You talking about the Sacrates of old? He had a bad ending, he was greedy and they killed him by pouring gold down his throat, or that's what I remember of what study I did on him 40 years ago [ I may have him mixed up with someone else]? I like correction so if I got it wrong I welcome correction.
No, Socrates is the name he gave to his A.I. he developed primarily for analyzing global economies and trade. “Socrates is the name of our fully functioning artificial intelligence (AI) system. He monitors the entire world by tracking every market and global capital flows to provide the only international perspective of the financial world we live in. He also monitors the entire world news feeds and looks for fundamental news events that correlate behind the global trends.” https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/socrates-artificial-intelligence-real/
Fascinating subject; I think A.I.s will represent our first encounter with true alien thought. Folks keep trying to make them mimic us in all ways, which tells us, at the root basis, they’re nothing at all like us. And we’re just getting started.
Now this guy, Robert Malley, a high-level advisor in both the Obama and Biden administration is being investigated for allowing Iranian groups into the U.S. government circles. He has served in the State Department and is now a high level advisor to the Pentagon. He is suspected of helping this attack in Israel to take place. He was an architect of the original Iran agreement form the Obama Administration. He is an intelligence operative for a foreign government committing treason. Undoubtedly, he will not be prosecuted as he is a life-long Democrat and support of the correct political candidates.
There’s an argument in some circles that living systems are a natural law result of thermodynamics, lending a likelihood to the development of some sort of life. Intelligent life though, for myself, I think not. Out of the billions of years and astronomical numbers of opportunities, only one species developed sufficient intelligence to produce technology here on earth, the one actual example we have. Intelligence is not an end “goal” of evolution but just another adaptation for survival. Anyway, here’s a more detailed presentation about it. https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/full/10.1089/ast.2019.2149 Here’s an excerpt… “It took approximately 4.5 billion years for a series of evolutionary transitions resulting in intelligent life to unfold on Earth. In another billion years, the increasing luminosity of the Sun will make Earth uninhabitable for complex life. Intelligence therefore emerged late in Earth's lifetime. Together with the dispersed timing of key evolutionary transitions and plausible priors, one can conclude that the expected transition times likely exceed the lifetime of Earth, perhaps by many orders of magnitude. In turn, this suggests that intelligent life is likely to be exceptionally rare. Arriving at an alternative conclusion would require either exceptionally conservative priors, finding additional instances of evolutionary transitions, or adopting an alternative model that can explain why evolutionary transitions took so long on Earth without appealing to rare stochastic occurrences. The model provides a number of other testable predictions, including that M dwarf stars are uninhabitable, that many biological paradoxes will remain unsolved without allowing for extremely unlikely events, and that, counterintuitively, we might be slightly more likely to find simple life on Mars.”
Egyptian military has now been put on alert and troops have been called back from leave. Hamas has thanked Ukraine for supplying weapons for the fight, the EU is having an emergency meeting tomorrow re: the Israel situation. An emergency meeting of U.S. Senate leadership has been called and took place earlier today. At least one B-52 is reported to have landed in Israel purpose unknown. It appears Ol' Joe is taking us to war. It has also been reported that aid has been reinstituted for Gaza under the Biden administration that had been halted by Trump and those funds may also have been used. The Wall Street Journal has now announced that Iran was the planning body for the attack and members of the Revolutionary Guard are still in the Gaza region.
Apparently Hamas has now promised to execute one of the kidnapped hostages for any bombing of civilian homes in Gaza without warning. Where was their warning for the attacks on the hostages they kidnapped? There are now 11 Americans dead from the Hamas attack. There are bound to be more. The bombing by Israeli planes has been hot and heavy. Blinken called for a ceasefire on X: "Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan and I spoke further on Hamas’ terrorist attacks on Israel. I encouraged Turkey’s advocacy for a cease-fire and the release of all hostages by Hamas immediately.” After he got slammed he deleted it. How can you make peace with terrorists who are trying to kill you? This administration has such a hard time finding a backbone. What a mess! I heard too that Biden has been funding Palestine since he took office.
Dwight, maybe your pneumonia has something to do with your current frame of mind. It’s hard to have a good outlook when you’re sick. I hope you feel better soon.
I second this emotion, @Dwight. I have anxiety too and it is no fun. I tell myself ,'this too shall pass' but it still feels bad till it does.