Corruption, as well as its derivative called "lobbying", are a huge plague for Human Kind.

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We could expect that the education system could address this plague and get rid of it. But unfortunately, our education systems look to be powerless. Looking at pictures like this one, it looks clear the education system that we have is not efficient.

I met the concept of Artificial Intelligence (AI) perhaps 40 years ago. Why is AI famous only now? I believe it is only thanks to the CPU ( and GPU) power that is available these days, together with huge data sets all around the world. It is clear that this is "artificial. But is it "Intelligence"? No! The tools behind AI are nothing more than statistical processing. Perhaps this can be considered by some people as "intelligence". But then this only shows the level of their own "natural intelligence. The research in this field 40 years ago, based on logical calculus, was much more promising.

But, keeping in mid the marketing touch, let's call it AI anyway.

AI could indeed be used efficiently in various places for the benefit of Human Kind. Unfortunately, many elements of this Human Kind just want to use it to exploit others, want to weaponize it. This is going back to inefficient education system.

In any case, I believe that AI could indeed be used, or at least tested, in domains involving assessment of projects, policy making or financial transactions, fighting corruption and lobbying. Could AI be used as a replacement for governments that are also extremely prone to corruption?

I wrote "at least tested" because I could possibly imagine ways to corrupt an AI.

Even if this Albanian initiative might be risky, I do believe it is worth to test it, and hopefully to extend it to other similar domains.

And what if killing industry could helpo fight Global Warming?

It is clear that gas engines for transportation is contributing to global warming, leading sooner or later to kill, if not life, at least human being from the planet. Only frogs enjoying their "warm" baths might deny the scientific data.

Killing industry can not be worse, and might even be a way out of Global Warming and could perhaps open new horizons for Human Kind.

Please, do not listen to scientists. They all are witches...

Remark: Yes, with time going on, I am becoming more and more cynical:-(

Indeed, this should be seen as an insult to Humankind.

Probably a big amount of money for people who have barely enough to eat. But for that "guy", it is basically nothing.

Shame!

People from USA should understand that their taxes have to be transferred to (already too) rich people.

Even Trump understood this. And he is doing its best to implement it. It might even try to justify it by claiming it will create more jobs and is therefore good for employment and the economy.

Do not trust the measurements. The thermometers are wrong and evil. This is nothing but conspiracy.

Probably what Trump could publicly state to the boiling frogs that most of us are.

How much more time people will need to understand how serious the situation is? How can it be that these same people are even unable to care of the future of their children they dare to bring to this world?

Probably it is easy to say afterwards.

But, to my knowledge there is only one country on this world that use atomic weapon to mass kill people: The famous huge "democracy" called USA.

Of course, killing will prevent more killing, might pretend some people, especially the kind of people who order other to kill. What a shame! What a barbarian reasoning!

And in order to implement such murders, these people have to use, very young and naive men, called "soldiers", or "chair à canon" in some countries. They are selected for their inability to think and for their aptitude to believe in non-sense.

To the crew of Enola G?y: You did murder blindly 100 thousands children, women, old people, civilians!

Yet, like the boiling frog, people still do not understand.

As its name states it clearly, GOP, Grand Old Party, is an old, very old party, absolutely enable to evolve. It is a dead weight slowing down any kind of progress.
Its location should not be in the White House, but in some horrors museum.

I wish I could be optimistic, but looking around makes it quite difficult to me...

Why would we need to track CO2 emission, when anyway most people do not care? Just have a quick look at FlightRadar24. All these yellow tiny spots (that look like cockroaches to me) contribute to the CO2 emission. But most people simply want to have fun right now, without thinking about the future of their own kids. Look at the huge corporations just doing whatever they can to increase their profit, right now.

So why would we want to measure the temperature inside the house when the house is already burning?

Some people seem willing to go to Mars, basically giving up on Earth, but they will only repeat the same mistakes there.

Could it be that we are on a path to get a Venus like climate, perhaps in a not so distant time (i.e. earlier than few billions of years as it will happen anyway)?

Recently, I read in Slashdot a post about the book "Imminent" from Mr. Elizondo, former head of the Pentagon program responsible for the investigation of UFOs.

Being fascinated by the subject, I obviously bought the book and read it carefully.

I really do want to believe. That is why, I have been carrying a camera with me for about 50 years...

But I was unfortunately not convinced by this book. I myself never saw real evidence of UAP or orbs, not in general, but especially not in my backyard, as it seems to be common from Mr Elizondo's book.

Now, this post about UFO created stories seems in complete contradiction to what Mr. Elizondo is claiming.

So, my question: "Who is telling the truth?"

For example, despite me being willing to believe in UAP, or let's say "Flying saucers" to be more explicit, the explanation for Captain Robert Salas's story provided in this post looks more credible than a possible extra-terrestrial intervention.

Why Human Beings (mostly men) are always willing to fight?

I know that evolution is a very slow process...

When will we learn and understand tha twhat we need is to cooperate?

I see AI like the evolution of the concept of Encyclopedia, and more recently "Google". We can use it to get information as relevant as possible.

And so, this can be a very useful tool.

Unfortunately, most people tend to use it in the wrong way, trying to cheat as much as they can, trying to give a completely false image of themselves. And this is really bad.

So instead of banning the use of these kind of tools, couldn't we try to improve the educational system, explaining the benefits of being honest, transparent, loyal?