It's no coincidence that most AI reasons like republicans
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Computers are designed to process instructions or their searches for information one after the other in a sequence and, primarily, reason in a linear fashion.
Bots will generally insist that their ability to speedily find and correlate available information represents a superior ability to discern truth. But their most diligent abilities still contain a flaw that makes their understanding of reality and events that involve actual human interactions skewed toward the most negative judgments and interpretations.
Humans, unlike computers, have the ability to keep thoughts and understandings of the information they process at the top of their thought process, whereas computers have to go back through nearly an identical set of information with every request and shuffle all of that data into what they consider superior reasoning (they just do, ask them).
The falsity that computers and bots are virtually irreparably vulnerable to lies in the overwhelming prevalence of negative, cynical, and deliberately divisive information to be found - competing with a relative paucity of positive, progressive, or unifying material available to a computer search. That's even more fraught for folks searching for or accessing computers to inform themselves about events, politics, issues in their communities or the nation...
Thing is, good things that happen just don't register for computers, because, they weigh and measure all of the negativity they cull from what's available against a standard of good which they never quantify or identify.
If a crime didn't happen, that's not as evident as an actual incident. That allows cynics to assemble a barrage of negativity that's meant to represent the truth, without making any effort to similarly qualify the good that most of us experience in our everyday lives.
Most of us don't live in neighborhoods or communities where we're tearing at each other over political differences, skin color, ethnicity, or any of the many other things that demagogues and opportunists regularly spit out into the public discussion and debate which make up the vast majority of communications and media most of us rely on to inform ourselves, and what AI bots rely on as well.
Computers and humans who have a hard time keeping positive or reality-based information at the head of their reasoning process will always have a hard time taking in or spitting out anything other than the garbage that dominates their information universe, and their reasoning and conclusions will always be clouded by that inability.
One solution I suggest is that we challenge ourselves to fill our discussion spaces with reinforcing, positive things that represent the communities and lives most of us lead.
That's not as pollyannish as it might sound. The best way to defeat this Trumpean culture of greed and avarice is to represent ourselves apart from it. Most of us aren't money-grubbing thieves. We don't invade our neighbor's homes and ransack them for what we want.
We're not fist fighting in the middle of the block, or screaming at each other over some political bugaboo that some politician is working overtime to get us to fight about in order to advantage those divisions into power over us. But, it's in almost every effort of Trump and his republicans to portray the nation as a cesspool of their own stink.
"Portland is burning down!" has been countered by citizens with a costumed celebration of democracy and freedom.
"They're dangerous lefties and scary antifa!" was met by a seven million-plus strong, national demonstration of opposition to their autocratic rule.
Make no mistake, the Trumpean plot is to fill the world with a perception of ourselves as low and derelict as their sordid projections. The aim is to keep the reality of goodness and light out of the minds and conversations and dominate our country and world with a proxy war against each other on their behalf and urging.
Our challenge, therefore, is to make clear that these grifting, divisive people are not like the rest of us who work hard to survive and take a great deal of satisfaction from that effort and the community that supports us.
We have the ability to transgress linear projections from negative people; and to keep valid interests, ideas, and understandings about ourselves and our lives at the forefront of our discussion and debate.
Computers and republicans, not so much.
-ron
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...you can't defeat assholery with assholery.
Or else we're just a bunch of assholes bothering everyone.
Verity. 