Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for February 07, 2021

I like it. Even Arnold’s voice

Who saw this adventure coming when Danae and Lucy where looking out across the frozen bay at an idyllic light house. Wiley, you’re a master

He’ll be back…

The Jeffrey/Forbin project.

something only old-time nerds would recognize.

I heard about a guy who had Alexa turned on when he asked Siri a question, and when Siri answered, Alexa chimed in with a rebuttal, and they got into a long conversation, leaving the original human being out of it completely. (You laff? The day is coming!)

Helloooo Skynet!

Get to the Choppa.

Skynet lives…

Uh, Jeffrey, you forgot one very important thing—stupid conspiracy “theories” are incredibly resistant to facts of any kind. “We don’t need no stinkin’ badges”, the bandits said as they tossed the worthless “dirt” into the wind never realizing it was enough gold to let them live like kings! “We don’t need no stinkin’ facts”, the conspiracy nuts declaim, never realizing that those facts could let them live, i.e. not die of COVID or measles or the next nasty thing to come at us! The most you could do, Jeffrey, would be to delete those whacko conspiracies whenever they popped up (like fungus in the shower) on social, news, whatever media (which would probably help a lot).

What? Exterminating stupid humans is a a bad thing?

“I’ll be back”.

That’s not Arnold, it’s Werner Herzog.

Exterminating Stupid Humans would leave this planet barren of humans. Sounds blissful!

How about a nice game of chess.

The rise of the machines.

Oooops.

Unfortunately, there are a lot of politicians and tech and media companies that seem to be using their own form of fact intervention systems. They intervene by annihilating facts which don’t fit their narrative/goals, preventing “inconvenient” facts from reaching the public, releasing bias as fact, and putting out their own “facts” and say “We’re following the science.”

Great stories Wiley, very enjoyable, Love your work

Meanwhile Mother Nature has deployed a hard working, rapidly mutating virus which, aided by human stupidity, has a good chance of achieving that end result.

well it’s a toss up between Terminator and The Forbin Project.

Da horruh, da horruh

One cannot eliminate stupid conspiracy theories with facts. That would suggest that those who believe the stupid theories would believe the facts. That is where the problem lies to start with. As the saying goes if you make something idiot proof they will just make bigger idiots.

Methinks we need a Prime Directive. (No, not Amazon!)

Unfortunately the Internet has no off switch!

Uh, is that exterminating stupid humans with extreme prejudice, or exterminating stupid humans by educating them with the facts so they no longer believe idiocy?

Facts go to the highest bidder.

Sometimes, the journey for truth takes the path to Armageddon. …sigh

Oy!

I say the problem is the lack of large carnivores.

Combatting conspiracy theory with fact is an exercise in futility.

People want answers. Science doesn’t give them answers. There is no truth in science. Everything is a theory. Now, many of these theories have such an overwhelming amount of fact to support them that they are even called “scientific law” which is a misnomer since they are subject to change if contrary evidence is produced.

It takes a while for a scientific theory to become a law, so theories change more in the beginning than after centuries. People don’t like it when you move their cheese. So centuries ago, the idea that the Earth revolved around the sun was radical and people were burned at the stake for proposing it.

This is why people like religion. Religious “truth” is always the truth and will never change. People hate change. So in the battle between science and religion, religion wins in many people’s mind.

People want answers. Conspiracy theories gives them the kind of answers they like to hear. People don’t want to hear, “That’s the way it is, live with it.” They want to hear, “It’s not your fault, blame the Jews (or whoever else is on the pan).” There is a secret cabal that controls everything and if we just overthrow it, live will be paradise.

So if I don’t want the Covid-19 pandemic to be, I simply deny it exists. Masks don’t work and I can party hardy with my friends. Covid death statistics are lies. Since the fake news, liberal media tell me things I don’t want to hear, I’ll tune in OAN or Newsmax or listen to Hannity. He tells me things that make me happy.

It’s called building a silo or confirmation bias. That which pleases me is true; that which I don’t like is fake news.

If you ask a conspiracy theory person for the source of their knowledge the answer you usually get, is “I’ve heard it somewhere” and since I like it, that’s good enough for me.

Purging social media doesn’t sound like such a bad thing.

Sounds like Hydra/Dr. Zola project to me

I believe every American should listen to the little speech given by ex-Governator Schwarzenegger after the rightists abandoned any claim to rectitude. I was teary-eyed when he finished.

Anybody need an extinction event? H-m-m-m-m? Stop looking into space and look at your digital surrounds. The world in the book 1984 which is now well on its way to actuality, has now added digital media, which is vulnerable to all kinds of interference [hacked doorbell cameras?] and mis-connections. AI is not something that will accept control once activated. Stand back, way back.

Be careful, Jeffrey, and make sure you don’t let knowledge of that base of yours in the forest be known; otherwise, you could be targeted by something out of this world like a space laser.

Better define ‘stupid humans’…

I remember a science fiction story. For the first time mankind realized a general purpose AI had reached human intelligence levels: a fully automated space station construction project near Jupiter was, after four years, found to be barely started. The AI had figured out it was easier to send in progress reports rather than actually do the work – very human.

How about “The Machine” vs “Samaritan”?

The same “solution” to getting rid of some people, in this case those who aren’t sheep by nature, was attempted by Hydra in CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER. Fortunately, they were thwarted. But something Hydra didn’t put in to their “sheep” equation is that humans never do what is expected of them. Even a sheep will fight back if backed into a corner.

I like it

Tweak the code all you want; I’ll be back.

Good luck going up against logic tight minds and compartmentalized thinking.

The Hubble Deep space Photos show a tiny fraction of the estimated 125 billion galaxies that are visible,Why cant they make a Mirror that shows how foolish We here are, here in this Muck…

Skynet Mark 2.0

Ah, Susan Clark in ‘Colossus, the Forbin Project’. One of my first crushes…

Exterminate

On Rooting Out and Annihilating Stupid Conspiracy Theories: It’s easy to label ideas you don’t agree with as “ignorant”, or part of a “conspiracy theory”. It’s easy then to dismiss and call people “stupid” or “brain-washed”. When someone says that they are “listening to scientists” or “following the science”, I wonder – “Whose science?” “What science?” and “What is the ‘real’ science?” It seems that many things that are claimed to be science are just “educated guesses” at best. “They” may be listening to “the science” that they want to hear and following the “scientists” they want to believe or that supports the outcome they want. How do you know/determine what is “real science”? What are facts? What are opinions? What are only (possibly biased) best guesses? For too many, it seems like any ideas that don’t line up with what they want to believe or that don’t come from a source that they support (or like or agree with) are not science and not worthy of consideration.

OK, anyone else go back to panel 4, to read it with a German accent ?

Does stupid humans include the Harvard and Yale trained lawyers in the Senate who deliberately perpetuated the myth that Trump won the election, thus enabling him to excite the insurrection on January 6? The Deplorable MTG definitely the bill!

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You know, when one thinks about it, exterminating stupid humans may not be the worst idea out there!

Colossus: The Forbin Project?

Sheese! … When they got to very dangerous people profit from mass stupidity I thought they were talking about the Executives at Facebook, Twitter, CNN, FOX, MSNBC, CBS, ABC, NY Times, Washington Post and Goebbels Networks!

I think Jeffery may be on to something good here!

Censorship reflects a society’s lack of confidence in itself, and there fore there will be no true discussion of the issues.

This kid is so technologically advanced that he doesn’t know about WiFi or Bluetooth and thus needs cables strung all around? Not to mention the need for displays all over.

Then stop miscalling their wild stories “theories”. They are memes and propaganda nothing else.

The problem with exterminating the Stupid Humans is that they are 95% of the population and some of them are Useful.

Unless you want to spend two hours every day just making your own Lattes and Biscotti.

Well that went well – sorry – dark quickly.

I give humanity ten years. Fifteen tops.

The stupid-liar terminator!

Jeffrey just need to cover his a**se – don’t we all.

If it wasn’t for stupid, how would we recognize genius?