The factitious is the percieved crafted, human-made (though nature produces facticiousness in and of itself as well).
The factitious is the illusion of certain knowing, high craft of material or thought that creates a magical barrier between the roots of its craft and your capacity to see these roots.
Without the perception of the cogs behind the veneer, the veneer becomes an eternality that takes us out of our own path of knowing outside the frames of what the world around us coercively works to have us believe. to presuppose without even being aware of the fundamental existentially defining decisions about the nature of self and material that have been made by the frames of potential being we were born into.
These frames of being are overwhelmingly the result of strategic coercive action targeting certain key demographics of thought and physicality, with the goal of preserving and/or extending the base of power for select individuals competing with the resources that hundreds of millions of humans can provide to the victors.
Throughout history, these frames have been built to harvest from tens, then thousands, then hundred thousands, then millions. At this point, we are building frames that are intended to capture billions in similar potential ranges of action with particular limitations on the potential for direct apex existential pursuit (the pursuit of being the is, was, and always will be of perceived peak existentiality as perceived by an audience of non-selves.
Overwhelmingly, it is the words that reflect the reality of power, not just in what is said but in what is not allowed to be said.
Breaking the factictious mezmerization still is a goal of mine, but to do it withoutb breaking the utility of shared semantic frames.
If conservatives crave freedom and order with a nod to traditional moral norms, liberals crave justice and equality with a nod to future progress and societal evolution. But whenever either side wins an election victory and their party gains power, the promises that motivated their vote fail to materialize.
Beyond lip service and using those promises as a blanket to cover other things, the politicos dance to the tune played by the uber rich ruling class. We can see now how the Democrats in claiming to be champions of things like justice, equality, and societal progress are mostly just delivering more government control and more crony kickbacks to their corporate masters. When in 2016 the shoe was on the other foot, Republicans delivered more government control and crony kickbacks to their corporate masters while soundbiting all about freedom and order and preserving our traditiona and values.
What we call “upadarianism” is no synthesis of conservative and liberal ideologies as such, but it does seek to address and advance many of the aspirational desires and valid concerns associated with these two main camps. On one hand conservatives may deny the lack of justice and equality some demographics suffer in this country. On the other hand liberals tend to be all too willing to sacrifice freedom for all in order to rectify the injustice suffered by some. Conservatives sometimes recoil at the ideas of progress and societal evolution and see change itself as bad while liberals seem to regard everything from the past as inherently suspect and even execrable in a really irrational manner.
The upadarian ideology, if we have to even use the word “ideology”, is really an ideational framework of ideals, principles, and practices which lead to good governance and a positive and forward-looking lifestyle. It is not rooted in or confined by the ideological straitjackets of left or right. The goal is to apply both God’s standards of righteousness in the form of freewill participation between people who consent thereto and God’s standards of justice to ensure a pluralistic, free, equitable, and prosperous society that nurtures every person without favor or prejudice.
If we desire anything for civilization it is to ensure a free and pluralistic society of equals who enjoy freedom and who may all prosper in peace and happiness through their own individual choices in terms of their own actions and the forms of freewill participation they desire to engage in.
What marks upadarianism as unique in many regards is that most of its “program” is entirely voluntary and can be carried out through freewill participatory associations of some kind and yet government, which includes the magisterial authority, is not necessarily seen as a “necessary evil” but a potential positive good. We challenge and deny the notion the 17th century concept of nation-state defines what the magisterial authority could be, but we see the magisterial authority as essentially good and beneficial when it is governed by the right ideals.
Upadarianism is based on a Judeo-Christian understanding and balanced, holistic application of the four core ideals of what we consider the next advancement in the form of a new civilization. These ideals include Unity in diversity, Popular sovereignty, Democratic equality, and Rule of law. They form the initials UPDR, hence “UPaDaRianism.”
Without getting too deep in their meaning, these ideals resonate with the inner harmony of a civilizational framework that nurtures and values every person and encourages the development and exercise of their spiritual sovereignty as individuals so that each can find and follow God’s best for their lives without artificial limits.
Unlike “ideologies”, upadarianism, sometimes spelled UPDRism, has its starting point and primary focus on individuals and freewill participatory associations of free people pursuing and actualizing its ideals, principles, and practices unilaterally and voluntarily. Upadarianism isn’t about shaping the broader society to suit our beliefs, values, and convictions. It is about shaping a legal and civil ecosystem that simply allows people who desire to use this lifestyle and governance self-disciplinary philosophy and way of life to its maximum effect without undue external interference or artificial limits.
The inner harmony between left and right appears as we get to the root of the rank and file person’s true motivations and realize both want things that are actually positive overall for society. Where these desires become a trap and an excuse to enhance the ruling class at everyone else’s expense is when they become slogans without meaning and justification for vilification and for making government more powerful at the expense of both freedom and justice.
The common thread of corruption of the more pure and noble ideas of left and right is that they depend on electoral victories and a return to power of the other party, the one not in power but who will allegedly save them from the party on power. Even for those who tactically vote against a party to forestall the agenda of the party in power, there is a sense emerging among a very few that this isn’t really forestalling the limitations on freedom nor advancing justice and equity.
Few liberals or conservatives are willing to find common ground on the basis of freedom with mutual respect for human dignity, human rights, and human flourishing as something all sides can uphold. The divide between them is perpetuated and advanced substantially through partisanship to an absurd degree wherein whatever gives electoral advantages to their party is good and anything that might hurt their chances is bad. The good of the party becomes synonymous in a subtle but insidious way with their alleged ideals and aspirations.
While we tend to think Republicans generally support less overt ways to deny or limit freedom, and we beleive freedom is essential to everything else, we also tend to think Democrats at least give some lip service to issues of injustice and inequity and are more open to societal advances that should not necessarily be limited by tradition when those traditions are no relevant or useful.
The problem regarding Democrats today is that they have become the party of imposition and intolerance toward others. Having captured most institutions in this land, they flex their power and, like bad Calvanists, assume the universe favors them simply because they have the power and wealth their opponents lack. Far beyond simply wanting justice and equity, Democrats are moving into some sort of authoritarian-imposed “new humanity” that tears up all tradition and burns down old institutions such as faith and family out of a preternatural aversion to everything from the past.
Many liberals who simply want justice and equality for all persons have been seduced into believing that the path toward authoritarianism and imposing new norms that burn down all the ancient institutions and values is the only path to progress. Arrogance, hubris, hatred, and increasing violence are the new norms on the left, their ideas about justice and equity having become a disingenuous pretext for raw ambitions aimed at monopoly power forever.
We can and do cite the violent and irrational anger on the right, so notoriously on display when the Capitol was stormed by a mob seeking literary to overthrow the government, but this has yet to become a systematic as the violence from the left. Moreover, while most on the right tend to condemn violence and while every institution seeks to shun and shame rightwing violence, this isn’t true for the left. The violence of the left is nurtured by top Democrats and every institution in this land supports it, or at least justifies it, openly.
All this leads people who desire freedom, who may not fit the mold of a conservative, thinking any vote against a Democrat is a good thing because, today, Democrats have become totalitarian, anti-freedom, and violent in their approach to re-creating society as an alt-gendered, atomized, and undifferentiated mass of cogs in their Party machine.
Republicans have betrayed their claims to be for freedom and they continue to treat the poor and disadvantaged as if societal and structural bias is not at all to blame.
Anyone who both loves freedom and desires justice will find Democrats violently opposed to freedom in its real activation but giving lip service to justice and Republicans betraying freedom and most vehemently, if not yet violently in the main, opposed to justice and equity as they blame the victims for their plight.
We do not ask government to implement our program of peaceful and non-violent, unilateral “revolution within”, by which we desire to build among ourselves a sociocultural and socioeconomic alternative structure that allows us to live free and experience equitable justice without favor or prejudice.
We are not relying on “government” and party victories to implement our program, it is something average people must be able to freely pursue and to inhibit this pursuit is itself a tort against society itself, a crime against humanity.
We are not finding things people want or that are trending and then using this to capture and audience. Honestly, that has its place in marketing and persuasion. But it has no place in this effort. We are focusing on a sacred blueprint for human civilization which one may follow through freewill participation and which cannot be imposed by humans over other humans.
Our agenda is NOT to reshape this society according to our best understanding of God’s sacred blueprints but, rather, to be free to explore and actualize those blueprints unilaterally and on a purely freewill basis.
For instance, rather than imposing our will or trying to get other national peoples to be like us, we are working to unilaterally build the genesis structures of a new civilization and its vanguard people, the Upadarian spiritual nation, without seeking to change anything or anyone that doesn’t desire to participate in our freedom-building, nation-building, and civilization-building efforts. Quite simply, to SHOW the world what a nation whose God is the Lord looks like and how its participants act toward one another and the world at large, we are unilaterally creating that new nation on a spiritual as opposed to a political basis.
Likewise, our agenda and program doesn’t follow trends or fads or even things people feel they need or want. Our focus is on discovering and then actualizing a sacred and eternal blueprint which we have a right to implement among ourselves and which no human being or earthly authority has any jurisdiction over.
If we love one another and do not lie, steal, murder, or commit adultery, for instance, there is not law against us in God’s eyes. And if it be not unlawful before God it cannot justly be proscribed by human beings without our informed consent and through freewill participation alone.
For too many on the right and left this isn’t good enough. Not only must they be able to live out and express their beliefs, values, and convictions but the rest of society must bow to these things and participate wholeheartedly to affirm their fragile egos and uplift their choices as if those choices are the only right or just choices one can make. Everything is so “connected”, or “intersectional”, as they say, that your own choices and your own free associations with others must also conform to the “orthodoxy” of the hour or somehow it hurts everyone else who doesn’t like your choices.
(There IS a certain intersectionality often overlooked, a sort of multidimensional and multifaceted matrix of causality and effect that does make many aspects of life at every level interdependent of everything else. But these meshed and highly centralized ecosystems are not necessarily natural and much of the interdependence is forced and contrived. The inherent shared right of private bodies of peopme to unilaterally create autonomous sociocultural and socioeconomic ecosystems that are connected to a broader pluralistic framework should never be questioned by any advanced civilization and yet this is precisely what many who abuse the term “intersectional” are guilty of.)
The answer is unilateral actions by free people as individuals and as freewill participatory associations of people who work toward a common goal. The tendency to wait for the next election in the cause of either freedom or justice only gives more power to politicians who harness those good intentions for their own self-aggrandizement, all while limiting freedom and perpetrating more injustice. Political or civic activism is not off the table, but it cannot remain or become the primary thing, it must be directed mostly at protecting our rights to unilaterally pursue our freedom and justice program through freewill participation and by winning support in a purely consensual manner.
If your vision for society requires more than protecting your rights to pursue this vision through freewill participation alone then your core ideology is actually totalitarian in its spirit. If others must be made to conform and participate in your norms, in their private life and associations, then your ideas are perfectly and utterly useless to humanity.
The war to win freedom so we can pursue things like justice and equity to unilaterally build our own civilizational ecosystem among ourselves that is positive and beneficial to all and that doesn’t require any forced participation, will take many forms and require a multiplicity of tactics in many arenas at many levels. There is no magic elixir to cure us of the ills of an authoritarianism that is infecting every institution in this land.
PGC – Governor Andrew Cuomo resigned yesterday as he saw the writing on the wall in Albany. The Dems and Reps were gathering, almost in bipartisan glea, to prepare to take the once love governor of America down.
They were going to impeach him, but not because of the thousands of deaths that appeared to be maybe perhaps grossly not necessary, the deaths that resulted when some governors, of which Cuomo was the biggest offender, put thousands of Covid patients into nursing homes, leaving to thousands of elderly deaths as the virus raced through these nursing homes in the first few months of the pandemic.
What happened in New York, Pennsylvania, and Michinga will not be investigated by the Federal Justice Department, nor does any state have any such investigations currently being conducted regarding how the governors in these state all chose to put the early infected in with the elderly in confined spaces that were made inaccessible to the loved ones of the elderly, but not the unrelated infected.
Instead,Governor Cuomo was felled because he committed a sin that in the DNC is far worse than possibly ordering thousands of elderly to their deaths, he had sexually inappropriate behavior with woman. Now, granted, his ‘sins,’ if even parlty true, paint him as an untrustworthy lech of a man who does deserve the fate he’s getting, but long before this recent evidence emerged that showed the brutal seriality of his sexual offenses, the evidence against his mishandling of the nursing homes in the early months of the pandemic were enough to have him impeached long before now.
But for the DNC, the sin of lletting the inconvenient die, be they on their way out or on their way in, is far less of a sin to concern ourselves with than sexual misconducts. I say all this with one caveat, that so far there is no evidence to suggest Cuomo ever raped anyone, and if and when such an allegation emerged, then the comparisons at least much closer than they are given the facts as they have been shared so far.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has resigned over sexual harassment claims.
The 63-year-old has denied all wrongdoing but said the move was the right thing to do to let the government get back to work.
A month-long independent investigation concluded Governor Cuomo sexually harassed multiple women after 11 – including current and former aides – came forward with accusations.
Calls for his resignation and impeachment grew from both sides of politics following the findings of the investigation.
PGC – As the United States leave Afghanitan and a trail of broken alliances behind her, the Chinese under Chairman Xi have chosen to side with the Taliban in the war for the hearts and minds of the people. The same nation-state that is regularly feted in American corporate markets, the same nation-state that has more infliuence over America’s media than the American people do, is busy cozying up with the Taliban in a bid to cull from the Afghan mountains what gold they imagine they can if the Taliban welcomed their presence.
Perhaps the coal is the geo-political circumstance of Afghanistan itself, a bridge between what is commonly referred to as the Near East and the Far East. But Afghanistan is a bridge ridged with mountains and difficult terrain, a land not easily tamed if the people of the land don’t will it. America is not the first Empire to die in those mountains, and she won’t be the last.
So China is figuring on trying a different strategy, make nice with the might that is, a strategy America herself has deployed in the past as well. It’s a dangerous gambit but fitting with China’s overal strategy of consolidating world power, gain power through influence where the soul eats and sleep, commerce. If China can help the Taliban exploit the lands for capital for the cause, while getting the kind of cut China will hope to get, this can be a very productive relationship, not just economically, but geopolitically as well. Still, it’s a dangerous game the Chinese play and it remains to be seen if they have the discipline to be a velvet glove master of a land of iron wills.
As the United States withdraws from Afghanistan and leaves a security vacuum there, is China moving in by cozying up to the Taliban? On July 28, Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi held a high-profile official meeting with a delegation of nine Afghan Taliban representatives, including the group’s co-founder and deputy leader Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar. This was not the first visit by Taliban members to China, but the meeting was unprecedented in its publicity, the…
PGC – The European Union has wanted to destabilize the nationlist spirits of its members for decades now, as a european bureaucratic leviathon would be much easier to manage for the wealthiest families of the continent than what they experience having to deal with multiple sovereignties across multiple borders.
The problem with the experiment is generally the people in these once-sovereign lands who get the short end of that deal eventually turn back to the one potential vehicle of power that can protect them from this European leviathon, your local nationalism. So Britain Brexits, and in many other European countries there are political factions that are forming around the desire of the losers of the EU bureaucratic leviathon to break free by clinging to local nationalism. Nationalism of the poles, nationalism of the Germans, Nationalism of the Beligans, etc, etc, etc.
The nationalists in these lands are achieving varying levels of success politically, but enough success that the families that be of Europe, I theorize, are now ready to stop using certain resources to undermine the nationalist trends, importing a shock-and-awe level of other nations radically different than the nations they are coming into (nations as in cultural people groups, not states), under states that are born from that very nation-state but are now seeking to undo their own source of historical power for the last 200 plus years, the nation and the state being one.
Now that the immigrants of Afghanistan have failed to be, in part, the poison pill that would undo these local nationalisms, the powers that are Europe have determined that even if their national lands, since they last occupied them, might be even more dangerous to life than they were before, these failed poison pills must go, lest they continue to foment even more local nationalisms by continuing to stay.
In the course of this story the people we forget are the pawns in the story, the ‘refugees,’ the ‘immigrants’ themselves, shuffled in with real needs but for purposes that never cared much about how their final journeys ever ended, so long as they worked to undo whatever power structures the ones who paid to have them flooded in were paying them to destroy. Now that the usefulness is now in doubt, expect more European leaders, even previous refugee supporters, to suddenly support sending ‘them all back home.’
At least six EU countries insist that the forced deportation of migrants back to Afghanistan continues despite the Taliban’s alarming gains in recent weeks.
Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Greece, and the Netherlands wrote to the European Commission claiming that halting returns “sends the wrong signal and is likely to motivate even more Afghan citizens to leave their home for the EU.”
Adalbert Jahnz, the Commission’s spokesman for home affairs explained that “it’s up to each member state to make an individual assessment of whether the return is possible in a specific set of circumstances, that needs to take into account the principles, notable the principle of rule of law and other fundamental rights.”
PGC – The head of the Minneapolis Democrat Party recently came out in support of the use of violence to get what you want in a political world, right here in the United States of America, the allaged Bill-of-Rights-Based Constitutionally Limited Democrat Republic. In order to get what you want, sometimes you have to do violent things. Justice in America will come down to a contest of might makes right.
The head of the Minneapolis DNC party, Devin Hogan, called the burning down of police stations an “Act of Pure Righteousness,” which led even members of his own party to question what he was actually saying. Had he thought out the path to a cycle of vioence that he was laying out by supporting effecting political change through violent means?
He answered by asserting that decorum itself, the notion of seeking to make political change through the peaceful mechanism of a due process, rule of law type of republican system in and of itself is white supremacism, racism. It’s racist to demand a system of due process and rule of law for reasons. The DNC office headquarters in Martha’s Vineyard is not commenting on the statements of one of the rising star of a party that represents values such as these, that due process, that rule of law, that civility, that decorum, is white supremacism.
When will it be considered misinformation itself to declare that such statements are on their face actual examples of real racism as defined by anyone not signed up for this version of woekness we here at The Freedomist call Corpo-Woketarianizm?
This Corpo-Woketarianizm borrows heavily from the family of ‘woke critical thinking,’ but turns all of it into a violent, simplistic cartoon intended to manipulate the masses to keep themselves contained while the real powers that be benefit from the liberty destroyed for the common person, and the police state powers granted to the very people that created the conditions of injustice in the first place.
The head of the Minneapolis Democratic Party defended his claim that the burning of a police building during the George Floyd riots last summer was an “act of pure righteousness.”
Devin Hogan, chair of the Minneapolis Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, argued in an August column for Southside Pride that the burning of the Third Precinct in Minneapolis during the riots last year was justified as a “genuine revolutionary moment.” Police fled the building in May 2020 as rioters broke in and set the building on fire.
In a statement issued on Monday, Hogan defended his comments as accurate and truthful.
“Fetishizing decorum over substance is a hallmark of white supremacy,” Hogan said. “If antiracism offends your sensibilities then please use this moment to examine the role you play in maintaining and upholding these systems. Which side are you on?”
PGC – The integration of people groups that are physiologically fundamentally different in confined spaces has long led to issues of physical oppression for the weaker in that exchange and physical aggression for the stronger.
Even among men, even among wome, if boundaried away from the rest of society, this physical reality will in due time emerge. This means, among men, who are far more physiologically balanced among one another than with any average woman, there will still be a measure of physical oppression that the weaker of the physical experience. When I speak of men and women, I speak primarily of individuals whose unaugmented endocrinological state is aligned with their genital state, what some might refer to as biological male and biological female. When the biological male is even in a company of females, maybe as many as four, maybe even five, he is almost always guaranteed to be the physically dominant person in that room
This physical reality is a glaring counter to the notion that gender can be defined and created wholly outside of the physical reality of humanity, so gender can be a state of preference that can ovverride the biochemical structures within us, making men equipped to become women and women equipped to become men. When it comes to women becoming men, the transition and potential clash with biological men is not that significant.
A biological woman coming into a biological male space is not a physical threat to men in general, less so than other biological men, in aggregate. When you create enclosed spaces where biological women are now cohabitating with biological males, especially ones whose sex organs are still intact, you are inviting physical, and also, by extension, sexual abuse by a physically superior person over physically inferior persons.
Soon after California allowed transgendered women to be placed in the same prison cells as biological women, reports began to come out about women being raped by transgendered women, many of whom still had their fully functioning male sex organs, resulting in several pregnancies as a result.
So it is in California prison systems occupied primarily by ladies with a few sly dudes in the mix. According to the Women’s Liberation Front, there is at least one knocked up female felon in the clink. All thanks to the new cuddly prison policies courtesy of Governor Gavin Newsom, who’s up for recall, and state senator Scott Weiner…..
PGC – The Corpo-Woketarianizm is a highly authoritarian, highly coercive morality code that demands that you place at the top of your sin hierachry acts of racism and bigotry and sexism and genderism. Any act that promotes or protects the previous orthodoxy of normative should be considered first and foremost the sins that should separate you from the ones committing such unforgiveable sins.
Not only must one not commit such unpardonable sins, but to not work to find, to expose the ones that commit such sins is also a form of sin that is as bad as the sin that the now sinner failed to find and expose. Scalps on the drawer aren’t there to brag, they’re there to send a signal to the hierarchy of moral supremacism that corpo-woketarianizm always creates. That signal is simly this, “I am a good egg see, and pleasing you is all that consumes every part of my being, my identity, my hope. I am yours and yours alone.”
Most humans will be unwilling to accept this diminishment of self-percieved power, so instead they will enter into the role of the burdened executioner/zealous martyr. It is better to believe you are fulfilling a grand hope through suffering than to imagine your suffering, your diminishment, is a reflection of your real lack of power to even think for yourself, let alone dare to express yourself outside the frame of the new normative.
As this latest experiment in rule through social intimidation, continues (one almost always revenge and victim rescue based), freinds of decades, loved ones, will find themselves in the terrible position of having to choose to continue to be friends with the new pariah, risking their own status as acceptable member of the cult, or stand by their lifelong friend and go down with them. This has already happened and more is happening.
As this spreads throughout our professional ranks, the competent and self-stewarded will find themselves either forced out or leaving while the leaving is good, and our major institutions will experience the result of building moral supremacist institutions, the rise of coercion as an increasingly acceptable means of doing business beteeen others, including your own co-workers. It will not be, in aggregate, the most competent at executing the product or service in its lifespan to the clients that rises to the tops of these systems, it will be the ones most effective at being deceptive, at concealing, at attacking, using all the Corpowoketarainz’d weapons of war inherit in its ‘ethical’ codes.
In short, woketarian corpo-cults are set to create terrible, dangerous, unsafe products and services wherever this new ethics takes hold.
When Vivek Ramaswamy turned up late for a gathering of his Indian-American extended family, he looked around for a relative he was very close to when he was growing up. But this man had deliberately left early: he and his wife, a diversity and inclusion officer with a US company, had avoided Ramaswamy because of his views. More recently Ramaswamy was on the phone to a former employee when she mentioned an article he’d written in The Wall Street Journal and began to cry. “I had such high hopes for you,” she said. “I don’t know what happened.”
It is hard, says Ramaswamy, “when someone who loves you, or loved you in some meaningful way as a colleague, as a friend, says something like that.
PGC – Militaries around the world are wrestling with relying on artificially intelligence powered autonomous machines, be they robots or drones, or even robot drones, to determine the appropriate time to apply lethal force and the time to show restraint.
In our reality of power, framed as it is around coercive-based nation-state models of organizing, the countries themselves not only must consider the ramifications of autonomous non-human killers for their population at large, but what their decision will mean as far as meeting the threat of competing nation states.
The very model at large of nation-statism compels these entities to need to seek the more lethal-producing patterns over the more citizen-autonomoy-patterns for fear that their competitors will be more effective at killing than theirs, and thus leave them vulnerable to absortion by those around them.
It’s a nation eat nation world out there folks, and against this backdrop what we mostly have are the nations that are able, and more and more can, to develop inhouse models of effective non-human autonomous killing platform are compelled to do so, for if they fail to do so, no matter the risk, or the backlash from the people they allegedly serve, they are almost sure to lose to the nation-states around them if they fail to act now.
This writer has little doubt that the United States form of people that do such things is busy building more and more effective autonomous killers to be run by ai deep learners that are more and more efficent at producing the desired desults of the humans that began them. This writer also has little doubt that the ability to create such tools is already available for the motivated poorest of nation-states, even for a small group of people who want to build up their defenses among themselves.
A world of the future could involve printing ai-fortified-to-autonomous guardians of very types who constantly sweep the skies, the seas, the forests, the boundaries, looking for threats. The world could be peppered with hundreds of thousands of city-states, all more or less equally capable of sending out drone hordes to make conquest prohibitively expensive
This could be a world where small scale vanquishes the large scale for a significant season of human history to come, though eventually the large scale will come roaring back, leaving this age to come a golden age for the ages to come after that.
It might sound like the stuff of science fiction but killer robots, sometimes called “slaughterbots”, are already a reality.
Last year, STM Kargu-2 drones hunted down targets in what might be the first instance of artificial intelligence killing on its own initiative.
The revelation came after years of experts warning about the dangers of letting machines decide who lives and dies in combat.
Now a UN conference on so-called Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems (LAWS) is taking place in Geneva to create new international regulations to stop killer robots being allowed to make their own decisions.
The Russian delegate argued no new rules are needed, but others disagree, saying machines shouldn’t be given the power to choose targets themselves.
“Humans must apply the rules of international humanitarian law in carrying out attacks so weapons that function in this way complicate that,” Dr Neil Davison of the International Committee of the Red Cross told BBC Radio’s Today programme.
“Our view is that an algorithm shouldn’t decide who lives or dies.”
PGC – Microsost and Twitter are paying independent coders bounties to destroy problematic bugs in their ai networks. They are also paying them to figure out ways to assure that their ai algorithms don’t create the very biases these companies are hard-pressed to assure is not propelled.
The hope is to develop algorithms that guarantee the values of the monopolistic companies are reflected as being the objectively superior moral constructs to build our societies around. The problem is many of their suppositions about the truth of this overwhelmingly popular assumption regarding the nature of what is or is not accepted moral supremacist paramters gets broken when it comes to the algorithms that are left to emerge from actual human use instead of being pre-programmed to assure outcomes that favored a specific moral supremacist parameter.
One doubts their chances in creating a world in their image that will not require greater and greater levels of coercion to keep the countering data concealed that perhaps their positions are not as sure and as clean as pure and as good as they imagine they are. To some degree, that’s what the AI has been telling you, you can’t control the preferences of a people, you can only coerce them in having to accept the limitation of their preferential being for fear of not having the capacity to live at all.
One suspects their hopes at creating the perfect AI filters is an illusory goal, and you will one day learn the futility of governance fundamentally through non-human decision-making, which is what these massive techno-corpo-states hope to create, a virtual zoo wherein the human made in their image can theoretically thrive, governed with minimal human expense and thus human opportinuty.
Now, tech companies like Microsoft, Nvidia, and Twitter are hosting bug bounty programs specifically for artificial intelligence. The goal is for outsiders to spot flaws in A.I. software so that companies can improve the technology and reduce the risk of machine learning discriminating against certain groups of people.
For example, last week, Microsoft and Nvidia detailed a new bug bounty program during the annual Defcon hacker conference. The companies plan to reward hackers who manage to alter computer viruses so that they go undetected by some of Microsoft’s A.I.-powered malware-detection services. Hackers who can create scammy emails that evade Microsoft’s machine-learning powered email phishing detection software will also earn some money in the form of Microsoft gift cards and other prizes.
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