August 2025

An Abysmal Artificial Aftermath  

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From the front page of The Wall Street Journal of August 14, 2025, from an article “Latest in Silicon Valley: Embryo IQ Screening: “Tsvi Benson-Tilsen, a mathematician, spent seven years researching how to keep an advanced form of artificial intelligence from destroying humanity before he concluded that stopping it wasn’t possible-at least anytime soon.”

The Artificial Intelligence Revolution is going to make the Industrial Revolution look like a teen-age run lemonade stand next to a freeway.

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Colbert’s Self-Centered Culmination

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Decades ago, there were late-night comedians who made jokes at the expense of prominent politicians and policy-makers. But the late-night shows were balanced- they criticized prominent politicians equally, and they showed no favoritism.

Then, as the “golden-age” hosts retired, came the new wave. Convinced by their college professors that they were right, the new breeds of late-night hosts were thoroughly convinced that their liberal ideology was correct, and no challenges would be accepted. While accusing the right-wing traditionalists of being fascists, it was more like the late-night hosts were fascists, because fascists do not allow any criticism, the very behavior that they so roundly criticized the conservatives of doing.

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