Let’s Change MeToo to I Can Do

The #metoo movement often lacks proportionality and due process.
Accusations alone are enough to destroy lives, guaranteeing harm.
Worse, it frames women as perpetual victims against a puritanical background.
It will in the end harm rational feminism and thus women.

To Starve in a World of Plenty

We needn't fear super intelligence per se. 
The more I know the more beauty revealed. The void left by ridding ignorance almost always filled by compassion, tolerance, empathy,  humility. The pursuit of understanding rewarded by awe.

Set forth in proper directions super intelligence can reveal more knowledge, more beauty then we dare dream. Perhaps even more of what we mean by, humane. 

The real threat is to apply super intelligence to our current way of life. The real threat is our current way of life.

“Money flows faster. Economists assure us we grow richer.
Electronic gadgets and entertainments distract us. 
Real-world families and communities disintegrate.
Earth and democracy die.

Ruled by soulless corporations that value money more than life,
we get more money, less life.

We face an epic choice:
People power or corporate power;
living communities or corporate colonies;
democracy or corporatocracy;
more life for all or more money for the few.”

David Corten

Dangerous Times

Congress, led by McConnell and Ryan, and the executive branch, led by Trump, are corrupt and ineffective.

Meanwhile people, real people, suffer and die unnecessarily due to federal government action or inaction. Worse, large parts of the government know this, and don't care.

Special interest, greed, power hunger have replaced true governance. Those now attracted to government are there not to lead so much as to consolidate power for powers sake, and to enrich themselves and their supporters. Sating campaign donors need and demands is now the immediate focus of congress and the President - helping people that are dying for lack of health care, a clean healthy environment, economic stability, or advancing world peace and stability - not so much.

It is a sad day for the United States - truly. This isn't about liberal vs conservative, democrat vs republican, fox news vs msnbc. Our government is not governing, it is corrupt, it is dysfunctional, and it is dangerous.

Religous Darkness

The village schoolteacher is the torch.
The village clergyman, the extinguiser.

Victor Hugo

So Says Religion

Not understanding needn't be a call to action.
Curiosity, a threat to faith.
Ignorance, as virtue.

So says religion

Listen to the Silence

Listen to the silence
as it sucks the breath from your chest

Listen to the silence

whilst it dissolves you into nothingness

Listen to the silence
amidst your empty, airless, screams

A cacophony of violence, hate, greed, suffering, useless, self-absorbed construct, amidst a background of perpetual, deep, throbbing, silence

Listen to the silence
And know it is your fate

Fermi’s Paradox

Any intelligent species capable of spaceflight will develop computers. Super general intelligence, a billion fold greater intelligence than us, will rapidly follow.

A billion fold greater intelligence than our current level will exist in ways we cannot experience.

If intelligent life is ubiquitous in the universe - as it surely must be - where is everybody?

Self destroyed or beyond our comprehension.