The View from Lady Lake: Artificial and other intelligencias...

Friday, September 25, 2026

Artificial and other intelligencias...

It's an interesting phenomenon that we (the editorial we, not actually me or anyone I know) keep inventing ways to fuck ourselves up.

Scientists - legit or otherwise - keep inventing newer and more powerful drugs for us to get addicted to and OD on. Business folks invent newer and crazier ways for us to piss away our hard-earned dough betting on shit over which we have absoloutely zero control.

Engineers and brain trusts keep inventing new machines that will eventually kill us all if we don't figure out when to unplug them - and that's only if they let us unplug 'em.

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The sign in this restaurant in Rome says

"WIFI does not work - talk to each other"!

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Ever wonder how it is that those States that do not have a personal income tax almost to a one all have balanced budgets and are well run, and those - especially those with the highest rates - that impose an additional tax on the money you work hard for are fucked? The standouts, obviously, are NY, NJ, CA WA, MI, OR and Illinois. They're all corrupt as fuck, all uber-liberal, and not a single one of them has had a revenue surplus in the last 20 years or more.

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They keep talking about this AI shit as if it's some kinda contest, but think about this for a minute. In every game, there's a time limit of some sort or another. In every contest, there is a definitive winner at the end of that contest. As it relates to AI, where is the limiter? When and how do we say someone has somehow won some undefinable goal? In any sport or contest, there is an inevitable outcome, even if it is a 0-0 tie like in soccer, which is really fuckin' stupid, but that's a story for another day.

There is now set goal for artificial intelligence - no defined end-game, so how can it be a race? I know I'm picking nits here, but I thought it was worth pondering...

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