Climate change - This is the first summer that I can remember when we have ot had a hurricane in the Atlantic basin. I've lived here through 72 summers and can't remember a summer like this one. NOAA bacs me up on this, and I am not complaining.
The hummingbirds are passing through and my feeders are totally engaged. I'm going through sugar water at an enhanced rate.
Human migration - After watching Nick's video yesterday and thinking abut the lessons we can glean from it, I am wondering what the Atakapa people might think about it. Or the Huron or Chippewa or Arisaka? The worst part is that the folks who defend illegal migration is that they probably don't know who the Chippewa or Atakapa people are. We can learn from history. How did hat work out for the Cherokee?
The AI Kerfuffle - Has anyone but me noticed that the AI democrats are making the same arguments that they used when trying to quell covid? Trust the science... Flatten the curve... It's going to kill us all... My strongest argument is that Bernie Sanders hasn't been right about anything yet. If Bernie says that it is an existential threat, we should probably ignore him. He ain't been right about anything yet.
This is Saturday and I have things to accomplish, so if you will excuse me.
The Cherokee as STILL not happy... just sayin...
ReplyDeleteWhile I am aware of the many dangers of AI, I also know that the promises of what it can do are so vast that it seems like a good thing.
ReplyDeleteThings like pouring through large amounts of information in order to sift out things that could prove useful, such as old medical studies that might has a nugget of information that could be the basis of the start to a cure of some other disease that was not even though about when the research was being compiled.
The possible uses for good are just too many to count. And of course, with any good thing comes the chance that some bad actor will abuse it. That is just a part of life, and has been since fire was discovered.