America Beyond AI

As time goes by, America and The World have a problem that can be solved with Operations Research, not AI.

and as the flames rage:

throughout the world, as catastrophes envelope the Earth, a vast portion of America and the World - that?doesn’t get around much anymore:??

Don't Get Around Much Anymore -Willie Nelson

and never did, is doubling down on the?stupidity?of the past:

Smoot-Hawley et alia

Update:

is doubling down on autocracy, fossil fuels:

delusion:

Climate Deniers Diving Club

despite their predictable outcome:

National Geographic

as the world and America veer from our Purpose, our aspirations, our Common Sense:

our Unity:

We Shall Overcome

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope - MLK

The Past is Prologue: Evangelii Gaudium - The Joy of the Gospels: We wish to take up daily the joys and hopes, the difficulties and sorrows of the Brazilian people, especially of those living in the barrios and the countryside – landless, homeless, lacking food and health care – to the detriment of their rights. Seeing their poverty, hearing their cries and knowing their sufferings, we are scandalized because we know that there is enough food for everyone and that hunger is the result of a poor distribution of goods and income. The problem is made worse by the generalized practice of wastefulness."

Yet we desire even more than this; our dream soars higher. We are not simply talking about ensuring nourishment or a “dignified sustenance” for all people, but also their “general temporal welfare and prosperity.” This means education, access to health care, and above all employment, for it is through free, creative, participatory and mutually-supportive labor that human beings express and enhance the dignity of their lives. A just wage enables them to have adequate access to all the other goods which are destined for our common use."

Back to the Future

As Time Goes By, a delusional portion of America and the world is doubling down on nationalism, populism, racial, economic disparity,?lawfare, autocracy, false patriotism:

and?Stupidity:

Stiglitz on Economic Development

Joseph Stiglitz, winner of the Nobel Prize, wrote: "The United States can only push for advanced manufacturing, which requires higher skill sets and employs fewer people. Rising inequality, meanwhile, will continue ..." In addition, in late 2017, Stiglitz wrote that the drop in wages in the United States was 'due to the actions of multinational companies rather than globalization' and wrote of the trade account imbalances between countries, that they were caused by free trade, as an agenda written by and for large multinational companies, at the expense of workers.?

In 2016, he said he believes that the economic situation of the United States is critical: "As the economists Anne Case and Angus Deaton showed in their study published in December 2015, life expectancy among middle-age white Americans was declining, as rates of suicides, drug use, and alcoholism increase. A year later, the National Center for Health Statistics reported that life expectancy for the country as a whole had declined for the first time in more than 20 years. 'With the incomes of the bottom 90% having stagnated for close to a third of a century (and declining for a significant proportion), the health data simply confirmed that things were not going well for swaths of the country'. As late as 2017, he believed the challenges of globalization on the American economy as not insurmountable: 'Yes, America faces a variety of problems—it always has, and what nation doesn't?'.

My Comment: While AI is intended to increase productivity and to help the ignorant to plagiarize and write eloquently, it has unintended consequences, namely, to reduce employment, study, and the hard work of thinking, of Education.?

Stiglitz on Justice?

Continued with: Escape Velocity and the Sun - s Time Goes By?