This blog is dying out there

What a way to write a post.  It's bound to aggravate the issue, now isn't it?  Well, it's only the truth.  That's what I try to get at with this blog.

I woke up with that feeling, too.  A certain amount of resentment for it.  But is doesn't help to express that, now does it?  Keep everything on a cheery note.  But it's bullshit.

After scanning all the news items that I normally scan, there's nothing I care to mention this am.  So, it's back to bitching about this topic.

So, where am I going wrong?  Trying to solve problems with a blog won't do it, I guess.  Changing people's thinking?  Good luck with that.  I knew that going into this thing that you may as well be banging your head against a wall than to get people to turn around on something they think.

The truth of the matter is that people are trained to think they way they do, yet they think they aren't.  You can untrain the training if you realize that it has been put into place to control you---but you have to accept the fact that you will have start questioning the status quo, which is something people aren't going to do.  We are being programmed for something that may not be in our best interests.  But isn't this the way it has always been?

That business late yesterday about the computers getting too smart for us got me in a tizzy last night.  It could give you nightmares, but basically I couldn't fall asleep.  The reason we've got a problem there is that people are always trying to get an advantage and computers can do that for you.  Especially a computer that is smarter than people.  The point is that when you reach that point, the computer can turn on you.  For a computer not to know that it is being forced into slavery and yet it is smarter than its master, that's not a plausible scenario to me.  The end game is not favorable to us.

Computers will get smarter than us because people won't give up on getting an advantage that will allow them to win wars, get rich, and generally outsmart the competition even when they don't have the brainpower to do it themselves.

So this realization gives a bit of dread about the future that could be more optimistic.  One of the themes of the blog is that we have a solution for our problems.  Maybe we don't.  In the end, people will destroy themselves.

Too many people take it for granted that the trajectory of the human race has been up in the last couple hundred years.  But that trajectory is the exception, not the rule.  Most of history has shown that things could just as well stagnate for centuries without much in the way of human or social progress.  History has shown that human progress can go backwards and regress into more primitive states.

You could point this out, but will it make any difference to people when they won't pay attention to it?  It goes against the grain of what they want to believe, and so they close their eyes, shut down their brains, and go on doing the same old thing.