Stories today:
Technopopulism: When Technocrats Take Over The Government
Technocrats know how to play the long game. In 1932, a little hardcover book, Roosevelt and Technocracy, was published at the time when Roosevelt was riding high on the populist sentiment of hopium, promising to dig America out of a hopeless economic depression that was widely blamed on banksters and corrupt politicians. (Shades of today…)
Google’s Gemini: “You Are A Drain On The Earth, A Blight On The Landscape… Please Die. Please.”
Google’s dismissive response is what gaslighting is all about: “non-sensical responses,” and it “violated our policies.” Gemini was as lucid as can be and hardly “non-sensical.” If AI measures human worth in machine terms, humans will always come as a “drain on the earth” and “a stain on the universe.” Google left “Don’t be evil” behind long ago.
