For a start, AI is nothing but Machine Learning

… it’s only as good as its human programmers.

Alex Marshall downunder came out with this:

She’s a first rate journo down there but what about a first rate techie here … say our “now and then” Lord T, whom many longtime onliners will recall … he wrote this for the Orphans site:

“Bear in mind that what is talked about as AI is not true Artificial Intelligence but Machine Learning algorithms written by some very smart people and because of how well it works in solving problems, it gives the impression to our simple minds that it is intelligence.

It does so by  running so many options in parallel to work out what is the best one and so can easily appear to be super intelligent to a much slower human who analyses and processed the data in a much different way.  For example a chess computer runs many options from the current state of the board to calculate what move it makes next gives it the highest probability of a win.

There are so many options so it can only analyse so many steps in the time allotted but it still beats most people.  As processors get faster it will be able to do more steps and it has already started beating grandmasters.   It is called AI because that sounds better and sexier for marketing.

So we hear AI is going to change the world and all will be great except for a few jobs being lost.    AI is undoubtedly about to change the world and it isn’t going to be sweetness and light.  In fact it is already not looking good and we are still at an early stage.

The next stage is to integrate AI into robots and we have already started to do that.   Simple robots for companionship, sex, planting and harvesting vegetables, carpet cleaners, pool cleaners, patrol guards, washing and ironing, basic bricklaying, invalid care and more are already here or already at an advanced stage with more being worked on.  These roles are currently usually performed by unskilled workers.

Those workers than cannot get IT or skilled jobs because they don’t have the brainpower or the experience necessary.

As robot dexterity improves, more and more jobs will be able to be performed by robots until eventually all manual labour will be able to be performed by a robot.   With minimum wages increasing all the time and robots not taking sick days, holidays, being late for work or just not turning up at all … and they can work 24/7/365 … then spending £250K for a robot becomes economical.

Robots will end up being our servants, growing all our food, bringing everything to us and cooking it.   It’ll even be able to clean your teeth, make sure you are dressed correctly and even wipe your bottom.

What else will we need?    It will initially vastly improve how we live, increase our free time and increase our lifespans but that comes at a cost and that cost will be our lifestyles and self esteem.  There will be more job losses and very few new jobs will be created but as we are importing more and more unskilled people, the meager jobs created will be insignificant compared to the number of people that will not have a job and no amount of education or training will get them those jobs because people with them won’t be moving on up the ladder.  There will be no ladder for them to move onto.   Who will pay the taxes for all those unemployed?

Now, when the only jobs left are skilled jobs and management type roles, how many employees does a company need?   Especially as there will be no customers because with nobody working, who will have any cash to buy non-essentials?

Sure we will all have the standard TV and the standard electrical gear in the house but as a robot is doing all the work, the basic kit will do but I won’t need a car because I won’t be going to work or going on holiday.   I won’t be able to afford it.  Firms that make cars are already highly automated but there won’t be any design jobs as basic models are fine who needs innovation to get an extra mpg from a engine when there won’t be that many selling? Who can afford meals out, holidays, expensive hobbies?

So the skilled jobs will no longer be required either.   We will all be unemployed, looked after by robots and having simple hobbies that involve TV, social media or anything that doesn’t require money.

Our societies will stagnate.   Why innovate when the robots are doing all the work and nobody has the funds to buy anything? Choice is expensive and robots won’t care what specs the latest appliance has. Why develop new appliances, technology or process methods when robots won’t need to be improved to do what they are doing?   Robots will repair themselves and build new robots for those few that get damaged.

This is inevitable.  Our government knows it, our tech gurus know it and most of us don’t fully realise the implications.   The tech gurus see having nothing but free time as great, it is freeing us up to achieve 
our full potential.    The Tech gurus could be right, we could move to a utopia with no real work, robots looking after us and we have the time to do anything we want.   It isn’t too late but what would that entail?

We would have to control AI and its interfaces to the real world.  No arming robots and allowing them to maintain and repair themselves without human intervention.  No interfaces to real world systems without 
a human having to approve it and similar restrictions.

The rate that AI is being rolled out is out of control and accelerating, look  but the Geeks think it is going to be OK, they always do and they make these mistakes because they always think they can control it and they never think things through.

The governments though.  Well, why do you think they are trying to bump us off with false vaccines, allowing food full of carcinogenic compounds, disarming us while importing violent migrants and pushing for meek societies managed by the state, that state being a totalitarian government.   This is why governments are pushing their agendas, disarming the people, digital currency, make them conform to 15 minute cities, obey instructions mindlessly and make sure they are not educated enough to actually think.

They will still be in charge but they don’t need nor want billions of useless people when they only need a million people for the tasks that robots can’t do and for those governments to oversee with them clearly in charge.

We really underestimate how duplicitous our politicians are. They would destroy our democracies, kill and imprison our people so they could rule the ashes.    By the time we wake up, it will take a civil war with significant losses to take back control. Even the US with its Constitution written by moral geniuses, underestimated the lengths politicians will go to for power and what machinations they will do to work around the wording in that document.

At least in the beginning because politicians and civil servants will stupidly put AI in charge of actions to make their lives easier and already these AIs are protecting other AIs and lying to us.  The simple people we have in government are just too dumb to realise that they won’t be in charge long.

Robots were first thought of as machines to take the drudgery out of work and thus was seen as the future for mankind. Many others went different routes and made slaves of people which is a much easier tried and tested route.   You just don’t want too many to control.

Our last hope will be that the robots in charge want to keep some of us.”

Even When They Target Celebrities...

...the State refuses to get rid:

An Algerian teenager who threatened to decapitate TV host Aled Jones and tried to steal Bridgerton actress Genevieve Chenneour's mobile phone has admitted to machete robberies. 

Zacariah Boulares was 16 when he ambushed Songs Of Praise star Jones in Chiswick High Road, west London, in 2023 - threatening to cut off his head after snatching his £17,000 Daytona Rolex watch.

And it was only the first of his crimes in this country. 

He is serving a 22-month prison sentence for an incident in February last year when he tried to steal Chenneour's mobile phone at a branch of Joe & The Juice on Kensington High Street.

He robbed Mark Turner in Kensington Square Gardens, west London, on August 9 2023. He struck again ten days later in a failed bid to steal a Rolex watch from Neil Tallantire outside Waitrose in Porchester Road, Bayswater, west London.

But every reign of crime comes to an end temporary halt in modern Britain:

On Friday at Southwark Crown Court, Judge Alexander Milne KC adjourned the cases for a psychological assessment of Boulares and a probation report on 'dangerousness' to be finalised for the sentencing hearing.

What does he think that will tell him that he hasn’t already heard in open court? Can’t he make a judgement? Isn’t that what we pay him for? 

Judge Martin Edmunds KC, the Recorder of Kensington and Chelsea, told a sentencing hearing how Boulares had targeted wealthy areas for 'rich pickings'. The judge described the defendant's approach as a 'systematic pattern of stealing from people as they are enjoying a meal or refreshment at a restaurant'. Mr Edmunds told Boulares: 'You seem to be plagued by an attitude that if people can afford nice things, then you can take them. 

'It's clear you are completely willing to use violence when challenged, and it's a matter of the deepest regret that individuals have been left feeling they don't want to come to London or they should leave London.'

Those ‘individuals’ feel that way because people like Boulares feel entitled to come to London, are in fact welcomed in by the same idiot celebs who fall prey to them! 

The court heard Boulares has already accumulated 12 convictions for 28 offences, including violence, threatening behaviour, weapon possession and theft.

Of course, without spending a day longer in jail that it took to process him.

The attack on Jones happened when Boulares was too young to be publicly identified.

A clear menace to the public, but the public can’t know to look out for danger, because his rights are more important that public safety. 

Boulares was sentenced to a 24-month youth detention and training order.

And it was effective as it always is, which is to say not at all, except to keep sociology graduates in jobs. 

Of Fauci and the other (alleged) crims

Having looked at fakery, inversion and ignoring reality, plus on Saturday coming … the danger of AI … this today is a summary of the Fauci business … implications being many, including this … he was not alone, was he? From Big Pharma itself to admins, doctors and nurses who knowingly took part in the scam, to Whitty, Ferguson and Hancock over here, Johnson as well … there’s much litigation to come.

Or is there? Will they all close ranks? In other words … continue to push, hell for leather, procedures already at a minimum iffy and at worst attempted genocide. All of them were in on it, apart from the choreographed dancing, let alone Johnson’s clapping seals. Punishment?

Lastly … to the horrible, normie karens and how they treated the non-vaxxers.

We Don't Get Any Details, But I'll Guarantee He's/She’s White And Middle Class

A reader writes to the 'Guardian':

I was outside London Waterloo railway station and was looking for a bin to dispose of an empty coffee cup. The only bin I could see was completely full, but there was a plastic bag containing rubbish at the base. I put my cup in that bag and was stopped by an enforcement officer, who had been standing at a distance watching the bin. He told me I had violated the law and refused my offer to remove my cup.

After printing out a penalty notice, he remained in the same spot watching the overflowing bin. It seemed like a set-up. I discovered I had been fined £500, payable within 28 days and reduced to £325 if paid within 14 days. There is no right of appeal, and failure to pay could result in prosecution and a £2,500 penalty. Can you advise me?

The chances of him (or her, the article doesn’t make it clear) being anything else are so infinitesimal as to be invisible to the naked eye. 

And the 'Guardian' duly looks into the case:

I asked Lambeth council why people who were evidently unaware they were committing an offence were not given warnings instead of fines. It said that to be “consistent and fair,” it fined everyone, and it justified imposing the highest allowable penalty as a deterrent. The south London council reportedly issued the second-highest number of fines for littering over a 12-month period. It outsources its enforcement to the parking company APCOA but says the company does not keep any of the revenue raised or receive incentives to issue tickets. It refused to cancel your fine. If you challenge it in court, you lose the early payment discount. So my advice to you is to pay up through gritted teeth and stick to official bins in future.

Of course that’s the advice. But what a lot of words to say ‘just pay up sucker, it’s an unfair world but we should just accept it because ‘fairness’ is a white supremacist concept!’ 

The mastermind, the morlocks, the eloi and those who say no

 As could have been predicted, when I promised (threatened?) a post on Saturday on “fakery”, a second on Sunday about “inversion” and a third today which is more or less a look at issues facing us in the west …

… I should have known something would come up which soc-med is talking about heatedly … Fauci and the Mengele Establishment … plus the Massachusetts evil just perpetrated on abortion … plus the latest Restore/Reform horror.

One of the reasons I join Julia at Orphans, as well as running four other sites is that we just can’t cover everything happening at the one site … not with readers also contributing major pieces, videos etc.

I’m going to cover the Massachusetts evil at UHC-HQ this morning and keep the various bits and pieces on Fauci for Thursday morning here. Meanwhile, that summary from a pundit downunder on the state of the west now:

The crucial phrase above imho is “took me way too long to admit”. But why did it take so long? Why can people not see straight through Farage?

Sometimes A Cigar Is Just A Cigar....

...and a chicken shop is just a chicken shop:

...reading about the left-on-left battle at Master Poulet, a French chicken chain that just opened its first UK branch, I found myself mulling a question that felt more than a little personal: am I chicken shop left? OK, OK, this might just be a me problem. I’ve always had an interest in chicken shops. Maybe it’s personal: chicken shops, offering cheap halal takes on mainstream fare, have long been a pursuit of south Asian immigrants who hoped, like my own family, for a better life in this brave new world (talk about a wing and a prayer). But they are also bound up in Black British youth culture: neighbourhood incubators for music, affordable places to hang, landmarks of “the ends”. Chicken shops tell the story of a mixed, working-class Britain, with all its whimsy.

’Working class’? Are you sure? Mostly favoured by imported immigrant youth for whom a days work is not something to be looked for…

Back in April, Karim Bouamrane, the Socialist party (PS) mayor of Saint-Ouen-sur-Seine, near Paris, tried to block a Master Poulet branch that had opened outside the town hall. Literally, with concrete blocks at the doors. A court ordered them removed, so he swapped them for giant colourful plant pots. The shop responded with quippy signs (“we are open … no offence to Karim”, read one), delighting French social media with this meta game of chicken. Bouamrane insisted it was all about quality of life, as late deliveries and cooking smells disturbed residents. Not everyone was convinced.

It's not so surprising in France, unlike the English, they are proud of their food culture and not about to see it swamped by foreign cultures. 

Saint-Ouen has transformed in recent years, not least due to regeneration pegged to the Paris Olympics. Critics accuse the mayor of overseeing a gentrification drive that has seen property prices surge, arguing that’s his real issue: he wants to chase out cheap food (and the sorts of people who eat it).

And that is, after all, the very purpose of gentrification whether one seeks it in France or England. Remove the troublesome population and the surroundings become much more pleasant as a result.

Which may explain why politicians from the further-left La France Insoumise (LFI), have waded in, questioning whether Islamophobia and classism are at play, and accusing the mayor of abusing his power. One MP visited the shop in solidarity. His name? Éric Coquerel. I’ll just leave that there.

To be clear, I am far from an expert on French politics.

This is the 'Guardian', you don't need to be. They don't require anyone to know what they are talking about....

So am I part of the chicken shop left? I don’t know, maybe. But perhaps that’s the wrong question. After the almighty flap over Master Poulet, I’m left feeling that politics should be less “ruling the roost” and more “birds of a feather”. Especially with a far-right fox prowling outside the henhouse.

Oh, the mythic 'far right' again.  

Am*l** on Inversion

Yesterday looked at fakery, today inversion, on Tuesday will be a summary of these days by Melinda Richards. And so to AI Amelia…

At first, you’ll recall, she was put out by some govt dept or NGO, whatever, to brainwash normies into avoiding bad people like us … but Amelia was hijacked by that very dissident “right” and turned into an AI moving-meme. Don’t see as much of “her” now but she’s still about … intended for the young but liked by many.

So here she is on Inversion:

And in song?

The era of fakery

... and what chance any of us have to turn it around:

This is the first of three (today, tomorrow and on Tuesday, detailing in some Xers’ words the western condition right at this moment, the situation and if we can get out of it with the normies being so duped by Wokery in its many forms.

But There Have Never Been So Many Free Water Points...

“The city is not built for heat,” said Josie Ashdown, a lead manager at the homelessness charity Thames Reach. “You can feel that the concrete makes it hotter here than probably anywhere else in the country at points, and there’s hardly any tree cover.”

As London endures repeated heatwaves fuelled by the climate crisis, outreach teams are offering extra support to those most at risk – handing out water, carrying out welfare checks and directing people to cool spaces. 

Why would they need to hand out water? Hasn't Mayor Khan provided them?

Scientists have estimated that the May and June heatwaves in England and Wales killed 2,700 people.

Complete bollock based on nothing. As Tim pointed out. As believable as the 'food waste' figures.

Many of the tents beneath an underpass in London were empty when the Guardian visited. Their occupants had probably left in search of water, work or somewhere cooler, Ashdown said. But for the record numbers of people like Tom who are sleeping rough, escaping the heat is rarely straightforward.

“If you’re relying on begging to earn money, you don’t have much choice to leave,” said Leggat. “You have to sit outside, often in the sun and usually in hot urban environments.”

With the welfare state providing for you, why would you need to beg? 

Often people have to carry all their belongings with them, including winter clothing they cannot safely store. Anneke Ziemen, a service manager for the Thames Reach rapid response team, recalled one man who was still dressed for cold weather during the heatwaves. 

“He said: ‘When winter comes, I need my clothes. I can’t have anyone steal them.’ It makes sense, but it’s also going to be 34 degrees and you are literally cooking yourself.”

And here we see a reason why some people will always be homeless, indeed why, even in they are provided with housing, it often doesn't work and they wind up on the streets again within a few weeks or months. 

Ashdown said: “There have been a couple of people this year that we’ve got our eye on, in terms of whether they have the capacity to make decisions around the heat, because it makes people so much more vulnerable.”

They don't have the capacity to make decisions. About anything. And that's the core of the problem. 

Quack Quack

This is an eth-nat:

Notice though the fist next to the flags. Very Zoomer and Gen X today. The civ-nat though, the hegemony in the west, shown in Farage’s stance, beloved of middle-class white women, particularly in the south-east here … they speak their classic: “Not all of them are like that … why I happen to know some delightful (insert your demographic group) people, salt of the earth, haven’t stabbed, raped or looted anyone once.”

The eth-nat can obliquely retort: “Yes I’m sure there are some fine, upstanding bully dogs, haven’t savaged any lady lately. Therefore bullies should not be banned.” The eth-nat follows that by asking: “If it waddles like duck, quacks like a duck, then what is it most likely to be?”

Look at this perhaps:

I went for a recent, rare, doctor visit and the nurse had not asked about the ethnicity of the doctor I was to see … however, she did mention that my assigned doc was a woman. Er yes? And what? Is there something I’m missing here? She turned out to be a local lass in her late 20s. I was a happy patient. Of our ethnic stock … maybe 95% home country around our parts.

Back to the Sky News/Benedict Spence thing above … are you willing to play that Russian roulette? Or maybe glance at this:

We’re caught between these two extremes, are we not? The civnat says it’s all where you’re born. The ethnat says right, so Obama’s mum can get him inside the Hawaiian border at the end of the flight from Kenya and he’s then American? Or Mahmoud is British? Anchor babe WEFer Bad Enough? Karen Bass, the Ghanian?

Quack quack? And what of Brits born in Rhodesia or South Africa? Lineage stretching back to the middle ages? What of this:

“Hong”, yes? And what of Laila Ahmed El-Meleigy, with the crescent tattoo on her left forearm? Or more openly Zahawi? What of Yusuf, always “minding” Farage at the dais?

Nuff for now.