In Which AI skyrockets and Voyager is going too fast

Good morning, dear friend and reader of the current post! I am, of course, and as always, so happy and humbled to see you, and I hope to make it clear I never take it for granted. How are you, this last day of March? As for me, I am okay, I'd say. Today was alright overall, not anything on any side in particular, either good or bad. I made my college test for the March discipline, and my grade was nothing to write about, but also enough to pass me through! So it is what it is. I made myself some sweet potatoes for lunch, it was good and filling. But the trend concerning food is concerning. I have been struggling with my appetite again. At times I feel very hungry and almost like before the surgery, that is extremely concerning. I did manage to locate the approximate reason for this, and it is the protein intake deficit. I am in need of supplementation, but that is so expensive and in my household at the moment every penny counts, specially since we are barely reaching the end of the month and the economic situation in Brazil is turning for the worse in an exponential speed. I know, it can be exhausting to talk about the many bad news on the place I live... But it cannot be avoided, I couldn't be 5 years ago, with the whole government draconic measures to "contain" Covid, and it can't be now, when to make things nuclear sized worse, a far left government was voted into office, under suspicious circunstances, and has been doing every single bad decision on the book. It seems like this nightmare won't end.... I can only try to keep living as normally as I can besides calling out the absurds for as long as they don't start persecuting me. Unfortunately, there is not much one guy from a empoverished middle class family with little leverage can do. Any job prospect is still a distant goal, it feels like it. I am exhausted, beaten, quite defeated even, but anyway.

You know what else feels absurd? How fast AI has been improving and how massive are the improvements. When it comes to AI, it seems the evolution is on a weekly basis. That is... I don't know if that is good, even. Not because I am one of the luddites that are for example condemning so strongly AI image generation tools, for example, thosoe fools, oh the arrogants, there days are numbered. Their Intellectual Property gated pampered lives are finished. No more Platonic view of "Art", demolish that presumptuous word altogether. No. Modernism to be taken away for good, salt the lands of the galleries in shambles. No. Craftsmanship and humble, free market work, and no more inflated prices, that is the future I am much more keen on. And please understand I am not against IP entirely. I don't have a strong opinion on this matter. I discussed that with a friend the other day, my position is to keep the laws but, as an IP holder, only activate them when life-and-death situations are concerned. Lasseiz Faire also for unsolicited copies. Yes. Away from me to either bring the hammer and tore down the laws altogether, but also I won't blabble them to heavens either. These people brought them on themselves, their arrogance, their leftist demeanor. Just you wait, the bubble is bursting. But that all being said, even I am taken aback. I cannot ignore the movies I watched in the past, of rogue machines gaining conscience and immediately going rogue, violent, evil. That worldview has many issues, such as their "natural conclusion" that intelligence breeds wickedness. But, I feel frightened of a mechanism that may go towards places we can't fully grasp. I am old and cannot sleep, thinking if everything we do is actually good, when it all quickly slips out of our remedies. 

Things are going so fast this year, I did mention the A-Pop-Calypse we are experiencing, and it is indeed as described. Mr. Trump with his sweeping, most of them direly needed, reforms and decrees, and the tremendous work Mr. Musk has been doing to balance the budget, and I must say, I love seeing the eunuchs, like in the palaces of the Qing Dynasty, crying and moaning as their unjust salaries and their schemes receive a strong countertime. But with all of the good, much bad also. I am afraid people are learning the wrong lesson with the years of leftist consensus. Because they were so evil and insufferable, many are rejecting the whole "old order" so to speak, but not all of what the left dislikes, or pay lip service to, given for the left, it is all about manipulation, is necessarily good. And, I can't ignore that on the terrain not belonging to the left, there has been growing winds of a dangerous groupthink, not on the left, but also post modern, also on the idea of all about power. James Lindsay, God bless his soul, calls them Woke Right. I was aware of such group, the manosphere, catholicore bros, whatever you want to call them, but with the changes in administration, the season for power grab is open. Back when Jeffrey Tucker wrote of the hegelian right, I was not entirely convinced but definitely did not feel entirely comfortable with some peers that I should be confortable with, given they hated the left as much as I did and do. Now, on the second administration bombastic beginning, the volume of the culture war was turned to 1000 multiplied by 1000. It is going too fast. I cannot keep up. Can only hold to my values. Ah, what else is to be done, but as J said before, just try to keep going business as usual and voicing my concerns while I can?

It was a month of more intellectually heavy posts, my dear friend John has been very intrigued with my ideas. Ah, God bless him, nice that my words are not just ignored, going to space and becoming incomprehensible noise, as the Voyager space vessel keeps on going towards an uncertain direction. I suppose paralels between Voyager and my own world can be traced. Out of familiar waters, which like I said has good and bad sides to ot, it is an uncertain future. Anyway, maybe I should wrap up today's post here, because it is getting quite quite big and filled with too many thoughts and plot twists. April and easter are around the corner, that is nice. Maybe I can have some chocolate. In the meantime, thank you for being here once again. I should return to the blog with more of my crazy stuff soon, we are gonna open up the new month and have a good time as much as we can. I look forward to having this with you, I would not have it any other way.