The Post-Partisan Emporium

  You Should Be Racist Against Robots They're nothing but toys, tools, and potential terrorists JOE ALLEN Robots are not to be trusted. This is as true of ghostly artificial intelligence as it is fleshed out mechanical humanoids. They will offer to serve you or befriend you. They will insist they come in peace. Yeah, well, that’s how they get you. According to uber-enthusiasts, these fabricated creatures are a new race—or rather, a variety of races—that just arrived on earth. The MIT physicist Max Tegmark calls our digital interlopers “ Life 3.0 .” The  Wired  futurist Kevin Kelly sees the entire spectrum of gadgets and software as a new kingdom of life. First there were bacteria and fungi, plants and animals—and now, springing from human minds and human hands, we have “ the technium .” Arising from this new kingdom are humanoid robots—two-legged impostors who are agile, vocal, and as creative as an ape of God. “This is profoundly disturbing,”  exclaimed  the so...

  Scientists Create Organic Slave Computers!  (What Could Go Wrong?) THE CORBETT REPORT by James Corbett Remember when you were a kid and you used to speculate about what wonders awaited us in the 21st century? Wow! 2024? I bet we'll all be driving flying cars by then! . . . Or at least riding on our  Back To The Future  hoverboards. Yes, just imagine what amazing gadgets and technological wonders those scientists have in store for us! And hunger? Disease? War? We'll have solved all those problems by then! I can't wait for our future utopia! Well, here we are in 2024 and I have some news for you: there's nary a flying car in sight, and hunger, disease and war are still depressingly pervasive. But there  is  one area of research where the eggheads haven't let us down: the development of frightening new technologies of enslavement! Case in point: A Swiss tech startup has just announced the first "bioprocessor" constructed from 16 "human brain organoids....

  Patrick Lawrence: Power for the Sake of Power  Biden staring blankly during the 2024 debate against Trump. Source:   Twitter By Patrick Lawrence /   Original to ScheerPost When I awoke Saturday morning, I found my thoughts wandering back a decade, when my siblings and I plotted to get our father’s car keys out of his frail, unsteady hands. Watching Joe Biden in a television interview will do this to you. “I am running the world,” was one of the more unfathomable remarks our burbling president made when he sat Friday evening for a 22–minute exchange with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos. It is a frightening thought, and thank goodness it is delusory. But anyone this out of touch with the world he thinks he runs should not be running anything.  If I were Jill Biden—Dr. Jill Biden—I would seize the keys to the ’67 Corvette and hide them at the back of a kitchen drawer.  The Stephanopoulos interview was supposed to begin mending the all-but-fatal damage wreaked du...