American Simple Truths

 Home schooling should dominate American education because the main teachers in a child's life are the parents. School systems are more or less a curse. Big government is actually okay as long as it is local government...what my neighbors and I can do will make sense as we know the actual needs. The federal government should be as small as necessary given what the state governments would have difficulty doing ---such as a national military. "Family" should be the center of most legislation. 

And it is best if all elected offices were one term. It comes at a cost: the few good people go home after 4 years. But it comes as a great improvement: Majority and Minority Leaders lose their power...lobbyists lose their power...and the wealthy lose their power. 

What needs to end is this pervsive belief that there are no authorities only opinions. What needs to end is the murdering of the past by the present. What needs to end is the dominance of "experience" over relationship. "You gave me a bad time? It's over!" We mature through commitments and not through the childish running away because some times it is difficult. Marriage is a matter of vows not a superficial contract that can be broken. It is covenant and gives you an identity...for better or worse.

Eric Schmidt and Geoffrey Hinton

These two gentlemen are casting the net of AGI before our imaginations as a warning of the reality soon to come. And they are experts. (I'm only the messenger.) The reader should follow their advice that they are giving publicly---I am by way of (Twitter) "X". 

I was involved in undermining the Y2K problem (by developing 44 solutions) that were noticed or even triggered by the NSA, Bob Martin of Mitre, Senator Robert Bennett and the "2000 Year Commission" president, John Koskinen. I have been doing OSINT work for over thirty years and developed strategies AFTER 9/11 as well as a warning about it six weeks before the tragedy (sent to a former SECNAV). However, my warning---in preparation for a meeting with General Morrison on counterintelligence---had too few details about the incoming attack.

In light of such past work, I am watching the development of AGI; the reader is advised to be learning from the two men cited here. Our president strongly supports robotics and few in his  Administration sees the dangers.

AGI and the Reliance on the Internet

 BACKING UP THE INTERNET. Between the federal government and local government stands state governments that can function if federal "goes down". We should have that thinking between a personal computer and the Internet. We need to strengthen local networking against such reliance.

IBM needs to function if the Internet goes down. Still able to communicate with major customers and suppliers. And the same for "mom and pop" businesses. (state governments if you will)

Dec. 25: Political Context

 So what Far Right or Far Left? The system launches the crisis not the politician. I don't care about such a context. One is Communist; one is Capitalist. Doesn't matter here. What matters is that the U.S. government and most governments around the world have BEEN FORCED to ignore their citizens because of the intrinsic threat of other governments.

This was minor before WWI...major after WWII...and now dominates. Imagine the local football team 100 years ago interested in the local atheletes, local fields and customs, local officials and local newspapers; well, today the opponent is the focus and the fan matters little. The advertisers mean more and the business a lot more. But the team no longer represents the city; it represents money-making.

Our government needs money to deal with other nations; it has little interest in her citizens. Therefore, freedom and privacy get sacrificed for surveillance. Trust gets undermined. Patriotism is merely romance. Do we have the weapons to fend off adversariues? Not...are we still the good guys who should win? Merry Christmas and if you are going to protest in the streets, then, at least, send a lot of protestors over to Moscow, too. 

But the wisest technician knows that "nation" doesn't matter anymore---not even our nation---and that protesting or voting or getting elected or appointed simply pales under the dominance of the system that is flawed and dangerous. Context.