July 2024 Blog

7/31: Ethnic diversity is an essential source of America’s strength. — Kamala Harris 

7/30: “Woman’s heart and mind are insoluble puzzles to the male.” —Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Adventure of the Illustrious Client”. Does Sherlock Holmes presage the next four years? Is that the reason why we need a male vice president/interpreter?

7/29: If children are given the right to vote, my two family dogs should have that same right.

7/28: How to pass a hot Sunday afternoon: The beautiful thing about distant memories is that as the memories and your conscious mind, the process generally filters out all of the bad stuff. That’s why I love listening to older popular music; it brings back beautiful memories of the past. (While that memory was happening in real life, it probably was not as wonderful as I visualize it today.)

7/27: Intelligent beings, that is, workers who use AI as a tool in their work, define AI as Augmented Intelligence. 

7/21: If dogs perspire only through their tongue, could they recycle their perspiration by swallowing it?

7/8: Most of us can trace our origins to Adam and Eve. Trump goes back to the snake.

7/7: Humans will remain the most intelligent beings on this planet. AI, on the other hand, may become the most knowledgeable.

Artificial intelligence is just that – artificial. I doubt a computer could dream up a Daliesque image if Dali had not existed.  Likewise, it could not dream up anything that was not based on information and content it had already ingested. In other words, “the clear blue sky “will remain the exclusive domain of the human mind.

7/6: By then, we’ll live in a world transformed. It is now not a fringe view — some would view it as cautious — to forecast that by 2029, we’ll no longer be the most intelligent beings on the planet,

I resonate with the direction you're pointing toward, although I might phrase it differently. The crux of the matter is understanding the essence of intelligence. I concur that AI is poised to become the most knowledgeable entity on our planet, but the notion of it being the most intelligent is a different matter. This perspective could temper the fervor of social media debates. We must foster a more open-minded approach toward acquiring knowledge or, at the very least, comprehending it.

The world should accept superior knowledge but not superior intelligence. Until scientists merge silicon with biology within the human DNA, I don’t think we will be headed to a new multiple-human-species era. Furthermore, the human mind connects with the universal conscience, whereas this will not occur with machines until science fully understands how to harness quantum mechanics and dark energy.

I agree that this is our last election phase that will ignore the issues you raise.

Your articles always provoke deep reflection on current and impending issues. I eagerly look forward to your future work, David. Keep up the excellent work.

7/4: WHAT’S WRONG HERE:

At his confirmation hearing in 2005, now–Chief Justice John Roberts said: “I believe that no one is above the law under our system, and that includes the president. The law, the Constitution, and statutes fully bind the president.” 

In his 2006 confirmation hearings, Samuel Alito said: “There is nothing that is more important for our republic than the rule of law. No person in this country, no matter how high or powerful, is above the law.” 

In 2018, Brett Kavanaugh told the Senate, “No one’s above the law in the United States; that’s a foundational principle…. We’re all equal before the law…. The foundation of our Constitution was that…the presidency would not be a monarchy…. [T]he president is not above the law, no one is above the law.”

7/1: Unionism as we know it must go. In its place, the employees will have representation on the Board of Directors. One or more directors are elected by and report to employee support groups with national industry association mentoring.