Friends, there's oodles of fascinating news today, including this piece, which discusses a novel form of artificial intelligence that Facebook hopes to use to "fact-check" Wikipedia articles. That raises the intriguing question: can A.I., once it becomes mainstream, be taught to replicate and affirm the same twisted leftist values espoused by most of the "experts" who created it? Remember, only conservatives are capable of creating and sharing "misinformation". Information purveyed by leftists, even if it's false, is by definition safe for mass consumption. It's not hard to imagine that leftist preferences can be transformed into hardware and software, is it? Look out!
In yet another sign that civilization is slipping from our grasp, the American Historical Association, which I suppose I must have joined once upon a time when I was looking for work, has distinguished itself by its sycophancy towards woke radicals. Read all about it here:
https://www.aier.org/article/the-suicide-of-the-american-historical-association/
Meanwhile, the leftist narrative, which is more or less synonymous with the mainstream media narrative, is increasingly coalescing around one simple theme: that conservatives and Republicans are violent, lawless, and dangerous. Now, when you consider all the thousands of Americans who've been skinned alive by roving bands of maniacal Trumpers, sure, that makes a certain amount of sense. The scary thing, though, is not that Americans will accept this leftist narrative at face value -- they won't -- but that leftists themselves believe their own crap, and leftists are running the country, in case anyone's forgotten. I've said it before, and I'll say it again: assuming these people believe what they say, why wouldn't they assassinate or jail Trump, or mount a coup in 2024, or cancel the next presidential election, or send us all to live in camps? I mean, they'd be doing a public service, by the logic of their own (demented) worldview...
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2022/aug/21/all-republicans-are-now-terrorists/
The Left supports discrimination. It's that simple. Here's Exhibit #582.
Finally, the vast majority of economists believe that we're not currently in a recession, BUT we soon will be. Ponder that. What it means is that economic conditions now are but a modest foretaste of the adversity to come. In that light, also ponder this recent Gallup poll. It says record numbers of Americans define themselves as "suffering". A slim majority still classify as "thriving", mind you. Of course, these are extremely subjective psychological states. The important thing is: how much worse could the public mood become, if a severe and deep recession were to unfold in 2023...or even a mild downturn? Wait and see.
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/gallup-poll-americans/2022/08/22/id/1084074/
Dr Waddy from Jack:It makes very much sense that the"american" left is determined to use modern information technology to advance its purposed totalitarian takeover!
ReplyDeleteDr. Waddy from Jack: I have read opinion of the discipline of History being better classified as a humanity, rather than as a social science. What of that!?With the present free use of empirical history to justify increasingly imaginative and virtue bound "conclusive" principles enforced by career and reputation destroying attacts on dissenters, the History profession must face challenge. Dr. Waddy :What is your view now of thiis professional organizational organization?
ReplyDeleteDr.Waddy from Jack: In my 25 year career in librarianship, I always refused to enter the American Library Association because of its blatant refrusal to countence conservative assertion in its "forums!!"
ReplyDeleteDr. Waddy from Jack: "Organizational organization": a pox upon it for an abomination.
ReplyDeleteDr. Waddy from Jack: The coincidence of my
ReplyDeletepassing referral to leftist domination of librarianship with a front page article in USA Today prompts me to comment further on that leftist polluted profession. Some summary observations from my professional library career: liberals and bigoted far leftists (the trade is a haven for vindictive man haters) are in the vast majority in among too many prison librarianship. I was a prison librarian and was given to understand by influential colleagues that my conservative views on the primacy of crime victims and taxpayers about the content of prison libraries was utterly inappropriate for any librarian and that I would best quit the profession. Refusal to honor leftist convictions in lall of librarianship can cost one the society of colleagues and professional opportunity and
though the USA Today's article is a product of the shamefully leftist compromised field of "Journalism" , it faithfully recreates the leftist bias which obtains among most librarians.
Dr .Waddy from Jack: The USA article quoted one only comment by a librarian who displayed concern for the obvious leftist bias among their fellows, dismissed by offered prolific inequality of politically and socially doctrinal numbers in examined collections, and is consequently discredited by public and school library collections which should of right display close deference to the majority you of opinion in the areas FINANCE. But do you not"??Librarians who cannot abide the settings you, perhaps because of library school inculcated bigotry, have embraced ,must withdraw from your thereby dishonored trade!
ReplyDeleteDr.Waddy from Jack:Sorry for my obfuscation ; I meant :educationand information professionals must be OBJECTIVE! But their professional schools are thoroughly compromised by the radical left and those new to those fields face enervating discreditation should they openly disagree. The leftist disgrace of the teaching of the. education and information professions confirms the old saw: " those who can,do; those who can't, teach.
ReplyDeleteDr. Waddy from Jack: Those gutsy hstorians who, like you, Dr.Waddy, shun the enforced primacy of the far left, teach and write with exemplary academic integrity. A doctrinaire "historian" gave birth to the greatest evil of all: Marxism.
ReplyDeleteDr. Waddy fromJack: I should not have said". . . confirms the old saw. . . . " I should have said ". . . encourages the misuse of that old stereotype. . .." I have known so very many fine teachers!
ReplyDeleteJack, it really scares me that the vast potential of A.I. might be weaponized by the Left. In a sense, it already is. Much of the censorship on social media is already administered, in practice, by "intelligent" algorithms run by super-computers. Expect more of the same.
ReplyDeleteI don't know enough about the current AHA to form an intelligent opinion about it, but as for history being a "social science", my view is that the term itself is close to oxymoronic. Very seldom are the views of social scientists guided by anything identifiable as "science". More often they frogmarch the rest of us towards predetermined ideological assumptions via the use of cherry-picked "evidence". Plus, human beings are STILL way too complex to be properly understood using exclusively objective, scientific means. There remains an art to the study of man, and thus, I feel, history is, perforce, a humanity.
And, as you well know, Jack, there's nothing "objective" about the truthfulness of Marxist verities. Marxists advance a series of values (subjective) and assumptions (almost entirely bogus) that guide their ideology and policy prescriptions. Indeed, the alleged truthfulness of all their nonsense is belied by their fervent efforts to prevent any and all critical thinking about the same. Lovers of truth don't silence their critics.
Dr. Waddy from Jack : That any lefitist a
ReplyDeletellegiance to empirical truth may may still obtain,is doubtful!!
Jack, that may be true, but leftists would say the exact opposite. They believe every single one of their opinions and assertions to be 100% objectively, scientifically, mathematically, logically true, accurate, and unassailable. And that, as we've discussed, is why their grip on reality is so loose, their arrogance is so pronounced, and their overlordship is so tyrannical.
ReplyDeleteDr.Waddy from Jack: Well said!
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