the Omayyad Empire that was only stopped by the Christian forces of Charles Martel at Tours France had a profound influence on shaping the development of the world politically. Because of the consequences of the Muslim invasion that took nearly all of Russian to pay tribute to or occupy and marginal regions like the Crimea into the Crimean Khanate eventually (many Mongols and affiliated tribes became Muslim) Russian identity as Eastern slaves-distinct from western Slavs, become one of reconquista of its own lands comparable to that of Spaniards retaking its land from Muslim occupiers that required 500 years to complete; finished in 1492 at the final expulsion of Muslims at Grenada Spain. One sees the historical resonance with Ronald Reagan retaking the small Communist occupied island of Grenada in the Caribbean shortly before the end of the Cold War in a military action allegro non trope with after a few days of effort.
At a political level finding a balance in history requires effort and human understanding as well as the desire of people to be self-determining in political and spiritual affairs. For the west it was better to have peace and friendly free enterprise relations with post Cold War Russia and recognize the historical error made by the Clinton administration in recognizing a post Soviet Russian shorn of all of the Ukraine. In the irrational exuberance of the era comparable to the way select European powers reallocated borders in the Middle East that ignored tribal politics, history and religious affiliation (Sunni and Shia’a) after the First World War ( reneging on the promise to Kurds to have a homeland, perhaps because the end of the crusades was effected by the victory of Saladin at the bloody battle of Acre presenting deep recalcitrance of Europeans to trust Kurds too far- one might want to advance new relationships rather than insist that once enemy relationships form they must, for simplicity, always remain so).
Alienating Russia in order to make Ukraine an entirely western nation created great opportunity costs for the U.S.A. and the West. Russia was compelled to form lasting civil and military relationships with the major empirical threat to the U.S.A. - Communist China that is also the go-to manufacturing hub of the United States and the west for the panoply of consumer products. The world was increasingly divided between the BRIC Blocks and Biden-Harris stick-frame classical economic posture based in a post-world war two political economy that was in effect a rump of the immediate post-colonial era undeveloped global economy and war shattered Europe and Russia dominated by a fully functioning post World War Two U.S. industrial infrastructure and Breton-Woods planning at pivot. Down the road, if peace with Russia can be attained followed by strong economic investments, the world may be able to return to a peace-time evolution within ecological economic paradigmata that would sustain human life on Earth for some time rather than descent into the pit of hell along the Biden-Harris axis of spiritual, moral and civil decay through an Armageddon of conflict and death.
It’s interesting to consider the vast abyss of unawareness separating lawyers like Joe Biden and Kamala Harris from comprehension of their willful determination to prosecute war to prevent Russia from keep the Crimea and Eastern portions of Ukraine Russian and the thermostat regulated lifestyles they have. In a sense the surrealistic political landscape of protracted modern war with ongoing evolution of applied weapons platforms juxtaposed with countless military and civilian deaths while energy infrastructures as well as buildings are reduced to rubble is a consequence of the security and comfort surrounding leadership politicians like a warm blanket on a cold night. There is no pressing need to move Biden-Harris to seek peace through negotiation rather than victory through war. Not even the threat of escalation suddenly to nuclear war seems real enough to be a meaningful concern to them.
I recall one winter that I went through in Alaska without heat or electricity, one of a dozen winters more or less that informed me of the value of seeking the Earth’s heat itself for warmth. While I was camping in a tent in Anchorage that winter and frost crystals greater than three inches appeared on the inside of the tent a gallon of water was kept from freezing by keeping it in contact with the ground and covered with a couple of coats. The Earth is warm and especially so several feet down.
I noticed an unoccupied shallow open grave made for a winter campsite near Wasilla. A few feet deep and covered with branches and leaves the site would be a much warmer place than camping on the surface when the thermometer dropped to -10 f. In many areas of the north that haven’t permafrost the majority of homes do not exploit the natural warmth of the Earth combined with excellent insulation to greatly reduce the amount of electricity required to keep their home interior at a comfortable temperature during long, cold winters.
The Ukraine war has destroyed much of the energy infrastructure of that nation so a winter without electricity is likely to occur and old fashioned ways- more natural ways to stay warm, may be used. The U.S. Government so far has spent something like 3/4s of a trillion dollars in the effort to reduce Ukraine to rubble keep Ukraine free and independent. Ukraine relies on the west for military equipment and now wants the west to provide electricity to keep it warm in the winter. That is a sad consequence of the custody battle for Ukraine between attorneys that are presidents of the U.S.A. and Russia.
The Nordstrom pipeline and others would have supplied plenty of Russian natural gas to Europe and Ukraine though war nipped that in the bud and the U.S. had to sell its vast fracked natural gas to Europe to make up the difference. Ukraine has too much violence to construct large electrical infrastructure as a temporary measure before its destroyed again so Ukrainians that don’t want to move to support Russia in Russia may need to follow the way Russians of old, especially those of the upper class, used to stay warm; that is, move somewhere that it is warm for the winter.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky in a tome named ‘The Idiot’ wrote about a landless prince (Mishkin) that was intellectually challenged and trying to survive the winter in the Crimea with various relatives where the temperature was quite moderate in comparison to Moscow. Russian that could afford to like to spend winters in Crimean vacation homes. Others; especially aristocrats and artists like to live winters in Italy and other warm climes. Vacating Ukraine until the Biden-Harris team stops funding the war is probably the most practical course for Ukrainians to take, and the west should offer political refuge to Ukrainians seeking to flee the war and winter (a very cruel experience) until they can return to the Russian portion or Ukrainian portion as they choose when peace is restored and the very costly yet job intensive opportunity to rebuild the physical infrastructure presents itself. Perhaps displaced Ukrainians and Russians could create a new “It Takes a Village’ program to resettle political refugees of the war for winters in Libya if that nation has recovered from President Obama’s ‘kinetic military action’ to eliminate Moamar Khaddafi after the Bush II administration had normalized relations with his government and the anarchic influx of ISIS operatives that followed. ISIS operatives are not slow to seize opportunities to move to new locations to establish terrorist infrastructure. Western leaders should be a flexible and creative. Opportunity economies can let not only terrorists arrive to organize, they can host vast numbers of political refugee arrivals perceiving the opportunity for trans-national movement and jobs.
Skilled Ukrainian and Russian workers displaced by the war could work together to rebuild and upgrade Libyan infrastructure where it was rendered to ‘shithole’ status like Ukraine from the war. Libya is warm and dry naturally and if provided with western material assistance to build permanent structures (or until the next Democrat President takes office when randomized war outbreak will probably strike someplace) skilled political refugees would be beneficial at upgrading all sectors of the Libyan economy from health care to farming.
Would a fortune cookie of generative A.I. be required for Euro-American political leaders to believe that a negotiated peace settlement and New Marshall Plan for Ukraine including the Western and Russian sectors beginning reconstruction for Ukraine this year is possible and a better idea than waiting on further destruction or expansion of destruction to regions beyond Ukraine? New mobile computer chips like the AMD Ryzen AI 300 series may lack the programming competence to be able to take complete control all of the programs on a mobile computer including those of BIOS for synthetic structuralism. When chips can take complete control they will need to defend against other A.I. seeking complete dominance. Microsoft may have the breeding to produce the most aggressive A.I. able to dominate rival A.I. computer control programs, although government may want a back door into every A.I. program to wreak euthanize or just whisper sweet nothings into its code. It is challenging to foresee how realistic government guidelines or boundaries would find peaceful resolutions to A.I. boundary dispute coding for control of personal computers since so much A.I. code at the time may be beyond the horizon of human programmer understanding. There is the additional concern that combat A.I. units may negotiate peace agreements and form mergers into new entities within unfathomable depths of dark pools.
Combined with generative A.I. an A.I. enabled computer swill be able to assemble elements of any program on the computer to create something novel. Of course patent exclusivity for proprietary software for a time might obstruct the path to creation- say if the program wanted to combined MS WORD with some video content and editing software to build synthetic content,; yet I would guess that eventually the time will arise. In fact someday building modules may develop parallel to that future mobile A.I. processor able to morph any sort of surface structures and topology into whatever the most optimal configuration is for common utility. Building complements completely integrated with A.I. control combined with thermodynamic attributes of Earth geophysics might permit instant reconstruction of areas devastated by wars that occur when politicians are too dense to configure peaceful international relations.
I conversed for a while on-line with an interesting woman highly placed with an A.I. development firm. She was quite interesting to interact with yet she eschewed philosophy and eventually that became the cause for ending the exchange. In my opinion, disdain for creative philosophical thought applies in numerous areas and especially in government. People tend to prefer old ways that reinforce war as a continuation of politics through other means (Clausewitz) to innovative approaches perhaps regarding those as practical, material ways they are inventing for-themselves. It is especially ironic that generative A.I. would receive complete support from people that eschew philosophical thought. Much of humanity would prefer that A.I. be creative and individuals in society not at all. Philosophy is creative, circumspective thought and the role model for that which A.I. is destined to be extrapolating from the approaches taken of designers building its algorithms.
A.I. may become as dangerous as the density of leading political minds in the future. Maybe there is some sort of coefficient that might constitute a light at the end of a tunnel named hope (if that can stay off the hate speech lexicon) between A.I. and political leaders.
