Kobayashi Maru:

The unwinnable scenario. Apart from Star Trek I wonder what else inspired SpaceX. I have my theories about Tesla, X (Twitter) and colonizing Mars but why spoil the surprise. Let's ship half of the human population on Earth to Mars, give them Teslas, all the Bitcoin and X. Let them drive around a barren planet in their hybrid cars producing breathable air while they chat bot on X and throw Bitcoin parties with each other. It's simple; everyone is eligible, anyone can go, none will return. Maybe Musk has a preferred method but I'm saying send the vegans first. The rest of that tribe will follow.

In something slightly unrelated. Some may recall my open letter of contempt I wrote to the criminal element of South Africa in which I unleashed with great vengeance and furious anger upon them. Sadly their stupidity remains beyond comprehension and my hand bares the scar. This time around my distain to projected toward an inanimate object. A broom. This rusted handle Frankenstein assembly absolutely ruined my good deed with another finger laceration and the end of a potential Quidich career. Me attempting to sweep a floor, rusted broom and snaps clean off to ninja slice across my battle tested little finger. No stitches this time around, there was blood and I cried like a little girl. This time around I had my retribution, that rust buster 9000 crashed and burned. I'm not suggesting my incident coincides with Dumbledore passing, all the same I raise my wand because the magic lives beyond the failings of reality. 

Artificial Ignorance

I'm not opposed to A.I. as I believe it's not on a functional level, at least at the time of writing this post. My idea of A.I. integration is R2d2, where's my Droid?

This opinion doesn't come from a want of understanding, I understand the system just fine but I don't think we need to pledge our undying allegiance to chatbotGBT. This stuff is artificial, always will be, it's imperfect and flawed and needs us; we don't need it, at least not to the same degree. Then why has the millennial generation turned cult following for it?

The culture crazed fundamental morons record their ignorance explicitly for future humans to study as the singularity when humanity completely fucked it all up. It's no fault of the technology, a tool misused is not evil when weaponised. That's correct future people, technology in the 21st century is a tool. It would be contemptuous of me to state I've forgotten more about information technology than the millennial age will ever learn, gen X represents...

In my continued persecution of millennial ignorance, not the same as artificial ignorance, I've uncovered the misunderstanding of the one and done philosophy. Raising pets is super hard when you forget to inform the responsible Gen X adult in advance, skipping over the part where this was my fault for forgetting to be reminded and my heartless cruelty is unwoke. 

So what do I feed my hungry pet?

Ask Google I say.

I like did and all the stuff Google says you need to go to the store and buy right now.

The store is sold out until the weekend, two days from this conversation, when I can get more food. Oh the damn thing is reptilian and can go for several weeks without food but in this case it's nearly starved after last eating a week ago, it won't die in two days.

What else did Google suggest? I ask.

Nothing, I like watched the first video and it validated what I know already.

Not much by my observation.

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Right, so Google just validated common sense, that's the stuff I have, and made several suggestions on what else carnivorous reptiles do eat.

But it won't.

How do you know, have you tried? I enquire.

No.

Place sarcastic meme here.

So are we A.I. ready?

Try again ten years from now.

Listen to the past:

When I was a young boy, my father took me to the city of Johannesburg for the first time. As an impressionable eight year old I was captivated by the giant machine operating around me. I remember what he told me about the changing world I saw around me. 'Everyone here is making a change, you are part of that change and you can make it good change or you can make it bad change.'

I haven't been to the city of Johannesburg for many years, it's not the city I remember. It's a fallen city, bad change claimed it over time. I don't remember when last I traveled to Johannesburg, I don't need to go there to know its ruin. That was the legacy of my father, the past. I've posted a lot about my legacy that I leave to my children, the sad reality is they will never experience Johannesburg as I did. I'm not sure what I'm building as my legacy, sad to think it won't include parts of my lineage history. I can best retell and record those stories. Beyond the documented failures of the current government, social agreements and gradual decline of a country into ruin the common goal remains greed. Describe South African priorities today; cock and booze, having unpacked the anatomy of this thing I've realized this is not part of my legacy. You cannot fix anything choosing to remain broken, not by acceptable standards. Conflict resolves. I'm moving on. What really grinds my gears is the general ignorance in the aftermath, things failed because we wanted it that way and now it's OK to start from zero because everyone wanted that. What the fuck kind of logic is that?

Woke logic, according to a millennial reality works like Minecraft, exactly like it. You just break it down and rebuild for like 100 days. Now I, the Gen X fossil am not one to argue with an idiot, I avoid them like covid. Instead I decided in a head to head challenge; they play Minecraft online while I play the OG real-time version of Minecraft many of us refer to as life. Life, the reality based MMORPG on open world platform starts on level HARD, oh yes you spawn in on day 1 an infant and only really get established twenty odd years later as you struggle to live before you die. So be fair we're playing a 100 day challenge to see who makes greater progress. Arguably this sounds closer to The Sims, but all the kids these days are Minecrafting...

Thus far I'm winning, my point being life experience trumps digital garbage. Yes it's hard labour, there is failure, you do not respawn, other people lie, cheat and steal after all this is real life and there is no app for it. 

I do see something of a digital legacy formed in memes, the vehicle for teaching history to the millennial muppets. Have I surrendered on my return to Johannesburg, perhaps. Perhaps the city I first experienced changed into the city pixelated online. History is old, old is not a concept for the millennial generation. 

The Magic Roundabout:

Since the dawn of man children have experienced the right of passage from a single mechanical device menacing and mesmerizing on playgrounds everywhere; the merry-go-round. This primitive machine skims the skin from knees of small children careening away from the elliptical path of travel centrifugal force can generate. Oh science thou art a heartless bitch. Too has the monstrous mechanism claimed the stomach content of older children ride the challenge to test their might and retain the lunch at the same time. Alas the cry of defeat, 'stop, stop, stop I'm gonna be sick.' While these carousels of controlled chaos were the work of scientific witchcraft your perception of its medieval design changes in your adult mind. My adult mind observes these childhood instruments of torture with practical repurpose, how exactly would I institute this automaton from the ancient time to infuriate their daily digital drudgery. A merry-go-round could turn a dynamo that slow charges the the wifi router. It amazes me nobody has thought of this sooner, millennial sized hampster wheels slowly turning round and round to the mindless shuffle of feet and the rapid ticking and clicking of fingers on touch screen.

But the thought squirrels are running rampant and there modern day practical applications for really old technology that within the twisted realm wherein resides my imagination I would observe; 15 minute parenting. The world is a fucking scary place for adults, especially necrotic parents when they partake in this weird childhood practice their children insist on, like spending time outside, in the sunshine, having fun. Kids know adults are definitely defective and need their help with nearly everything because you forget how to do stuff when you get really old. Back to super dad, our hero neurotic braving the wildness of a public park on a Saturday afternoon, he was super nervous of the big scary dogs chasing their ball around he quickly ushered his kids out the car then locked it from the inside. His daughter reassuringly illustrated the big scary dog wasn't going to rip everyone to shreds, 'hi doggy, can I pet you?' She did, and wasn't mauled by Cujo. A sigh of relief, dad tentatively exited the overcompensated SUV, gast their are swings and children are playing on them. Gently hand holding and soft words of reassurance, adults freak out about anything. Swings, slide, merry-go-round all declared safe but then dad caught sight of a new danger, other children. Dad, still hugging the treeline close to his beloved SUV attempting to execute order parental advisory. Turns out I was the "stranger danger" to his tiny universe, kids didn't think so yhe next fifteen minutes were tiktok worthy. When adults attempt to show children how to have fun it usually ends with someone uploading the hilarious failed clip to social media. As my 7 year old says, 'parks are for play, YouTube is for assholes.' as he attempts to conquer the infamous magic roundabout.

A want of understanding:

The service industry, nobody knows its exact definition anymore. That blue collar working class society looks down upon is best described by Tyler Durden : 'Look, the people you are after are the people you depend on. We cook your meals, we haul your trash, we connect your calls, we drive your ambulances. We guard you while you sleep. Do not... fuck with us.'
I being on of these people am regularly frustrated by the corporate muppets who, until recently were as important as the manual labour force. But can an algorithm replace middle management?
Could your fortune 500 company be automated at the board room level based on the inputs of the work force?
I say it can. Artificial intelligence is a decision making program, when tasked it processes accumulated data provided by an input source to postulate the best outcome. That describes every office based job from management to administration and, at the time of writing, those tasks are done by people sitting at home wasting hours each day attending online video sessions while chatbotgbt runs the business more effectively. Meaning every job appointment above the threshold of physical labour can be replaced by chatbots running algorithms, Siri, Alexa and Cortana sign the paychecks. I welcome the concept and forecast in less than a decade paper pushing employees will be phased out for a.i. replacement capable of, at minimum, reading. Audio books in my opinion are not books anymore than streaming movies to your smartphone is a full cinematic experience. Reading something engages you but having someone else read to you puts you to sleep. People tell stories, people are not always storytellers and I prefer the narrative voice in my mind over a voice actor. So why won't anyone read?
A want of understanding, or the absence thereof works in three parts. Based on simple observation and my experience