Smartphones, singularity and some bedtime stories

We fear no robots

I saw Spotlight yesterday. Great movie. It makes you wonder what good movies you have ignored because they did not happen to win an Oscar. Anyhow…

Facebook is full of life nowadays. Pictures from carnivals, selfies, parties, drunken snapchats, weddings, success stories, news stories and overall things that indicate notdeadness. The problem is we eventualy die, right? And that’s natural. What if we forgot to log out from Facebook before we did that? It’s not the first thing you think about I suppose. Whatever. Everyone does it. And there will come a day when dead people on Facebook will outnumber the living. Someone calculated that date.

While alive though we are smartphone dependant even when we are together. I am not the first guy who glues his face on the screen while in a group. I am the third and I am not Facebooking. I assert my dominance over Email like a BOSS. But if you don’t like it, what can you do about it? Here is what. It’s not good to be so religiously connected to these devices anyway.

Myself, I consider religion as already dead at that point, but Dylan Love (that’s his name), wonders if singularity strikes the complete end of it. In an era where Google’s AI beats Go Grandmasters for breakfast these are questions to ask. If I were to challenge a robot, I would choose a game that it can’t win. I would be a good sport though and tell it the big secret. Humans have counter measures if machines decide to play a game called “Kill all humans”. Super intelligent humans are coming.

To help you sleep better after that, here is the story of John Hofsess. He was the master of opperations of an assisted suicide club. If that didn’t do the trick, here is the story of an inmate who did the best he could with his time in prison.